Case crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Case” are CAUSE, EVENT or SHELL, with 5 letters. Below are 39 answers from 3 to 10 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

KIT 3 letters · noun

a case for containing a set of articles

FACE 4 letters · noun

a specific size and style of type within a type family

CAUSE 5 letters · noun

a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy

CASING 6 letters · noun

the housing or outer covering of something

EXAMPLE 7 letters · noun

an occurrence of something “but there is always the famous example of the Smiths”

INSTANCE 8 letters · noun

an occurrence of something “another instance occurred yesterday”

CHARACTER 9 letters · noun

a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) “a real character”

UNDERSTAND 10 letters · verb

believe to be the case “I understand you have no previous experience?”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, FACE, TYPE, SUIT, SLIP, FONT and BOOM all fit. The second letter settles most of it: A → FACE · Y → TYPE · U → SUIT · L → SLIP · O → FONT, BOOM. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, CAUSE, EVENT, SHELL, FOUNT, INFER and HUNCH all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: C → CAUSE · E → EVENT · S → SHELL · F → FOUNT · I → INFER · H → HUNCH. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, CASING, SHEATH, CHANCE, SLEEVE and QUIVER all fit. The fourth letter tells them all apart: I → CASING · A → SHEATH · N → CHANCE · E → SLEEVE · V → QUIVER. 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: “cased” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “case” means

• noun: an occurrence of something (“it was a case of bad judgment”)
• noun: a special set of circumstances (“it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled”)
• noun: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
• noun: the actual state of things (“that was not the case”)

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