Answer to "Critically important" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word KEY which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.

Critically important crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
KEY	56 %	3
VITAL	22 %	5
DEFINING	11 %	8
MAIN	11 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Critically important

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

• vital
• crucial
• vitality
• essential
• vitally
• critical
• pivotal
• key
• important
• indispensable
• valuable
• fundamental

Crossword Answer definitions

KEY noun

1. An object designed to open and close a lock.
2. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
3. A crucial step or requirement.
4. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
5. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
6. One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
7. In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
8. In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
9. The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
10. In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
11. In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
12. In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
13. The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
14. A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
15. An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
16. A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
17. A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
18. A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
19. In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
20. A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
21. The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
22. A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
23. A piece of wood used as a wedge.
24. The last board of a floor when laid down.
25. A keystone.
26. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
27. A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
28. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
29. The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
30. (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
31. A color to be masked or made transparent.

KEY verb

1. To fit (a lock) with a key.
2. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
3. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
4. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
5. To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
6. (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
7. To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
8. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
9. To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
10. To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
11. To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
12. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

KEY adjective

1. Indispensable, supremely important.
2. Important, salient.

KEY noun

1. One of a string of small islands.

KEY noun

1. A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.

KEY noun

1. In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Symbol: kg
2. The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.

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 KEY

• Indication
• Lock's partner
• Door opener?
• F or G, but not H
• One of a Florida chain
• One on a ring
• Small island
• It's changed in transposition or modulation
• Locker unlocker
• Vital

More clues leading to the result VITAL

• Necessary
• Crucial
• Like some organs
• Crucially important
• Extremely important
• Indispensable
• Absolutely necessary
• Like some signs
• Of utter importance
• Key

More clues leading to the result DEFINING

• Lexicographer's job
• Job for Webster
• Settling.
• Critically important

More clues leading to the result MAIN

• Popular street name
• Primary
• Water way
• It may be bounding
• Chief
• Water line
• Critically important
• Essential
• It can be bounding
• Pipe down?