These answers for “Throw” aren’t random—they come from puzzles that included this exact clue. We’ve selected each one for its track record in crossword solving contexts.
Suggested Answers:
- FLING
- SHY
- SLING
- CAST
- BUNG
- HURL
- WRONGFOOT
- PASS
- PEG
- LOB
- PITCH
- HEAVE
- CHUCK
- LAUNCH
- PROJECT
- ADDLE
- PROPEL
- BAFFLE
- SHAWL
Synonyms and Definitions
FLING
- Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, crack, discard, dispose, go, offer, pass, put away, splurge, spree, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out, whirl
SHY
- Synonyms: diffident, timid, unsure
SLING
- Synonyms: catapult, scarf bandage, slingback, slingshot, triangular bandage
CAST
- Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast of characters, cast off, casting, cat, chuck, contrive, couch, disgorge, dramatis personae, draw, drift, drop, form, frame, honk, hurl, hurtle, mold, mould, plaster bandage, plaster cast, project, puke, purge, put, ramble, range, redact, regorge, regurgitate, retch, roam, roll, rove, shake off, shape, shed, sick, spew, spue, stamp, stray, swan, throw off, throw up, tramp, upchuck, vagabond, vomit, vomit up, wander
BUNG
- Synonyms: fee, spile, tip
HURL
- Synonyms: cast, lunge, thrust
PASS
- Synonyms: authorise, authorize, base on balls, blow over, buy the farm, bye, cash in ones chips, choke, clear, come about, communicate, conk, croak, decease, devolve, die, drop dead, egest, elapse, eliminate, evanesce, exceed, excrete, exit, expire, extend, fade, fall, fall out, fleet, fling, flip, give, give-up the ghost, glide by, go across, go along, go by, go on, go past, go through, guide, hand, hap, happen, head, kick the bucket, laissez passer, lapse, lead, legislate, liberty chit, make it, make pass, mountain pass, notch, occur, overhaul, overstep, overtake, pas, pass along, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, passing, passing game, passing play, passport, perish, pop off, put across, qualifying, reach, return, run, sink, slide by, slip away, slip by, snuff it, spend, strait, straits, surpass, take place, top, transcend, travel by, turn over, walk
PEG
- Synonyms: leg, nail, nail down, nog, oarlock, peg down, pegleg, pin, rowlock, stick, thole, tholepin, wooden leg
PITCH
- Synonyms: auction pitch, cant, cant over, deliver, delivery, gear, hawk, huckster, incline, lurch, monger, peddle, pitch shot, pitching, rake, sales pitch, sales talk, set up, shift, sky, slant, slope, tar, tilt, vend
HEAVE
- Synonyms: billow, buckle, gag, gasp, heave up, heaving, heft, heft up, lift, pant, puff, raise, surge, warp
CHUCK
- Synonyms: chow, ditch, eats, grub, pat
LAUNCH
- Synonyms: establish, found, launching, plunge, set in motion
PROJECT
- Synonyms: design, envision, externalise, externalize, fancy, figure, image, jut, jut out, labor, picture, plan, projection, propose, protrude, see, send off, stick out, task, undertaking, visualise, visualize
ADDLE
- Synonyms: muddle, puddle
- Definition: jumble or muddle
PROPEL
- Synonyms: actuate, impel, incite, motivate, move, prompt
BAFFLE
- Synonyms: amaze, baffle board, beat, bewilder, bilk, cross, dumbfound, flummox, foil, frustrate, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, queer, regulate, scotch, spoil, stupefy, thwart, vex
- Definition: a level panel that guides or manages the movement of liquid or energy