The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STREETS which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2008.
Thoroughfares crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STREETS | 47 % | 7 |
| AVENUES | 13 % | 7 |
| WAYS | 13 % | 4 |
| ROADS | 13 % | 5 |
| MAINSTEMS | 7 % | 9 |
| ARTERIES | 7 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Thoroughfares
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- arteries
- crossing
- crossings
- highways
- lanes
- passages
- passageways
- road
- roads
- routes
- streets
- ways
Crossword Answer definitions
STREETS noun- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- Streetwise slang.
- A great distance.
- Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- Living in the streets.
- (urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.
- To build or equip with streets.
- To eject; to throw onto the streets.
- (by extension) To heavily defeat.
- To go on sale.
- To proselytize in public.
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 STREETS
- 42nd and Easy
- Beale and Bourbon
- Elm and Main
- Public ways
- "Where the ___ Have No Name" (U2 song)
- Fair locales
- Wall et al
- Sides of some blocks
- Local map lines
- Some are named for trees
More clues leading to the result AVENUES
- Some Monopoly stops
- Atlantic and Pacific, in Monopoly
- Ways
- Main streets
- Means of attainment
- Broad streets
- Literally, "approaches"
- Wide thoroughfares
- Most properties in Monopoly
- All three red properties in Monopoly
More clues leading to the result WAYS
- Maze corridors
- __ and means
- Methods
- Means' mates
- Paths
- Personal habits
- "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden ___" (Wordsworth poem)
- Means partner
- Peter & Gordon's "True Love ___"
- ___ and means
More clues leading to the result ROADS
- Highways and byways
- Last word of the movie "Back to the Future"
- They may have forks
- Word that goes in either blank in the classic movie quote "___? Where we're going we don't need ___"
- Fork options
- Map lines
- Rome leaders?
- Abbey, Savile, et al.
- Some warriors' ways
- Avenues