Answer to "Combustion evidence" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SMOKE , but the solution may also be FLAME which is one of the most recent solution (2011 in Newsday).

Combustion evidence crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SMOKE	50 %	5
FLAME	25 %	5
FIRE	25 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Combustion evidence

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• fire
• flame
• smoke
• ash
• lead
• soot
• vapor
• afterburning
• arson
• backfire
• breathe
• burn

Crossword Answer definitions

SMOKE noun

1. The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
2. A cigarette.
3. Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
4. (never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
5. A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
6. Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
7. A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
8. A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
9. A fastball.

SMOKE adjective

1. Of the colour known as smoke.
2. Made of or with smoke.

SMOKE verb

1. To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
2. To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
3. To give off smoke.
4. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
5. To dry or medicate by smoke.
6. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
7. To make unclear or blurry.
8. (chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
9. To beat someone at something.
10. To kill, especially with a gun.
11. To thrash; to beat.
12. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
13. To ridicule to the face; to mock.
14. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
15. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
16. To suffer severely; to be punished.
17. To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
18. To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.

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 SMOKE

• Preserve meat
• Tennessee Williams' "Summer and ___"
• Combustion evidence
• What it went up in
• Parliament output
• Pre-telegraphic signal
• Fire sign?
• Fire giveaway
• Fireworks-show byproduct
• Cloud contents, perhaps

More clues leading to the result FLAME

• Blaze
• Internet insult
• Sweetheart
• __-retardant
• Suitor
• Pilot, e.g.
• Taper topper
• Heartthrob
• Olympic symbol
• Dis online

More clues leading to the result FIRE

• "__ at will"
• Can
• Put in a kiln
• Camper's need
• With 57-Across, "atomic" sucking candy that violates building safety codes?
• Let go
• Sack
• Bake, as pottery
• Send packing
• "___ in the hole!"