The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SMOKES , but the solution may also be BEAMS which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Lights up crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SMOKES | 33 % | 6 |
| STARS | 13 % | 5 |
| ILLUMES | 13 % | 7 |
| HASASMOKE | 7 % | 9 |
| KINDLES | 7 % | 7 |
| BEAMS | 7 % | 5 |
| IRRADIATES | 7 % | 10 |
| CHANDELIER | 7 % | 10 |
| UFOS | 7 % | 4 |
Why may BEAMS be the right solution?
The word "beams" can mean "to emit rays of light," which fits the clue "lights up."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lights up
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- as it was
Crossword Answer definitions
SMOKES noun- The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- A cigarette.
- Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
- A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
- A fastball.
- To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- To give off smoke.
- To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- To dry or medicate by smoke.
- To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
- To make unclear or blurry.
- (chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- To beat someone at something.
- To kill, especially with a gun.
- To thrash; to beat.
- To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
- To ridicule to the face; to mock.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
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 SMOKES
- Lights up
- Fumigates
- Sends up puffs
- Enjoys a cheroot
- Cures, as meat
- Enjoys a pipe
- Camels, among others
- Gets ready to erupt, perhaps
- Has a cheroot
- Cigarettes, slangily
More clues leading to the result STARS
- Galactic bits
- Pain, in comics
- Leading players
- "We Are All Made of ___" (Moby)
- Hollywood Walk of Fame sights
- Us people
- Us people?
- * * *
- Oscar winners, often
- Great balls of fire
More clues leading to the result ILLUMES
More clues leading to the result HASASMOKE
More clues leading to the result KINDLES
More clues leading to the result BEAMS
- Smiles broadly
- Grins from ear to ear
- Roof supports
- Shows pride
- Grins widely
- Makes like a Cheshire cat
- Smiles widely
- Puts on a happy face
- Ceiling supports
- Rays of light
More clues leading to the result IRRADIATES
More clues leading to the result CHANDELIER
- High light
- Ornate fixture
- It crashes in 29-Down/60-Across
- Lights up?
- Ornamental light
- Ceiling fixture
- Ornate lighting fixture