The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CANIT , but the solution may also be CAN IT! which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
"Zip your lip!" crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
CANIT | 31 % | 5 |
SHUTUP | 28 % | 6 |
SHH | 13 % | 3 |
HUSH | 6 % | 4 |
CAN IT! | 3 % | 7 |
MUMSTHEWORD | 3 % | 11 |
SILENCEISGOLDEN | 3 % | 15 |
SHHH | 3 % | 4 |
STOWIT | 3 % | 6 |
PUTALIDONIT | 3 % | 11 |
SHUSH | 3 % | 5 |
Why may CAN-IT be the right solution?
"CAN IT!" is a slang phrase that means to be quiet or stop talking. It is a common way to tell someone to stop talking or keep quiet, making it the right solution for the clue "“Zip your lip!”".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: "Zip your lip!"
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hush
- button
- nothing
- quiet
- harangue
- mutter
- muttering
- nonverbal communication
- box
- land
- line
- nox
Crossword Answer definitions
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result CANIT
- "STFU!"
- Cease and desist
- "Shut up!"
- "Shut the heck up!"
- "Hush!"
- "Hush up!"
- "Quiet!"
- "Stop that!"
- "Oh, shut up!"
- "Not another word!"
More clues leading to the result SHUTUP
- Put a cork in it!
- "Pipe down!"
- Button your lip!
- "Close yer face!"
- "Not another word out of you!"
- "Close your trap!"
- "Can it!"
- "Zip your lip!"
- "Zip it!"
- Restraining order?
More clues leading to the result SHH
- "Can it!"
- "Put a sock on it!"
- "Keep it down"
- Quieting sound
- "Pipe down or they'll find us!"
- Response to a text alert in the movie theater
- Command in a library
- Librarian's admonition
- "Keep it down!"
- "I don't want to hear it!"
More clues leading to the result HUSH
- "Quiet!"
- See 1 Across
- With 120 Across, off-the-record
- Kind of puppy or money
- Button your lip
- Librarian's admonition
- Stillness
- Be still
- Mollify
- Kind of money
More clues leading to the result CAN IT!
More clues leading to the result MUMSTHEWORD
- Don't mention the flowers!
- "Not a peep!"
- Secret keeper's promise
- "Okay, I'll shut up"
- "Hush!" to a florist?
- "For your ears only" ... and a hint to first words of 17-, 27- and 48-Across
- "Be quiet, florist!"
- Expression from Cervantes.
- Slogan for the discreet
- "Don't tell a soul!"
More clues leading to the result SILENCEISGOLDEN
- Librarian's line, maybe
- Librarian's motto, perhaps
- Mum's the word?
- Apt adage for this puzzle
- Proverb for overwrought parents, and a hint to both ends of 17-, 23-, 47- and 56-Across
- Librarian's credo?
- Maxim for the mum
- Librarian's line, perhaps
- Cogent motto.
- Mob's maxim
More clues leading to the result SHHH
- "Quiet!"
- Library admonition
- "Button it!"
- "Zip it"
- Library warning
- 'Zip your lip!'
- "Be quiet!"
- Emphatic warning in the library
More clues leading to the result STOWIT
- "Enough already!"
- "Shut up!"
- "Oh, shut up!"
- "That's enough out of you!"
- "Enough said!"
- "Say no more!"
- "I've heard enough from you!"
- "Pipe down!"
- "Zip your lip!"
- "That's enough outta you!"
More clues leading to the result PUTALIDONIT
- "That's enough!"
- "Shut yer yapper!" (and a hint to 17-, 28-, and 47-Across)
- "Pipe down!"
- "Enough already!"
- "Stop talking!"
- "Hush!" to a hatter?
- "Stop complaining!" (and what you might do to the start of 17-, 33- or 41-Across)
- "Hush!" (and hint to how 4-, 9- and 21-Down are formed)
- "Shut your trap!" ... and, graphically, what the circled letters do
- "Shut up!"