On crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “On” are ABOUT, RIGHT or SMALL, with 5 letters. Below are 108 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

OFF 3 letters · adverb

no longer on or in contact or attached “clean off the dirt”

HOME 4 letters · adverb

on or to the point aimed at “the arrow struck home”

ABOUT 5 letters · adverb

all around or on all sides “dirty clothes lying around (or about)”

AROUND 6 letters · adverb

all around or on all sides “dirty clothes lying around (or about)”

HOWEVER 7 letters · adverb

by contrast; on the other hand “the first part was easy; the second, however, took hours”

SUPPOSED 8 letters · adjective

based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence “the supposed reason for his absence”

YESTERDAY 9 letters · adverb

on the day preceding today “yesterday the weather was beautiful”

SURROUNDED 10 letters · adjective

confined on all sides “a camp surrounded by enemies”

INTERACTIVE 11 letters · adjective

capable of acting on or influencing each other

EXPERIMENTAL 12 letters · adjective

relating to or based on experiment “experimental physics”

INDEPENDENTLY 13 letters · adverb

on your own; without outside help “the children worked on the project independently”

DEMOCRATICALLY 14 letters · adverb

in a democratic manner; based on democratic principles “it was decided democratically”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, HOME, LEFT, SIDE, TRUE, NEAR and WIDE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: H → HOME · L → LEFT · S → SIDE · T → TRUE · N → NEAR · W → WIDE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, ABOUT, RIGHT, SMALL, WHITE, LEVEL and BELOW all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: A → ABOUT · R → RIGHT · S → SMALL · W → WHITE · L → LEVEL · B → BELOW. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, OFF, BIG, DUE, HOT, COD and TOD all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: O → OFF · B → BIG · D → DUE · H → HOT · C → COD · T → TOD. 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: “ones” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “on” means

• adverb: with a forward motion (“the circus traveled on to the next city”)
• adverb: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration (“his spirit lives on”)
• adverb: in a state required for something to function or be effective (“turn the lights on”)
• adjective: in operation or operational (“left the oven on”)

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