The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ORIGINS , but the solution may also be EMBEDS which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Roots crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ORIGINS | 33 % | 7 |
| LINEAGE | 17 % | 7 |
| ORIGIN | 11 % | 6 |
| HOMELAND | 11 % | 8 |
| TAKESSIDES | 6 % | 10 |
| GENESES | 6 % | 7 |
| SOURCES | 6 % | 7 |
| EMBEDS | 6 % | 6 |
| RADICES | 6 % | 7 |
Why may EMBEDS be the right solution?
The answer "EMBEDS" fits the clue "Roots" because it means to firmly fix or implant something, like roots do in the ground.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Roots
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- solution
- rootle
- side
- rout
- base
- stem
- radical
- origin
- beginning
- theme
- root word
- source
Crossword Answer definitions
ORIGINS noun- The beginning of something.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
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 ORIGINS
- Inceptions
- Evolutionist's interest
- Roots
- Beginnings
- Sources
- Starting places
- Darwin's study
- Geneses
- Beginnings.
- Sources.
More clues leading to the result LINEAGE
- Blood
- Family story
- Pedeggree
- Ancestry
- Family tree
- Information in a tree
- Roots
- Pedigree
- Genealogy
- Family history
More clues leading to the result ORIGIN
- Start
- Ancestry
- Spring
- Beginning
- Where the x- and y-axes meet in math
- __ of Species (Darwin)
- Darwin's "___ of Species"
- Where a Cartesian graph's axes meet
- Word in a Darwin title
- Starting point
More clues leading to the result HOMELAND
- Canada, for many, e.g
- Tom Ridge's responsibility
- National security concern
- God's country.
- One's native heath
- Roots
- One's birthplace
- Israel, to some
- Kind of security
- Old country, maybe
More clues leading to the result TAKESSIDES
More clues leading to the result GENESES
- Origins
- Inceptions
- Beginnings
- Creations
- Points of origin
- Commencements
- Roots
- Origins.
- Starting points
- Very beginnings
More clues leading to the result SOURCES
- Origins
- Roots
- Dissertation listing
- Footnote data
- Reporter's needs
- They may be anonymous
- Reporter's contacts
- Fonts
- They're sometimes confidential
- Bibliography listings
More clues leading to the result EMBEDS
- Plants
- Installs, as a YouTube video in a blog post
- Buries
- Some wartime reporters
- Some on-site reporters
- Fixes firmly
- Sets firmly
- Encloses securely
- Sets securely
- Sticks in the mud