Answer to "Kind of instinct" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MATERNAL , but the solution may also be PRIMAL which is one of the most recent solution (2016 in Washington Post).

Kind of instinct crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
MATERNAL	33 %	8
GUT	24 %	3
BASIC	14 %	5
HERD	10 %	4
PRIMAL	10 %	6
ANIMAL	10 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Kind of instinct

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

• maternal
• survival
• reproductive
• spatial
• social
• socially
• human services
• culturally
• group dynamics
• include
• statist
• sociometric

Crossword Answer definitions

MATERNAL noun

1. A mother.
2. A person related through the mother, or her side of the family; a maternal relative.

MATERNAL adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother; motherly.
2. Related through the mother, or her side of the family.
3. Derived from the mother as opposed to the foetus during pregnancy.

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 MATERNAL

• Kind of instinct
• Motherly
• Like the heredity of mitochondrial DNA
• __ instinct
• It may precede "instinct"
• Motherly.
• Of a parent.
• Protective in a way
• Kind of relative
• ___ instinct

More clues leading to the result GUT

• Reaction locale?
• Fishing-line material
• Type of reaction
• Clean a fish
• Reaction source
• Bar habitue's giveaway
• Breadbasket's locale
• Instinctive
• ___ feeling
• Eviscerate

More clues leading to the result BASIC

• Kind of training
• Fundamental
• Nitty-gritty
• Conformist, in slang
• Bare-bones
• Meat-and-potatoes
• Simple
• Computer language
• Like the ABCs
• Like ABCs

More clues leading to the result HERD

• Bunch of cows
• Group of bovine
• Border collie's concern
• Kind of mentality
• It sometimes thunders
• Grazers in a group
• Group on a drive
• Group of followers
• Stampede group
• Range rover?

More clues leading to the result PRIMAL

• __ scream
• First
• Word before scream or therapy
• Like some screams
• Word before scream or urge
• Original
• Type of scream
• Kind of scream
• Of main importance
• As early as possible

More clues leading to the result ANIMAL

• Kiddie cracker
• Kids' cracker
• Menagerie member
• Pet, usually
• Brute
• Brutish one
• Eric Burdon, in the '60s
• Kind of cracker
• One of the Muppets
• Red Muppet