The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word HIE , but the solution may also be HASTE which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Speed crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HIE | 22 % | 3 |
| HASTE | 18 % | 5 |
| RACE | 13 % | 4 |
| PACE | 10 % | 4 |
| TEAR | 9 % | 4 |
| CELERITY | 5 % | 8 |
| RATE | 5 % | 4 |
| TEMPO | 2 % | 5 |
| BARREL | 2 % | 6 |
| ZIP | 2 % | 3 |
| ZOOM | 2 % | 4 |
| VELOCITY | 2 % | 8 |
| RAPIDITY | 1 % | 8 |
| BURNUPTHERD | 1 % | 11 |
| RUSH | 1 % | 4 |
| GOFAST | 1 % | 6 |
| HASTEN | 1 % | 6 |
| DART | 1 % | 4 |
| RIP | 1 % | 3 |
| METH | 1 % | 4 |
| WING | 1 % | 4 |
| RAPIDNESS | 1 % | 9 |
| ROCKET | 1 % | 6 |
| DASH | 1 % | 4 |
Why may RACE be the right solution?
The answer "RACE" fits the clue "Speed" because a race is a competition where participants try to be the fastest, making it synonymous with speed.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Speed
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hastening
- quicken
- swiftness
- accelerate
- speed up
- hasten
- hie
- hurry
- hurrying
- zip
- fastness
- upper
Crossword Answer definitions
HIE noun- Haste; diligence.
- To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.
- To hurry (oneself).
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 HIE
- Get a move on
- Step on it
- Get the lead out
- Hasten
- Hurry
- Hurry, old style
- Not dawdle
- Shakespeare's "Move it!"
- Go quickly
- Go rapidly
More clues leading to the result HASTE
- Waste-maker
- Waste maker
- Alacrity
- Waste maker?
- Bad thing to make when trying to avoid errors
- Maker of waste, it's said
- Hurly-burly
- Hurry
- Waste producer
- Rash rush
More clues leading to the result RACE
- 440 or marathon
- Daytona event
- Indy, for one
- Marathon
- Meet event
- It may be three-legged
- Mile or 10K
- Compete
- Compete with Unser
- Indy 500
More clues leading to the result PACE
- Runner's rate
- 8 minutes per mile, e.g.
- New York City campus
- It might need to be picked up
- Act worried
- Salsa that isn't "made in New York City!?!?"
- Wear out the carpet
- Show impatience
- Exhibit impatience
- Rate
More clues leading to the result TEAR
- Eye drop
- Kind of gas
- Sorrowful drop
- Certain drop
- Eyedrop?
- Pull apart
- React to onion-slicing
- Rip apart
- Speed
- Dotted-line instruction
More clues leading to the result CELERITY
More clues leading to the result RATE
- $150 per hour, for example
- Assess
- Deserve
- Deserve, as a raise
- How interest is shown
- Have importance
- "At any ___"
- Appraise
- Designate PG-13
- Designate as PG-13, e.g.
More clues leading to the result TEMPO
- Rhythm
- Beat
- Adagio, e.g.
- Grave for Vivaldi, e.g.?
- Pace
- Bach's score marking
- Musician's rate
- A conductor might signal that it should be picked up
- Melody rapidity
- Metronome measure
More clues leading to the result BARREL
- Container in a polka
- Cooper's product
- Wooden container
- Niagara Falls vessel
- Rain catcher, maybe
- Hogshead, e.g.
- Gun part sometimes sawed off
- Gun part
- Unit for 65 Across
- Bunghole's place
More clues leading to the result ZIP
- Postal code
- Code type
- Word before car or code
- Nothing
- Oomph
- Compress a computer file
- Energy
- Extra oomph
- Shrink computer files
- Shrink, as computer files
More clues leading to the result ZOOM
- Rocket
- More than motor
- Sort of lens
- Move quickly
- Camera feature
- Type of lens
- Kind of lens
- Jet sound
- Closeup lens
- Quickly pan (in)
More clues leading to the result VELOCITY
More clues leading to the result RAPIDITY
More clues leading to the result BURNUPTHERD
More clues leading to the result RUSH
- First name in talk radio
- __-hour traffic
- First name in pontification
- Hurry
- 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- Kind of job that 20-Acrosses always feel like
- See 24-Down
- Advance on the gridiron
- Horsetail, for one
- Commuter convergence
More clues leading to the result GOFAST
- Put pedal to metal
- Put the pedal to the metal
- Sell like hotcakes
- Speed
- Zoom along
- Floor it
- Race by
- Make haste.
- Sell quickly
- Zip along
More clues leading to the result HASTEN
More clues leading to the result DART
- Flit about
- Pub missile
- Pub projectile
- Blowgun ammo
- Thing shot in a bar
- Bull's-eye hitter
- Fly (through)
- It may be blown out by a hunter
- It might be thrown at a bull
- It might be tossed out while picking up a blonde
More clues leading to the result RIP
- Lacerate
- __-roaring
- Come apart
- Cut apart
- En-graved letters?
- __ off (steal)
- Run in a stocking, e.g.
- Final sentiment, initially
- Torn from Texas
- ___-roaring start?
More clues leading to the result METH
- John Wesley's gr.
- Part of SMU
- See 1-Across
- "Breaking Bad" subject
- "Speed"
- Drug made in labs
- One of the Wu-Tang Clan rappers, for short
- "Speed" drug
- Syst.
- John Wesley follower (abbr.)
More clues leading to the result WING
- Buffalo ___
- Throw
- Airfoil
- Flapper?
- Addition
- Buck's partner
- Injure slightly, in a gunfight
- Hockey position
- Chicken piece
- KFC selection
More clues leading to the result RAPIDNESS
More clues leading to the result ROCKET
- Hockey great ___ Richard
- Powerful projectile
- Go through the roof
- Houston ballplayer
- Missile
- Robert Goddard's projectile
- Speed
- Launched capsule
- Zoom
- Hurtle