The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MOTIVE , but the solution may also be ACCUSATION which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in Newsday).
Whodunit plot element crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MOTIVE | 36 % | 6 |
| ALIBI | 36 % | 5 |
| CLUE | 7 % | 4 |
| ACCUSATION | 7 % | 10 |
| ETERNALTRIANGLE | 7 % | 15 |
| FALSEACCUSATION | 7 % | 15 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Whodunit plot element
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- motive
- clue
- alibi
- accusation
- twist
- crime
- revenge
- acre
- macguffin
- ambush
- amnesia
- mcguffin
Crossword Answer definitions
MOTIVE noun- An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
- An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
- A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
- Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
- A motif.
- A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
- To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
- Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
- Relating to motion and/or to its cause
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 MOTIVE
- Reason for action
- Driving force
- Mystery-plot element
- Whodunit discovery
- Aspect of a crime investigation
- Whodunit plot element
- Intention
- Whodunit component
- Trial attorney's concern
- Whodunit reason
More clues leading to the result ALIBI
- "The dog ate my homework?, e.g.
- Cover story?
- Ike's first name?
- "Her ___" (1988 Selleck / Porizkova movie)
- Cover story
- Defense aid
- Excuse
- Handy excuse
- Legal claim
- Acquittal ploy
More clues leading to the result CLUE
- "____ me in"
- Colonel Mustard's game
- Sleuth game
- This is one
- Whodunit game
- 1985 film with the line "Two corpses; everything's fine"
- Footprint or fingerprint
- Hint
- Lead
- Sleuth's find
More clues leading to the result ACCUSATION
More clues leading to the result ETERNALTRIANGLE
- Basis for some melodramas
- Love story plot device
- Literary threesome
- Romantic situation
- Romantic entanglement
- Whodunit plot element
- Familiar plot in fiction.
- Novel plot.
- Affaires d'amour, sometimes
- Literary figure?