Few crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Few” are SOME, POOR or FAIR, with 4 letters. Below are 10 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

SOME 4 letters · adjective

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity “have some milk”

LIGHT 5 letters · adjective

having relatively few calories “light (or lite) beer”

CONCISE 7 letters · adjective

expressing much in few words “a concise explanation”

DEATHBED 8 letters · noun

the last few hours before death

OLIGARCHY 9 letters · noun

a political system governed by a few people “one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, SOME, POOR, FAIR, QUIZ and LITE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: S → SOME · P → POOR · F → FAIR · Q → QUIZ · L → LITE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “few” means

• adjective: a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by ‘a’; a small but indefinite number (“a few weeks ago”)
• noun: a small elite group (“it was designed for the discriminating few”)

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