Back off (from) Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Back off (from) featured in New York Times puzzle on January 7, 2026. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 7 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is SHYAWAY.

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40 Potential Answers:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% SHYAWAY Back off (from) (7) New York Times Jan 7, 2026
51% ENFEEBLE Make weak literary tailor back off from scrap at first (8)
42% STANZA Back off from seating area to gauge aggro from start ? blame linesman on this? (6) (6)
11% RELENTED Backed off (8) Wall Street Journal Nov 5, 2025
10% CALVE Split off from a glacier (5) Puzzler Backwords Dec 28, 2025
10% IMHOME "Back from work!" (6) USA Today Nov 16, 2025
9% LEA Actress Thompson from the "Back to the Future" trilogy (3)
9% USSR "Back in the ___" (4) USA Today Dec 29, 2025
9% ERR Be off (3) Wall Street Journal Dec 27, 2025
9% EBB Draw back from English bishops (3) (3) Mirror Cryptic Dec 27, 2025

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