The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BASIC , but the solution may also be BASAL which is one of the most recent solution (2022 in New York Times).
Underlying crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BASIC | 50 % | 5 |
| BASAL | 36 % | 5 |
| COVERT | 7 % | 6 |
| LATENT | 7 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Underlying
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- subjacent
- inherent
- fundamental
- basic
- rudimentary
- implicit
- inexplicit
- implicit in
- overlying
- underpinning
- structural
- key
Crossword Answer definitions
BASIC noun- A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
- An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
- Basic training.
- Necessary, essential for life or some process.
- Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
- Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
- Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
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 BASIC
- Kind of training
- Fundamental
- Nitty-gritty
- Conformist, in slang
- Bare-bones
- Meat-and-potatoes
- Simple
- Computer language
- Like the ABCs
- Like ABCs
More clues leading to the result BASAL
- Forming a foundation
- Word with metabolism
- Fundamental
- ___ metabolism
- For beginners
- __ metabolism
- ___ ganglia (cerebral nuclei)
- Metabolism type
- Kind of metabolism
- Like a primer
More clues leading to the result COVERT
- Camouflaged, perhaps
- Like a dirty-tricks campaign
- Disguised
- Concealed
- Clandestine
- Underhanded
- Like a CIA operation
- Like many CIA ops
- Hush-hush
- Like some operations