Elude - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 12/01/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Elude.

5 letter answer(s) to elude

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"
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"

6 letter answer(s) to elude

ESCAPE
  1. a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"
  2. a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
  3. a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
  4. an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"
  5. an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
  6. be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
  7. escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
  8. fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
  9. flee; take to one'

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Elude'

A tunnel, maybe
Actual title of the 1979
At work see about upper limit, finding way out
Avoid
Avoid answering
Avoid answering Bill if the First Lady’s about
Avoid capsizing in English Channel
Avoid commercial during day before festival
Avoid finishing sentence?
Avoid reactionary English TV channel
Avoid regularly tense head
Avoid woman who was tempted to grab publicity
Avoid, as capture
Break
Break loose - flight
Breakout
Bypass
Cameron familiarly brought up European dodge
Circumvent
Con's preoccupation
Copy key first — and do a runner!
Copy key to open bolt
Dance around
Deliberately ignore a short recording about love
Dodge
Dodge every vulgarity and double entendre, initially
Dodge some recalled in depressed avenue
Dodge, as a question
Don’t go near an empty space
Don't catch an STI that's going around Love Island
Duck
Duck eaten by greedy duck
Duck in English Channel going west
Duck in English Channel heading north
Duck seen in English Channel going wrong way!
Duck's bill almost flat on the outside
Duck, as a question
Duck? Eager to eat it!
Duck? Keen to catch duck
Ecstasy, see, when one’s out for a duck
Emanation from Earth's mantle
Energy shown by man climbing to escape
English man raised in Dodge
English TV channel picked up dodge
Eruption from Earth's mantle
Escape
Escape notice in the preceding period
Escape, as arrest
Escape, as detection
Escape, avoid
Exodus - all inside leaving headland in this?
Fail to pay, as taxes
Fend off
Finally take this long garment and slip off?
First Lady accepts Bill's fudge
Flea
Flee
Flee from snakes initially invading European headland
Flight key on board before take-off?
French are to get better of English in breakout
Get around
Get away
Get away from Francesca Peroni
Get away from sides of enormous promontory
Get away with key?
Get by
Get free
Get free headgear in English Home Counties
Get out of
Get out of a channel in reverse drive finally
Get out with this key
Getaway
Girl upon wings of drake, duck
Give a wide berth
Give the slip
Give the slip to
Go around
Go over the wall, maybe
Go wide of
Hobby, e.g.
Initially easy to walk up over small flight
It's an adventure, missing commercial flight
Keen to eat duck? Duck it is then!
Keep away from
Keep away from contrary leading lady hosting ball
Keep one's distance from
Key component of puttanesca, perhaps
Key flight
Lady to pick up advert for skirt
Lose successfully
Magic act
Manage to avoid publicity - in woman’s clothing?
Manage to miss ex-PM turning back to wave
Meat fried in breadcrumbs? Look out! Run away!
Miss a film that wins Oscar
Miss flight
Not answer directly
Not touch
Notice boards still unfinished, duck
Parry
Pastime
Play hard to get
Pleasant distraction
Plug in the night before escape
Romance fiction or horror
Run away from mischievous prank, avoiding publicity
Sally goes about on a cycle
Scarper with key copy
Shake
Shake off
Shirk
Shun
Shun opera-singer's comeback — there's nothing in it
Shy away from
Sidestep
Sidestep first woman clasping her mate? Not half
Skip round, eager to go outside
Skip town
Skirt
Skirt of the First Lady that Bill puts on
Skirt promotion held by Adam's missus
Slip away
Soap operas or movie thri
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 off enormous unlined cloak
The key to a jailbreak?
Try not to meet a very old identity
Try to lose
Way out
Work around
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