Guy crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Guy” are BOZO, with 4 letters. Below are 8 answers from 3 to 10 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

CAT 3 letters · noun

an informal term for a youth or man

BOZO 4 letters · noun

an informal term for a youth or man

ROAST 5 letters · verb

subject to laughter or ridicule “His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday”

HOMBRE 6 letters · noun

an informal term for a youth or man

RIDICULE 8 letters · verb

subject to laughter or ridicule “The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house”

BLACKGUARD 10 letters · verb

subject to laughter or ridicule

Telling them apart

With 3 squares, CAT, RIB and SOD all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: C → CAT · R → RIB · S → SOD. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “guyed” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “guy” means

• noun: an informal term for a youth or man (“a nice guy”)
• noun: a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
• verb: subject to laughter or ridicule
• verb: steady or support with a guy wire or cable (“The Italians guyed the Tower of Pisa to prevent it from collapsing”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as GUY, and words whose definition is GUY. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.