New crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “New” are OTHER, EARLY or YOUNG, with 5 letters. Below are 48 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

HOT 3 letters · adjective

used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning “hot stove”

COLD 4 letters · adjective

lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

OTHER 5 letters · adjective

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; quantifier, other “today isn't any other day”

MODERN 6 letters · adjective

belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages “modern art”

CURRENT 7 letters · noun

a flow of electricity through a conductor “the current was measured in amperes”

ORIGINAL 8 letters · adjective

preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed “the original inhabitants of the Americas”

RELOCATED 9 letters · adjective

settled in a new location

REFRESHING 10 letters · adjective

pleasantly new or different “common sense of a most refreshing sort”

REPRODUCTIVE 12 letters · adjective

producing new life or offspring “the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions”

REVOLUTIONARY 13 letters · adjective

markedly new or introducing radical change “a revolutionary discovery”

Telling them apart

With 5 squares, OTHER, EARLY, YOUNG, FRESH, NOVEL and DUSTY all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: O → OTHER · E → EARLY · Y → YOUNG · F → FRESH · N → NOVEL · D → DUSTY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, HOT, RAW and OLD all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: H → HOT · R → RAW · O → OLD. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, MODERN, RECENT, RISING, VIRGIN, UNUSED and DARING all fit. The first letter settles most of it: M → MODERN · R → RECENT, RISING · V → VIRGIN · U → UNUSED · D → DARING. 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: “news” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “new” means

• adjective: not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered (“a new law”)
• adjective: unaffected by use or exposure (“it looks like new”)
• adjective: original and of a kind not seen before
• adjective: lacking training or experience (“the new men were eager to fight”)

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