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Like the shortest route

Last seen in Universal Crossword February 12, 2025 Answers

Spotted in the Universal Crossword crossword on February 12, 2025, the clue "Like the shortest route" has 180 possible answers in our records. Our top pick is DIRECT (6 letters) — it matches with 99% certainty. This score reflects how consistently this answer appears across different crossword puzzles for the same clue.

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180 Other Potential Answers

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DIRECT
Like the shortest route
Universal Crossword · Feb 12, 2025
5%
SLITHER
Move like a snake
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 23, 2026
5%
RAISEDINABARN
Lacking all refinement, facetiously, or like the person described in 20-, 26-, 35-, and 44-Across?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 22, 2026
5%
SOAR
Fly like a dragon
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 15, 2026
5%
ACTASIF
Make like
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 13, 2026
5%
MIMIC
Look a lot like
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 12, 2026
5%
SIDLES
Moves like a crab
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 7, 2026
5%
PURR
Sound like a 9-Across
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 7, 2026
5%
THAT
"Don't be like __!"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 4, 2026
5%
PECKAT
Eat like a bird?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 2, 2026
5%
PERFORMINGARTS
*Music, dance, drama, and the like
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 18, 2026
5%
BUCK
Move like a spooked horse, maybe
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 18, 2026
5%
BLACKJACK
Reply when Mr. Nicholson asks, "How do you like your coffee?"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 13, 2026
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LOOKSGOOD
"I like it!"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 12, 2026
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ASLEEP
Out like a light
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 12, 2026
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WHIR
Sound like a fan
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 29, 2026
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ROAR
Sound like fans
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 29, 2026
5%
OCULI
Windows shaped like 13-Downs
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 23, 2026
5%
DOGTOYS
Nylabones, squeak balls, and the like
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 20, 2026
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OVINE
Just like ewe
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 16, 2026
5%
SARALEE
Frozen brand that "nobody doesn't like"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 15, 2026
5%
PBS
Network supported by "viewers like you"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 9, 2026
5%
TWEETS
Sounds like a bird
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 9, 2026
5%
WAG
Move like a happy pooch's tail
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 30, 2026
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ETA
Fig. texted en route
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 25, 2026
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SCATS
Sings like Ella Fitzgerald
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 25, 2026
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EMULATE
Try to be like
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 24, 2026
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ISH
"Kinda like that"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 22, 2026
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REDHEAD
One with hair like Little Orphan Annie
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 8, 2026
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PLAN
"Sounds like a __!": "Works for me!"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 8, 2026
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OOZES
Moves like lava
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 7, 2026
5%
GNAWS
Chews like a beaver
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 5, 2026
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NOON
Time when shadows are shortest
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 30, 2026
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ADHERE
Stick like glue
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 28, 2026
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SHUN
Treat like a pariah
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 28, 2026
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ONE
Pacific Coast Highway's route number
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 24, 2026
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HOBBITS
Tolkien characters who like to eat six meals a day
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 21, 2026
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RAPS
Sings like G-Dragon
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 12, 2026
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BAYED
Howled like a wolf
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 10, 2026
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ONETRACKMINI
Small car that can only follow a single route?
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 8, 2026
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MERRYGOROUND
Carnival ride with seats shaped like animals
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 27, 2026
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WOULDNT
"__ you like to know?"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 24, 2026
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BOB
Float like a buoy
Universal Crossword · Apr 10, 2026
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FERTILE
Like good soil, but unlike most mules
Universal Crossword · Apr 8, 2026
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GNAW
Chew like a beaver
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 8, 2026
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UPTOELEVEN
Past the usual maximum, like the volume on Spinal Tap's amps
Universal Crossword · Apr 5, 2026
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IRESPECTIT
"Seems like a good reason to me"
Universal Crossword · Apr 5, 2026
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EVILGENIUS
One who might laugh like "Muah-ha-ha-haaa!"
Universal Crossword · Apr 4, 2026
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UNHOOK
Free, like a fish
Universal Crossword · Mar 27, 2026
5%
ABS
Some people like them ripped
Universal Crossword · Mar 25, 2026
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SWEETSAIL
"I like the cut of your jib!"?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 22, 2026
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SIDLE
Walk like a crab
Universal Crossword · Mar 16, 2026
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ITSAMETHING
"I'm quirky like that," or, when parsed differently, what can be said of 17-, 30-, and 48-Across
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 16, 2026
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ERR
Act like a human, proverbially
Universal Crossword · Mar 15, 2026
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TIN
Element with the shortest name
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 15, 2026
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CALVE
Make like whales and icebergs
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 15, 2026
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PREPPY
Dressed like an Eton student, maybe
Universal Crossword · Mar 10, 2026
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SNAP
"Just like that" sound
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 9, 2026
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IDBET
"That sounds like safe money"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 8, 2026
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ERUPT
Blow like a volcano
Universal Crossword · Mar 7, 2026
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OOZE
Move like molasses
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 5, 2026
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TEE
Shirt that sounds like a drink
Universal Crossword · Feb 28, 2026
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ANTE
Prefix that sounds like a female relative
Universal Crossword · Feb 24, 2026
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OTTO
Name that sounds like a car
Universal Crossword · Feb 18, 2026
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TAPS
Dances like Savion Glover
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 14, 2026
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RAE
Surname that sounds like a sunbeam
Universal Crossword · Feb 13, 2026
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CRAMSIN
Packs like sardines
Universal Crossword · Feb 13, 2026
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DART
Move like a water strider
Universal Crossword · Feb 12, 2026
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TWIRL
Spin, like a fork in spaghetti
Universal Crossword · Feb 10, 2026
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PILESUP
Accumulates, like snow or work
Universal Crossword · Feb 9, 2026
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TONE
"I don't like your ___!"
Universal Crossword · Feb 8, 2026
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FLIT
Move like a hummingbird
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 7, 2026
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ITS
"___ on like Donkey Kong!"
Universal Crossword · Feb 5, 2026
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NERDS
Candy that looks like aquarium gravel
Universal Crossword · Feb 5, 2026
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ENDSLATE
Goes long, like a meeting
Universal Crossword · Feb 5, 2026
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TOAD
Super Mario character who looks like a mushroom
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 4, 2026
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KNIT
Make, like a sweater
Universal Crossword · Feb 3, 2026
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BOAT
Craft sometimes shaped like a swan
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 1, 2026
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AMORE
"When the stars make you drool just like pasta fazool, that's ___"
Universal Crossword · Jan 31, 2026
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ICET
Rapper whose name sounds like a beverage
Universal Crossword · Jan 28, 2026
5%
TAUT
Stretched like guitar strings
Universal Crossword · Jan 28, 2026
5%
HORNE
"Taskmaster" creator Alex whose surname sounds like an instrument
Universal Crossword · Jan 24, 2026
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ILOVEYOUTUBE
"There's nothing like the feeling of posting a vlog!"?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 23, 2026
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PSI
Greek letter shaped like Poseidon's trident
Universal Crossword · Jan 22, 2026
5%
CHER
Pop diva whose name sounds like a stock purchase
Universal Crossword · Jan 19, 2026
5%
ANAPOLIS
Brazilian city that sounds like Maryland's capital
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 18, 2026
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PURRED
Sounded like a happy cat
Universal Crossword · Jan 18, 2026
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LETSDOIT
"Sounds like a plan to me!"
Universal Crossword · Jan 17, 2026
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MAKEMONEY
Turn a profit ... or what it sounds like the first two words of the starred clues' answers do?
Universal Crossword · Jan 16, 2026
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BAHN
German route
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 15, 2026
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WIKIS
Websites like Brickipedia
Universal Crossword · Jan 15, 2026
5%
UNTAG
Remove ID from, like on Instagram
Universal Crossword · Jan 10, 2026
5%
WAIL
Make like a banshee
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 9, 2026
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ERIE
Lake that sounds like 16-Across
Universal Crossword · Jan 8, 2026
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BOUNDS
Moves like a fleeing deer
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 7, 2026
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ADAMS
Surname that sounds like molecule parts
Universal Crossword · Jan 3, 2026
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NOONECARES
"Sounds like a you problem"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 31, 2025
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LOOSE
About to come undone, like a knot
Universal Crossword · Dec 22, 2025
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ONASPREE
Spending like mad
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 22, 2025
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TON
"It hit me like a ___ of bricks!"
Universal Crossword · Dec 20, 2025
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RASP
Talk like the Godfather
Universal Crossword · Dec 19, 2025
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WANTSTO
Feels like it
Universal Crossword · Dec 17, 2025
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PASSPATTERN
*Wide receiver's route
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 15, 2025
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BIRTHCANAL
Delivery route?
Universal Crossword · Dec 13, 2025
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ELOPE
Get married like Romeo and Juliet
Universal Crossword · Dec 11, 2025
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YEW
Evergreen that sounds like a pronoun
Universal Crossword · Dec 10, 2025
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SAW
Tool that can be made to sound like a theremin
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 4, 2025
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SWOOPS
Dives like a hawk
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 3, 2025
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PROWL
Hunt like a cat
Universal Crossword · Dec 3, 2025
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THUMB
Stick out like a sore __
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 3, 2025
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FUN
"Sounds like a good time!"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 1, 2025
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MOIRAROSE
"Schitt's Creek" character who tells her son to "stop acting like a disgruntled pelican"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 29, 2025
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ROOT
Dig like a pig
Universal Crossword · Nov 27, 2025
5%
BEDAZZLES
Fancifies, like a '90s kid might
Universal Crossword · Nov 22, 2025
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ONME
"Looks like the joke's __"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 18, 2025
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HOP
Move like a hare
Universal Crossword · Nov 17, 2025
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LASTBUTNOTLEAST
Words before the final item ... or like the second number in 17-, 23-, 34- or 44-Across
Universal Crossword · Nov 17, 2025
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GETSDOWN
Dances like no one's watching
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 16, 2025
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RIBBING
**Talking like a frog prince
Universal Crossword · Nov 14, 2025
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GLIDE
Fly like a well-crafted paper airplane
Universal Crossword · Nov 9, 2025
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COIL
Wind like a snake
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 9, 2025
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WOLF
*Move like a river
Universal Crossword · Nov 7, 2025
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CAWED
Spoke like a crow
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 5, 2025
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IPAS
Beers like Smooth Hoperator, briefly
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 4, 2025
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STUPIDCUPID
Classic Connie Francis song with the line "I'd like to clip your wings so you can't fly"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 3, 2025
5%
ICEE
Drink that sounds like 25-Down
Universal Crossword · Nov 3, 2025
1%
SEDGE
Grasslike plant
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 24, 2026
1%
EYETOEYE
*How like-minded people see, or a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 23, 2026
1%
TAPIRS
Piglike herbivores
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 19, 2026
1%
CLASSICROCK
Radio format likely to appeal to baby boomers
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 15, 2026
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GOSHNO
"Gee, that seems unlikely"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 6, 2026
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ALONE
Hermitlike
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 5, 2026
1%
OTHER
Unlike the rest
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 26, 2026
1%
GRUB
Wormlike larva
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 23, 2026
1%
ANISE
Licoricelike herb
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 20, 2026
1%
ASTERS
Daisylike flowers
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 26, 2026
1%
RHYME
Sound alike
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 22, 2026
1%
ODDSARE
"Most likely ... "
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 12, 2026
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ORZO
Ricelike pasta
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 12, 2026
1%
TAME
Unlikely to get out of hand
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 23, 2026
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ELS
Unlikely pair?
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 28, 2026
1%
ABR
Unlike the OED
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 28, 2026
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GEE
"__ willikers!"
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 28, 2026
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GOOS
Honeylike substances
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 24, 2026
1%
SETAE
Bristlelike grippers on gecko feet
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 3, 2026
1%
EEL
Snakelike fish
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 27, 2026
1%
ORIOLE
Bird that weaves pouchlike hanging nests
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 18, 2026
1%
AVIAN
Birdlike
Universal Crossword · Apr 17, 2026
1%
SLOE
Blueberrylike fruit
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 12, 2026
1%
EERO
Wireless router brand named for a Finnish architect
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 9, 2026
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SIMILAR
A lot alike
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 9, 2026
1%
IDLER
One unlikely to have long to-do lists
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 28, 2026
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ORC
Goblinlike creature
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 17, 2026
1%
CTR
Basketball player who likely has the most blocks on the team: Abbr.
Universal Crossword · Mar 14, 2026
1%
CONGALINE
*Snakelike group dance
Universal Crossword · Mar 2, 2026
1%
DEEPSLEEPER
Someone unlikely to be disturbed by a spouse's snoring
Universal Crossword · Feb 22, 2026
1%
PUKASHELL
Beadlike piece on a Hawaiian necklace
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 22, 2026
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RATEDR
Unlike a kids' movie
Universal Crossword · Feb 21, 2026
1%
ALTAR
Unlikely place for one with cold feet
Universal Crossword · Feb 13, 2026
1%
RHO
P-like Greek letter
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 10, 2026
1%
ARO
Unlikely to develop a crush, for short
Universal Crossword · Feb 8, 2026
1%
SAFARIPARK
Zoolike attraction
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 2, 2026
1%
ARID
Desertlike
Universal Crossword · Jan 30, 2026
1%
TANSY
Buttonlike flower
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 29, 2026
1%
STOAT
Weasellike critter
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 21, 2026
1%
HATRED
Strong dislike
Universal Crossword · Jan 19, 2026
1%
NOSIER
More likely to pry
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 16, 2026
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EELS
Snakelike swimmers
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 22, 2025
1%
TIMID
Unlikely to break the ice
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 16, 2025
1%
INSEAMS
Pants measurements that likely correlate with comfort on an airplane
Universal Crossword · Dec 13, 2025
1%
SHORTCAKE
Dessert with a sconelike texture
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 12, 2025
1%
MODEST
Unlikely to boast
Universal Crossword · Dec 10, 2025
1%
LUTE
Guitarlike instrument
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 30, 2025
1%
AMI
Friend who likely celebrates Bastille Day
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 26, 2025
1%
GOODGRAVY
"Gee willikers!"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 24, 2025
1%
ITSABIGIF
"That seems pretty unlikely to happen"
Universal Crossword · Nov 23, 2025
1%
LATERISER
Person unlikely to take an 8 a.m. class
Universal Crossword · Nov 15, 2025
1%
APIA
Capital of the country that 14-Acrosses are likely named after
Universal Crossword · Nov 12, 2025
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KOSHER
Unlike shellfish, per Jewish law
Universal Crossword · Nov 11, 2025
1%
SURREAL
Dreamlike
Universal Crossword · Nov 4, 2025

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many possible solutions does "Like the shortest route" have?
We found 1 exact solution and 180 total potential answers including similar clues. The most likely answer is DIRECT (6 letters).
What is the best answer for "Like the shortest route"?
The best answer for "Like the shortest route" is DIRECT with 6 letters. This answer has a 99% confidence rating based on our database of crossword solutions.
Where has "Like the shortest route" been used as a crossword clue?
This clue has appeared 1 time in our database. It has been featured in Universal Crossword. It was last seen in the Universal Crossword on February 12, 2025.
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