Music crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Music” are MARCH, VALUE or THEME, with 5 letters. Below are 38 answers from 3 to 15 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

HOP 3 letters · noun

an informal dance where popular music is played

IDEA 4 letters · noun

(music) melodic subject of a musical composition “the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it”

MARCH 5 letters · noun

genre of music written for marching “Sousa wrote the best marches”

PLAYER 6 letters · noun

someone who plays a music as a profession

MEDICINE 8 letters · noun

punishment for one's actions “take your medicine”

STATEMENT 9 letters · noun

(music) the presentation of a musical theme “the initial statement of the sonata”

VOCALIZING 10 letters · noun

the act of singing vocal music

PROCESSIONAL 12 letters · noun

religious music used in a procession

HARMONIZATION 13 letters · noun

a piece of harmonized music

INSTRUMENTALIST 15 letters · noun

someone who plays a music as a profession

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, IDEA, BASS, REEL and LILT all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: I → IDEA · B → BASS · R → REEL · L → LILT. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, MARCH, VALUE, THEME, SWING, PIANO and ORGAN all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: M → MARCH · V → VALUE · T → THEME · S → SWING · P → PIANO · O → ORGAN. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, PLAYER, RAPPER and BALLET all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: P → PLAYER · R → RAPPER · B → BALLET. 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: “musics” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “music” means

• noun: an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
• noun: any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds (“he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes”)
• noun: musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) (“his music was his central interest”)
• noun: (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)

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