Question crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Question” are DOUBT, QUERY or PROBE, with 5 letters. Below are 24 answers from 4 to 13 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

HEAD 4 letters · noun

the subject matter at issue “under the head of minor Roman poets”

DOUBT 5 letters · noun

uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something

WONDER 6 letters · verb

place in doubt or express doubtful speculation “I wonder whether this was the right thing to do”

INQUIRY 7 letters · noun

an instance of questioning

INQUIRER 8 letters · noun

someone who asks a question

INTERVIEW 9 letters · verb

conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting

INTERROGATE 11 letters · verb

pose a series of questions to

INTERROGATION 13 letters · noun

a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply “he had trouble phrasing his interrogations”

Telling them apart

With 5 squares, DOUBT, QUERY, PROBE, POSER and ASKER all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: U → DOUBT · E → QUERY · O → PROBE · S → POSER · K → ASKER. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, WONDER, MOTION, OPPUGN and ANSWER all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: W → WONDER · M → MOTION · O → OPPUGN · A → ANSWER. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 7 squares, INQUIRY, ENQUIRY, PROBLEM, ADDRESS, EXAMINE and STICKER all fit. The first letter settles most of it: I → INQUIRY · E → ENQUIRY, EXAMINE · P → PROBLEM · A → ADDRESS · S → STICKER. 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: “questioned” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “question” means

• noun: an instance of questioning (“there was a question about my training”)
• noun: the subject matter at issue (“the question of disease merits serious discussion”)
• noun: a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply (“he asked a direct question”)
• noun: uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something (“there is no question about the validity of the enterprise”)

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