Come crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Come” are FALL, SEED or FARE, with 4 letters. Below are 76 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

HIT 3 letters · verb

hit against; come into sudden contact with “The car hit a tree”

FALL 4 letters · verb

come under, be classified or included “fall into a category”

TOTAL 5 letters · verb

add up in number or quantity

NUMBER 6 letters · verb

add up in number or quantity

DESCEND 7 letters · verb

come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example “She was descended from an old Italian noble family”

APPROACH 8 letters · verb

come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character “His playing approaches that of Horowitz”

DETERMINE 9 letters · verb

reach, make, or come to a decision about something

CONGREGATE 10 letters · verb

come together, usually for a purpose “The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve”

DISCONTINUE 11 letters · verb

come to or be at an end “the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, FALL, SEED, FARE, HAIL, WELL and DOWN all fit. The first letter settles most of it: F → FALL, FARE · S → SEED · H → HAIL · W → WELL · D → DOWN. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, TOTAL, OCCUR, CLOSE, LIGHT, ISSUE and BREAK all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: T → TOTAL · O → OCCUR · C → CLOSE · L → LIGHT · I → ISSUE · B → BREAK. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, HIT, DIE, JAR and HAP all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: T → HIT · E → DIE · R → JAR · P → HAP. 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: “comes” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “come” means

• verb: move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody (“Come with me to the Casbah”)
• verb: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
• verb: come to pass; arrive, as in due course (“Dawn comes early in June”)
• verb: reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position (“come into contact with a terrorist group”)

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