The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word KEY which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2018.
Major crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| KEY | 12 % | 3 |
| DOMO | 12 % | 4 |
| URSA | 12 % | 4 |
| LARGE | 12 % | 5 |
| EPIC | 12 % | 4 |
| SEMICOLONEL | 6 % | 11 |
| SUBSTANTIAL | 6 % | 11 |
| DAD | 6 % | 3 |
| BIGTIME | 6 % | 7 |
| GREATER | 6 % | 7 |
| CHIEF | 6 % | 5 |
| BIGNAME | 6 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Major
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- better
- outstanding
- great
- prima
- senior
- leading
- starring
- stellar
- star
- appreciable
- much
- ample
Crossword Answer definitions
KEY noun- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- The last board of a floor when laid down.
- A keystone.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- A color to be masked or made transparent.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- Indispensable, supremely important.
- Important, salient.
- One of a string of small islands.
- A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.
- In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Symbol: kg
- The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.
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 KEY
- Indication
- Lock's partner
- Door opener?
- F or G, but not H
- One of a Florida chain
- One on a ring
- Small island
- It's changed in transposition or modulation
- Locker unlocker
- Vital
More clues leading to the result DOMO
- Major-____
- Major follower
- Major ___
- Major-___
- Major-__
- Major-___ (chief butler)
- Major attachment
- Major-___ (steward)
- "___ arigato"
- Major-
More clues leading to the result URSA
- Bear in the sky
- Celestial bear
- Astronomical bear
- Brutus's bear
- Polar bear name
- __ Major
- Bear in the sky?
- Major constellation?
- Bear in the air
- Major or Minor
More clues leading to the result LARGE
- Gargantuan
- Sweater size
- Shirt size
- At __ (free)
- Sizable
- Like NBA players
- Soft drink order
- Sweatshirt size
- ___ and in charge
- Big.
More clues leading to the result EPIC
- "Giant" for example
- "Iliad," e.g.
- Heroic tale
- Larger-than-life
- Like the "Aeneid"
- Monumental
- Of great scope
- Poetic genre
- "Ben-Hur" is one
- "Beowulf," e.g.
More clues leading to the result SEMICOLONEL
More clues leading to the result SUBSTANTIAL
More clues leading to the result DAD
- 1989 Jack Lemmon film
- Family VIP
- June honoree
- Old Grand __ bourbon
- Pop
- "Dear old" guy
- Homer, to Bart
- Mom's mate
- Palindromic relative
- Old man
More clues leading to the result BIGTIME
- "Very much so ..."
- Very much so
- Highest level
- Highest level in a profession
- In a major way
- *Major-league
- Highest level in vaudeville.
- Major-league baseball: Slang.
- Top banana's milieu.
- Major-league
More clues leading to the result GREATER
- More significant
- Almost equal to Ali?
- What ">" means, with "than"
- More eminent
- Larger
- More important
- More noble
- ___ Antilles.
- More important.
- ___ New York.
More clues leading to the result CHIEF
- Head honcho
- Kansas City footballer
- Primary
- Main
- Leading
- Crazy Horse, e.g.
- Most important
- Crazy Horse, for one
- Maxwell Smart's boss
- Firehouse foreman