The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word HIE , but the solution may also be ZOOM which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York 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 | 17 % | 5 |
| RACE | 13 % | 4 |
| PACE | 10 % | 4 |
| TEAR | 9 % | 4 |
| RATE | 5 % | 4 |
| CELERITY | 5 % | 8 |
| BARREL | 2 % | 6 |
| TEMPO | 2 % | 5 |
| ZIP | 2 % | 3 |
| ZOOM | 2 % | 4 |
| VELOCITY | 2 % | 8 |
| RUSH | 1 % | 4 |
| BURNUPTHERD | 1 % | 11 |
| HASTEN | 1 % | 6 |
| DART | 1 % | 4 |
| GOFAST | 1 % | 6 |
| RIP | 1 % | 3 |
| WING | 1 % | 4 |
| METH | 1 % | 4 |
| RAPIDNESS | 1 % | 9 |
| ROCKET | 1 % | 6 |
| DASH | 1 % | 4 |
| RAPIDITY | 1 % | 8 |
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 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 CELERITY
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 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 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 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 BURNUPTHERD
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 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 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 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 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 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
More clues leading to the result DASH
- 100-yard race
- Hotfoot it
- Crush, as one's hopes
- Hurry
- Imprecise cooking measure
- Pinch
- Smidgen
- Bold's competition
- Morse-code symbol
- Recipe amount