Clues for the word "REASON"
We've had 121 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 281 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 31, 2025.
Definition of reason
- n. - A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.
- n. - The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.
- n. - Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.
- n. - Ratio; proportion.
- n. - To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
- n. - Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.
- n. - To converse; to compare opinions.
- v. t. - To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend.
- v. t. - To support with reasons, as a request.
- v. t. - To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.
- v. t. - To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion.
- v. t. - To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.
Referring Clues
- Why
- Good sense
- Sanity
- Justification
- Logic
- Think logically
- Left brain's forte, supposedly
- Use logic
- Use one's noodle
- Figure (out)
- Motive
- Think through
- Analyze
- Motive for action
- Good thinking
- What Kant critiqued
- Make a deduction
- Marbles, so to speak
- Figure out
- Rhyme alternative
- Cause
- Ground
- Rationale
- Logician's need
- Determining factor
- A rational motive
- Explanation
- Rationality
- "The natural organ of truth": C. S. Lewis
- Good judgment
- Basis
- Underlying cause
- Purpose
- Lucidity
- Think
- Common sense
- "Because I said so" is not one
- Be logical
- Think logically about a child
- Sanity - there's possibly nothing saner
- Explanation for some event
- Cause of an outbreak of arson around Mile End
- Concerned with Roman coin on the ground
- See 18
- Sense
- Work out, as one is turning to the right
- So terribly near to catching and that's why
- Grounds for release from the lunatic asylum
- Motive for arson out East?
- Try to talk out of, with justification
- Draw conclusions from - with justification
- Remonstrate with, showing sense
- Logic not referring to a daughter then?
- Why arson is terrible out East
- Motive for terrible arson out East
- Sedition doesn't start to make sense
- See 9
- Cause for debate
- Cause - logic
- Work out with soldiers when working
- "About A Boy" ought to be kept in mind
- Argue about a child
- Motive concerning an endless strain
- About a boy's premise
- Sane or crazy? Discuss
- Kant's "Critique of Pure ___"
- Logician's strength
- Think about a boy
- For soldiers to have a boy makes sense
- Think about a child
- Logic, sense
- Think about a relative
- Concerning one boy's motive
- Daughter, leaving study ahead of boy, makes an excuse
- Religious education - 'A disciple's cause'
- Mind about boy pinching answer
- Motive for crime head denied
- Cause of timeless crime?
- Think logically about a boy
- Think logically about a disciple
- Why ground support?
- Think out the motive
- Sound judgment
- If you think it out, it is justification for
- Think about an issue
- An inducement to use your head
- It's common sense, that's why!
- Motive for arson, possibly, around the end of June
- Work (out)
- Logician's forte
- It may be hard to listen to
- Motive for arson, maybe, out East
- Cause of a snore?
- Rational thinking
- Ninny's lack
- Work out what's behind it all
- Motive for arson, perhaps, out East
- "Because," to a kid
- It may begin with "Because ..."
- Excuse
- Motive for arson out East?
- Deduce there's justification
- "Because I said so," e.g.
- Are falsely taken by the child as grounds for
- Grounds
- Logician's asset
- The senora's good sense
- Human faculty
- One sees it as good sense
- Rhyme or ___
- Rhyme partner
- Why the senora's upset?
- Why arson is wrong about the end of June
- Without rhyme or ___
- Give me a ___
- Cause for belief
- What "Why?" tries to uncover
- "Give me one good ___"
- Motivation
- "Give Me One ___" (Tracy Chapman song)
- Deduce it's your excuse for
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 29, 2025
- LA Times - November 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 16, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 03, 2025
- New York Times - February 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 11, 2025
- USA Today - January 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 22, 2024
- USA Today - November 07, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 25, 2024
- Mirror Mini - October 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 02, 2024
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