Answer to "Comeuppance" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word DUE , but the solution may also be JUSTDESERTS which is one of the most recent solution (2016 in New York Times).

Comeuppance crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
DUE	30 %	3
POETICJUSTICE	20 %	13
JUSTDESERTS	20 %	11
DESERTS	20 %	7
DOWNFALL	10 %	8

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Comeuppance

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

• retribution
• payback
• revenge
• denouement
• condign
• vengeance
• schadenfreude
• punishment
• reckoning
• gloating
• vindication
• whupping

Crossword Answer definitions

DUE noun

1. Deserved acknowledgment.
2. (in plural dues) A membership fee.
3. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
4. Right; just title or claim.

DUE adjective

1. Owed or owing.
2. Appropriate.
3. Scheduled; expected.
4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass

DUE adverb

1. (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.

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 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 POETICJUSTICE

• Sometimes ironic reward or punishment
• Being hoist with one's own petard
• The ending of "Hamlet," for example.
• Ideal distribution of rewards and punishments.
• A Pulitzer Prize winner in Letters: 1980
• Comeuppance
• Comeuppance for Shakespeare?
• 1993 Janet Jackson movie

More clues leading to the result JUSTDESERTS

• Comeuppance
• They're coming to you
• Fitting punishment
• Totally arid region?

More clues leading to the result DESERTS

• Barren areas
• Arid places
• Urban areas without access to fresh food, so to speak
• Leaves the Armed Forces illegally
• Gobi and Negev
• Mojave and Gobi
• Reduced rainfall regions
• They may be just
• Strands, or bad places to be stranded
• Forsakes

More clues leading to the result DOWNFALL

• Ruin
• Waterloo
• Cause of ruination
• Comeuppance
• Snowstorm, for one.
• Tragic flaw byproduct
• *Loo