The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word APT , but the solution may also be SEIZE which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Appropriate crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| APT | 28 % | 3 |
| ALLOT | 8 % | 5 |
| USURP | 8 % | 5 |
| TAKE | 6 % | 4 |
| DUE | 6 % | 3 |
| COOPT | 4 % | 5 |
| STEAL | 4 % | 5 |
| SEIZE | 4 % | 5 |
| SUITED | 4 % | 6 |
| PREEMPT | 3 % | 7 |
| FIT | 3 % | 3 |
| SEEMLY | 3 % | 6 |
| MEET | 3 % | 4 |
| SUITABLE | 2 % | 8 |
| ANNEX | 2 % | 5 |
| INORDER | 2 % | 7 |
| RIGHT | 2 % | 5 |
| GRAB | 1 % | 4 |
| FITTING | 1 % | 7 |
| ASSUME | 1 % | 6 |
| GERMANE | 1 % | 7 |
| COMMANDEER | 0 % | 10 |
| GLOMONTO | 0 % | 8 |
| PURLOIN | 0 % | 7 |
| HANDSOME | 0 % | 8 |
| TAKEOVER | 0 % | 8 |
| SEEML | 0 % | 5 |
| ADOPT | 0 % | 5 |
| SWIPE | 0 % | 5 |
| PAT | 0 % | 3 |
| SUITING | 0 % | 7 |
| DECENT | 0 % | 6 |
| TIMELY | 0 % | 6 |
| ALLOW | 0 % | 5 |
Why may SEIZE be the right solution?
The word "seize" can mean to take hold of or take possession of something, which aligns with the meaning of "appropriate."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Appropriate
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- suitable
- proper
- pertinent
- apt
- apposite
- apropos
- expedient
- advantageous
- suited
- befitting
- fit
- congruent
Crossword Answer definitions
APT adjective- Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
- (of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
- Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn.
- An apartment; a flat.
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 APT
- Appropriate
- Exactly suitable
- Likely
- NYC home
- Part of a city residential address
- Prone
- Quick to learn
- Given
- Suitable
- Clever
More clues leading to the result ALLOT
More clues leading to the result USURP
- Appropriate
- Seize and hold
- Take by force
- Assume by force
- Commandeer
- Seize
- Ignore copyrights
- Stage a hostile takeover
- Preempt
- Seize, as the throne
More clues leading to the result TAKE
- On the ____ (accepting bribes)
- Gate receipts
- Give's partner
- Ingest, as medicine
- "____this Job and Shove It"
- "___my wife. Please."
- Accept
- Accept uncomplainingly
- Pickings
- On the __ (accepting bribes)
More clues leading to the result DUE
- Awaited
- Coming in
- To be paid
- Expected
- Just deserts
- Word on a bill
- Expected to arrive
- Needing to go back to the library
- "With all ___ respect"
- Deserving recognition
More clues leading to the result COOPT
- Take for one's own use
- Assimilate
- Lure into joining
- Appropriate
- Subsume into a larger group
- Take over to use as one's own
- Take over
- Use for one's own purposes
- Take over as one's own
- Claim eminent domain
More clues leading to the result STEAL
- Real bargain
- Shoplift
- Unbelievable bargain
- Purloin
- Take a base?
- Go quietly
- Tiptoe
- Take the wrong way?
- Grab an album using BitTorrent, e.g.
- Pinch
More clues leading to the result SEIZE
- Take forcibly
- Afflict suddenly
- Grab
- Grasp forcibly
- Capture
- Apprehend
- Appropriate
- Take by force
- Confiscate
- Take control of
More clues leading to the result SUITED
- Supplied with clothing
- Well-matched
- Befitted
- Fit
- Appropriate
- Was right for
- Apt.
- Accommodated.
- Befitted.
- Satisfied.
More clues leading to the result PREEMPT
- Replace in the schedule
- Head off
- Take precedence over
- Bump from the TV schedule
- Bump from the schedule
- Replace on the schedule
- Forestall
- Supplant
- Appropriate exclusively.
- Appropriate.
More clues leading to the result FIT
- ___ to be tied
- In good shape
- ____ as a fiddle
- Accommodate
- Make ends meet?
- Getting to the gym a lot
- Tailor's concern
- "Wii ___"
- In shape
- Minor jigsaw victory
More clues leading to the result SEEMLY
More clues leading to the result MEET
- Match
- Track event
- Word with track or swap
- Bump into
- Rendezvous
- Run into
- Track contest
- Track or swap follower
- Where hammers are thrown
- Wrestling match
More clues leading to the result SUITABLE
More clues leading to the result ANNEX
- Add, as territory
- Wing
- Addition
- Building addition
- Take over, as land
- Add
- Take, as territory
- Add on
- Building enlargement
- Building wing
More clues leading to the result INORDER
- Properly arranged
- Tidy
- Seriatim
- Properly organized
- As it should be
- Organized
- Neat as a pin
- With everything where it should be
- Set
- Fully alphabetized
More clues leading to the result RIGHT
- Kind of stuff, from a Wolfe novel
- Not wrong
- "ikr" part
- Not wrong.
- "Agreed"
- Appropriate
- Item in a bill
- Synonym of 69 Down
- Dextral
- Just
More clues leading to the result GRAB
More clues leading to the result FITTING
More clues leading to the result ASSUME
- Adopt
- Take for granted
- Take on, as a mortgage
- Postulate
- Adopt, as a manner
- Take on, as a role
- Take over
- Take on
- Take on, as a responsibility
- Take
More clues leading to the result GERMANE
More clues leading to the result COMMANDEER
More clues leading to the result GLOMONTO
More clues leading to the result PURLOIN
More clues leading to the result HANDSOME
- Fine-looking
- Attractive
- Tall and dark companion
- Striking
- Ample, as amounts
- Fair of face.
- Comely.
- Epithet for an Adonis.
- ___ Dan, the Yale bulldog.
- Impressive.
More clues leading to the result TAKEOVER
- Become the boss
- Raider's strategy
- Corporate acquisition
- It may be hostile
- Assume command
- Seize control
- Acquisition
- Assume control.
- Military coup: Colloq.
- Commandeer.
More clues leading to the result SEEML
More clues leading to the result ADOPT
- Add to the family, in a way
- Assume
- Take on
- Take up, as a cause
- Take as one's own
- "__ the mornin'!"
- Go out of the pool for, say?
- Bring in, as a boxer to one's home
- Take in
- Bring home from the shelter
More clues leading to the result SWIPE
- Apply a five-finger discount to
- Lift
- Steal, like the fox in "Dora the Explorer"
- Pick pockets
- Filch
- Credit-card action
- Make off with
- Rip off
- Liberate, so to speak
- Take without permission
More clues leading to the result PAT
- Butter portion
- Butter unit
- Lady Bird follower
- Mrs. Nixon
- Serving of 14A
- Bit of butter
- Evangelist Robertson
- One way to stand
- Singer Benatar
- Overly smooth
More clues leading to the result SUITING
More clues leading to the result DECENT
- Respectable
- Clothed
- Wearing clothes, as it were
- Properly dressed
- Befitting
- Wearing enough to be seen
- Dressed
- Dressed?
- Dressed, informally
- Not half bad
More clues leading to the result TIMELY
- Opportune
- Punctual
- Up-to-date
- Fitting the season
- Opportune.
- Seasonable.
- Appropriate.
- Seasonable
- At just the right moment
- Of the moment