Series crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Series” are FIRST, ISSUE or RANGE, with 5 letters. Below are 58 answers from 4 to 11 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

STEP 4 letters · noun

relative position in a graded series “always a step behind”

FIRST 5 letters · noun

the first or highest in an ordering or series “He wanted to be the first”

SECOND 6 letters · noun

following the first in an ordering or series “he came in a close second”

OPENING 7 letters · noun

the first of a series of actions

BOUNCING 8 letters · noun

rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)

TWENTIETH 9 letters · noun

position 20 in a countable series of things

INITIATIVE 10 letters · noun

the first of a series of actions

FUNDAMENTAL 11 letters · noun

the lowest tone of a harmonic series

Telling them apart

With 5 squares, FIRST, ISSUE, RANGE, TRAIN, FIFTH and CHAIN all fit. The first letter settles most of it: F → FIRST, FIFTH · I → ISSUE · R → RANGE · T → TRAIN · C → CHAIN. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, SECOND, NUMBER, ACTION, COMEDY, EIGHTH and STREAK all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: E → SECOND · U → NUMBER · C → ACTION · O → COMEDY · I → EIGHTH · T → STREAK. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 7 squares, OPENING, TWITTER, CHAPTER, SEVENTH, SCALING and TWELFTH all fit. The second letter settles most of it: P → OPENING · W → TWITTER, TWELFTH · H → CHAPTER · E → SEVENTH · C → SCALING. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “series” means

• noun: similar things placed in order or happening one after another (“they were investigating a series of bank robberies”)
• noun: a serialized set of programs (“a comedy series”)
• noun: a periodical that appears at scheduled times
• noun: (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams (“the visiting team swept the series”)

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