The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TERM which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2009.
Six years, for a 23-Across crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters | 
|---|---|---|
| TERM | 100 % | 4 | 
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Six years, for a 23-Across
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- cane
 - thomson
 - term
 - brownie
 - get
 - kindergarten
 - eleven
 - imperial
 - rule
 - sept
 - set
 - day
 
Crossword Answer definitions
TERM noun- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
 - A chronological limitation or restriction.
 - Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
 - A point, line, or superficies that limits.
 - A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
 - Relations among people.
 - Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
 - Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
 - With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
 - (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
 - A menstrual period.
 - Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
 - The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
 - An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
 - A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
 - A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
 
- To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
 
- Born or delivered at term.
 
- A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
 
- One whose employment has been terminated
 
- To terminate one's employment
 
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