Well crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Well” are GOOD, NAME or FORM, with 4 letters. Below are 67 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

FIT 3 letters · verb

be agreeable or acceptable to

GOOD 4 letters · adjective

resulting favorably “it's a good thing that I wasn't there”

CURED 5 letters · adjective

freed from illness or injury “the patient appears cured”

EASILY 6 letters · adverb

indicating high probability; in all likelihood “a mistake that could easily have ended in disaster”

HEALTHY 7 letters · adjective

financially secure and functioning well “a healthy economy”

FAMILIAR 8 letters · adjective

well known or easily recognized “a familiar figure”

RECOVERED 9 letters · adjective

freed from illness or injury “appears to be entirely recovered”

INTIMATELY 10 letters · adverb

with great or especially intimate knowledge

COMFORTABLY 11 letters · adverb

in financial comfort “she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died”

CONSIDERABLY 12 letters · adverb

to a great extent or degree “painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger”

SUBSTANTIALLY 13 letters · adverb

to a great extent or degree “painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger”

ADVANTAGEOUSLY 14 letters · adverb

in a manner affording benefit or advantage “The children were settled advantageously in Seattle”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, GOOD, NAME, FORM, GONE, BALL and DRAW all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: O → GOOD · M → NAME · R → FORM · N → GONE · L → BALL · A → DRAW. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, CURED, HAPPY and OILER all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: C → CURED · H → HAPPY · O → OILER. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, EASILY, HEALED, FIGURE, BRIGHT, BEHAVE and BYGONE all fit. The fourth letter tells them all apart: I → EASILY · L → HEALED · U → FIGURE · G → BRIGHT · A → BEHAVE · O → BYGONE. 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: “welled” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “well” means

• adverb: (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’) (“the children behaved well”)
• adverb: thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form (“The problem is well understood”)
• adverb: indicating high probability; in all likelihood (“I might well do it”)
• adverb: (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully (“a book well worth reading”)

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