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 |
| SEES | 8 % | 4 |
| RUNSOVER | 8 % | 8 |
| RUNSANIOVER | 8 % | 11 |
| XAMINES | 8 % | 7 |
| PERUSES | 8 % | 7 |
| EYES | 8 % | 4 |
| GOESOVER | 8 % | 8 |
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 SEES
- Catches on
- Checks out
- Goes out with
- Blunders upon
- Comprehends
- Dates
- Eyes
- Gets it
- Gets the picture
- Keeps company with
More clues leading to the result RUNSOVER
More clues leading to the result RUNSANIOVER
More clues leading to the result XAMINES
More clues leading to the result PERUSES
- Looks over
- Leafs through
- Reads
- Reads.
- Looks over carefully.
- Scrutinizes
- Scans
- Reads carefully
- Looks through
- Mulls over
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