Game crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Game” are BACK, PLOT or LAME, with 4 letters. Below are 56 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

BIZ 3 letters · noun

your occupation or line of work “she's in show biz”

BACK 4 letters · verb

place a bet on “Which horse are you backing?”

BRAVE 5 letters · adjective

possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching “Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring”

GRITTY 6 letters · adjective

willing to face danger

HALTING 7 letters · adjective

disabled in the feet or legs

SPIRITED 8 letters · adjective

willing to face danger

PARTRIDGE 9 letters · noun

heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds

COURAGEOUS 10 letters · adjective

possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching “a frank courageous heart … triumphed over pain”

SPORTSMANSHIP 13 letters · noun

fairness in following the rules of the game

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, BACK, PLOT, LAME, HALT, PUNT and GAGE all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: C → BACK · O → PLOT · M → LAME · L → HALT · N → PUNT · G → GAGE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, BRAVE, STAKE, UNFIT, GIMPY, DRIVE and COVER all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: B → BRAVE · S → STAKE · U → UNFIT · G → GIMPY · D → DRIVE · C → COVER. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, GRITTY, SPUNKY, ATTACK, HUNTER, PUZZLE and REPLAY all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: G → GRITTY · S → SPUNKY · A → ATTACK · H → HUNTER · P → PUZZLE · R → REPLAY. 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: “gamed” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “game” means

• noun: a contest with rules to determine a winner (“you need four people to play this game”)
• noun: a single play of a sport or other contest (“the game lasted two hours”)
• noun: an amusement or pastime (“they played word games”)
• noun: animal hunted for food or sport

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