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 |
| KINDLES | 7 % | 7 |
| BEAMS | 7 % | 5 |
| IRRADIATES | 7 % | 10 |
| CHANDELIER | 7 % | 10 |
| UFOS | 7 % | 4 |
| HASASMOKE | 7 % | 9 |
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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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 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
More clues leading to the result UFOS
- Tabloid topics
- Roswell crafts
- Dubious crafts
- Sci-fi vehicles
- Sci-fi craft
- "Independence Day" sights
- Eerie sightings
- 39-Down crafts
- Saucers
- Sci-fi fleet