Out crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Out” are DOWN, AWAY or DEAD, with 4 letters. Below are 109 answers from 3 to 13 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

HIT 3 letters · noun

a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate “it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit”

DOWN 4 letters · adjective

being put out in a game of baseball “two down in the bottom of the ninth”

TABOO 5 letters · adjective

excluded from use or mention “a taboo subject”

STUNNED 7 letters · adjective

knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

EXTERIOR 8 letters · noun

the region that is outside of something

FORBIDDEN 9 letters · adjective

excluded from use or mention “forbidden fruit”

IMPOSSIBLE 10 letters · adjective

not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with “an impossible dream”

UNCONSCIOUS 11 letters · adjective

not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead “lay unconscious on the floor”

UNSUCCESSFUL 12 letters · adjective

not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome

UNFASHIONABLE 13 letters · adjective

not in accord with or not following current fashion “unfashionable clothes”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, DOWN, AWAY, DEAD, TABU, FREE and HARD all fit. The first letter settles most of it: D → DOWN, DEAD · A → AWAY · T → TABU · F → FREE · H → HARD. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, TABOO, LEAVE, CHECK, ISSUE, SHARE and STAGE all fit. The fourth letter tells them all apart: O → TABOO · V → LEAVE · C → CHECK · U → ISSUE · R → SHARE · G → STAGE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, HIT, CUT, BAR, FAN, POD and GAG all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: H → HIT · C → CUT · B → BAR · F → FAN · P → POD · G → GAG. 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: “outed” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “out” means

• adjective: not allowed to continue to bat or run (“he was tagged out at second on a close play”)
• adjective: being out or having grown cold (“the fire is out”)
• adjective: not worth considering as a possibility (“a picnic is out because of the weather”)
• adjective: out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election (“now the Democrats are out”)

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 OUT, and words whose definition is OUT. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.