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 |
| LILY | 3 % | 4 |
| LOTUS | 3 % | 5 |
| BLOSSOM | 2 % | 7 |
| LILAC | 2 % | 5 |
| PINK | 2 % | 4 |
| PEONY | 2 % | 5 |
| TULIP | 2 % | 5 |
| TEAROSE | 2 % | 7 |
| PANSY | 2 % | 5 |
| PETUNIA | 1 % | 7 |
| CALLA | 1 % | 5 |
| CANNA | 1 % | 5 |
| ELITE | 1 % | 5 |
| MARIGOLD | 1 % | 8 |
| ANEMONE | 1 % | 7 |
| CROCUS | 1 % | 6 |
| POPPY | 1 % | 5 |
| AZALEA | 0 % | 6 |
| PRIDE | 0 % | 5 |
| CINQUEFOIL | 0 % | 10 |
| EVENINGROSE | 0 % | 11 |
| BLOSSOM or BLOOM | 0 % | 16 |
| WILDROSE | 0 % | 8 |
| MATURE | 0 % | 6 |
| SWEETPEA | 0 % | 8 |
| LADYSSLIPPER | 0 % | 12 |
| ORCHID | 0 % | 6 |
| RIPEN | 0 % | 5 |
| CHRYSANTHEMUM | 0 % | 13 |
| PERIWINKLE | 0 % | 10 |
| STAROFBETHLEHEM | 0 % | 15 |
| LILYOFTHEVALLEY | 0 % | 15 |
| JACKINTHEPULPIT | 0 % | 15 |
| CALLALILY | 0 % | 9 |
| ALOE | 0 % | 4 |
| GENTIAN | 0 % | 7 |
| GARDENIA | 0 % | 8 |
| EASTERLILY | 0 % | 10 |
| ACACIA | 0 % | 6 |
| FLAG | 0 % | 4 |
| PALEROSE | 0 % | 8 |
| PRIMROSE | 0 % | 8 |
| DANDELION | 0 % | 9 |
| DAHLIA | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 CINQUEFOIL
More clues leading to the result EVENINGROSE
More clues leading to the result BLOSSOM or BLOOM
More clues leading to the result WILDROSE
More clues leading to the result MATURE
- Ripen
- All grown up
- Sophisticated
- Victor of Hollywood
- Old enough
- With 68A, Winning grownup?
- The "M" in TV-MA
- Like R-rated-film audiences
- Fully developed
- Having little potential for further growth
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 LADYSSLIPPER
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 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 CHRYSANTHEMUM
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 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 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 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 CALLALILY
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 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 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 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 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 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 PALEROSE
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 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.