Body crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Body” are YEAR, FEEL or FORM, with 4 letters. Below are 105 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

ICE 3 letters · noun

the frozen part of a body of water

YEAR 4 letters · noun

a body of students who graduate together “she was in my year at Hoehandle High”

TRUNK 5 letters · noun

the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

PUBLIC 6 letters · noun

a body of people sharing some common interest “the reading public”

COUNCIL 7 letters · noun

a body serving in an administrative capacity “student council”

SUBSTANCE 9 letters · noun

the property of holding together and retaining its shape

LEADERSHIP 10 letters · noun

the body of people who lead a group “the national leadership adopted his plan”

CONSISTENCY 11 letters · noun

the property of holding together and retaining its shape “when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake”

INSPECTORATE 12 letters · noun

a body of inspectors

HISTORIOGRAPHY 14 letters · noun

a body of historical literature

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, YEAR, FEEL, FORM, MAIN, PASS and WEAR all fit. The first letter settles most of it: Y → YEAR · F → FEEL, FORM · M → MAIN · P → PASS · W → WEAR. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, TRUNK, TORSO, ORDER, CLASS, BREAK and BUILD all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: U → TRUNK · R → TORSO · D → ORDER · A → CLASS · E → BREAK · I → BUILD. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, ICE, SUN, DON, LIT and VAS all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: I → ICE · S → SUN · D → DON · L → LIT · V → VAS. 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: “bodied” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “body” means

• noun: the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) (“he felt as if his whole body were on fire”)
• noun: a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity (“the whole body filed out of the auditorium”)
• noun: a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person (“they found the body in the lake”)
• noun: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects (“heavenly body”)

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