The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word IDEAL which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Perfect crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| IDEAL | 59 % | 5 |
| HONE | 14 % | 4 |
| AOK | 4 % | 3 |
| ERRORLESS | 2 % | 9 |
| UTOPIAN | 2 % | 7 |
| SPOTON | 1 % | 6 |
| MINT | 1 % | 4 |
| JUSTRIGHT | 1 % | 9 |
| EDENIC | 1 % | 6 |
| REFINE | 1 % | 6 |
| AONE | 1 % | 4 |
| ABSOLUTE | 1 % | 8 |
| APLUS | 1 % | 5 |
| FLAWLESS | 1 % | 8 |
| TIPTOP | 1 % | 6 |
| ILOVEIT | 1 % | 7 |
| ROUNDOFF | 1 % | 8 |
| EXACT | 1 % | 5 |
| ERRORFREE | 1 % | 9 |
| UNERRING | 1 % | 8 |
| AOKAY | 1 % | 5 |
| RIPEN | 1 % | 5 |
| DEADON | 1 % | 6 |
| NAILEDIT | 1 % | 8 |
| THATSIT | 0 % | 7 |
| INFALLIBLE | 0 % | 10 |
| UNFLAWED | 0 % | 8 |
| BINGO | 0 % | 5 |
| GEMLIKE | 0 % | 7 |
| OPTIMUM | 0 % | 7 |
| INERRANT | 0 % | 8 |
| OPTIMIE | 0 % | 7 |
| RIGHTONTHEMONEY | 0 % | 15 |
| XON | 0 % | 3 |
| OPTIMIZE | 0 % | 8 |
| TOTHELETTER | 0 % | 11 |
| SUPER | 0 % | 5 |
| TOTAL | 0 % | 5 |
| WHOLE | 0 % | 5 |
| MASTER | 0 % | 6 |
| HOTSYTOTSY | 0 % | 10 |
| ALL | 0 % | 3 |
| IDE | 0 % | 3 |
Why may HONE be the right solution?
"HONE" can mean to sharpen or perfect something, such as a skill or a blade.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Perfect
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- perfectible
- consummate
- exact
- pluperfect
- ideal
- thoroughgoing
- down pat
- idealized
- perfective
- perfect tense
- utter
- complete
Crossword Answer definitions
IDEAL adjective- Optimal; being the best possibility.
- Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
- Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
- Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
- Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
- Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
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 IDEAL
More clues leading to the result HONE
- Perfect
- Use a whetstone
- Fine-tune
- Make perfect
- Perfect, as a skill
- Put an edge on
- Sharpen
- Whet
- Improve with effort
- Apply to an emery wheel
More clues leading to the result AOK
- Fine
- NASA assent
- Fine, at NASA
- John Glenn thumbs up
- Just fine
- Fine, at Mission Control
- Perfect
- Space-shuttle assent
- Just peachy
- "Hunky-dory"
More clues leading to the result ERRORLESS
More clues leading to the result UTOPIAN
- One with perfect vision?
- Socially perfect
- Aspiring to impracticable perfection
- Idealistic social reformer
- Perfect
- Idealist
- Like a perfect world
- Unrealistically lofty
- Like pipe dreams
- Visionary
More clues leading to the result SPOTON
- "Exactly!"
- "You got it!"
- Exactly right
- Accurate
- Precisely
- Exactly
- Perfect, as an impersonation
- Perfect
- Exact, in British slang
- Exact, to a Brit
More clues leading to the result MINT
- Make money, in a way
- Money maker
- After dinner treat
- Aromatic plant
- Coin factory
- Money-making outfit
- Where money is made
- Big moneymaker
- Condition at a baseball card show
- After-dinner candy
More clues leading to the result JUSTRIGHT
More clues leading to the result EDENIC
- Like a paradise
- Like paradise
- Just like heaven
- Paradisiacal
- Residentially ideal
- Blissful
- In the first place?
- Heavenly
- Utopian
- Unspoiled
More clues leading to the result REFINE
- Polish
- Make some adjustments
- Process 68 Down
- Perfect
- Purify
- Process, as sugar
- Improve
- Make more elegant
- Free from impurities
- Sharpen
More clues leading to the result AONE
- Couldn't be better
- Primo
- Superior rating
- Top rating
- Top-drawer
- Top-notch
- Top-rated
- Tops
- Better than good
- First class
More clues leading to the result ABSOLUTE
- Total, as secrecy
- Out-and-out
- ___ zero (very cold)
- Unequivocal
- Unlimited
- Unrestricted
- Unquestionable
- Pure.
- Free from imperfection.
- Perfect.
More clues leading to the result APLUS
- Super-excellent grade
- Excellent mark
- Top grade
- Unbeatable grade
- Brainiac's accomplishment
- Impressive mark
- Mathlete's trigonometry grade, likely
- Superb, grade-wise
- 100, in a sense
- It's in the upper 90s
More clues leading to the result FLAWLESS
More clues leading to the result TIPTOP
- Superb
- Excellent
- Aces
- Of the highest quality
- Peak
- Best of the best
- Extreme summit
- First-rate
- Superlative
- Highest point
More clues leading to the result ILOVEIT
- Response to receiving a perfect present
- "This is great!"
- Rave review
- "Thanks, this gift couldn't be better!"
- "Don't change a thing!"
- "That's perfect as is!"
- "Couldn't be happier!"
- "Fantastic!"
- "Perfect!"
- "Fabulous!"
More clues leading to the result ROUNDOFF
More clues leading to the result EXACT
- Force, as a payment
- Letter-perfect
- Precise
- Not even a little off
- Right on
- Right on target
- Strict
- On the button
- To the nanosecond
- Accurate to a T
More clues leading to the result ERRORFREE
More clues leading to the result UNERRING
- Right on the mark
- Faultless
- Perfect
- Precise
- Infallible.
- Exact.
- Straight to the mark
- Dead accurate
- Infallible
More clues leading to the result AOKAY
- All is well!
- Excellent
- Just ducky
- Thumbs up
- Astronaut's "thumbs-up" (var.)
- Perfect, at NASA (var.)
- Good to go
- Hunky-dory
- Jim-dandy
- Just fine
More clues leading to the result RIPEN
- Mature
- Become ready to pluck
- Turn edible
- Turn red, perhaps
- Age
- Come to fruition
- Mellow
- Turn red on the vine, say
- Get ready for the apple store, perhaps?
- Get ready to eat?
More clues leading to the result DEADON
- Exactly
- Precisely right
- Exact
- Perfectly correct
- Exactly right
- Precise
- Accurate
- Exactly accurate
- ___ one's feet (exhausted)
- Precisely correct
More clues leading to the result NAILEDIT
- "That was perfect!"
- Was right on target
- Post-exam exultation
- "Perfect!"
- Passed the test in a big way
- Words often said with a fist pump
- Cry of success that can also be a sarcastic admission of failure
- Performed a routine perfectly
- "I totally crushed that!"
- Sarcastic response to a fail
More clues leading to the result THATSIT
- "Bingo!"
- "All done!"
- "Now I'm really mad!"
- "I've had enough!"
- "We're done here"
- Statement by a ticked off person
- "OK, I'm done"
- "Aha!"
- "Of course!"
- "We're done"
More clues leading to the result INFALLIBLE
More clues leading to the result UNFLAWED
More clues leading to the result BINGO
- Shout at a church event
- Card game?
- Reservation game
- You guessed it!
- Fund raiser, often
- Money-raising card game
- "Nailed it"
- Churchgoer's outcry?
- Winner's call
- Its participants must form a line
More clues leading to the result GEMLIKE
More clues leading to the result OPTIMUM
More clues leading to the result INERRANT
- Perfectly correct
- Infallible.
- Free from mistakes
- Flawless
- Mistake-free
- Free of mistakes
- Always right
- Perfect
More clues leading to the result OPTIMIE
More clues leading to the result RIGHTONTHEMONEY
- Exactly
- Exactly; precisely
- Exact
- Accurate
- Very precise
- Perfect
- Gracing a magazine's cover?
- Exactly ... or where to find 17-, 25-, 43- and 57-Across?
- Exactly ... like a conservative's plan to lower taxes?
- Not the least bit off
More clues leading to the result XON
More clues leading to the result OPTIMIZE
More clues leading to the result TOTHELETTER
More clues leading to the result SUPER
- Bowl or star preceder
- "Terrific!"
- Marvelous!
- Like some models?
- Terrific
- Fantastic
- Starter for star or power
- Apartment 1-A resident, often
- "Terrif!"
- Outstanding
More clues leading to the result TOTAL
- Summer's end?
- Wreck a car
- Smash to smithereens
- Add up
- All-Bran rival
- Demolish
- Utter
- Life rival
- Smash beyond human recognition
- Wreck
More clues leading to the result WHOLE
- Entire
- ___ Foods
- Self-contained
- Sum total
- Undivided
- Word before "shebang"
- Fully assembled
- Unbroken
- In one piece
- The ___ enchilada
More clues leading to the result MASTER
- Merchant ship captain
- Become expert in
- Learn thoroughly
- Design expert who thinks about navigation
- Kind of class or plan
- Zen teacher
- Tony, to Jeannie
- Get the hang of
- Become an expert in
- Conquer
More clues leading to the result HOTSYTOTSY
More clues leading to the result ALL
- "__ Along the Watchtower"
- 100%
- The whole enchilada
- The whole shebang
- The works
- Three Musketeers cry starter
- Wholly
- "This above ___, to thine own..."
- "___ She Wrote"
- Complete