Clues for the word "ANSWER"
We've had 94 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 215 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on March 15, 2025.
Definition of answer
- n. - To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
- n. - To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
- n. - To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
- n. - To be or act in return or response to.
- n. - To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.
- n. - To render account to or for.
- n. - To atone; to be punished for.
- n. - To be opposite to; to face.
- n. - To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
- n. - To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
- v. i. - To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.
- v. i. - To make a satisfactory response or return.
- v. i. - To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
- v. i. - To be or act in return.
- v. i. - To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
- v. i. - To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- v. i. - To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
- v. i. - To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
- n. - A reply to a change; a defense.
- n. - Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
- n. - Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
- n. - A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
- n. - A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
Referring Clues
- Echo, e.g.
- Make a comeback
- Match, as a description
- "Is that your final ___?"
- Echo
- "Jeopardy!" offering
- Come back
- Respond
- "Jeopardy!" clue
- Spoken reply
- Alex Trebek offering
- Response
- See 68-Across
- Word that appears elsewhere on this page
- Pick up the phone
- Be accountable (for)
- Offering from Trebek
- Reply
- Comeback
- Exam-sheet entry
- Test-paper fill-in
- Pick up, as a phone
- Provide an explanation for
- This one contains six letters
- This one requires six letters
- Correct reply
- "Jeopardy!" clue, e.g.
- Trebek offering
- Respond to a knock
- Render a reply
- Give a response
- Solver's quest
- This clue has one
- Newspaper crossword accompanier
- Cheater's peeked-at item
- "Jeopardy!" revelation
- Riddle's punch line
- Riddle's punch line
- Solution
- Question, on 'Jeopardy!'
- 'Jeopardy!' clue
- 'Jeopardy!' clue, e.g.
- It's blowin' in the wind
- Peeked-at item
- Explanation
- Quizmaster's request
- R.S.V.P.
- Retort
- Reaction
- Grab the phone
- Get back to
- Rejoinder
- Response to a question
- Response right after a news broadcast
- A news broadcast with right to reply
- It may be printed upside-down
- Alan Parsons Project "Don't ___ Me"
- Solve - solution
- Secured by screwed screws, nails come back
- A run of four points ending in poor return
- How to deal with Warne's spin?
- Retort of unfortunate Swan Queen?
- A state about to back up result
- A newscast leading to royal response
- What the inquiring mind seeks to find in Americans - werewolves!
- You may find it as Wren built
- A state upset about response
- Jeans were part of the problem? On the contrary
- Solution to a problem
- As Wren rebuilt, you need to take the blame
- Response to a wren's involvement
- Article points us to right solution
- Response from barbarians we resist
- ylper?
- Complete directions for entering a right response
- A state of Australia and its head of state return
- Solution offered by Australian state: cutting a rate of interest
- The one for 11 Down is 11 Down
- One of 144 in this grid
- Response to a monarch seizing territory down under
- Reply to
- You're asking for it!
- Solution provided by politicians we reject
- Problem's solution
- Man, for the Sphinx's riddle
- A rhetorical question doesn't ask for one
- Pick up, in a way
- End of the quote
- It's given in the form of a question on "Jeopardy!"
- Question, in "Jeopardy!"
- True or false, on a true/false test
- What a key provides
- Something "Jeopardy!" gives you
- Pick up
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 09, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 21, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 30, 2025
- New York Times - January 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 22, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 04, 2024
- New York Times - September 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 18, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 31, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 23, 2024
- USA Today - July 18, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 12, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 09, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 01, 2023
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