Answer to "Zodiacal constellation" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CRAB which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1992.

Zodiacal constellation crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
CRAB	50 %	4
LEO	50 %	3

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Zodiacal constellation

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• zodiacal light
• constellations
• zodiac
• astrological
• celestial sphere
• astrology
• astrologic
• astrologically
• sagittarius
• celestial equator
• constellate
• astronomy

Crossword Answer definitions

CRAB noun

1. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
3. A bad-tempered person.
4. (in plural crabs) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
5. A playing card with the rank of three.
6. A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
7. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
8. An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

CRAB verb

1. To fish for crabs.
2. To ruin.
3. To complain.
4. To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
5. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
6. To move (a camera) sideways.
7. (World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
8. To back out of something.

CRAB noun

1. The crab apple or wild apple.
2. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
3. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
4. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
5. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
6. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
7. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

CRAB verb

1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
2. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
3. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

CRAB noun

1. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

CRAB noun

1. Short for carabiner.

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 CRAB

• Blue, stone or fiddler
• Complain, needlessly
• Grumpy person
• Bellyache
• Fiddler, for one
• Grouch
• Grump
• Grumpy one
• Curmudgeon
• Tasty cake?

More clues leading to the result LEO

• Actor Gorcey
• August baby
• Baseball's Durocher
• Fifth sign of the zodiac
• Late July baby
• Sign of summer
• Virgo preceder
• Where Regulus is
• A sign of summer
• Fifth zodiac sign