The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REAR , but the solution may also be PAST which is one of the most recent solution (2010 in Wall Street Journal).
Background crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REAR | 27 % | 4 |
| PAST | 27 % | 4 |
| SETTING | 27 % | 7 |
| LINEAGE | 9 % | 7 |
| MILIEU | 9 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Background
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- play down
- scope
- setting
- backdrop
- backcloth
- desktop
- ground
- background knowledge
- background signal
- screen background
- detail
- residual
Crossword Answer definitions
REAR verb- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- To rise up on the hind legs
- (usually with "up") To get angry.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To lift and take up.
- To rouse; to strip up.
- To move; stir.
- (of geese) To carve.
- (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
- (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
- (of meats) Rare.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The buttocks, a creature's bottom
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
- Early; soon
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 REAR
- Bring up
- Hitchcock's "____ Window"
- Hitchcock's window
- Kind of guard or end
- Last one brings it up
- Rise high in the air
- Backseat
- Duff
- Hindquarters
- Stern
More clues leading to the result PAST
- History
- Time gone by
- Over and done with
- Over and done
- Checkered thing, maybe
- Days of yore
- Gone by
- "Back to the Future" setting
- "Peggy Sue Got Married" setting
- Ago
More clues leading to the result SETTING
- See 52-Down
- Background
- Gem mount
- Backdrop
- Going down
- Locale.
- Style of mounting.
- Mounting of a jewel.
- Going down.
- Environment.
More clues leading to the result LINEAGE
- Blood
- Family story
- Pedeggree
- Ancestry
- Family tree
- Information in a tree
- Roots
- Pedigree
- Genealogy
- Family history