Every crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Every” are LIKE, with 4 letters. Below are 21 answers from 3 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

ALL 3 letters · adjective

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class “we sat up all night”

LIKE 4 letters · adjective

conforming in every respect “the like period of the preceding year”

DAILY 5 letters · adjective

of or belonging to or occurring every day “daily routine”

ANNUAL 6 letters · adjective

occurring or payable every year “an annual trip to Paris”

MONTHLY 7 letters · adjective

of or occurring or payable every month “monthly payments”

BIENNIAL 8 letters · adjective

occurring every second year “they met at biennial conventions”

PRACTICAL 9 letters · adjective

being actually such in almost every respect “a practical failure”

COMPARABLE 10 letters · adjective

conforming in every respect

FORTNIGHTLY 11 letters · adjective

occurring every two weeks

CORRESPONDING 13 letters · adjective

conforming in every respect “boxes with corresponding dimensions”

Telling them apart

With 6 squares, ANNUAL, WEEKLY, YEARLY and HOURLY all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: A → ANNUAL · W → WEEKLY · Y → YEARLY · H → HOURLY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 7 squares, MONTHLY, VIRTUAL, NIGHTLY and DIURNAL all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: M → MONTHLY · V → VIRTUAL · N → NIGHTLY · D → DIURNAL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 9 squares, PRACTICAL, ALTERNATE, BIMONTHLY and TRIENNIAL all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: P → PRACTICAL · A → ALTERNATE · B → BIMONTHLY · T → TRIENNIAL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “every” means

• adjective: (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception (“every person is mortal”)
• adjective: each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified (“every third seat”)

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