Duck - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 13/12/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Duck.

5 letter answer(s) to duck

AVOID
  1. declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  2. prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
  3. refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day"
  4. refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories"
  5. stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her"
DODGE
  1. 7. (Music, other) bell-ringing (intr) to make a bell change places with its neighbour when sounding in successive changes
  2. a quick evasive movement
  3. a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
  4. an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
  5. Avoid
  6. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
  7. make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid; "The child dodged the teacher's blow"
  8. move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course; "the pickpocket dodged through the crowd"
DRAKE
  1. adult male of a wild or domestic duck
  2. English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
ELUDE
  1. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
  2. be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
  3. Escape notice by
  4. escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
EVADE
  1. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
  2. Dodges
  3. escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"
  4. practice evasion; "This man always hesitates and evades"
  5. use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid; "The con man always evades"

7 letter answer(s) to duck

MALLARD
  1. wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed

8 letter answer(s) to duck

SIDESTEP
  1. a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)
  2. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Duck'

"Gunsmoke" setting, infor
A ruse to avoid
Admiral’s daughter pursued by libertine
American city, say, Sir Ken almost roused
Artfully dodge
Automobile seen in Kansas City
Avoid
Avoid (capture)
Avoid answering
Avoid answering Bill if the First Lady’s about
Avoid capsizing in English Channel
Avoid capture
Avoid commercial during day before festival
Avoid cunningly
Avoid date in Rome blocking advance?
Avoid dealing with
Avoid duel, moving east
Avoid having nasty pest on team
Avoid old magistrate after pocketing diamonds
Avoid opening of concert piece, giving piano runs a miss
Avoid reactionary English TV channel
Avoid swimming despite having sun overhead
Avoid Venetian magistrate imprisoning daughter
Avoid woman who was tempted to grab publicity
Avoid, as capture
Avoid; cunning trick
Bob and weave
Bypass
Cameron familiarly brought up European dodge
Captain of the Golden Hin
Captain of the Golden Hind, d. 1596
Caravan maker
Caravan, e.g.
Circumnavigator Sir Franc
Circumvent
City for Miss Kitty
Common duck
Cunningly avoid
DaimlerChrysler make
Dance around
Daughter attached to playboy sailor of old
Deliberately ignore a short recording about love
Deposit initially increased tenfold? It's a trick
Des Moines university
Device to avoid
Dodge
Dodge - duck
Dodge every vulgarity and double entendre, initially
Dodge some recalled in depressed avenue
Dodge's wings and favoured elevation
Dodge, as a question
Don’t go near an empty space
Don't catch an STI that's going around Love Island
Duck - explorer
Duck eaten by greedy duck
Duck famous navigator
Duck fat on drake, perhaps, endless
Duck found in a road bordering shopping precinct
Duck in English Channel heading north
Duck out of initially destructive inclination
Duck seen in English Channel going wrong way!
Duck type
Duck's bill almost flat on the outside
Duck, as a question
Duck, parrot and budgie, perhaps, back on team
Duck? Eager to eat it!
Duck? Keen to catch duck
Duke protected by magistrate in escape
Ecstasy, see, when one’s out for a duck
Electric car avoids M20
Elizabeth's favourite duke: dissolute fellow
Elizabethan navigator finally turned libertine
Elude
Energy shown by man climbing to escape
Engine holding the world speed record for a steam locomotive, set at 123mph in 1938
English man raised in Dodge
English TV channel picked up dodge
Escape
Escape detection of
Escape from
Escape from, evade
Escape from; evade
Escape notice in the preceding period
Escape the clutches of
Escape the detection of
Escape, as arrest
Escape, as detection
Escape, avoid
European following daughter inside Dog & Duck
Evade
Explorer Francis
Explorer Sir Francis
Fail to pay, as taxes
Famed Chicago hotel
Famous Elizabethan duke and ladies' man
Famous explorer died a libertine
Fan of water in shops on American road
Father over street going on to raise nipper
Fend off
First Lady accepts Bill's fudge
Get around
Get away from
Get by
Get out of
Get out of a channel in reverse drive finally
Get past
Girl upon wings of drake, duck
Give a wide berth
Give the slip
Give the slip to
Go around
Go wide of
Golden Hind captain
Great Elizabethan duck
He claimed the coast of C
Italian leader adopting duke's scheme
Jump out of the way
Keen to eat duck? Duck it is then!
Keep away from
Keep away from contrary leading lady hosting ball
Keep one's distance from
Kind of duck
Lady to pick up advert for skirt
Legendary bowler - one might fall for a duck
Legendary bowler gets duck
Loco dabbler?
Looking up debtor - a student - not quite lame duck
Lose successfully
Male bird
Male duck
Manage to avoid
Manage to avoid publicity - in woman’s clothing?
Manage to miss ex-PM turning back to wave
Menu's starter - a large fat duck
Miss a film that wins Oscar
Mother with large, fat duck
Not answer directly
Not get caught by
Not touch
Notice boards still unfinished, duck
Occasionally, cell buddies escape
Old buccaneer finally turned libertine
Old magistrate imprisons Duke for trick
Opener in difficulty to collect duck
Parry
Particular kind of duck
Play hard to get
Plug in the night before escape
Pond denizen
Poor writers
Rock 'n' rollers from the 50s respect Ed Sheeran to some extent
Ruse – duck
Sailor died a dissolute man
Scheme with Italian bigwig fencing diamonds
See 4
Shake
Shake off
Shake, as a tail
Shirk
Shun
Shun opera-singer's comeback — there's nothing in it
Shy away from
Sidestep
Sidestep first woman clasping her mate? Not half
Sir Francis —
Sitting duck, maybe
Skip round, eager to go outside
Skirt
Skirt of the First Lady that Bill puts on
Skirt promotion held by Adam's missus
Sneaky trick
Son that is returning gym skirt
Stay clear when hungry prima donna turns up
Steer clear of
Steer clear of a chasm
Steer clear of a chasm?
Steer clear of commercial breaks almost always
Take evasive action
Throw off
Tip from crossword setter maybe inspired clue's term for 'duck'
Train Sam Allardyce to box
Trick - duck
Try not to meet a very old identity
Try to lose
Type of duck
Under a misapprehension, take two days off and escape
Upset, say, Sir Ken's endless scam
US automotive manufacturer founded in Michigan in 1900, taken over by Chrysler in 1928 and now owned by Fiat
We'll cuddle regularly, duck
Wild duck
Work around
___ City, oater locale

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