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
“Academic argument”
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
- “Academic argument”1 answers · often → THESIS6 letters
- “Act clumsily”1 answers · often → BUMBLE6 letters
- “Acting for another”1 answers · often → BEHALF6 letters
- “Agree to terms”1 answers · often → ACCEDE6 letters
- “All of space”1 answers · often → COSMOS6 letters
- “Allure in US spelling”1 answers · often → GLAMOR6 letters
- “Appeal to”1 answers · often → INVOKE6 letters
Clues starting with B
- “Below standard”1 answers · often → SUBPAR6 letters
- “Blurry streaks”1 answers · often → SMEARS6 letters
- “Booted”1 answers · often → KICKED6 letters
- “Branch clipper”1 answers · often → PRUNER6 letters
- “Brown soot pigment”1 answers · often → BISTRE6 letters
- “Browned baked dish”1 answers · often → GRATIN6 letters
- “Built strong”1 answers · often → STURDY6 letters
- “Bulb kitchen tube”1 answers · often → BASTER6 letters
- “Bun-based sandwich”1 answers · often → BURGER6 letters
Clues starting with C
- “Call out loudly”1 answers · often → HOLLER6 letters
- “Called to mind”1 answers · often → EVOKED6 letters
- “Card hustler”1 answers · often → SHARPY6 letters
- “Cheese pot dip”1 answers · often → FONDUE6 letters
- “Chess horseman”1 answers · often → KNIGHT6 letters
- “Chipping implement”1 answers · often → FLAKER6 letters
- “Closed firmly”1 answers · often → SEALED6 letters
- “Cold mixed dishes”1 answers · often → SALADS6 letters
- “Collect gradually”1 answers · often → GARNER6 letters
- “Colored band”1 answers · often → STRIPE6 letters
- “Considers mentally”1 answers · often → THINKS6 letters
- “Console play”1 answers · often → GAMING6 letters
- “Continuous run”1 answers · often → STREAK6 letters
- “Cornbread cake”1 answers · often → DODGER6 letters
- “Cuisine enthusiast”1 answers · often → FOODIE6 letters
- “Custard-apple relative”1 answers · often → PAWPAW6 letters
Clues starting with D
- “Digit grid”1 answers · often → SUDOKU6 letters
- “Digital messages”1 answers · often → EMAILS6 letters
- “Distort the shape of”1 answers · often → DEFORM6 letters
- “Drink habitually”1 answers · often → TIPPLE6 letters
- “Duty list”1 answers · often → ROSTER6 letters
Clues starting with E
- “Encourage growth”1 answers · often → FOSTER6 letters
- “Entered phone digits”1 answers · often → DIALED6 letters
- “Expressed aloud”1 answers · often → VOICED6 letters
Clues starting with F
- “First-time kind”1 answers · often → MAIDEN6 letters
- “Flaky baked treat”1 answers · often → PASTRY6 letters
- “Force upon”1 answers · often → IMPOSE6 letters
- “Formal greeting”1 answers · often → SALUTE6 letters
- “French trick game”1 answers · often → ECARTE6 letters
- “Fruit pits”1 answers · often → STONES6 letters
- “Frying mixture”1 answers · often → BATTER6 letters
- “Full of pieces”1 answers · often → CHUNKY6 letters
Clues starting with G
- “Garlic segments”1 answers · often → CLOVES6 letters
- “Give back”1 answers · often → RETURN6 letters
- “Greek wind god”1 answers · often → BOREAS6 letters
- “Gritty in texture”1 answers · often → GRAINY6 letters
- “Grow successfully”1 answers · often → THRIVE6 letters
Clues starting with H
- “Half-gallon measure”1 answers · often → POTTLE6 letters
- “Hand citrus press”1 answers · often → JUICER6 letters
- “Harvest hand”1 answers · often → PICKER6 letters
- “Heated for eating”1 answers · often → COOKED6 letters
- “Helped learn”1 answers · often → TAUGHT6 letters
- “Hidden from view”1 answers · often → UNSEEN6 letters
- “High wispy cloud”1 answers · often → CIRRUS6 letters
- “High-priced”1 answers · often → COSTLY6 letters
- “Hinged gripping implement”1 answers · often → PLYERS6 letters
- “Hot wheat cereal”1 answers · often → FARINA6 letters
- “Human subject to death”1 answers · often → MORTAL6 letters
Clues starting with I
- “Ice cream treat”1 answers · often → SUNDAE6 letters
- “Icy cafe drink”1 answers · often → FRAPPE6 letters
- “In a pleasant way”1 answers · often → NICELY6 letters
- “In recent days”1 answers · often → LATELY6 letters
- “Initial word part”1 answers · often → PREFIX6 letters
Clues starting with J
- “Join formally”1 answers · often → ENROLL6 letters
Clues starting with K
- “Knitted textile”1 answers · often → TRICOT6 letters
Clues starting with L
- “Lacking certainty”1 answers · often → UNSURE6 letters
- “Lacy table linen”1 answers · often → DOYLEY6 letters
- “Large juicy produce”1 answers · often → MELONS6 letters
- “Lead a state”1 answers · often → GOVERN6 letters
- “Least numerous”1 answers · often → FEWEST6 letters
- “Leave without help”1 answers · often → STRAND6 letters
- “Liquid refreshments”1 answers · often → DRINKS6 letters
- “Lubricating fat”1 answers · often → GREASE6 letters
Clues starting with M
- “Magic draught”1 answers · often → POTION6 letters
- “Make one's home”1 answers · often → RESIDE6 letters
- “Make peaceful”1 answers · often → PACIFY6 letters
- “Meal after dusk”1 answers · often → SUPPER6 letters
- “Moved by pressure”1 answers · often → PUSHED6 letters
- “Moved on foot”1 answers · often → WALKED6 letters
- “Moves higher”1 answers · often → CLIMBS6 letters
- “Movie house”1 answers · often → CINEMA6 letters
Clues starting with N
- “Name tags”1 answers · often → LABELS6 letters
- “Not sunny”1 answers · often → CLOUDY6 letters
- “Number after twenty-nine”1 answers · often → THIRTY6 letters
Clues starting with O
- “Oil-rich fruits”1 answers · often → OLIVES6 letters
- “Older family relative”1 answers · often → GRANNY6 letters
- “Only sometimes”1 answers · often → RARELY6 letters
- “Orange tropical produce”1 answers · often → PAPAYA6 letters
- “Orchard cultivar”1 answers · often → PIPPIN6 letters
Clues starting with P
- “Paperboard package”1 answers · often → CARTON6 letters
- “Passed over”1 answers · often → HANDED6 letters
- “Pause or gap”1 answers · often → HIATUS6 letters
- “People having meals”1 answers · often → DINERS6 letters
- “Pictures or likenesses”1 answers · often → IMAGES6 letters
- “Place for films”1 answers · often → CINEMA6 letters
- “Play a tune”1 answers · often → TOOTLE6 letters
- “Pleasure trip”1 answers · often → OUTING6 letters
- “Pocket tag”1 answers · often → KEYFOB6 letters
- “Point-making implement”1 answers · often → DOTTER6 letters
- “Portray visually”1 answers · often → DEPICT6 letters
- “Pressed drinks”1 answers · often → JUICES6 letters
- “Prevent success”1 answers · often → THWART6 letters
- “Prosper”1 answers · often → THRIVE6 letters
Clues starting with R
- “Raised weave”1 answers · often → ARMURE6 letters
- “Refutes an argument”1 answers · often → REBUTS6 letters
- “Regular behaviors”1 answers · often → HABITS6 letters
- “Restaurant patrons”1 answers · often → DINERS6 letters
- “Rinsing glass”1 answers · often → EYECUP6 letters
- “Robust and warm”1 answers · often → HEARTY6 letters
- “Role performers”1 answers · often → ACTORS6 letters
- “Rough tropical fruit”1 answers · often → LYCHEE6 letters
- “Rough-skinned sweet fruit”1 answers · often → LITCHI6 letters
Clues starting with S
- “Said no to”1 answers · often → DENIED6 letters
- “Saucy flatbreads”1 answers · often → PIZZAS6 letters
- “Savory rice”1 answers · often → PILAFF6 letters
- “Seasoning worker”1 answers · often → SPICER6 letters
- “Secret and unseen”1 answers · often → COVERT6 letters
- “Secret code variant”1 answers · often → CYPHER6 letters
- “Self-serve spread”1 answers · often → BUFFET6 letters
- “Shaped into being”1 answers · often → FORMED6 letters
- “Shares the same view”1 answers · often → AGREES6 letters
- “Shower scrubber”1 answers · often → LOOFAH6 letters
- “Showy and bright”1 answers · often → FLASHY6 letters
- “Slow musical passage”1 answers · often → ADAGIO6 letters
- “Small gold piece”1 answers · often → NUGGET6 letters
- “Small lychee cousin”1 answers · often → LONGAN6 letters
- “Small tremble”1 answers · often → QUIVER6 letters
- “Special goodies”1 answers · often → TREATS6 letters
- “Spicy pepper pod”1 answers · often → CHILLI6 letters
- “Steps in a process”1 answers · often → STAGES6 letters
- “Stylishly cool”1 answers · often → GROOVY6 letters
- “Sugary treats”1 answers · often → SWEETS6 letters
- “Swallow down”1 answers · often → INGEST6 letters
- “Swear off formally”1 answers · often → ABJURE6 letters
Clues starting with T
- “Tart yellow citrus”1 answers · often → LEMONS6 letters
- “Track competitor”1 answers · often → RUNNER6 letters
- “Treacle ginger bake”1 answers · often → PARKIN6 letters
- “Triumphant contestant”1 answers · often → VICTOR6 letters
- “Tropical bromeliad fruit”1 answers · often → ANANAS6 letters
- “Tropical longan tree”1 answers · often → LUNGEN6 letters
- “Turned repeatedly”1 answers · often → ROLLED6 letters
Clues starting with V
- “Vertical support”1 answers · often → COLUMN6 letters
- “Vessel for steeping”1 answers · often → TEAPOT6 letters
- “Vineyard bunches”1 answers · often → GRAPES6 letters
Clues starting with W
- “Ways of presentation”1 answers · often → STYLES6 letters
- “Win by cunning”1 answers · often → OUTWIT6 letters
- “Wine-based spirit”1 answers · often → BRANDY6 letters
- “With fairness”1 answers · often → JUSTLY6 letters
- “Without secrecy”1 answers · often → OPENLY6 letters
- “Works for”1 answers · often → SERVES6 letters
- “Wrinkled plum snacks”1 answers · often → PRUNES6 letters
- “Written lines”1 answers · often → SCRIPT6 letters
Clues starting with Z
- “Zip-top pouch”1 answers · often → BAGGIE6 letters