The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ASTER , but the solution may also be BLOSSOM or BLOOM which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Flower crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ASTER | 21 % | 5 |
| POSY | 13 % | 4 |
| IRIS | 12 % | 4 |
| BLOOM | 9 % | 5 |
| ROSE | 4 % | 4 |
| LOTUS | 3 % | 5 |
| LILY | 3 % | 4 |
| PEONY | 2 % | 5 |
| PINK | 2 % | 4 |
| BLOSSOM | 2 % | 7 |
| LILAC | 2 % | 5 |
| TULIP | 2 % | 5 |
| PANSY | 2 % | 5 |
| TEAROSE | 2 % | 7 |
| PETUNIA | 1 % | 7 |
| CALLA | 1 % | 5 |
| CANNA | 1 % | 5 |
| MARIGOLD | 1 % | 8 |
| ELITE | 1 % | 5 |
| ANEMONE | 1 % | 7 |
| CROCUS | 1 % | 6 |
| POPPY | 1 % | 5 |
| FLAG | 0 % | 4 |
| CINQUEFOIL | 0 % | 10 |
| PERIWINKLE | 0 % | 10 |
| DANDELION | 0 % | 9 |
| GARDENIA | 0 % | 8 |
| LILYOFTHEVALLEY | 0 % | 15 |
| LADYSSLIPPER | 0 % | 12 |
| PRIMROSE | 0 % | 8 |
| ALOE | 0 % | 4 |
| RIPEN | 0 % | 5 |
| AZALEA | 0 % | 6 |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM | 0 % | 13 |
| EASTERLILY | 0 % | 10 |
| JACKINTHEPULPIT | 0 % | 15 |
| SWEETPEA | 0 % | 8 |
| BLOSSOM or BLOOM | 0 % | 16 |
| ACACIA | 0 % | 6 |
| EVENINGROSE | 0 % | 11 |
| PRIDE | 0 % | 5 |
| PALEROSE | 0 % | 8 |
| GENTIAN | 0 % | 7 |
| STAROFBETHLEHEM | 0 % | 15 |
| ORCHID | 0 % | 6 |
| DAHLIA | 0 % | 6 |
| CALLALILY | 0 % | 9 |
| WILDROSE | 0 % | 8 |
| MATURE | 0 % | 6 |
Why may BLOOM be the right solution?
The answer "BLOOM" is the right solution for the clue "Flower" because "bloom" is a common term used to describe the colorful and often fragrant part of a plant that is used for reproduction.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Flower
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- blossom
- bloom
- flush
- efflorescence
- peak
- heyday
- prime
- inflorescence
- corolla
- blossoming
- floral
- florist
Crossword Answer definitions
ASTER noun- Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
- A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
- A star.
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 ASTER
- Fall bloomer
- Late bloomer
- Michaelmas daisy
- Rayed flower
- Showy flower
- Daisy-like flower
- Fall bloom
- Fall flower
- Rayed bloomer
- Daisy lookalike
More clues leading to the result POSY
- Flower bunch
- Showy flower
- Arrangement item
- Flower
- Nosegay
- Corsage
- Bouquet
- Floral arrangement
- Ring-around-the-rosy flower
- One of a pocketful
More clues leading to the result IRIS
- "Under the Net" writer Murdoch
- Crocus' family
- Eye part
- Light regulator
- Showy flower
- Writer Murdoch
- Flowering bulb
- Goddess of the rainbow
- Pupil's place
- Rainbow goddess
More clues leading to the result BLOOM
- Open up
- "Look Back in Anger" actress Claire
- Molly or Leopold
- "Ulysses" heroine
- Produce flowers
- Prosper
- Burgeon
- Tulip, e.g.
- Flower
- Flourish
More clues leading to the result ROSE
- American Beauty
- "My Wild Irish ___"
- Floral gift
- Appreciated in value
- Color of some glasses?
- Proliferated
- Thorny bush
- Abie's girl
- Golden Girl
- One of the Golden Girls
More clues leading to the result LOTUS
- Big leaf aquatic plant
- Asian aquatic plant
- Oriental bloom
- Slippery one
- Yoga position
- India's national flower
- Large, showy flower
- Racecar maker
- Meditative position
- Legs-bent position
More clues leading to the result LILY
- Day or water
- Pons of opera
- Valley flower?
- Easter flower
- Easter decoration
- Flower on a pad
- 9 to 5 costar with Dolly and Jane
- Mrs. Herman Munster
- Easter emblem
- Pond floater
More clues leading to the result PEONY
- 1/100 of a dahlia?
- Colorful flower
- Garden perennial
- State flower of Indiana
- Indiana's state flower
- Buttercup relative
- Showy flower
- Bouquet flower, perhaps
- Indiana state flower
- Showy spring perennial
More clues leading to the result PINK
- Like many a flamingo
- Hot ___
- Like rare meat
- Red and bloody, perhaps
- Best condition
- Carnation
- Alecia Moore's stage name
- Medium-rare, maybe
- Lemonade shade
- Like cowherb blooms
More clues leading to the result BLOSSOM
- Flower
- Flourish nicely
- Mature
- Begin to flourish
- Come into one's own
- Cherry tree offshoot
- Open up, as a flower
- Thrive
- Flourish
- What buds do
More clues leading to the result LILAC
- Fragrant flower
- Pale purple
- Sign of spring
- Whitman memorial flower
- Purple bloomer
- Spring bloom
- Whitman's dooryard bloomer
- Purplish hue
- Violet shade
- Air-freshener scent
More clues leading to the result TULIP
- Dutch export
- Haarlem export
- Still life subject
- Tiny Tim's flower
- Bell-shaped flower
- Showy flower
- Bulb's output
- Hex sign bloom
- Dutch bulb
- Cup-shaped bloom
More clues leading to the result PANSY
- Violet variety
- Richly-colored flower
- Spring bloom
- Garden flower
- Velvety-petaled bloom
- Spring bloomer
- Variety of violet
- Johnny-jump-up's kin
- Garden violet
- Flower with velvety petals
More clues leading to the result TEAROSE
- Yellowish pink
- Summer bloomer
- Fragrant yellowy pink flower
- Fragrant Chinese restaurant flower
- Chinese blossom
- Fragrant hybrid bloom
- Fragrant hybrid
- Cajun Sunrise, e.g.
- Lady Hillingdon is a cultivar of one
- Apricot-like shade
More clues leading to the result PETUNIA
- Funnel-shaped garden plant
- Flower that took its name from the French word for "tobacco"
- Porky's sweetie
- Porky's girlfriend
- Cartoon pig named for a flower
- Porky Pig's girlfriend
- Fictional sow
- Porcine toon
- Porky Pig's love
- Funnel-shaped flower
More clues leading to the result CALLA
- Lily plant
- Marsh plant
- Lily type
- Plant with arrow-shaped leaves
- ___ lily
- Arum family plant
- It blooms in spathes
- Arum lily
- Lily variety
- Sort of lily that's not a lily
More clues leading to the result CANNA
- Flower
- Large ornamental plant
- Large, showy flower
- Showy tropical plant
- Plant with showy flowers
- Showy plant
- Tropical herb
- Tropical plant with colorful leaves
- Tropical plant with large foliage
- Tropical plant of the banana family.
More clues leading to the result MARIGOLD
- "Did Midas' wife __?"
- Yellow or orange flower
- Colorful plant of the daisy family
- It's good for your ulcers
- Orange flower
- Flower mentioned initially by character on TV's "Entourage" (8)
- Plant with red, yellow or orange flowers.
- Flower.
- The color cadmium orange.
- Yellow flower
More clues leading to the result ELITE
- Cream of the crop
- Creme de la creme
- Social Register folks
- Superior group
- Very distinguished
- Best of a group
- Group's best part
- High class
- High-class
- Type size
More clues leading to the result ANEMONE
- "With a friend like that, who needs __?"
- Windflower
- Buttercup family plant
- Windflower (7)
- Friend of the clown fish
- Buttercup family member
- Flowerlike polyp
- Member of the buttercup family
- Wind flower
- Plant of the buttercup family
More clues leading to the result CROCUS
- Springtime bloomer
- Spring bloomer
- Member of the iris family
- One of the first bloomers
- Spring arrival
- Early bloomer
- Sign of spring
- Spring bulb
- Early spring bloomer
- Flower.
More clues leading to the result POPPY
- Showy flower
- Opium-yielding plant
- Seed on a bagel
- Deadly flower by the Yellow Brick Road
- Golden Triangle flower
- Flanders fields flower
- "Row on row" blower in a classic poem
- Bread-seed source
- Bagel-seed source
- Flower.
More clues leading to the result FLAG
- Lose strength
- Piece of bunting
- Jolly Roger, for one
- Masthead
- Ref's dropping
- Begin to droop
- Stratego piece
- Waver in the wind
- One posted outside an embassy
- Embassy adornment
More clues leading to the result CINQUEFOIL
More clues leading to the result PERIWINKLE
- *Edible sea snail
- Snail.
- Blue color
- Flower
- Saltwater snail
- Purple-blue shade or the flower it's named after
More clues leading to the result DANDELION
- *Country wine source
- Wine weed
- Kind of wine
- Aster relative
- Unwelcome flower
- What Lahr calls himself in song
- Biennial composite plant.
- Sunflower yellow.
- Flower.
- Common flower.
More clues leading to the result GARDENIA
- Corsage favorite
- Corsage flower
- Evergreen shrub with large white flowers
- Fritz Lang's "The Blue ___"
- White-flowered shrub
- Fragrant flower
- Fragrant white flower
- Sweet-scented flower
- Coffee kin
- Favorite corsage.
More clues leading to the result LILYOFTHEVALLEY
- Floral lady?
- Tomlin in Napa?
- Flowering plant also called May bells
- If Tomlin came from San Fernando, she might be called __
- Flower mentioned in Song of Solomon.
- Balzac novel.
- Symbol of humility, in painting.
- Flower.
- Common bridal flower
- Corsage filler
More clues leading to the result LADYSSLIPPER
More clues leading to the result PRIMROSE
- Spring bloomer
- Flower on a pleasant path?
- Like some paths
- Plant with nocturnal flowers
- Type of path
- The English one has yellow flowers
- Perennial herb
- Pale yellow
- The Vicar of Wakefield.
- "A ___ by the river's brim . . . "
More clues leading to the result ALOE
- African succulent
- Cosmetic additive
- Cosmetics additive
- Handy kitchen plant
- Lily plant
- Lily-family member
- Lotion additive
- Lotion soother
- Medicinal plant
- Purgative-yielding plant
More clues leading to the result RIPEN
- Mature
- Become ready to pluck
- Turn edible
- Turn red, perhaps
- Age
- Come to fruition
- Mellow
- Turn red on the vine, say
- Get ready for the apple store, perhaps?
- Get ready to eat?
More clues leading to the result AZALEA
- Augusta sight
- Spring bloomer
- Rhododendron
- Spring bloomers
- Southern shrub
- Flowering shrub
- Shrub in the Rhododendron family
- Wild honeysuckle, e.g.
- Foundation shrub
- Flowering evergreen
More clues leading to the result CHRYSANTHEMUM
More clues leading to the result EASTERLILY
- Early bloomer
- Holiday bloom
- White blossom
- White holiday flower
- Floral symbol.
- Paschal symbol.
- Flower.
- Holiday flower
- Seasonal bloom
- Ceremonial flower
More clues leading to the result JACKINTHEPULPIT
- Nicholson gives a Sunday?
- Plant of the arum family
- Plant of the lily family.
- Relative of a green dragon.
- Flower.
- Indian turnip.
- Woodland plant
- Love-in-a-mist
- Nicklaus sermonizing?
- Spring-flowering woodland herb
More clues leading to the result SWEETPEA
- Hon
- Large, fragrant flower
- Garden plant
- Fragrant legume plant
- Snookums
- Honeybunch
- Fragrant climbing plant
- Legume with fragrant blossoms
- 1966 Tommy Roe hit
- Climbing legume
More clues leading to the result BLOSSOM or BLOOM
More clues leading to the result ACACIA
- Mimosa family member
- "It'sh __ mishtaken identity"
- Mimosaceous tree
- Gum arabic
- Gum arabic source
- Small tree with yellow flowers
- Gum tree
- Thorny plant
- Source of gum arabic
- Thorny shrub
More clues leading to the result EVENINGROSE
More clues leading to the result PRIDE
- Elsa's family
- First word in an Austen title
- Serengeti group
- Gay feeling?
- Gay ___
- Fall preceder
- Overweening quality
- Leonine bunch
- Lions club?
- "The possession of fools": Herodotus
More clues leading to the result PALEROSE
More clues leading to the result GENTIAN
- Blue wildflower
- Blue-flowering plant used in herbal medicine
- Wildflower.
- Blue flower.
- Flower to which Bryant wrote a poem.
- Flower.
- Wild flower.
- Plant with blue flowers.
- Blue flower
- Fringed ___ (N.A. flower)
More clues leading to the result STAROFBETHLEHEM
- Wise Men's guide
- Lily family flower
- Paul Newman visits Israel?
- It guided the Magi
- Guide for the 1-Across
- Magi's guide
- Plant of the lily family.
- Flower.
- Famed Biblical sight
- Herb also called sleepy Dick
More clues leading to the result ORCHID
- Corsage bloom
- Bloom or hue
- Lady's slipper
- Prom night adornment, often
- Corsage blossom
- Rex Stout's flower
- Greenhouse effect?
- Corsage flower
- Phalaenopsis or dendrobium, e.g.
- Common corsage
More clues leading to the result DAHLIA
- Late-blooming flower
- Garden bloom
- Tuberous perennial
- Showy flower
- Garden show favorite
- Late-blooming perennial
- Showy violet
- Bertie Wooster's favorite aunt
- Ornamental flower
- "The Black ___" (2006 movie)