Not likely to bite Crossword Clue

We have the 4-letter answer for Not likely to bite crossword clue, last seen in the Boston Globe Mini Crossword August 20, 2026 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Not likely to bite Crossword Answer

↓48.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. correct by punishment or discipline
2. make less strong or intense; soften
(adjective)
1. brought from wildness into a domesticated state
2. very docile

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BITE (noun)
1. a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect’s stinger into skin
2. a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
BITE (verb)
1. deliver a sting to
2. to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
LIKELY (adjective)
1. likely but not certain to be or become true or real
2. expected to become or be; in prospect
LIKELY (adverb)
1. with considerable certainty; without much doubt

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More Boston Globe Mini Crossword (8/20/2026) Answers

Across

1. Fedora part

5. Chest expander targets, briefly

9. Margarine container

12. Cry from the crib

13. World city whose name sounds like a sandwich shop

14. How unfortunate

15. The place to be

17. Have another go at

18. Seasons, perhaps

19. "Get out of trouble" PC key

20. Help, as a con man

21. Image Awards org

23. Toy to spin

25. Fury

26. Toward the back of a battleship

28. French bowlful made from vegetables or fish

31. Congregation's seating

33. Camera type, in brief

34. Hit single's place, usually

35. Place to stay dry?

37. Star Wars' pilot Dameron

39. Fender blemishes

41. Zaps with photons

43. Unrefined material

45. Bullets in poker

46. "Hmm, really?"

49. QVC competitor

50. Metal-free scan, in brief

51. Slightly damage

52. "Ditto"

54. Enthusiastic reply in Mexico

56. TGIF part: Abbr.

58. One of the Obamas

61. "A Visit from the Goon Squad" novelist Jennifer

62. Big tests ... or the ends of 15-, 28- and 46-Across?

65. Skinny

66. Bring to mind

67. Revise

68. Scores that inspire end zone dances, for short

69. Mark down, perhaps

70. "Dumb Money" actor Paul

All Answers

Down

1. "The Ultimate Driving Machine" brand

2. Stadium cheers

3. "Take my words seriously"

4. Gibbs of The Jeffersons

5. Caress

6. If not

7. Celibate

8. "Seinfeld" and "Frasier," but not Seinfeld and Frasier

9. Someone very important

10. Gives fewer stars than warranted

11. Baby's soft shoe

13. '70s dance venues

14. "... bug ___ feature?"

16. Navigator's guesses

22. Juice residue

24. Checkout sticker word

26. Earth Day mo.

27. Seems like a good fit

29. Evidence

30. "Whose bright ___ was this?!"

32. Obi, for one

36. Smile radiantly

38. Taylor Swift's The ___ Tour

40. W-2 datum

42. Government agency worker

44. Environmental lead-in

46. "All good"

47. Get there

53. ___ out (took to the limit)

55. Overnight rest stops

57. How some WNBA games end

59. "Definitely include me!"

60. On the subject of

63. Letters before an alias

64. Chicken piece

All Answers