Answer: BAILS
BAILS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 45 times.
- Jumps (out)
- Pre-trial securities
- Rescues, with "out"
- Removes water from, with "out"
- Starts to skydive, with "out"
- Helps (out)
- Tries to keep the boat afloat
- Kettle handles
- Leaves in a hurry
- Leaves the groom at the altar, e.g.
- Cowardly flees the scene
- Gets water out of
- Fights to save a sinking boat
- Splits, slangily
- Cricket stump pegs
- Mans the buckets
- Tries to save a sinking boat
- Bucket handles
- Empties the boat
- Tries to save the boat
- ___ out (rescues)
- Abruptly calls off plans, say
- Flees the scene
- Extricates from a sticky situation, with "out"
- Deals with a leak, maybe
- Wicket toppers
- Gives up, in slang
- Hits eject
- Quits
- Gets water out of a boat
- Tries to prevent a sinking
- Abandons a commitment, in slang
- Doesn't show up
- Flies the coop
- Exits quickly, in slang
- Quits at the last minute
- Clears of water by dipping
- Scrams
- Uses a bucket in a boat
- Backs out unexpectedly
- Dips, so to speak
- Flakes on plans
- Cancels plans at the last minute
- Backs out at the last second
- Leaves partway through