The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CHINE , but the solution may also be ARETE which is one of the most recent solution (1990 in New York Times).
Ridge; crest crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CHINE | 50 % | 5 |
| ARETE | 50 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Ridge; crest
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- chine
- arete
- crista
- crested
- comb
- cresting
- ridged
- combatively
- combed
- cuesta
- nunatak
- ridgetop
Crossword Answer definitions
CHINE noun- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
- A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
- A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- The back of the blade on a scythe.
- To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
- To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
- (Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
- To crack, split, fissure, break.
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 CHINE
- Crepe de ___
- Crepe de ___.
- Backbone of an animal.
- Animal's backbone.
- Cut of meat.
- Animal's spine
- Ridge.
- Backbone
- Ridge; crest
- Ridge or crest