Answer: BEST
BEST is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 208 times.
Referring Clues:
- Most vague
- Top of the heap
- A+
- Cream of the crop
- Top-quality
- Whip
- Vanquish
- Numero uno
- Outdo
- Crème de la crème
- Top
- Bet or buy lead-in
- Informal letter signoff
- Brief letter sign-off
- Superlative
- Oscar word
- Tops
- Top of the line
- Sunday ___
- With 47-Across, Academy Award category
- First-place
- Taking the blue ribbon
- Rating a blue ribbon
- Informal letter closing
- Overcome
- Top spot
- Eclipse
- Trump
- Primo
- Oscar title starter
- ___ in Show (Westminster prize)
- Oscar superlative
- Letter sign-off
- First-rate
- Finest
- Unsurpassed
- Part of TCBY
- Top-shelf
- Word before friend or seller
- One-up
- Of the highest quality
- Gold medal-winning
- Greatest
- Most outstanding
- Blue-ribbon word
- Word on a blue ribbon
- Nonpareil
- Prize-winning
- Excelling all others
- Top-of-the-line
- Award-worthy
- With 47-Down, what the films in this puzzle are nominated for
- At the top of the heap
- "__ in Show"
- #1
- "The ___ Is Yet to Come"
- With 21-Across, theme of this puzzle
- Second to none
- Starr predecessor
- Outrun, say
- Beat
- Highest-quality
- A-one
- Finest possible
- Top-rated
- Outperform
- Most helpful
- Kindest regards
- Better than better
- Deserving a blue ribbon
- What father knows?
- Overthrow
- How father knows
- Second-to-none
- Superlatively good
- Conquer
- Brightest cohort
- Optimum
- Unexcelled
- Type of man or boy
- Blue ribbon-worthy
- "Father Knows ___"
- Film-award word
- Optimal
- Letter ender, perhaps
- As good as it gets
- With 10-Down, favored the most
- Foremost
- "___ in Show"
- Early Beatle Pete
- Trump
- Inferior to none
- Part of BFF
- Part 6 of our Christmas Carol
- Defeat
- With Banting, insulin finder
- Insulin co-inventer
- Gold medalist, vis-à-vis competitors
- Word on Oscars
- Met basso
- A-number-one
- Top-notch
- Oscar-night superlative
- Unsurpassable
- A-number-1
- Number one
- A-No. 1
- No. 1
- Unmatched
- Most desirable
- Word in an award category
- See 88-Down
- Highest quality
- Like the champ
- Letter closer
- Defeat, in a way
- Word on an Oscar
- Above all others
- Oscar category word
- With "in" and 25-Down, blue ribbon earner
- Brief letter closing
- Start of the title for every Oscar
- Topnotch
- Annual Car and Driver list
- ___ in Show: dog prize
- Better superlative
- Awards show superlative
- Get the better of
- Good's superlative
- Grade A
- Most excellent
- Unsurpassed, or surpass
- Good, better, ___
- First word in every Academy Award category
- Champ
- See 44-Down
- Most suitable
- Highest in quality
- Word in oscar categories
- A+++
- Come out on top
- #1 status
- Outduel, e.g.
- Unequaled
- Finish ahead of
- Better than good
- Cream
- Casual sign-off in a letter
- Word used when there is none better?
- Sunday garb?
- Top-ranked
- Oscars superlative
- Award category word
- Leading
- It's better than better (with "the")
- Oscars category word
- Worthy of a blue ribbon
- Brightest's cohort
- Oscar adjective
- It's better than better
- With 51-Down, tops
- Blue-ribbon
- "the ___ years of our lives"
- It had none better
- Correspondence sign-off
- Place higher than
- Worst in a competition
- Common email sign-off word
- "Level" effort
- Ultimate effort
- A-1
- Oscars adjective
- Friendly email sign-off
- Numero uno, with "the"
- Number one, with the
- *Top, or tops
- Least bad
- Common letter closer
- ___ in Show
- ___ Picture (Oscars category)
- Award adjective
- Alternative to "Yours truly"
- Take down
- To the highest degree
- ___ in show (canine award)
- Most favorable
- Winning a blue ribbon
- ___ man
- Opposite of worst
- "The ___" (Tina Turner hit)
- Outplay
- Oscars category adjective
- "Yours truly" alternative
- "You're My ___ Friend" (Queen song)
- Common awards word
- ___-case scenario
- Word before Actor and Actress at the Oscars
- Awards adjective
- Better than the rest
- Brief email sign-off
- Word in many award category names
- Lead-in to "by" or "Buy"
- Word in most Academy Award titles
- "Simply the ___" (Tina Turner hit)
- Choice
- The "B" of BFF
- Common email sign-off
- "You're the ___!"
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - August 29, 2024
- New York Times - August 19, 2024
- LA Times - June 16, 2024
- LA Times - June 01, 2024
- New York Times - April 19, 2024
- USA Today - February 20, 2024
- USA Today - January 17, 2024
- New York Times - December 11, 2023
- New York Times - October 05, 2023
- USA Today - September 19, 2023
- USA Today - August 30, 2023
- LA Times - April 21, 2023
- LA Times - November 13, 2022
- LA Times - October 25, 2022
- USA Today - October 12, 2022
- USA Today - September 07, 2022
- LA Times - June 19, 2022
- New York Times - June 02, 2022
- New York Times - June 01, 2022
- LA Times - February 20, 2022
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