Away crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Away” are ASIDE, FORTH or APART, with 5 letters. Below are 29 answers from 3 to 11 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

OUT 3 letters · adverb

from one's possession “he gave out money to the poor”

AWRY 4 letters · adverb

away from the correct or expected course “something has gone awry in our plans”

ASIDE 5 letters · adverb

out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) “brush the objections aside”

ABSENT 6 letters · verb

stay away or leave “He absented himself”

OUTSIDE 7 letters · adjective

(of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter “an outside pitch”

OPPOSITE 8 letters · adjective

moving or facing away from each other “looking in opposite directions”

DISCARDED 9 letters · adjective

thrown away

INACCURATE 10 letters · adjective

erroneous “an inaccurate translation”

CENTRIFUGAL 11 letters · adjective

tending to move away from a center “centrifugal force”

Telling them apart

With 5 squares, ASIDE, FORTH, APART and AMISS all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: S → ASIDE · O → FORTH · P → APART · M → AMISS. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, OUT, OFF and LEE all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: U → OUT · F → OFF · E → LEE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, ABSENT, INSIDE, NEARBY, REMOTE, VARIED and ASTRAY all fit. The fifth letter tells them all apart: N → ABSENT · D → INSIDE · B → NEARBY · T → REMOTE · E → VARIED · A → ASTRAY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “away” means

• adverb: from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete) (“ran away from the lion”)
• adverb: from one's possession (“gave away the tickets”)
• adverb: out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) (“pushed all doubts away”)
• adverb: out of existence (“the music faded away”)

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