Index III — Clues
Hints, clues
& likely answers
When you have a clue but no letters. Look up the clue, compare likely answers, and use length and crossings to choose the right word.
Featured clue
“Angled surface”
A good crossword clue is open enough to create options, but precise enough that length and crossing letters narrow the answer. Start with the strongest suggestions, then open the clue page for definitions.
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Most usefulA → ZClues starting with A
- “Angled surface”1 answers · often → SLOPE5 letters
- “Animals of a region”1 answers · often → FAUNA5 letters
- “Apple beverage”1 answers · often → CIDER5 letters
- “Aromatic spice seed”1 answers · often → CUMIN5 letters
- “At the center”1 answers · often → FOCAL5 letters
Clues starting with B
- “Basil blend”1 answers · often → PESTO5 letters
- “Bell-shaped orchard picks”1 answers · often → PEARS5 letters
- “Brink”1 answers · often → VERGE5 letters
- “Burn on surface”1 answers · often → SINGE5 letters
Clues starting with C
- “Cart with wheels”1 answers · often → WAGON5 letters
- “Chose by ballot”1 answers · often → VOTED5 letters
- “Clever and neat”1 answers · often → NIFTY5 letters
- “Coldly desolate”1 answers · often → BLEAK5 letters
- “Come to a stop”1 answers · often → CEASE5 letters
Clues starting with E
- “Earthy curry seed”1 answers · often → CUMIN5 letters
- “Election choices”1 answers · often → VOTES5 letters
- “Existence itself”1 answers · often → BEING5 letters
Clues starting with F
- “Filled with mist”1 answers · often → FOGGY5 letters
- “Flat burger cake”1 answers · often → PATTY5 letters
- “Four-wheeled cart”1 answers · often → WAGON5 letters
- “Fried ring cake”1 answers · often → DONUT5 letters
- “Full garden blossom”1 answers · often → PEONY5 letters
- “Fully mature”1 answers · often → GROWN5 letters
Clues starting with G
- “Garlic sauce”1 answers · often → AIOLI5 letters
- “Grass-covered ground”1 answers · often → SWARD5 letters
Clues starting with H
- “Hard varnish source”1 answers · often → DAMAR5 letters
Clues starting with I
- “In an unusual way”1 answers · often → ODDLY5 letters
- “In bad taste”1 answers · often → TACKY5 letters
- “Informal soccer”1 answers · often → FOOTY5 letters
- “Informal tea serving”1 answers · often → CUPPA5 letters
- “Interlace fibers”1 answers · often → WEAVE5 letters
Clues starting with L
- “Less favorable”1 answers · often → WORSE5 letters
- “Liquid measures”1 answers · often → PINTS5 letters
- “Looks forward”1 answers · often → HOPES5 letters
- “Loud drink sound”1 answers · often → SLURP5 letters
Clues starting with M
- “Made well again”1 answers · often → CURED5 letters
- “Matter under debate”1 answers · often → ISSUE5 letters
- “Melted dish”1 answers · often → FONDU5 letters
- “Milky espresso drink”1 answers · often → LATTE5 letters
- “Move without effort”1 answers · often → GLIDE5 letters
Clues starting with N
- “Neatly clever”1 answers · often → NIFTY5 letters
- “News media”1 answers · often → PRESS5 letters
- “No longer bright”1 answers · often → FADED5 letters
- “Not flexible”1 answers · often → RIGID5 letters
Clues starting with O
- “One footing bill”1 answers · often → PAYER5 letters
- “Ordered records”1 answers · often → LISTS5 letters
- “Outer layers”1 answers · often → SKINS5 letters
Clues starting with P
- “Paper bundles”1 answers · often → REAMS5 letters
- “Pleasing to taste”1 answers · often → YUMMY5 letters
- “Practice figure”1 answers · often → DUMMY5 letters
- “Principal dishes”1 answers · often → MAINS5 letters
Clues starting with R
- “Rapid spin”1 answers · often → WHIRL5 letters
- “Reasoned thinking”1 answers · often → LOGIC5 letters
- “Red-berried shrub”1 answers · often → TOYON5 letters
- “Rocky drop”1 answers · often → CLIFF5 letters
- “Rough sounding”1 answers · often → HUSKY5 letters
Clues starting with S
- “Seismic tremor”1 answers · often → QUAKE5 letters
- “Sessile flower cluster”1 answers · often → SPICA5 letters
- “Sideways to keel”1 answers · often → ABEAM5 letters
- “Skewers with sauce”1 answers · often → SATAY5 letters
- “Small alcove”1 answers · often → CUBBY5 letters
- “Soft in tone”1 answers · often → MUTED5 letters
- “Spiced rice”1 answers · often → PILAW5 letters
- “Spicy sauce”1 answers · often → SALSA5 letters
- “Stake on an outcome”1 answers · often → WAGER5 letters
- “Steep rock wall”1 answers · often → CLIFF5 letters
- “Strong and solid”1 answers · often → STOUT5 letters
- “Sudden blaze”1 answers · often → FLARE5 letters
- “Sweet biscuit”1 answers · often → COOKY5 letters
Clues starting with T
- “Taken on”1 answers · often → HIRED5 letters
- “Tart pie flavor”1 answers · often → LIMES5 letters
- “Tea-time baked round”1 answers · often → SCONE5 letters
- “Title holder”1 answers · often → CHAMP5 letters
- “Titled nobleman”1 answers · often → BARON5 letters
- “Tossing ring”1 answers · often → QUOIT5 letters
- “Total disorder”1 answers · often → CHAOS5 letters
- “Tough outer peels”1 answers · often → RINDS5 letters
- “Tracking dog”1 answers · often → HOUND5 letters
- “Triple-time ballroom dance”1 answers · often → VALSE5 letters
- “Two-leaf seedling”1 answers · often → DICOT5 letters
Clues starting with U
- “Uses heat on food”1 answers · often → COOKS5 letters
Clues starting with V
- “Very quick”1 answers · often → SWIFT5 letters
Clues starting with W
- “Willow for basketry”1 answers · often → OSIER5 letters
- “With sorrow”1 answers · often → SADLY5 letters
- “Wobbly gelatin dessert”1 answers · often → JELLO5 letters
- “Work out answer”1 answers · often → SOLVE5 letters