The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REAR , but the solution may also be STRICT which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Stern crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REAR | 66 % | 4 |
| GRIM | 6 % | 4 |
| ISAAC | 4 % | 5 |
| HARSH | 4 % | 5 |
| AFT | 4 % | 3 |
| SEVERE | 4 % | 6 |
| AUSTERE | 3 % | 7 |
| DOUR | 3 % | 4 |
| HARDASNAILS | 1 % | 11 |
| STRICT | 1 % | 6 |
| SHOCKJOCKHOWARD | 1 % | 15 |
| HARD | 1 % | 4 |
Why may STRICT be the right solution?
The word "stern" can mean strict or severe in nature. Therefore, the answer "STRICT" fits the clue appropriately.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Stern
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- austere
- demanding
- strict
- grim
- exacting
- unforgiving
- prat
- relentless
- unrelenting
- implacable
- inexorable
- unappeasable
Crossword Answer definitions
REAR verb- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- To rise up on the hind legs
- (usually with "up") To get angry.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To lift and take up.
- To rouse; to strip up.
- To move; stir.
- (of geese) To carve.
- (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
- (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
- (of meats) Rare.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The buttocks, a creature's bottom
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
- Early; soon
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 REAR
- Bring up
- Hitchcock's "____ Window"
- Hitchcock's window
- Kind of guard or end
- Last one brings it up
- Rise high in the air
- Backseat
- Duff
- Hindquarters
- Stern
More clues leading to the result GRIM
- Like the 'Reaper'
- Sinister
- Not at all rosy
- Long-faced
- Like the `Reaper'
- Really dark
- Not looking so good
- Morbid
- Not looking rosy
- Bleak in outlook
More clues leading to the result ISAAC
- Asimov or Stern
- Son of Abraham
- Stern with a bow?
- Stern, the musician
- Writer Asimov
- Biblical patriarch
- Polymath Asimov
- Modest Mouse singer Brock
- Brock of Modest Mouse
- Rebekah's husband
More clues leading to the result HARSH
- Severe
- Draconian
- Like many realities
- Abrasive
- Difficult on the ears
- Unduly severe
- Strict or stark
- Grating to the ear
- Far from lenient
- Unpleasantly severe
More clues leading to the result AFT
- Sternward
- Rudder location
- Early P.M.
- Eve. preceder
- Swabbie's rear
- Towards the stern
- Tail gunner's position in a plane
- Ship direction
- Not fore
- Back on a plane
More clues leading to the result SEVERE
- Extreme
- Like many reprimands
- Exacting
- Harsh
- Grave
- Draconian
- Dire
- Like some thunderstorms
- Like some winter weather
- in the extreme
More clues leading to the result AUSTERE
- Astringent
- Self-disciplined
- Hardly lavish
- Strait-laced
- Forbidding
- Spartan
- Like Spartan living
- Stark
- Unadorned
- Like monastic life
More clues leading to the result DOUR
- Forbidding
- Saturnine
- Silently ill-humored
- Not elated
- Sullen
- Gloomy or forbidding
- Gloomy
- Gloomy or stern
- Far from cheerful
- No fun to be around
More clues leading to the result HARDASNAILS
More clues leading to the result STRICT
- Unyielding
- Unbending
- Black-and-white
- Like a martinet
- Rigorous
- Unwilling to give makeup exams, say
- Rigid
- Precise
- Following the letter of the law
- Inflexible about rules