Some crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Some” are ABOUT, UNDER or LATER, with 5 letters. Below are 37 answers from 3 to 14 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

ANY 3 letters · adjective

one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential “give me any peaches you don't want”

MANY 4 letters · adjective

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by ‘as’ or ‘too’ or ‘so’ or ‘that’; amounting to a large but indefinite number; quantifier, plural pronoun; quantifier, plural “many temptations”

ABOUT 5 letters · adverb

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct “in just about a minute”

AROUND 6 letters · adverb

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct “weighs around a hundred pounds”

SEVERAL 7 letters · adjective

(used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many “several letters came in the mail”

WHATEVER 8 letters · adjective

one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential “give me whatever peaches you don't want”

PARTIALLY 9 letters · adverb

to some extent; in some degree; not wholly “He was partially paralyzed”

WHATSOEVER 10 letters · adjective

one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential “no milk whatsoever is left”

SUBSTANDARD 11 letters · adjective

falling short of some prescribed norm “substandard housing”

UNRESPONSIVE 12 letters · adjective

not responding to some influence or stimulus

APPROXIMATELY 13 letters · adverb

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct “lasted approximately an hour”

METHODOLOGICAL 14 letters · adjective

relating to the methodology of some discipline “methodological errors”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, MANY, BOTH, PART and WEAK all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: M → MANY · B → BOTH · P → PART · W → WEAK. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, ABOUT, UNDER, LATER, QUASI and DOSED all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: A → ABOUT · U → UNDER · L → LATER · Q → QUASI · D → DOSED. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, ANY, FEW and OLD all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: A → ANY · F → FEW · O → OLD. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “some” means

• adjective: (quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity (“have some milk”)
• adjective: relatively many but unspecified in number (“they were here for some weeks”)
• adjective: remarkable (“that was some party”)
• adverb: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct (“some forty people came”)

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