If you’ve reached “Cut out” in your solving session, these answers were chosen from crosswords where this clue type led to successful puzzle completions using the same phrasing.
Likely Answers:
- EXCISE
- END
- DELETED
- CEASE
- LAMIT
- FLEE
- EXCLUDE
- OMIT
- ENDED
- FLED
- REMOVE
- CLIP
- DEDUCT
- EXSECT
- SKIP
- EXCISED
- SCISSOR
- LOSE
- SNIP
Synonyms and Definitions
EXCISE
- Synonyms: excise tax, expunge, scratch, strike
END
- Synonyms: cease, close, closing, conclusion, death, destruction, ending, final stage, finish, goal, last, oddment, remainder, remnant, stop, terminal, terminate
DELETED
- Synonyms: blue-pencil, cancel, delete, edit, erase
CEASE
- Synonyms: discontinue, end, give up, lay off, quit
FLEE
- Synonyms: fly, take flight
EXCLUDE
- Synonyms: bar, boot out, chuck out, debar, eject, except, keep out, leave off, leave out, omit, shut, shut out, take out, turf out, turn out
OMIT
- Synonyms: drop, exclude, miss, neglect, overleap, overlook, pretermit
ENDED
- Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, over, terminated
FLED
- Synonyms: flee
REMOVE
- Synonyms: absent, bump off, dispatch, get rid of, hit, move out, murder, off, polish off, slay, take, take away, transfer, withdraw
- Definition: level of symbolic gap or division; or
CLIP
- Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, clipping, crop, curtail, cut back, cut short, dress, jog, lop, magazine, nip, nip off, prune, snip, snip off, time, trim, trot
DEDUCT
- Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer, recoup, subtract, take off, withhold
SKIP
- Synonyms: bound off, cut, decamp, hop, hop-skip, jump, omission, pass over, skim, skip over, skitter, vamoose
EXCISED
- Synonyms: excise
LOSE
- Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind, mislay, misplace, recede, suffer, turn a loss
- Definition: Stop retaining or preserving; no longer possess, either in a physical or conceptual sense.
SNIP
- Synonyms: clip, snippet, snipping