The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PAPER which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1959.
Official document crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters | 
|---|---|---|
| PAPER | 100 % | 5 | 
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Official document
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- instrument
 - legal document
 - legal instrument
 - documents
 - documentation
 - officialdom
 - officialese
 - officiality
 - certificate
 - birth certificate
 - primary source
 - documented
 
Crossword Answer definitions
PAPER noun- A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
 - A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
 - Wallpaper.
 - Wrapping paper.
 - (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
 - A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
 - A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
 - A scholastic essay.
 - A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
 - Money.
 - A university course.
 - A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
 - A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
 - A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
 - Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
 - (by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
 
- To apply paper to.
 - To document; to memorialize.
 - To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
 - To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
 - To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
 - To sandpaper.
 - To enfold in paper.
 - To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
 
- Made of paper.
 - Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
 - Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
 - Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
 
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