Days crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Days” are YEAR, WEEK or MOON, with 4 letters. Below are 6 answers from 4 to 9 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

YEAR 4 letters · noun

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days “she is 4 years old”

YEARS 5 letters · noun

the time during which someone's life continues “in his final years”

FORTNIGHT 9 letters · noun

a period of fourteen consecutive days “most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, YEAR, WEEK and MOON all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: Y → YEAR · W → WEEK · M → MOON. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “days” means

• noun: the time during which someone's life continues (“the monarch's last days”)

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