Are crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Are” are WORK, HOME or FREE, with 4 letters. Below are 97 answers from 3 to 14 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

END 3 letters · noun

one of two places from which people are communicating to each other “the phone rang at the other end”

WORK 4 letters · noun

the occupation for which you are paid “a lot of people are out of work”

CLASS 5 letters · noun

a body of students who are taught together “early morning classes are always sleepy”

COURSE 6 letters · noun

a body of students who are taught together

CALLING 7 letters · noun

the particular occupation for which you are trained

MARRIAGE 8 letters · noun

two people who are married to each other “his second marriage was happier than the first”

AUTHORITY 9 letters · noun

an expert whose views are taken as definitive “he is an authority on corporate law”

OPPOSITION 10 letters · noun

a contestant that you are matched against

EQUIVALENCE 11 letters · noun

qualities that are comparable

ACQUAINTANCE 12 letters · noun

a person with whom you are acquainted “I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances”

COMPARABILITY 13 letters · noun

qualities that are comparable

SLAUGHTERHOUSE 14 letters · noun

a building where animals are butchered

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, WORK, HOME, FREE, HOPE, BOOK and LOST all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: R → WORK · M → HOME · E → FREE · P → HOPE · O → BOOK · S → LOST. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, CLASS, WORDS, BOARD, STAND, TRACK and GRADE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: C → CLASS · W → WORDS · B → BOARD · S → STAND · T → TRACK · G → GRADE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, END, FUN, POT, ELF, IMP and HOB all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: D → END · N → FUN · T → POT · F → ELF · P → IMP · B → HOB. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “ares” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “are” means

• noun: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as ARE, and words whose definition is ARE. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.