The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ESSENTIAL , but the solution may also be VITAL which is one of the most recent solution (2013 in New York Times).
Needed crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ESSENTIAL | 33 % | 9 |
| LACKED | 33 % | 6 |
| VITAL | 17 % | 5 |
| REQUIRED | 17 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Needed
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- needful
- requisite
- necessary
- required
- necessity
- needy
- essential
- requirement
- must
- accurate
- used
- requiring
Crossword Answer definitions
ESSENTIAL noun- A necessary ingredient.
- A fundamental ingredient.
- Necessary.
- Very important; of high importance.
- Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Really existing; existent.
- Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
- Idiopathic.
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 ESSENTIAL
- Absolutely necessary
- Chief point
- Indispensible
- Needed
- Sine qua non
- Must-have
- Necessary
- Not optional
- Requisite
- Key
More clues leading to the result LACKED
More clues leading to the result VITAL
- Necessary
- Crucial
- Like some organs
- Crucially important
- Extremely important
- Indispensable
- Absolutely necessary
- Like some signs
- Of utter importance
- Key