News crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “News” are WORD or LEAD, with 4 letters. Below are 13 answers from 4 to 12 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

WORD 4 letters · noun

information about recent and important events

STORY 5 letters · noun

a short account of the news “the story was on the 11 o'clock news”

REPORT 6 letters · noun

a short account of the news “the report of his speech”

TIDINGS 7 letters · noun

information about recent and important events

ANNOUNCER 9 letters · noun

reads news, commercials on radio or television

INTELLIGENCE 12 letters · noun

information about recent and important events

Telling them apart

With 6 squares, REPORT, GIVING, LATEST, HERALD and DIGEST all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: R → REPORT · G → GIVING · L → LATEST · H → HERALD · D → DIGEST. 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: “newies” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “news” means

• noun: information about recent and important events (“they awaited news of the outcome”)
• noun: information reported in a newspaper or news magazine (“the news of my death was greatly exaggerated”)
• noun: a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary (“we watch the 7 o'clock news every night”)
• noun: informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone (“it was news to me”)

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