Part crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Part” are ROLE, FEEL or FREE, with 4 letters. Below are 106 answers from 3 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

END 3 letters · noun

a final part or section “we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus”

ROLE 4 letters · noun

the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group “play its role”

START 5 letters · verb

depart for someplace

OFFICE 6 letters · noun

the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group

SECTION 7 letters · noun

one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole “the finance section of the company”

DIVISION 8 letters · noun

one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole “the BBC's engineering division”

CHARACTER 9 letters · noun

an actor's portrayal of someone in a play

PERCENTAGE 10 letters · noun

assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

CONSTITUENT 11 letters · noun

something determined in relation to something that includes it “the animal constituent of plankton”

CONTRIBUTION 12 letters · noun

the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result “I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, ROLE, FEEL, FREE, PLAY, HEAD and LAND all fit. The first letter settles most of it: R → ROLE · F → FEEL, FREE · P → PLAY · H → HEAD · L → LAND. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, START, SHARE, BREAK, VOICE, PIECE and SPLIT all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: T → START · H → SHARE · R → BREAK · O → VOICE · I → PIECE · P → SPLIT. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, END, TOP, ACT, ICE, MIX and LEG all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: E → END · T → TOP · A → ACT · I → ICE · M → MIX · L → LEG. 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: “paries” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “part” means

• noun: something determined in relation to something that includes it (“he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself”)
• noun: something less than the whole of a human artifact (“the rear part of the house”)
• noun: a portion of a natural object (“they analyzed the river into three parts”)
• noun: that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation (“it requires vigilance on our part”)

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