Stop crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Stop” are POINT, CHECK or BREAK, with 5 letters. Below are 64 answers from 3 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

END 3 letters · verb

have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical “My property ends by the bushes”

STAY 4 letters · noun

the state of inactivity following an interruption “the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow”

POINT 5 letters · noun

a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

PERIOD 6 letters · noun

a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations “in England they call a period a ‘stop’”

CONTAIN 7 letters · verb

hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of “Contain the rebel movement”

BLOCKADE 8 letters · verb

render unsuitable for passage

TERMINATE 9 letters · verb

have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical “the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed”

EXTINCTION 10 letters · noun

the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning “the extinction of the lights”

DISCONTINUE 11 letters · verb

put an end to a state or an activity

EXTINGUISHING 13 letters · noun

the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, STAY, QUIT, HALT, CALL, DROP and WAKE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: S → STAY · Q → QUIT · H → HALT · C → CALL · D → DROP · W → WAKE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, POINT, CHECK, BREAK, BLOCK, CATCH and CEASE all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: O → POINT · H → CHECK · R → BREAK · L → BLOCK · A → CATCH · E → CEASE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, END, BAR, CUT and DIE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: E → END · B → BAR · C → CUT · D → DIE. 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: “stoped” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “stop” means

• noun: the event of something ending (“it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill”)
• noun: the act of stopping something (“the third baseman made some remarkable stops”)
• noun: a brief stay in the course of a journey (“they made a stopover to visit their friends”)
• noun: the state of inactivity following an interruption (“he spent the entire stop in his seat”)

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