Clues for the word "NECESSARY"
We've had 16 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 35 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on September 11, 2026.
Definition of necessary
- a. - Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
- a. - Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.
- a. - Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
- n. - A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
- n. - A privy; a water-closet.
- n. - Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
Referring Clues
- Essential
- Called for
- More of the quip
- Not an option
- Not optional
- Requisite
- Indispensable
- Required
- Needful
- Essential scenes shot before virgin blows top
- Shift scenery as required
- Arrange scenery as required
- It's required as scenery is moving
- Sense a cry could be required
- Needed to change scenery round Syria's borders
- Needed
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - September 11, 2026
- Daily American - January 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 04, 2025
- Daily American - January 25, 2025
- Daily American - January 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 10, 2023
- Mirror Daily - July 24, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 15, 2023
- Daily American - January 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 22, 2022
- Daily American - January 21, 2018
- Mirror Quick - November 09, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 18, 2017
- Guardian Quick - August 09, 2017
- Mirror Daily - April 04, 2017
- Daily American - January 25, 2017
- Mirror Daily - April 04, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - January 26, 2016
- New York Times - November 02, 2015
- Guardian Prize - May 16, 2015
- Guardian Quiptic - April 14, 2014
- LA Times Sunday - September 16, 2012
- Washington Post - January 08, 2012
- Guardian Quiptic - November 07, 2011
- Netword - December 07, 2010
- Thinks Daily - January 05, 2010
- Thinks Daily - January 05, 2008
- New York Times - November 24, 2007
- Family Time - April 30, 2007
- Guardian Quick - January 08, 2006
- And in 5 more crossword puzzles...