War crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “War” are PEACE or STEED, with 5 letters. Below are 11 answers from 5 to 10 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

PEACE 5 letters · noun

the state prevailing during the absence of war

TROPHY 6 letters · noun

an award for success in war or hunting

CRUSADE 7 letters · verb

go on a crusade; fight a holy war

CAMPAIGN 8 letters · verb

go on a campaign; go off to war

NEUTRALITY 10 letters · noun

nonparticipation in a dispute or war

Telling them apart

With 8 squares, CAMPAIGN, MOBILIZE, MOBILISE and DOUGHBOY all fit. The seventh letter tells them all apart: G → CAMPAIGN · Z → MOBILIZE · S → MOBILISE · O → DOUGHBOY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 10 squares, NEUTRALITY, BLITZKRIEG and MILITARIST all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: N → NEUTRALITY · B → BLITZKRIEG · M → MILITARIST. 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: “wared” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “war” means

• noun: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy (“thousands of people were killed in the war”)
• noun: a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply (“war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring”)
• noun: an active struggle between competing entities (“a price war”)
• noun: a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious (“the war on poverty”)

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