Answer to ""Dear me!"" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ALAS , but the solution may also be OHNO which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).

"Dear me!" crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
ALAS	71 %	4
ALACK	5 %	5
OHNO	4 %	4
MYWORD	3 %	6
HEAVENS	3 %	7
OHMY	3 %	4
MERCY	3 %	5
EGAD	3 %	4
MYMY	3 %	4
OHGOD	1 %	5
OHGOSH	1 %	6
TUT	1 %	3

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: "Dear me!"

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

• oh dear
• oh my
• my goodness
• goodness gracious
• alas
• god
• heavens
• jesus
• mercy
• adorable
• also
• beautiful

Crossword Answer definitions

ALAS interjection

1. Used to express sorrow, regret, compassion or grief.

ALAS noun

1. A type of depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.

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 ALAS

• "Ah me!"
• "Ah, me!"
• "Bummer, man!"
• "More's the pity"
• "Poor me!"
• "What a pity"
• "Woe is me!"
• "__, poor Yorick!"
• "__, poor Yorick!": Shak.
• Cry of dismay

More clues leading to the result ALACK

• Word of regret
• Alas's partner
• "Woe is me!" in Elizabethan times
• Word of woe
• Word in a woeful phrase
• Sometime partner of 4-Across
• Quaint word of dismay
• "Woe is me!"
• Loss comment
• Partner of alas

More clues leading to the result OHNO

• "This can't be!"
• Follows an accident
• Words of dismay
• "Sakes alive!"
• "Say it ain't so!"
• Rats!
• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "Dammit all!"
• Speed skating gold medalist
• "Can't be..."

More clues leading to the result MYWORD

• "I say!"
• "Goodness!"
• "Good heavens!"
• "Heavens!"
• Genteel exclamation.
• Astonished cry
• "Dear me!"

More clues leading to the result HEAVENS

• "Dear me!"
• Celestial sphere
• It's over your head
• "Oh my!"
• Exclamation of surprise.
• Oh, goodness me!
• Goodness gracious!
• The firmament.
• Mercy!
• Firmament

More clues leading to the result OHMY

• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "This is bad ..."
• "Good heavens!"
• "Heavens!"
• "That's surprising!"
• Expression of alarm
• "Gracious!"
• "This certainly isn't what I expected"
• "I didn't expect that!"
• "Goodness!"

More clues leading to the result MERCY

• Benevolence
• Compassionate treatment
• Compassion
• Condemned man's request
• What a lenient judge may show
• "Have __!"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "My heavens!"
• Feeling of compassion

More clues leading to the result EGAD

• "Great Caesar's ghost!"
• "Heavens to Betsy!"
• "Omigod!"
• "Omigosh!"
• "Yikes!"
• "Zounds!" kin
• Goodness gracious!
• Holy cow, relative
• Mild epithet
• Mild exclamation

More clues leading to the result MYMY

• "Hmm, what do we have here?"
• "Heavens!"
• "Goodness!"
• "Fancy that!"
• "Goodness gracious!"
• "What have we here?"
• Expression of mild surprise
• "Oh, dear!"
• "Well, I declare!"
• "You don't say!"

More clues leading to the result OHGOD

• Burns flick of 1977
• Burns classic
• Outburst in congress?
• Phrase said with an eye roll
• George Burns movie
• John Denver comedy
• 1977 George Burns film
• 1977 comedy featuring the line "So help me me"
• Burns film
• 1977 George Burns movie

More clues leading to the result OHGOSH

• "Holy cow!"
• "Jumping jiminy"
• "Well, gee"
• Cry of quaint surprise
• "Dear me!"
• Cry of dismay
• "Goodness gracious!"
• "Good grief!"
• "Jeepers!"
• "Yikes!"

More clues leading to the result TUT

• Egyptian boy-king
• Mild rebuke
• Egyptian boy king
• Palindromic pharaoh
• Boy king
• Steve Martin's "King __"
• Bo(dice attachment with la)y(ers that's a hallmar)k (of ballet danc)ing
• Legendary mummy
• Subject of a Steve Martin song
• Name in 1922 news