The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LEAD , but the solution may also be WAGE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Conduct crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LEAD | 39 % | 4 |
| DEMEANOR | 12 % | 8 |
| WAGE | 11 % | 4 |
| MANAGE | 5 % | 6 |
| BEHAVIOR | 5 % | 8 |
| OPERATE | 5 % | 7 |
| RUN | 4 % | 3 |
| ESCORT | 4 % | 6 |
| DIRECT | 4 % | 6 |
| PSANDQS | 2 % | 7 |
| MIEN | 2 % | 4 |
| ACTIONS | 2 % | 7 |
| MANNER | 2 % | 6 |
| DRIVEATRAIN | 2 % | 11 |
| USHER | 2 % | 5 |
| GUIDE | 2 % | 5 |
Why may WAGE be the right solution?
"WAGE" can mean to conduct or carry on a particular activity, especially with a sense of resolve or determination. Therefore, it is a suitable answer for the clue "Conduct".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Conduct
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- deport
- behave
- guide
- deportment
- deal
- carry out
- convey
- take
- acquit
- behavior
- transmit
- carry on
Crossword Answer definitions
LEAD noun- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
- Bullets; ammunition.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead
- To place leads between the lines of.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- A lode.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- Charging lead.
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (heading) To guide or conduct.
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To produce (with to).
- (transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- Foremost.
- Main, principal
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 LEAD
- Pencil innard?
- Sinker material
- Spearhead
- Heavy metal
- Hold first place
- Pb, on the periodic table
- Precedes belly and foot
- Preceeds belly and foot
- Starring role
- Take charge of
More clues leading to the result DEMEANOR
More clues leading to the result WAGE
- "Minimum" amount
- Carry on
- Salary
- Hourly payment
- What a worker earns
- Payment for labor
- Practice
- Regular compensation
- Undertake
- Conduct, as hostilities
More clues leading to the result MANAGE
- Control the use
- Operate
- Run a squad
- Get by
- Supervise
- Run
- Oversee
- Lead from the dugout
- Do a baseball job
- Run a team
More clues leading to the result BEHAVIOR
- Conduct
- Conduct, in report card comments
- Comportment
- Bearing.
- Sociologist's study
- Factor in a parole board's decision
More clues leading to the result OPERATE
- Conduct business
- Run
- Cut to the bone, say
- Fix an organ, maybe
- Get under someone's skin, perhaps?
- Work
- Drive or work
- Manage
- Make work
- Do surgery
More clues leading to the result RUN
- Duration
- Compete in a race
- Flow
- Turn tail
- Beat a retreat
- Get cracking
- Series, in cards
- Go office-hunting?
- "___ and Tell That" ("Hairspray" song)
- Do like Santorum
More clues leading to the result ESCORT
- Squire about
- Usher
- Conduct
- Date
- Accompany to a party
- Lady of the night
- Lead
- Ford model
- Chaperone
- Accompaniment
More clues leading to the result DIRECT
- Call the shots
- In a straight line
- Set the scene?
- Straightforward
- Taking no detours
- Sans stopovers
- Follow in Fellini's footsteps
- Not beating around the bush
- Person-to-person
- Without stops or detours
More clues leading to the result PSANDQS
- Things one should watch?
- Disciplinarian's letters?
- They're often minded
- Theme of this puzzle
- Things to mind
- Some things to mind
- Manners to be minded
- Manners expressed in letters
- Things to watch
- Behavior
More clues leading to the result MIEN
- Appearance
- Bearing
- Demeanor
- Manner
- Countenance
- Outward appearance
- Bearing or manner
- One's bearing
- Carriage
- Comportment
More clues leading to the result ACTIONS
- They speak louder than words
- Loud speakers?
- Conduct
- Deeds
- They "speak louder than words"
- Behavior
- What's done
- Lawsuits
- __ speak louder ...
- Legal proceedings
More clues leading to the result MANNER
More clues leading to the result DRIVEATRAIN
More clues leading to the result USHER
- Worker at theatres
- Guide which includes "us," "she," "he," and "her"?
- Man of the aisle
- Poe's "The Fall of the House of ___"
- Escort
- Guide
- Member of the wedding
- "Yeah!" singer
- R&B singer with the 2004 #1 song "Yeah!"
- Ticket collector, maybe