The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SUM , but the solution may also be SMASH UP which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Total crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SUM | 22 % | 3 |
| ADD | 13 % | 3 |
| RUNTO | 12 % | 5 |
| UTTER | 7 % | 5 |
| ADDUP | 6 % | 5 |
| ENTIRE | 6 % | 6 |
| INALL | 5 % | 5 |
| ADDUPTO | 3 % | 7 |
| AMOUNT | 3 % | 6 |
| RUIN | 3 % | 4 |
| ALL | 3 % | 3 |
| AMOUNTTO | 2 % | 8 |
| ARE | 1 % | 3 |
| DEMOLISH | 1 % | 8 |
| SUMUP | 1 % | 5 |
| ALLOUT | 1 % | 6 |
| WRECK | 1 % | 5 |
| WHOLE | 1 % | 5 |
| DESTROY | 1 % | 7 |
| COMETO | 1 % | 6 |
| AGGREGATE | 1 % | 9 |
| OUTANDOUT | 1 % | 9 |
| ABSOLUTE | 1 % | 8 |
| SMASH UP | 0 % | 8 |
| NET | 0 % | 3 |
| REAL | 0 % | 4 |
| DEVASTATE | 0 % | 9 |
| SUB | 0 % | 3 |
| FULL | 0 % | 4 |
| ADD UP | 0 % | 6 |
| ENTIRETY | 0 % | 8 |
| SUMTO | 0 % | 5 |
| GROSS | 0 % | 5 |
| COMPLETE | 0 % | 8 |
| COUNTUP | 0 % | 7 |
| COUNT | 0 % | 5 |
Why may SUM be the right solution?
"Total" is a synonym for "sum," which means the result of adding two or more numbers together. Therefore, "SUM" is the right solution for this crossword clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Total
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- sum up
- sum
- tot up
- add up
- summate
- amount
- add
- number
- aggregate
- overall
- come
- complete
Crossword Answer definitions
SUM noun- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity of money.
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The utmost degree.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
- To add together.
- To give a summary of.
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- A certain number, at least two.
- An indefinite quantity.
- An indefinite amount, a part.
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a somon is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia where it is equivalent to a township.
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 SUM
- Total
- Bottom line
- Excel calculation (and the end of a split order of finger food)
- Excel function
- Combination number?
- Dim ___
- It may be tidy
- Lump ___
- Total number
- Cartesian conclusion
More clues leading to the result ADD
- Sum up
- Do some carrying, maybe
- Recipe instruction
- Recipe word
- 2 + 2, e.g.
- Be calculating
- Put more in
- Put two and two together, maybe
- Supplement
- Tack on
More clues leading to the result RUNTO
- Hasten
- "___ Him" (Bobby Vee)
- Have a price of?
- Cost
- Total, as a bill
- Total
- Reach a cost of
- Reach the sum of
- Seek out for help
- Seek protection from
More clues leading to the result UTTER
More clues leading to the result ADDUP
- Make sense
- Total
- Sound reasonable
- Be logical
- "It just doesn't ___"
- Amount, with "to"
- Tot
- Make sense (and a hint to this puzzle's theme)
- Compute
- Make sense, to a detective
More clues leading to the result ENTIRE
- Complete
- In one piece
- Lacking nothing essential
- Aggregate
- The whole thing
- From A to Z
- The whole works
- Whole
- Not at all lacking
- Unbroken
More clues leading to the result INALL
- Including everything
- As a whole
- Totally
- __ probability (near-certain)
- Total
- Counting everything
- Fully counted
- Together
- Entirely
- Everything considered
More clues leading to the result ADDUPTO
More clues leading to the result AMOUNT
- Quantity
- Sum
- Visa number?
- It's refundable, with 15 Down
- Total
- Add up (to)
- Sum total
- Check entry
- Come (to)
- Invoice number
More clues leading to the result RUIN
- Destroy
- Destroyed building
- Downfall
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- The road to __
- Destruction
- Completely botch
- Spoil
- Bankrupt
- Excavation site
More clues leading to the result ALL
- "__ Along the Watchtower"
- 100%
- The whole enchilada
- The whole shebang
- The works
- Three Musketeers cry starter
- Wholly
- "This above ___, to thine own..."
- "___ She Wrote"
- Complete
More clues leading to the result AMOUNTTO
- Reach, in a way
- Constitute
- Total
- Become
- Reach a total of
- Equal.
- Be equivalent
- Be the equivalent of
- Become in life
More clues leading to the result ARE
- "All the Things You ___"
- "Chances __"
- "Chances ___"
- "Violets __ blue..."
- "You ___ There"
- "__ you nuts?"
- "___ You Lonesome Tonight?"
- "____ you positive?"
- A backward ERA?
- Breathe
More clues leading to the result DEMOLISH
- Obliterate
- Reduce to rubble
- Reduce to bits
- Total
- Take down
- Raze
- Bulldoze, as a building
- Raze.
- Pull down.
- Ruin.
More clues leading to the result SUMUP
- Total
- Recap
- Make a long story short
- Give an overview
- Describe concisely
- State in a nutshell
- Recapitulate
- Present tersely
- Make comprehensive
- Give a recap
More clues leading to the result ALLOUT
- Full-blown
- Go-go
- Exhaustive
- One-hundred percent
- Unremitting
- No holds barred
- Full-bore
- Way to go
- Total
- No-holds-barred
More clues leading to the result WRECK
- Bucket o' bolts
- Reef-ravaged ship
- Seafloor sitter
- Nautical treasure hunter's find
- Sunken ship
- Demolish
- Jalopy
- Destroy
- Tow truck's haul
- Traffic tie-up cause
More clues leading to the result WHOLE
- Entire
- ___ Foods
- Self-contained
- Sum total
- Undivided
- Word before "shebang"
- Fully assembled
- Unbroken
- In one piece
- The ___ enchilada
More clues leading to the result DESTROY
More clues leading to the result COMETO
- Emerge from being out
- Wake up
- Start the day
- Regain consciousness
- Snap out of it
- Waken
- Awaken, and words that can precede first words of answers to asterisked clues
- Recover from a knockout
- Awaken
- Arrive at
More clues leading to the result AGGREGATE
More clues leading to the result OUTANDOUT
- Utter
- Ump's shout after a double play?
- Total
- Complete
- Thoroughgoing.
- Completely.
- Downright.
- Thoroughly.
- Complete.
- Absolute.
More clues leading to the result ABSOLUTE
- Total, as secrecy
- Out-and-out
- ___ zero (very cold)
- Unequivocal
- Unlimited
- Unrestricted
- Unquestionable
- Pure.
- Free from imperfection.
- Perfect.
More clues leading to the result SMASH UP
More clues leading to the result NET
- Bottom line
- Clear
- Clear as profit
- Court sight
- Snapper trapper
- Surfing the ___
- Take home
- After taxes
- Circus need
- Circus security
More clues leading to the result REAL
- Genuine
- "Are you for __?"
- "Come on, get ____"
- "The __ McCoys"
- Factual
- Honest-to-goodness
- Not fictitious
- Actual
- Authentic
- Evident
More clues leading to the result DEVASTATE
More clues leading to the result SUB
- Deli offering
- Temp. teacher
- Deli order, sometimes
- Hero
- Lunch that requires two hands
- Bench-warmer
- Grinder's kin
- Stand-in
- "Nautilus," for one
- Second-stringer
More clues leading to the result FULL
- Parking lot sign
- Quip, part 3
- Wall-to-wall
- At the max
- Gas tank status
- Out of room
- Moon phase
- Well-stocked
- House of cards?
- Satiated
More clues leading to the result ADD UP
More clues leading to the result ENTIRETY
- The whole shootin' match
- Whole shebang
- Wholeness
- Whole
- Completeness
- Gamut
- Sum total.
- Total.
- Whole.
- Aggregate.
More clues leading to the result SUMTO
More clues leading to the result GROSS
- 144
- Twelve square
- Flagrant
- "Ugh"
- Pre-deductions
- Dozen dozen
- Evoking an Eeewwww!
- A dozen dozen
- Take in
- Opposite of net
More clues leading to the result COMPLETE
- With nothing missing
- Finish up
- Missing nothing
- Lacking nothing
- Entire.
- Finish.
- Thorough.
- Undivided
- Total
- Consummate