The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word AMEND which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Change for the better crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AMEND | 65 % | 5 |
| REFORM | 9 % | 6 |
| EDIT | 8 % | 4 |
| EMEND | 5 % | 5 |
| EVOLVE | 3 % | 6 |
| REDACT | 3 % | 6 |
| TURNAROUND | 3 % | 10 |
| ADAPT | 2 % | 5 |
| REHAB | 2 % | 5 |
| ENHANCE | 2 % | 7 |
Why may AMEND be the right solution?
"Amend" means to make changes or improvements to something. Therefore, "Change for the better" is an appropriate clue for the answer "amend".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Change for the better
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- improve
- ameliorate
- enhance
- level up
- improvement
- promote
- promotional
- level
- progress
- promotion
- up
- preferment
Crossword Answer definitions
AMEND noun- (usually in the plural) An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
- To make better; improve.
- To become better.
- To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
- To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
- To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
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 AMEND
More clues leading to the result REFORM
- Kind of school
- Turn over a new leaf
- Righting of wrongs
- Progress against corruption
- Pat Buchanan's party
- Change for the better
- Do-gooder's goal
- Make better
- Betterment
- Politician's promise, perhaps
More clues leading to the result EDIT
- Blue-pencil
- Emulate Maxwell Perkins
- More than proofread
- Prepare for publication
- Redact
- Revamp a text
- Revise
- Rework, as a story
- Trim the copy
- Update
More clues leading to the result EMEND
- Correct
- Fix the copy
- Improve, in a way
- Adjust
- Fix
- Change one's story?
- Correct, as text
- Correct or improve
- Revise
- Revise editorially
More clues leading to the result EVOLVE
- Develop
- Develop gradually
- Develop slowly
- Progress with time
- Change with the times
- Exemplify Darwinism
- Gradually develop
- Change gradually
- Metamorphose
- Develop la Darwin
More clues leading to the result REDACT
- Put in writing
- Edit a document for legal reasons
- Edit, as a report
- Prepare for print
- Edit
- Delete the sensitive stuff from
- Blue-pencil
- Change copy
- Delete for security reasons, say
- Modify copy
More clues leading to the result TURNAROUND
- React to a missed exit
- Get back on track
- How to make more or less a traffic circle
- Recovery
- Change for the better
- Reverse course
More clues leading to the result ADAPT
- Cope with change
- Make fit
- Fit
- Go with the flow
- Accommodate
- Conform
- Make suitable
- Change, as a species
- Modify
- Modify to fit
More clues leading to the result REHAB
- Fix-up
- Fix up
- Fixer-upper
- Physical therapy, informally
- Urban project
- Therapy
- Amy Winehouse song, and need
- Back-to-health program, briefly
- "They tried to make me go to ___, I said, 'No, no, no.'"
- "They tried to make me go to ___, I said, 'no, no, no'" (Amy Winehouse lyrics)