The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PAST which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2010.
Background crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PAST | 27 % | 4 |
| SETTING | 27 % | 7 |
| REAR | 27 % | 4 |
| 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
PAST verb- To change place.
- To change in state or status
- To move through time.
- To be accepted.
- In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To do or be better.
- To take heed.
- The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
- (grammar) The past tense.
- Having already happened; in the past; finished.
- (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
- (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
- In a direction that passes.
- Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
- Beyond in place, quantity or time.
- No longer capable of.
- Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
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 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 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 LINEAGE
- Blood
- Family story
- Pedeggree
- Ancestry
- Family tree
- Information in a tree
- Roots
- Pedigree
- Genealogy
- Family history