Chop or crop Crossword Clue

We have the 3-letter answer for Chop or crop crossword clue, last seen in the WSJ Crossword March 3, 2026 puzzle. This answer will help you finish the puzzle you’re working on.

Chop or crop Crossword Answer

→11.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
2. cut off from a whole

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CHOP (verb)
1. cut into pieces
2. cut with a hacking tool
CHOP (noun)
1. a grounder that bounces high in the air
2. a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
CROP (verb)
1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
2. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
CROP (noun)
1. the yield from plants in a single growing season
2. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
POL

More WSJ Crossword (3/3/2026) Answers

Across

1. "I'm blown away!"

6. Banded quartz

14. Fake ID?

15. What helps a student keep things straight

16. Lawyers' org

17. Cast it!

19. Jennings on “Jeopardy!”

20. *Regardless

21. “Easy” sequence

22. Muralist José María ___

23. Mens ___ (literally, “guilty mind”)

24. Cast it!

27. Hurries

30. Eagle's nest

31. "Precisely!"

34. Running the show, informally

35. Cast it!

37. Paid court to

39. Take up again, as a case

40. China's Zhou ___

41. Heat and cool, in order to strengthen

44. Cast it!

48. Do some tailoring

50. John B. Stetson’s creations

51. Tennis star Swiatek

52. Tick by

55. Lionizing verse

56. Cast it!

58. Cheap Thrills singer

59. High points

60. Spookily strange

61. Meowing male

62. Decade after the aughts

63. Kind of corn or potato

All Answers

Down

1. Crisp cookie

2. John of “Last Week Tonight”

3. “The Room” writer/director/star Tommy

4. Steve of 2025’s “Anaconda”

5. Thrift shop caveat

6. Second-largest country in S. Amer.

7. Soviet labor camp

8. Suspect’s defense, sometimes

9. “I’m Not in Love” band

10. Bard's "before"

11. View from Cleveland

12. College near Cleveland

13. What a toddler may yank at

18. Request from a vegetarian

22. 2015 Bond movie

25. Fall flower

26. South Pacific islander

28. Hair highlights

29. Gap top

32. Jargon suffix

33. Hawke in Hollywood

35. Foursome on horseback

36. Furniture layer

37. Service for sites

38. Airing, in a way

42. Have ambitions

43. WNBA great Lisa

45. She may cry “Uncle!”

46. Suboptimal performance

47. Like Cheerios

49. No need to introduce us!

53. Wine barrel sediment

54. Some, but not many

56. Lard or suet

57. Enterprise leader?

All Answers