The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 12 letter word PRESCRIPTION , but the solution may also be AVIV which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in Wall Street Journal).
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Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PRESCRIPTION | 12 % | 12 |
| SKELTER | 6 % | 7 |
| CAPTAINPHILLIPS | 6 % | 15 |
| BOAT | 6 % | 4 |
| ANDERS | 6 % | 6 |
| PIES | 6 % | 4 |
| ASNAP | 6 % | 5 |
| THEE | 6 % | 4 |
| COMBAT | 6 % | 6 |
| KIPPERS | 6 % | 7 |
| AVIV | 6 % | 4 |
| ITO | 6 % | 3 |
| PARTS | 6 % | 5 |
| LOVELL | 6 % | 6 |
| ASABEET | 6 % | 7 |
| CHI | 6 % | 3 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: See 16-Down
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- date
- entry
- figure
- give
- make
- nail
Crossword Answer definitions
PRESCRIPTION noun- The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
- Also called extinctive prescription or liberative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, otherwise it will be extinguished.
- Also called acquisitive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.
- A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
- The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
- The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
- The act or practice of laying down norms of language usage, as opposed to description, i.e. recording and describing actual usage.
- An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.
- A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.
- Circumscription; restraint; limitation.
- (of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
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 PRESCRIPTION
More clues leading to the result SKELTER
- Scurry
- Second half of a rhyming Beatles title
- See 16-Down
- Helter-__
- After helter.
- Helter's partner
- Helter-_____
- Helter-___
- Word in a Beatles tune title
More clues leading to the result CAPTAINPHILLIPS
More clues leading to the result BOAT
- Gravy dish
- Open water-craft
- Gravy container
- Word with dream or gravy
- Bark or punt
- Skiff
- Gravy server
- Gravy holder
- Isle-dweller's transport
- Regatta member
More clues leading to the result ANDERS
- Hedberg of hockey
- Hockey legend Hedberg
- Actress Luana
- Physicist Angstrom
- Astronomer Celsius
- Commander in Chief of Polish land, sea and air forces.
- Gen. Wladislaw ___, commanded Polish army in Italy.
- One of the astronauts.
- See 16 Down
- Astronaut who orbited the moon
More clues leading to the result PIES
- Mincemeat holders
- Mince meat vehicles
- Pumpkin and pecan
- Apple and peach
- Mincemeat vehicles
- Slapstick missiles
- Round sweets
- Comic missiles
- Sectored desserts
- Sales pitches?
More clues leading to the result ASNAP
- "No prob!"
- Child's play
- Easy-peasy
- "It's ___!" ("Simple!")
- "Child's play!"
- Very easy task
- "Piece of cake!"
- "It's ___!" ("Easy!")
- "Easy!"
- "That's ___!" ("Easy as pie!")
More clues leading to the result THEE
- "Of ___ I Sing"
- Fare-__-well
- Friends pronoun
- Old style pronoun
- Quaker pronoun
- "America" pronoun
- Fare-well link
- Friend's pronoun
- Old you
- "Of __ I Sing"
More clues leading to the result COMBAT
- Game that came with the Atari 2600
- Mercenary's line
- War action
- Fighting
- Infantry action
- Type of trendy women's boots
- Warfare
- Battle
- Fight
- Fight against
More clues leading to the result KIPPERS
- English breakfast fish
- British breakfast food.
- Britisher's favorite breakfast food.
- See 16 Down.
- Cured fish.
- Some cured herrings
- English breakfast items
More clues leading to the result AVIV
- Tel __
- Tel follower in Israel
- VIVA, in an Israeli city?
- Tel ___
- Tel ___, Israel
- Ancient Hebrew month
- Tel ___ (Itzhak Rabin Monument site)
- Tel___
- Tel ____
- Tel __-Yafo
More clues leading to the result ITO
- "Who am __ say?"
- How was ___ know
- Prince Hirobumi
- Skater Midori
- "Am __ believe..."
- "How was __ know?"
- Figure-skating champ of '89
- Japanese statesman
- Olympic silver medalist Midori
- Olympian Midori
More clues leading to the result PARTS
- Leaves the scene
- Automotive center stock
- Repair bill cost
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- Components
- Roles
- What some readers are after
- Repairer's stock
- Goals for actors
- Hair lines
More clues leading to the result LOVELL
- Apollo 13 crew member
- He said, "Houston, we have a problem"
- Apollo 13 commander
- Hanks role in "Apollo 13"
- First astronaut to make four spaceflights
- Apollo 13 astronaut
- Apollo 13 commander Jim
- See 16 Down
- U. S. astronaut
- Astronomer or astronaut