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 |
| USURP | 8 % | 5 |
| ALLOT | 8 % | 5 |
| TAKE | 6 % | 4 |
| DUE | 6 % | 3 |
| COOPT | 4 % | 5 |
| STEAL | 4 % | 5 |
| SEIZE | 4 % | 5 |
| SUITED | 4 % | 6 |
| PREEMPT | 3 % | 7 |
| MEET | 3 % | 4 |
| FIT | 3 % | 3 |
| SEEMLY | 3 % | 6 |
| SUITABLE | 2 % | 8 |
| INORDER | 2 % | 7 |
| RIGHT | 2 % | 5 |
| ANNEX | 2 % | 5 |
| FITTING | 1 % | 7 |
| GRAB | 1 % | 4 |
| GERMANE | 1 % | 7 |
| ASSUME | 1 % | 6 |
| PAT | 0 % | 3 |
| ADOPT | 0 % | 5 |
| SWIPE | 0 % | 5 |
| SUITING | 0 % | 7 |
| DECENT | 0 % | 6 |
| TIMELY | 0 % | 6 |
| ALLOW | 0 % | 5 |
| COMMANDEER | 0 % | 10 |
| GLOMONTO | 0 % | 8 |
| HANDSOME | 0 % | 8 |
| PURLOIN | 0 % | 7 |
| TAKEOVER | 0 % | 8 |
| SEEML | 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 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 ALLOT
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 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 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 SUITABLE
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 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 FITTING
More clues leading to the result GRAB
More clues leading to the result GERMANE
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 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 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 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
More clues leading to the result ALLOW
- Permit
- Let
- Grant
- Acknowledge
- Concede
- Put up with
- Give the nod to
- Give permission for
- Sanction
- Grant permission for
More clues leading to the result COMMANDEER
More clues leading to the result GLOMONTO
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 PURLOIN
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.