The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ADOPT which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Take up crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ADOPT | 31 % | 5 |
| ENTER | 13 % | 5 |
| SHORTEN | 9 % | 7 |
| OCCUPY | 9 % | 6 |
| ALTER | 6 % | 5 |
| HEM | 6 % | 3 |
| ESPOUSE | 6 % | 7 |
| USE | 6 % | 3 |
| BEGINLEARNING | 3 % | 13 |
| EMBRACE | 3 % | 7 |
| STARTAHOBBY | 3 % | 11 |
| ACCEPT | 3 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Take up
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- start
- take over
- scoop
- assume
- adopt
- absorb
- take
- draw
- borrow
- resume
- suck
- suck up
Crossword Answer definitions
ADOPT verb- To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.)
- To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- To select and take or approve.
- To win ten consecutive games against an opponent
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 ADOPT
- Add to the family, in a way
- Assume
- Take on
- Take up, as a cause
- Take as one's own
- "__ the mornin'!"
- Go out of the pool for, say?
- Bring in, as a boxer to one's home
- Take in
- Bring home from the shelter
More clues leading to the result ENTER
- "Step right in!"
- "__ Laughing" ('67 film)
- Log
- Oft-used computer key
- PC key
- Stage direction
- Become a member
- Computer key
- Go in
- Go onstage
More clues leading to the result SHORTEN
More clues leading to the result OCCUPY
- Engage
- Engross
- Fill as a tenant
- Fill
- Seize militarily
- Fill up
- Live in
- With 45-Down, movement started by the Canadian anti-consumerist group Adbusters
- Conquer, and stay
- Dwell in
More clues leading to the result ALTER
- Make suit, as a suit
- Modify
- Take out or in
- Take in or let out
- Make fit
- Take in, perhaps
- Take up
- Modify, as a dress
- Let out, perhaps
- Do some remodeling
More clues leading to the result HEM
- Shorten
- Stitch
- Finished edge
- Haw's partner
- Line of fashion
- Shorten, in a way
- Border on a piece of cloth
- Clothes line
- Designer's bottom line
- End of the A-line?
More clues leading to the result ESPOUSE
- Give one's support to
- Champion, as a cause
- Speak for
- Hold, as a tenet
- Champion
- Embrace, as a belief
- Advocate
- Favor
- Marry
- Support
More clues leading to the result USE
- "It's no __!"
- Avail oneself of
- Consume
- Custom
- Employ
- Exercise
- Function
- IN __ (lavatory sign)
- Make the most of
- Purpose
More clues leading to the result BEGINLEARNING
More clues leading to the result EMBRACE
- Hug
- Welcome
- Adopt, as a cause
- "a time to ___, and a time to refrain"
- *Hug
- Warm greeting
- Clinch
- Show of affection
- Adopt enthusiastically
- Take up eagerly