Other crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Other” are PAST or VERY, with 4 letters. Below are 24 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

NEW 3 letters · adjective

other than the former one(s); different “they now have a new leaders”

PAST 4 letters · adjective

earlier than the present time; no longer current “time past”

EARLY 5 letters · adjective

belonging to the distant past “the early inhabitants of Europe”

FORMER 6 letters · adjective

belonging to the distant past “former generations”

STRANGE 7 letters · adjective

being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird “a strange exaltation that was indefinable”

SEPARATE 8 letters · noun

a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

DIFFERENT 9 letters · adjective

unlike in nature or quality or form or degree “took different approaches to the problem”

UNASSISTED 10 letters · adjective

unsupported by other people

CONSECUTIVE 11 letters · adjective

one after the other

INCOMPATIBLE 12 letters · adjective

used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect

INTERNATIONAL 13 letters · adjective

from or between other countries “international trade”

UNSUBSTANTIATED 15 letters · adjective

unsupported by other evidence

Telling them apart

With 7 squares, STRANGE, UNUSUAL, OUTSIDE and MINERAL all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: S → STRANGE · U → UNUSUAL · O → OUTSIDE · M → MINERAL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 8 squares, SEPARATE, OPPOSITE, EXTERNAL, ATTENDED and GESTURAL all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: S → SEPARATE · O → OPPOSITE · E → EXTERNAL · A → ATTENDED · G → GESTURAL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 9 squares, DIFFERENT, IDENTICAL and NONVERBAL all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: D → DIFFERENT · I → IDENTICAL · N → NONVERBAL. 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: “others” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “other” means

• adjective: not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; quantifier, other (“today isn't any other day”)
• adjective: recently past (“the other evening”)
• adjective: belonging to the distant past (“in other times”)
• adjective: very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected (“a strange, other dimension … where his powers seemed to fail”)

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