The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CHIME which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2024.
Tell time? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CHIME | 100 % | 5 |
Why may CHIME be the right solution?
The answer to "Tell time?" is "CHIME" because chimes are often used to indicate the time, especially in clocks or bells.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Tell time?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- keep time
- clock
- chronograph
- measure
- instrument
- meter
- pace out
- telemeterize
- plumb
- calibrate
- mike
- caliper
Crossword Answer definitions
CHIME noun- A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
- To make the sound of a chime.
- To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- To agree; to correspond.
- To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
- A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
- A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- The back of the blade on a scythe.
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