| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| up-and-comingness | 4 letters | push |
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| up-and-comingness | 5 letters | spunk |
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| up-and-comingness | 6 letters | spirit |
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Likely related crossword puzzle clues
- Midwife's exhortation
- Get-up-and-go
- Word on a door
- Energy
- Urge (on)
- Midwife's instruction
- Door word
- Shove
- Knock over hot drink
- Exert force on
- Strongly promote
- Instruction on a door
- Forceful military attack
- Extra effort
- Propel a grocery cart
- Impel
- give a shove to
- peddle (narcotics)
- Sign on some doors
- Opposite of pull
- Put weight against
- Door sign
- Drive husband to drink, being contrary
- When ...... comes to shove
- Market aggressively
- Promote
- drive up, turning quiet
- Campaign
- Labor leader's cry
- Exhortation during labor
- Drive-......
- tie with the dealer, in blackjack
- Advance by effort
- Shove's cousin
- Type of button
- This may come to shove
- Thrust
- Energy: Slang
- Jostle
- Promotional campaign
- Shut
- Nudge
- Press hard
- ...... Offensive
- Delivery room instruction
- It may come to shove
- promote heavily
- Word on some doors
- Take stock from tuck shops to promote
- Move an object away
- Pull's opposite
- Shove When It Comes To It
- Try to move forward?
- Move with force
- Sign on a door (don't pull)
- press forward
- Encouragement during labor
- delivery room exhortation
- Matter hard to press forward
- Direction on a door
- promote hot drink, on the way back
- Move with pressure
- thrust up in reverse, and be quiet
- Press, like an elevator button
- Cry to a birthing mother
- Press
- One way to open a door
- shove up, turning quiet
- Hot drink's knocked over plug
- All-hands-on-deck effort
- Door instruction
- sack butt
- door label
- Back up, shut up and drive!
- Sell drugs and get the sack
- “If .... comes to shove ...”
- pull (opposite)
- Impulse
- Urge
- Hustle
- Incentive
- one's luck
- Zing
- Zip
- Work on
- Whip
- Wheedle
- Weight
- Drive forward
- Sign on a door
- propel
- Plug — promote
- punished, yet dine out on a shove
- Press (a button, eg)
- Accelerate
- Actuate
- Advance
- advance against
- Advance upon
- adventuresomeness
- adventurousness
- Advertise
- Advocate
- Aggrandize
- aggravated assault
- AGGRESSION
- Aggressiveness
- Ambition
- ambitiousness
- amperage
- amphibious attack
- Apply (pressure)
- armed assault
- armipotence
- Ask
- Assailing
- assailment
- Assault
- Attack
- Augment
- Authority
- Badger
- Ballyhoo
- Bang
- banzai attack
- Bear
- bear down upon
- bear upon
- Bearing
- "Beat it!"
- ...... beef
- Beef up
- Beg
- Beset
- Besiege
- black power
- Black-market
- Black-marketeer
- blandish
- Blitz
- Blitzkrieg
- Boost
- bootleg
- Bowl
- Breakthrough
- Browbeat
- Brush aside
- Brush off
- brute-force
- Buck
- Bug
- Build
- Bull
- Bulldoze
- Bully?
- Bullyrag
- Bump
- bump against
- Bunch
- Bundle
- .... bunt
- Burden
- Bustle
- Butt
- butt against
- Buttonhole
- Cajole
- Call on
- Call upon
- Charge
- Charisma
- Circle
- climacteric
- Clout
- Clutch
- Coax
- Coerce
- cogence
- cogency
- Compel
- Compound
- Compulsion
- Constrain
- Constraint
- Continue
- convergence of events
- Counterattack
- counteroffensive
- coup de main
- ...... cow
- Cram
- crippling attack
- Crisis
- Critical juncture
- Critical point
- ...... crossroads
- Crowd
- crucial period
- ...... Crunch
- Crush
- Dash
- dead set at
- Deny
- Depart
- Depress
- descent on
- Determination
- die trying
- Dig
- dint
- Dismissal
- Dispatch
- Diversion
- diversionary attack
- Domineer
- dragoon
- Drive on
- Driving force
- Drove
- Dun
- Duress
- Dynamism
- Eagerness
- Effect
- Effectiveness
- effectuality
- ...... effort
- Egg on
- Elbow
- "...... emergency ..."
- Encourage
- Enlarge
- ...... Enterprise
- enterprisingness
- Enthusiasm
- Entreat
- Exert pressure
- Exhort
- Exigency
- Expand
- expedite
- Extremity
- Fence
- Fire
- Flank
- flank attack
- Flower power?
- Foray
- Force
- Force majeure
- Forcefulness
- forge ahead
- Forward
- frontal attack
- Full blast
- full force
- Gas
- gas attack
- Get
- Get moving
- get-up-and-get
- Getup
- Ginger ......
- "Go, ......!"
- Go ahead
- Go all out
- "Go away!"
- Go slow
- Go-getting
- go-to-itiveness
- Goad
- Group
- Gumption
- Harass
- haste
- Hasten
- hasten-on
- Head
- head on attack
- hie-on
- High-pressure ......
- Hinge
- Hit the road
- Horde
- Hound
- ...... hunch
- Hurry
- Hurry along
- hurry-on
- Hurry up
- Hurtle
- hustle-up
- Hype
- Impetus
- Importune
- impulsion
- inch forward
- incitation
- Incite
- Incitement
- Incursion
- Induce
- Infiltrate
- Infiltration
- Influence
- Initiative
- "...... insist!"
- insist upon
- Instigation
- Intimidate
- Invasion
- Jab
- Jam
- Jawbone
- Jog
- joggle
- Jolt
- Kick
- Launch
- launch an attack
- "Leave!"
- Light out
- lightning attack
- "Lightning War"
- Lobby
- Lot
- Magnify
- Main force
- main-strength
- Make
- make things hum
- mana
- march against
- march upon
- mass attack
- megadeath
- Might
- might-and-main
- mightiness
- Mobilize
- Moonshine
- Motivate
- motive power
- mount an attack
- "...... move"
- Moxie
- Muddle through
- mugging
- Multitude
- Muscle power
- Nag
- Nag (at)
- Notice
- Offense
- Onset
- Onslaught
- open an offensive
- Overburden
- overkill
- Oversell
- overstrain
- Overtax
- panzer warfare
- Pass
- Pedal
- Peddle
- Pep
- ...... Pepper
- Persuade
- Pester
- pile drive
- Pinch
- piss and vinegar
- Pizzazz
- Plague
- Plead with
- Plug
- Ply
- Poke
- ...... pole
- Poop
- potence
- Potency
- Potentiality
- Power
- Power pack?
- Power structure
- power-struggle
- Powerfulness
- Precipitate
- prepotency
- Press on
- Pressure
- Proceed
- Prod
- productiveness
- productivity
- Prompt
- propagandize
- propellant
- propelling
- propelment
- propulsion
- Publicize
- Puff ......
- puissance
- Pull
- pulsion
- Punch
- Push forward
- Push off
- Push on
- Push through
- pushfulness
- pushiness
- Pushing
- pushingness
- Quicken
- Raid
- Railroad
- railroad-through
- Ram
- ram down
- rash impulse
- Rattle
- Rebuff
- Recommend
- Reject
- ...... roll
- Rouse
- ...... row
- Rub
- Run
- Run against
- run at
- Rush
- Rush (along)
- sail away
- Sally
- "Scram!"
- Scramble
- Set
- Set in motion
- Shake
- shock tactics
- shoot ahead
- Shoulder
- Shove off
- Shoving
- Shunt
- Sinew
- Skedaddle
- Snap
- Soft-soap
- Sortie
- Speed
- Speed (along)
- Speed up
- Spirit
- Spunk
- Spur
- squab
- ...... squash
- Squeeze
- Squish
- Stampede
- Starch
- Steam ......
- Step lively
- Stimulate
- Strain
- Strait-...
- Strength
- Stress
- Strike
- Strong-arm
- Superiority
- superpower?
- Sweep
- sweep along
- Sweet-talk
- Take off
- tamp
- Tax
- Tease
- The "Boot"