Court crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Court” are BRING, AWARD or RETRY, with 5 letters. Below are 27 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

WOO 3 letters · verb

seek someone's favor “China is wooing Russia”

BRING 5 letters · verb

advance or set forth in court “bring charges”

HOMAGE 6 letters · noun

respectful deference

ROMANCE 7 letters · verb

make amorous advances towards

TRIBUNAL 8 letters · noun

an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

INSTITUTE 9 letters · verb

advance or set forth in court “institute proceedings”

JUDICATURE 10 letters · noun

an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

Telling them apart

With 5 squares, BRING, AWARD, RETRY, DIVAN and DIWAN all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: I → BRING · A → AWARD · T → RETRY · V → DIVAN · W → DIWAN. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, HOMAGE, DEMAND, RELIEF, ATTEST, MINUET and BAUBLE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: H → HOMAGE · D → DEMAND · R → RELIEF · A → ATTEST · M → MINUET · B → BAUBLE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 7 squares, ROMANCE, SOLICIT, SITTING, COUNSEL and TESTIFY all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: M → ROMANCE · L → SOLICIT · T → SITTING · U → COUNSEL · S → TESTIFY. 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: “courted” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “court” means

• noun: an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
• noun: a room in which a law court sits (“television cameras were admitted in the courtroom”)
• noun: the sovereign and their advisers who are the governing power of a state
• noun: a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played (“players had to reserve a court in advance”)

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