Same crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Same” are EQUAL, WHOLE or ABOVE, with 5 letters. Below are 43 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 · adjective

of the same kind or quality “two animals of one species”

LIKE 4 letters · adjective

equal in amount or value “like amounts”

EQUAL 5 letters · adjective

having the same quantity, value, or measure as another “on equal terms”

AGREED 6 letters · adjective

united by being of the same opinion “agreed in their distrust of authority”

SIMILAR 7 letters · adjective

having the same or similar characteristics

SYNOPTIC 8 letters · adjective

presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament “synoptic sayings”

IDENTICAL 9 letters · adjective

being the exact same one; not any other: “this is the identical room we stayed in before”

COMPARABLE 10 letters · adjective

able to be compared or worthy of comparison

HOMOGENEOUS 11 letters · adjective

all of the same or similar kind or nature “a close-knit homogeneous group”

CONTEMPORARY 12 letters · adjective

occurring in the same period of time “the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart”

CORRESPONDING 13 letters · adjective

accompanying “all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities”

AFOREMENTIONED 14 letters · adjective

being the one previously mentioned or spoken of “works of all the aforementioned authors”

CONTEMPORANEOUS 15 letters · adjective

occurring in the same period of time “a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, LIKE, SAID and VERY all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: L → LIKE · S → SAID · V → VERY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, EQUAL, WHOLE, ABOVE, SOLID and ALIKE all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: Q → EQUAL · H → WHOLE · B → ABOVE · O → SOLID · L → ALIKE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 7 squares, SIMILAR, MASSIVE, UNIFORM and COGNATE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: S → SIMILAR · M → MASSIVE · U → UNIFORM · C → COGNATE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “same” means

• adjective: same in identity (“the same man I saw yesterday”)
• adjective: closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree (“curtains the same color as the walls”)
• adjective: equal in amount or value (“the same amount”)
• adjective: unchanged in character or nature (“the village stayed the same”)

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