The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BEAT which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2013.
Musical tempo crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BEAT | 27 % | 4 |
| LENTO | 9 % | 5 |
| ALLEGRETTO | 9 % | 10 |
| ANDANTE | 9 % | 7 |
| TAKT | 9 % | 4 |
| ALLEGRO | 9 % | 7 |
| ADAGIO | 9 % | 6 |
| ALLABREVE | 9 % | 9 |
| RAGTIME | 9 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Musical tempo
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- musical score
- musical phrase
- musical interval
- musical theme
- musical mode
- musicality
- rhythmical
- musical scale
- musical arrangement
- musically
- rhythmically
- rhythmicity
Crossword Answer definitions
BEAT noun- A stroke; a blow.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- A rhythm.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
- An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
- That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
- A precinct.
- A place of habitual or frequent resort.
- A low cheat or swindler.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- To hit; strike
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To rob.
- Exhausted
- Dilapidated, beat up
- Fabulous
- Boring
- (of a person) ugly
- A beatnik.
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 BEAT
- Cadence
- Exhausted
- Pooped out
- Tired
- Vanquished
- Worn out
- Dog tired
- Kerouac's generation
- Take a switch to
- Cop's rounds
More clues leading to the result LENTO
- Slowly, to Solti
- Slowly, to Ozawa
- Slow tempo
- Slowly, to Schubert
- Slow, in music
- Pianist's 51 Down
- Score direction
- Slow in tempo
- "Play slowly"
- Slowly, on scores
More clues leading to the result ALLEGRETTO
More clues leading to the result ANDANTE
- Slow movement
- Slow tempo
- Moderately slow
- Moderately slow, in music
- Tempo for Mozart's so-called "Elvira Madigan" music
- Livelier than lento
- Faster than adagio
- Moderately slow, musically
- Moderately, to a maestro
- Moderately slow musical movement
More clues leading to the result TAKT
More clues leading to the result ALLEGRO
- Lively tempo
- Brisk
- Pace of music
- Rapid sonata movement
- Tempo between allegretto and presto
- Fast movement
- Fast, to a cellist
- Brisk, to Beethoven
- Rapid movement
- Quickly, in music
More clues leading to the result ADAGIO
- Kind of dancer
- Slower than andante
- Barber's "___ for Strings"
- In a slow manner
- Slow, on musical scores
- Balletic sequence
- Pas de deux section
- Pas de deux part
- "Play slowly"
- Slowly, in music
More clues leading to the result ALLABREVE
- Meter signature
- In cut time, musically
- Tempo notation
- Cut time
- Musical tempo
- Cut time, in music
- How "Lili Marlene" is played