Answer to ""___ what?"" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word NOW , but the solution may also be WAIT which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).

"___ what?" crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
NOW	50 %	3
SAY	19 %	3
YOU	6 %	3
MEANING	6 %	7
KNOW	6 %	4
WAIT	6 %	4
WHATS	6 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: "___ what?"

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• whatever
• whereof
• really
• anything
• guess
• enable
• nature
• why
• determine
• wait
• content
• only

Crossword Answer definitions

NOW noun

1. The present time.
2. (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
3. (chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.

NOW adjective

1. Present; current.
2. Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
3. At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.

NOW adverb

1. At the present time.
2. (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
3. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
4. Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
5. At the time reached within a narration.
6. In the context of urgency.
7. As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.

NOW conjunction

1. Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.

NOW interjection

1. Indicates a signal to begin.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result NOW

• ASAP!
• Immediately!
• At this time
• Pronto
• Right this minute
• With it
• At once
• "Serenity ___!" (cry for inner calm on "Seinfeld")
• Today
• "Buy It ___" (eBay button)

More clues leading to the result SAY

• Utter
• "By the way, ..."
• For example
• Two cents
• State
• Verbalize
• "So, um, about that thing ..."
• Pronounce
• "Come to think of it ..."
• "That's really something!"

More clues leading to the result YOU

• Not me
• "___ Are My Sunshine"
• "___ must be kidding!"
• Last word of the golden rule
• AVCX subscriber, presumably
• See 40-Down
• Time's 2006 Person of the Year
• "___ wish!"
• "Yes, I'm looking at ___!"
• "___ again?!"

More clues leading to the result MEANING

• Significance
• Definition
• Import
• Import.
• Semanticist's concern
• "___ what?"
• Denotation
• *Characteristic that complicates understanding

More clues leading to the result KNOW

• Have down pat
• Have the facts
• Be acquainted with
• Be in on
• Understand
• Recognize
• "You ___?"
• Have down cold
• Have down
• "Whad'Ya ___?" (radio show)

More clues leading to the result WAIT

• Get in line, perhaps
• Links annoyance
• Street crossing signal
• "Back off!"
• "Hold on!"
• Stand in line
• Hold tight
• Stand by
• "Don't go so fast!"
• "Don't move!"

More clues leading to the result WHATS

• "___ Happening!!" ('70s sitcom)
• "___ in a name?"
• "___ Up, Tiger Lily?" (1966 movie)
• "Eh, ___ up, doc?"
• "___ happening?"
• "___ up?"
• "__ the big deal?"
• Start of a riddle
• Contraction used with "up"
• "__ the matter?"