Long crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Long” are TALL, LANK or HOME, with 4 letters. Below are 76 answers from 3 to 14 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

FAR 3 letters · adverb

to a considerable degree; very much “a far far better thing that I do”

TALL 4 letters · adjective

great in vertical dimension; high in stature “tall people”

AWARE 5 letters · adjective

(sometimes followed by ‘of’) having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception “was aware of his opponent's hostility”

STRETCH 7 letters · verb

make long or longer by pulling and stretching “stretch the fabric”

EXTENDED 8 letters · adjective

relatively long in duration; tediously protracted “an extended discussion”

OVERNIGHT 9 letters · adverb

during or for the length of one night “the fish marinates overnight”

CONTINUING 10 letters · adjective

persisting for a long time

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, TALL, LANK, HOME, SLOW, RARE and WORN all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: T → TALL · L → LANK · H → HOME · S → SLOW · R → RARE · W → WORN. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, AWARE, YEARN, OLDER, LAPSE, OLDEN and LANKY all fit. The first letter settles most of it: A → AWARE · Y → YEARN · O → OLDER, OLDEN · L → LAPSE, LANKY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, HANKER, LINEAR, STRIDE, SPIKED and GANGLY all fit. The first letter settles most of it: H → HANKER · L → LINEAR · S → STRIDE, SPIKED · G → GANGLY. 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: “longed” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “long” means

• adjective: primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified (“a long life”)
• adjective: primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified (“a long road”)
• adjective: of relatively great height (“a race of long gaunt men”)
• adjective: good at remembering

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