Crossword clue
Craze crossword clue
13 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "craze", from 3 letters up to 11, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Count your squares, then read one row. The shortest thing that fits is FAD at 3; the longest is NYMPHOLEPSY at 11.
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What this list looks like
If your slot is 4 wide you have the most to choose from, with 3 candidates.
FAD fills a 3-square slot, and a compact answer is usually the one a crossword wants.
Some of these are words for the clue and some are instances of it: 10 of the first kind, 3 of the second.
Which one does the setter mean?
Three squares is FAD, which is the plain word for a short-lived enthusiasm and the answer this clue wants most of the time. Four squares is RAGE, as in all the rage.
How these differ
Two senses again. The fashion sense is FAD, RAGE, FUROR and FURORE, with FAD implying triviality and RAGE implying that everyone is doing it. FUROR and FURORE are the same word, the second British, and both mean the excitement around something rather than the thing itself. The madness sense is DERANGE, UNBALANCE, MADDEN, DELIRIUM and HYSTERIA, which is where craze started: to craze was to shatter, as crazed pottery still is, and a crazed mind is a cracked one.
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Where these answers come from
Computed, not copied. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “craze” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 11 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "craze"?
- There is more than one. 13 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Three squares is FAD, which is the plain word for a short-lived enthusiasm and the answer this clue wants most of the time. Four squares is RAGE, as in all the rage.
- How many letters is the answer to "craze"?
- Anything from 3 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 11 of the 13 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.