Answer to "Grave matter" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BONES , but the solution may also be BONE which is one of the most recent solution (2019 in New York Times).

Grave matter crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BONES	40 %	5
TOMB	20 %	4
ASHES	20 %	5
BONE	20 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Grave matter

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

• serious
• important
• critical
• consequential
• key
• vital
• vitally
• instrumental
• consequence
• great
• essential
• importantly

Crossword Answer definitions

BONES noun

1. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
4. A bonefish
5. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
6. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
7. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
8. The framework of anything.
9. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
10. A dollar.
11. The wishbone formation.
12. An erect penis; a boner.
13. (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

BONES verb

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
2. To fertilize with bone.
3. To put whalebone into.
4. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
5. (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
6. (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
7. (usually with "up") To study.
8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.

BONES verb

1. To apprehend, steal.

BONES verb

1. To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

BONES noun

1. A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.
2. The act of two fists meeting together in the manner equivalent to a high-five.
3. The framework or foundation of something.

BONES noun

1. A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
2. The common European bittern.

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 BONES

• Dice
• Dice?
• Skin's partner
• Enterprise MD
• _Star Trek_ sobriquet
• Treats for Fido
• Fillet's lack
• McCoy, to Kirk
• Skeleton
• Canine treats

More clues leading to the result TOMB

• Vault
• Pyramid, for instance
• Sepulcher
• Pyramid, essentially
• The Taj Mahal, e.g.
• "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" setting
• Dead zone?
• Ghoul hangout
• Digs for a mummy?
• Sepulchral structure

More clues leading to the result ASHES

• Campfire fallout
• Fire leftovers
• Partner of sackcloth
• Start-of-Lent mark
• Wintertime traction aid
• "Angela's ___"
• "Angela's ___": McCourt
• Fireplace dross
• Phoenix source
• What the phoenix rose from

More clues leading to the result BONE

• Skeleton part
• Treat for Fido
• Fine china
• It's buried in the yard
• It's often in contention
• Treat for Marmaduke
• Ulna, for one
• ___ chilling (frigid)
• Chew on this?
• Off-white