The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SPECIFIC , but the solution may also be STATED which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Explicit crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SPECIFIC | 38 % | 8 |
| STATED | 31 % | 6 |
| CATEGORICAL | 8 % | 11 |
| OVERT | 8 % | 5 |
| PRECISE | 8 % | 7 |
| GRAPHIC | 8 % | 7 |
Why may STATED be the right solution?
The word "explicit" means something that is clearly and directly expressed. The word "stated" also means the same thing - to express something clearly and directly. Therefore, "stated" is the right solution for the clue "explicit."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Explicit
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- definitive
- stated
- literal
- declared
- denotative
- unequivocal
- graphic
- express
- expressed
- expressly
- specific
- specified
Crossword Answer definitions
SPECIFIC noun- A distinguishing attribute or quality.
- A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
- Specification
- (in the plural) The details; particulars.
- Explicit or definite
- Pertaining to a species.
- Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species
- Special, distinctive or unique
- Intended for, or applying to, a particular thing
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Being a remedy for a particular disease
- Limited to a particular antibody or antigen
- Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
- Similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
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 SPECIFIC
More clues leading to the result STATED
- Put into words
- Declared
- Transmitted vocally
- Explicit
- Explicit, say
- Declared as fact
- Declared specifically
- Proclaimed
- Said
- Uttered
More clues leading to the result CATEGORICAL
More clues leading to the result OVERT
- Above-board
- In plain view
- Impossible to miss
- In broad daylight
- Not secretive
- Not hidden
- Hardly hidden
- Out in the open
- Barefaced
- In the open
More clues leading to the result PRECISE
- Exact
- Meticulous
- Dead-on-balls accurate
- Right on the money
- Accurate
- On the nose
- On the money
- Sharply defined
- On the mark
- Fixed