The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SEC , but the solution may also be USIA which is one of the most recent solution (1974 in New York Times).
Federal agency crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SEC | 20 % | 3 |
| OSS | 20 % | 3 |
| ICA | 20 % | 3 |
| REA | 20 % | 3 |
| USIA | 20 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Federal agency
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- government agency
- federal government
- regulatory agency
- agencies
- federal agent
- government
- governmental
- governmentally
- bureaucracies
- federally
- interagency
- bureaucratic
Crossword Answer definitions
SEC noun- Second, 1/60 of a minute.
- One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
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 SEC
- "Hold on a ___!"
- "Just a __!"
- "Short" time
- Financial regulatory org.
- Investor-protecting gr.
- Jiff
- Jiffy
- Moment
- Not sweet, winewise
- NYSE reg.
More clues leading to the result OSS
- CIA forerunner
- CIA precursor
- CIA's precursor
- "Wild Bill's" WW II org.
- CIA predecessor
- WWII org.
- Alan Ladd WWII film
- Org. that catcher Moe Berg worked for
- Spy org. until 1945
- CIA's forerunner
More clues leading to the result ICA
- An end of this puzzle
- City of Peru
- Putumayo to the Portuguese
- City in Peru.
- Department in Peru.
- Peruvian coastal department.
- City of Peru, in the Andes.
- Amazon tributary.
- City N W of Lima.
- Federal agency.
More clues leading to the result REA
- "Citizen X" star Stephen
- Stephen of "Michael Collins"
- Stephen of "The Crying Game"
- "Interview with the Vampire" actor
- Actor Stephen
- Actor Stephen ("The Crying Game")
- "Bad Behavior" star Stephen
- "The Crying Game" actor Stephen
- "The Crying Game" star
- Stephen of "Citizen X"