Person crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Person” are SOUL, LIKE or TIME, with 4 letters. Below are 130 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

ONE 3 letters · noun

a single person or thing “he is the best one”

SOUL 4 letters · noun

a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

SMALL 5 letters · noun

a garment size for a small person

MORTAL 6 letters · noun

a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

SOMEONE 7 letters · noun

a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

SOMEBODY 8 letters · noun

a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

SECRETARY 9 letters · noun

a person who is head of an administrative department of government

INDIVIDUAL 10 letters · noun

a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

INDEPENDENT 11 letters · noun

a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

INTELLECTUAL 12 letters · noun

a person who uses the mind creatively

CIRCUMSTANCES 13 letters · noun

a person's financial situation (good or bad) “he found himself in straitened circumstances”

REPRESENTATIVE 14 letters · noun

a person who represents others

PROFESSIONALISM 15 letters · noun

the expertness characteristic of a professional person

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, SOUL, LIKE, TIME, BACK, LIFE and LOVE all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: U → SOUL · K → LIKE · M → TIME · C → BACK · F → LIFE · V → LOVE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, SMALL, PARTY, LARGE, LIGHT, CHILD and FRONT all fit. The first letter settles most of it: S → SMALL · P → PARTY · L → LARGE, LIGHT · C → CHILD · F → FRONT. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, ONE, BOY, KID, FOX, HAT and PIG all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: O → ONE · B → BOY · K → KID · F → FOX · H → HAT · P → PIG. 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: “persons” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “person” means

• noun: a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential (“there was too much for one person to do”)
• noun: a human body (usually including the clothing) (“a weapon was hidden on his person”)
• noun: a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party (“stop talking about yourself in the third person”)

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