The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word READS which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2012.
Scans crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| READS | 42 % | 5 |
| EYES | 8 % | 4 |
| RUNSANIOVER | 8 % | 11 |
| PERUSES | 8 % | 7 |
| RUNSOVER | 8 % | 8 |
| GOESOVER | 8 % | 8 |
| XAMINES | 8 % | 7 |
| SEES | 8 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Scans
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- read
- run down
- glance over
- skim
- rake
- analyses
- analysis
- analytical
- analytics
- analyzes
- assessments
- browses
Crossword Answer definitions
READS noun- A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- An instance of reading.
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.
- To consist of certain text.
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal)
- (except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To think, believe; to consider (that).
- To advise; to counsel. See rede.
- To tell; to declare; to recite.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
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 READS
- Does some browsing, perhaps
- Opens e-mail
- Enjoys an Agatha Christie mystery, maybe
- Renders aloud
- Isn't illiterate
- Analyzes
- Fires up the Nook
- Acts the bookorm
- Pores over
- Enjoys Twain, perhaps
More clues leading to the result EYES
- Baby blues
- Peepers
- Pores over
- Potato spots
- Seeing things
- Sizes up
- Snake __ (craps roll)
- "Windows of the soul"
- Checks out
- Looks closely
More clues leading to the result RUNSANIOVER
More clues leading to the result PERUSES
- Looks over
- Leafs through
- Reads
- Reads.
- Looks over carefully.
- Scrutinizes
- Scans
- Reads carefully
- Looks through
- Mulls over