Watch crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Watch” are CHECK, LEARN or CATCH, with 5 letters. Below are 33 answers from 3 to 9 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

SPY 3 letters · verb

watch, observe, or inquire secretly

VIEW 4 letters · verb

see or watch “view a show on television”

CHECK 5 letters · verb

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort “Check whether the train leaves on time”

FOLLOW 6 letters · verb

follow with the eyes or the mind “She followed the men with the binoculars”

OBSERVE 7 letters · verb

follow with the eyes or the mind

SENTINEL 8 letters · noun

a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

DETERMINE 9 letters · verb

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, VIEW, FIND, BIRD and STAG all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: V → VIEW · F → FIND · B → BIRD · S → STAG. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, CHECK, LEARN, CATCH, TRACE, SCOUT and VIGIL all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: H → CHECK · E → LEARN · A → CATCH · R → TRACE · C → SCOUT · I → VIGIL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, FOLLOW, PICKET, SENTRY, TICKER, ENSURE and ASSURE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: F → FOLLOW · P → PICKET · S → SENTRY · T → TICKER · E → ENSURE · A → ASSURE. 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: “watched” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “watch” means

• noun: a small portable timepiece
• noun: a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
• noun: a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
• noun: the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty

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