Coming crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Coming” are LATER, with 5 letters. Below are 65 answers from 5 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

LATER 5 letters · adjective

coming at a subsequent time or stage

FUTURE 6 letters · adjective

yet to be or coming “some future historian will evaluate him”

OUTSIDE 7 letters · adjective

coming from the outside “disdaining outside pressure groups”

APPROACH 8 letters · noun

the act of drawing spatially closer to something “the hunter's approach scattered the geese”

POTENTIAL 9 letters · noun

the inherent capacity for coming into being

GENERATION 10 letters · noun

a coming into being

APPROACHING 11 letters · noun

the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

POTENTIALITY 12 letters · noun

the inherent capacity for coming into being

REUNIFICATION 13 letters · noun

the act of coming together again “monetary unification precipitated the reunification of the German state in October 1990”

Telling them apart

With 6 squares, FUTURE, ADVENT, CLIMAX, RETURN, GROWTH and RISING all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: U → FUTURE · D → ADVENT · L → CLIMAX · E → RETURN · R → GROWTH · I → RISING. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 7 squares, OUTSIDE, TONIGHT, FALLING, DISPUTE, REUNION and GENESIS all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: O → OUTSIDE · T → TONIGHT · F → FALLING · D → DISPUTE · R → REUNION · G → GENESIS. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 8 squares, APPROACH, NORTHERN, EXTERNAL, DROPPING, FREQUENT and EMERGING all fit. The fifth letter tells them all apart: O → APPROACH · H → NORTHERN · R → EXTERNAL · P → DROPPING · U → FREQUENT · G → EMERGING. 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: “comings” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “coming” means

• noun: the act of drawing spatially closer to something
• noun: arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
• noun: the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
• noun: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

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