| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| start back | 3 letters | shy |
| ||
| start back | 4 letters | reel |
| ||
| start back | 5 letters | wince |
| ||
| start back | 5 letters | start |
| ||
| start back | 5 letters | quail |
| ||
| start back | 6 letters | shrink |
| ||
| start back | 6 letters | weasel |
| ||
| start back | 6 letters | recoil |
| ||
| start back | 6 letters | swerve |
| ||
| start back | 7 letters | retreat |
| ||
| start back | 8 letters | sidestep |
| ||
| start back | 9 letters | sheer-off |
| start back | 9 letters | pull-back |
| start back | 10 letters | turn-aside |
Add your Clue & Answer to the crossword database now.
SubmitLikely related crossword puzzle clues
- Yield
- Withdraw
- Wince
- Weasel
- about the bush
- Abrupt
- Alienate
- Avoid
- back down?
- Back out?
- Backslide
- Balance
- Beat a retreat
- beat around
- beg the question
- blench
- blink
- boggle
- Cast off
- Cast out
- Cock
- Cringe
- cut adrift
- Cut off
- Cut out
- Debate
- Delete
- Deliberate
- demur
- Depart
- disarticulate
- Disconnect
- Disengage
- Disjoin
- disjoint
- Dissociate
- Disunite
- Divide
- Divorce
- Dodge
- Draw back
- Draw in
- Draw off
- Duck
- Eject
- Equivocate
- Estrange
- Evade
- Expel
- Fade
- fall astern
- Fall back
- Fall behind
- Falter
- Fear ......
- Fence
- fight shy of
- Flinch
- Get behind
- Give ground
- give place
- Go back
- Go backwards
- go behind
- Hang back
- hang off
- have qualms
- Hedge
- Hem and haw
- Hesitate
- Hold off
- Hover
- hum and haw
- Isolate
- Jerk back
- Jib
- Lapse
- "Leave!"
- Lose ground?
- make bones about
- Move back
- Parry
- Part
- Pause
- Ponder
- Pull away
- Pull (in)
- Pull out
- Pussyfoot
- Put off
- Quail
- Recede
- Recidivate
- Recoil
- reel back
- regress
- Relapse
- Retire
- Retract
- Retreat
- Retrocede
- retroflex
- retrograde
- Retrogress
- Return
- Revert
- run back
- Scruple
- segregate
- Separate
- Sequester
- Set apart
- Set aside
- sheer off
- Shift
- shift off
- Shilly-shally
- Shrink
- Shrink back
- Shut off
- Shy
- shy at
- Shy away
- shy off
- Sidestep
- Slip back
- Split
- stand aloof
- stand apart
- stand aside
- stand back!
- start aside
- start back
- step aside
- stick at
- Stickle
- stop to consider
- straddle the fence
- Strain
- strain at
- Subtract
- Swerve
- think twice about
- Throw off
- Throw out
- Turn aside
- Uncouple
- Unyoke
- Ward off
- Waver
- Weasel out
- Shrink with fear
- California's state bird
- Bouquet : pheasants :: co
- Flinch from game
- Small game bird
- Bird; show fear
- Game birds cower
- This is the bird to tremble
- game bird to show lack of spirit
- Be cowed like a bird
- how bird may be cowed
- shrink bit of game
- Covey bird
- Mid-sized game bird
- bobwhite, e.g.
- the bird to show terror
- Game bird
- Flinch though still game
- Partridge's kin
- pheasant cousin
- Bouquet : pheasants :: covey : ...
- Old writer briefly covers a game
- Small game
- Cower
- Cringe
- Popular game bird
- Bird in a bevy
- Flinch
- Small bird
- flinch like a hunted bird?
- game bird to show apprehension
- Flinch, cringe
- california state bird
- A covey of ....
- Flinch from terribly squalid interior
- Partridge's cousin
- Pheasant relative
- Game bird or chicken might do this
- Small pheasant relative
- Game bird in genus Coturnix
- game bird to show signs of fear
- Small birds get cold feet
- Be afraid, cower
- Partridge-like bird
- Cower in fear
- be afraid like a gamebird
- Small partridge-like bird
- Some birds cower
- cower when getting the bird?
- Withdraw
- Wince
- wench
- Weasel
- show fear in some game
- Game bird; flinch
- Cornish hen
- Avoid
- Blanch
- blench
- blink
- boggle
- Broiler
- caille
- Canard
- caneton
- capon
- chapon
- Chicken ......
- Crouch
- Damsel
- demur
- dindon
- Dodge
- Draw back
- Duck
- duckling
- Evade
- Fade
- faisan
- Fall back
- Falter
- fight shy of
- Fowl
- ...... fryer
- Funk
- Gal
- Goose
- Grouse
- guinea hen
- Hang back
- hang off
- have qualms
- Hesitate
- Hold off
- Jib
- Lass
- Lassie
- Maid
- Maiden
- make bones about
- ...... Miss
- Missy
- oie
- "... partridge ... "
- Pause
- pheasant
- Pigeon-......
- pigeonneau
- poulet
- Pull back
- quiff
- Recoil
- reel back
- Retreat
- Roaster
- Scruple
- sheer off
- Shrink
- Shrink back
- Shy
- shy at
- Sidestep
- Skulk
- Slink
- Sneak ......
- squab
- squinch
- Start
- start aside
- start back
- stewing chicken
- stick at
- Stickle
- Strain
- Swerve
- Turkey
- Turn aside
- volaille
- Waver
- Weasel out
- Wild duck
- cower like a bird?
- Recoil in fear
- Just the bird to have cold feet?
- gamebird
- Writer briefly pens a flyer
- Partridge cousin
- Get cold feet in game
- Show disgust
- Kick
- (As a firearm) spring back
- Gun jerk
- Spring back
- Sports ground approaches crude shrink
- Flinch in horror
- Jerk back
- Shrink back in fear on meeting snake
- Spring back for record on Greece State
- Shrink back in horror
- Kick on before spring
- Spring back? Quail is here!
- Cannon's kick
- Spring back in disgust or fear
- spring back - wind up again
- Shrink from park with piped material
- Jerk back, flinch
- Backlash
- Kick of a firearm
- Shrink back
- Leap back in horror
- kick for the one who takes a shot
- Cringe
- pull back in fear
- Shrink in horror
- Gun motion
- jump back in fear
- a reporter's comeback perhaps
- Rifle kick back
- Draw back, as with fear
- Jerk of a gun when it's fired
- fly back
- Rifle effect
- Flinch
- Kickback, of a sort
- Draw back
- Kickback
- Shrink
- Stagger back from park with painting
- Jump back; shrink
- resile
- Spring back in horror
- Flinch from, cower
- Rebound
- spring back after being fired
- Shrink back in fear
- reporter's comeback perhaps
- Draw back in horror
- *snap back
- Stagger back on pass crossing Italy
- kick, as a gun
- Shy away
- one who shoots takes this kick
- stagger back
- where coils have a kick to them
- Flinch from
- Shrink in fear
- Kickback of gun
- it's about a twist and a kick!
- shrink from lice or bats
- about the twist! you kick like this!
- the marksman gets a kick out of this
- Explosive feedback?
- Bounce back
- Gun's kick
- Gun kick
- Curl up again, shy
- start back
- The kick one gets from shooting
- Step back or flinch in horror
- Pull back (in horror?)
- Draw back as in fear
- Kick into wind again
- Repercussion
- Reverberate
- react
- blench
- kick felt when firing a gun
- Flinch from wind again
- .... reaction
- Echo
- Contract
- Start
- Result
- Counteract
- Spring
- Back
- Reverberation
- Ricochet
- writhe
- Withdraw
- Wince
- Weasel
- draw back and kick
- Cringe in horror on meeting snake
- about the bush
- Antagonism
- Antipathy
- Avoid
- Avoidance
- Backfire
- backlashing
- Backwash
- Balk
- Bashfulness
- beat around
- beg the question
- Blanch
- blink
- boggle
- boggling
- Boomerang
- Bounce
- Bound
- bound-back
- Cannon
- cannon-off
- Carom
- Clashing
- Clout
- Collision
- Comeback
- Compunction
- Conflict
- Confutation
- contradiction
- contraposition
- contrariety
- contrecoup
- Counter
- counteraction
- counterblast
- Counterblow
- counterposition
- counterstroke
- counterworking
- crankiness
- crotchetiness
- demur
- Demurral
- Diffidence
- Disapprove of
- Dissent
- Dodge
- Duck
- Equivocate
- Evade
- evasion
- Exchange
- Fade
- Fall back
- fallback
- Falter
- Faltering
- Fence
- fight shy of
- Force
- Friction
- Funk
- Give and take
- Grimace
- Hang back
- hang off
- have qualms
- have-repercussions
- Hedge
- Hem and haw
- hesitance
- Hesitancy
- Hesitate
- Hesitation
- Hold off
- Impact
- Impress
- Impression
- Imprint
- Interchange