As crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “As” are ALONG, SHORT or CLEAN, with 5 letters. Below are 86 answers from 4 to 13 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

ONLY 4 letters · adverb

as recently as “I spoke to him only an hour ago”

ALONG 5 letters · adverb

in accompaniment or as a companion “his little sister came along to the movies”

REALLY 6 letters · adverb

in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) “really, you shouldn't have done it”

EQUALLY 7 letters · adverb

to the same degree (often followed by ‘as’) “they were equally beautiful”

TERRIBLY 8 letters · adverb

used as intensifiers “terribly interesting”

GENERALLY 9 letters · adverb

usually; as a rule

COMPLETELY 10 letters · adverb

so as to be complete; with everything necessary “he had filled out the form completely”

NECESSARILY 11 letters · adverb

in such a manner as could not be otherwise “it is necessarily so”

CONSEQUENTLY 12 letters · adverb

as a consequence “he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held”

ALTERNATIVELY 13 letters · adverb

in place of, or as an alternative to “alternatively we could buy a used car”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, ONLY, THEN, ONCE, TRUE, DEAD and PLUM all fit. The second letter settles most of it: N → ONLY, ONCE · H → THEN · R → TRUE · E → DEAD · L → PLUM. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, ALONG, SHORT, CLEAN, HEAVY, TRULY and ROUGH all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: A → ALONG · S → SHORT · C → CLEAN · H → HEAVY · T → TRULY · R → ROUGH. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, REALLY, ENOUGH, COURSE, MOSTLY, PLENTY and DEADLY all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: R → REALLY · E → ENOUGH · C → COURSE · M → MOSTLY · P → PLENTY · D → DEADLY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “as” means

• adverb: to the same degree (often followed by ‘as’) (“birds were singing and the child sang as sweetly”)

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 AS, and words whose definition is AS. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.