Answer to "Grandfather clock sound" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CHIME , but the solution may also be TOCK which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in Wall Street Journal).

Grandfather clock sound crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
CHIME	50 %	5
TOCK	50 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Grandfather clock sound

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• tick-tock
• ticking
• chime
• ticker
• cuckoo clock
• tick
• strike
• beat
• timer
• iii
• pendulum
• viii

Crossword Answer definitions

CHIME noun

1. A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
2. An individual ringing component of such a set.
3. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
4. The sound of such an instrument or device.
5. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.

CHIME verb

1. To make the sound of a chime.
2. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
3. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
4. To agree; to correspond.
5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

CHIME noun

1. The top of a ridge.
2. The spine of an animal.
3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
4. A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
5. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
6. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
7. The back of the blade on a scythe.

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 CHIME

• Ring
• Ring the time
• It's blowing in the wind
• Wind instrument?
• Silvery sound
• Cuckoo alternative
• Ring of time
• Bell-like sound
• ___ in (pipe up)
• Doorbell component

More clues leading to the result TOCK

• Timepiece sound
• Second sound?
• Sound heard around the clock
• Horological sound
• Clock sound
• Sound of time
• Tick follower
• Tick's partner
• Every other second?
• Half time?