The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TEST which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Dry run crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TEST | 84 % | 4 |
| TRIAL | 7 % | 5 |
| REHEARSAL | 2 % | 9 |
| TEST Down 1 Lighthearted | 1 % | 24 |
| PRACTICE | 1 % | 8 |
| WADI | 1 % | 4 |
| DRESSREHEARSAL | 1 % | 14 |
| DRILL | 1 % | 5 |
Why may TESTDOWN1LIGHTHEARTED be the right solution?
The answer to "Dry run" is "TEST" because a dry run refers to a practice or rehearsal of a procedure without any actual consequences or risk. Similarly, a "test" is a way to assess or evaluate something, often done as a trial or practice to check its functionality or effectiveness.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Dry run
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- rehearsal
- run through
- practice run
- trial run
- roadtest
- test drive
- prerehearsal
- run-through
- prerun
- pre-test
- test out
- tryout
Crossword Answer definitions
TEST noun- A challenge, trial.
- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
- A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
- (normally “Test”) A Test match.
- The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
- Testa; seed coat.
- Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
- To challenge.
- To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
- (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
- To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
- To be shown to be by test.
- To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- A witness.
- To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
- To make a testament, or will.
- (body building) testosterone
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 TEST
- Acid or aptitude follower
- Dry run
- Midterm or final
- Tryout
- License requirement, often
- Try out
- Exam
- Examination
- Final, for one
- Midterm, for one
More clues leading to the result TRIAL
- Error's mate
- Experiment
- Hearing
- Lawyer's gig
- Scopes was a famous one
- "My Cousin Vinny" event
- Free period for a product
- It may go through a peer-review process
- ___ offer
- Error's partner
More clues leading to the result REHEARSAL
- Time to set the stage?
- Dry run
- Dress, for one
- Where the stage director reigns.
- Practice performance.
- With 62 Across, occasion in the theater.
- Rialto warm-up
- Prepared for a premiere
- Trial
- Practice
More clues leading to the result TEST Down 1 Lighthearted
More clues leading to the result PRACTICE
- Drill
- Dylan McDermott series, with "The"
- Do over and over
- Business of a professional man.
- Do.
- Follow a profession.
- Become perfect, perhaps.
- Drill.
- Road to perfection
- Source of perfection
More clues leading to the result WADI
- Dry river bed
- Gulch in the Gobi
- Occasional river
- Arroyo cousin
- Stream bed
- Dry watercourse
- Dry riverbed
- African streambed
- Desert gulch
- Stream that's dry except during rain