The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word LINEAGE which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2014.
Descent crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LINEAGE | 36 % | 7 |
| EBB | 14 % | 3 |
| DROP | 14 % | 4 |
| ANCESTRY | 14 % | 8 |
| TAILSPIN | 7 % | 8 |
| LINE | 7 % | 4 |
| PARENTAGE | 7 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Descent
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- decline
- fall
- downslope
- extraction
- origin
- stock
- parentage
- pedigree
- declivity
- filiation
- ancestry
- bloodline
Crossword Answer definitions
LINEAGE noun- Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
- A number of lines of text in a column.
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 LINEAGE
- Blood
- Family story
- Pedeggree
- Ancestry
- Family tree
- Information in a tree
- Roots
- Pedigree
- Genealogy
- Family history
More clues leading to the result EBB
More clues leading to the result DROP
- What you wait for the other shoe to do
- Cease to consider
- Discontinue
- Let fall
- Night deposit
- Knock down
- Pine Bros. unit
- __ leaf table
- Plummet
- Stop doing
More clues leading to the result ANCESTRY
More clues leading to the result TAILSPIN
- Precipitous downturn
- Dramatic downturn
- Dizzying dive
- Pilot's problem
- Critical downturn
- Sudden and precipitous downturn
- Dramatic decline
- Sudden decline
- Sudden collapse
- Spiraling air maneuver.
More clues leading to the result LINE
- "What's My __?"
- Bank annoyance
- Boat rope
- End to end, on the gridiron
- Pickup delivery?
- Come-on
- Continuous mark
- Cover the inside
- Queue
- Party or clothes follower