Word "EXPLAIN" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
serve as a reason or cause or justification of
Synonyms:
excuse
Examples:
Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
make plain and comprehensible
Synonyms:
explicate
Examples:
He explained the laws of physics to his students

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
define
Examples:
The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean

Crossword Clues for EXPLAIN

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Clarify Eugene Sheffer 29 Aug 2025
Justify (7) The Guardian Quick 11 Aug 2025
Give reasons (7) Mirror Classic 06 Aug 2025
Elaborate former partner left in drag The Telegraph Cryptic 31 Jul 2025
Elucidate The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 23 Jul 2025
To clarify: former lover is boring
Describe what's inside next grassland The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Jul 2025
Describe a concept in detail (7)
Say how it is (7)
Give reasons for experimental network covering Italy
To make clear (7)
Justify borders of Essex even The Telegraph Toughie 20 May 2025
To give reasons is no longer simple
Account for letter unembellished (7)
Clarify what's no longer clear (7)
Elucidate making, at once, clear (7)
Give reasons Mirror Classic 15 Apr 2025
Former mate being blunt to clarify (7)
Show where axle-pin cracked (7)
Describe as good-looking, now?
Describe former plot to capture island The Times Quick Cryptic 01 Apr 2025
Text contents unadorned? Say how that can be! (7)
Former extent of level land to account for (7)
Clear up a pixel corrupted by end of magnet (7)
Account for former spouse who's not attractive?
Describe, elucidate (7)
Throw light upon former flat land (7)
Account for The Telegraph Quick 25 Jan 2025
Interpret what isn't clear any longer? (7)
Shed light on The Times Concise 23 Jan 2025
Describe the axle pin (7)
Justify being old and unattractive (7)
Describe the former ache around the back of the heel (7)
Tell how the axle pin broke (7)
Reveal why Nepali got a kiss (7)
Elucidate, make completely clear (7)
Give your reasons: - your decision
Describe European? Cross and ugly The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Nov 2024
Say how it is pixel needs an adjustment (7)
Account for former proposal to acquire centre for dairy (7) The Guardian Cryptic 21 Nov 2024
Clarify (LEAN PIX anagram) (7)
Describe old aircraft, we're told The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Nov 2024
One stopping outside plot leaves shed light on
Once clear on, make clear to others (7)
Make clear it used to be flat (7)
No longer clear? Try and make it so (7)
Justify bending of axle-pin (7)
No longer flat? Make it clear (7)
Describe former boyfriend Frank? The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Oct 2024
Formerly unattractive? Let me elucidate! (7)
Give the meaning of what was once evident (7)
Describe former lover? Unattractive The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Sep 2024
Elucidate The Telegraph Quick 21 Sep 2024
Elucidate what was formerly clear (7)
Make intelligible and, at once, clear (7)
Give a reason for axle-pin being bent (7)
Say why lover no longer unattractive? The Times Quick Cryptic 16 Aug 2024
Account for former prairie (7)
I plan to have my former spouse clear the matter up
Clarify, make clear (7)
Run through, describe (7) Puzzler 02 Jul 2024
Give reasons for land that's lost its flatness?
Clarify what is no longer easily understood (7)
Panel IX reorganised to clarify (7) Puzzler Cryptic 26 Jun 2024
Make clear Wall Street Journal 26 Jun 2024
Shed light on The Telegraph Quick 23 Jun 2024
Give reasons for The Telegraph Quick 18 Jun 2024
Say why (7)
Account for what is no longer clear
Provide reasons for The Times Concise 09 May 2024
Account for what was once flat country (7)
Make it intelligible, in the past, to get even (7)
Give the reason why it is no longer flat land? (7)
"You ask how much I need you, must I ...? I need you, oh my darling, like roses need rain," sang Johnny Mathis in The Twelfth Of Never
Illustrate the meaning of (7)
Say how it is the axle-pin gets broken (7)
Clear up a pixel corrupted on screen at the bottom (7)
Account from former wife clearly visible (7)
Say how, why (7)
Make clear or plain (7)
Describe former flatland (7) Puzzler Cryptic 30 Mar 2024
Clear up for former partner, unattractive
Elucidate, clarify (7)
Account for old pail broken by son at the end (7)
Justify one's inclusion in old scheme The Sun Two Speed 24 Feb 2024
Account for The Sun Two Speed 24 Feb 2024
Account for what was once obvious (7)
Clearly describe (process)
Clarify what is no longer obvious (7)
Interpret former patent The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Feb 2024
Give a reason for axle-pin getting bent (7)
Clarify being formerly unadorned (7)
Make clear Mirror Tea Time 10 Feb 2024
Account for old flat
"You ask how much I need you, must I ...? I need you, oh my darling, like roses need rain," sang Joh
Make clear The Telegraph Quick 01 Jan 2024
Account for Essex's banks not attractive (7)
Account for Essex's banks not attractive The Guardian Cryptic 21 Dec 2023
Interpret what sounds like Concorde! (7)
Give account of island in old map The Times Cryptic 20 Sep 2023
Describe, make clear The Guardian Speedy 28 May 2023
Make clear The Guardian Quick 07 Apr 2023
Defend former partner left in drag The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Feb 2023
Clarify USA Today 21 Jul 2022
Give reasons for maybe one dumped on prairie The Times Cryptic 23 Jun 2022
Give reasons for The Times Concise 21 Apr 2022
Resolve to be complicated now? The Guardian Cryptic 16 Mar 2022
Clear up former flat The Times Cryptic 02 Mar 2022
Say why more attractive lover was sought?
Lover that was hardly hunky offers excuse The Times Cryptic 01 Dec 2021
Account for former partner of homely aspect The Times Cryptic 02 Nov 2021
Describe old aircraft in talk
No longer obvious what one must do to make things clear The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Jun 2021
Elucidate The Times Concise 06 Jun 2021
Justify actions The Telegraph Quick 05 Jun 2021
Solve old jumbo you've picked up?
Give a justification for former patent
Give reasons for The Telegraph Quick 27 Apr 2021
Describe The Telegraph Quick 18 Apr 2021
Account for former partner without addition The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Feb 2021
Justify international being taken in by former scheme The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Jan 2021
Account for The Sun Two Speed 16 Jan 2021
Justify second of tenants getting cross with flat The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Jan 2021
Describe partner that was no oil painting? The Sun Two Speed 16 Jan 2021
Describe upright character in old scheme The Sun Two Speed 31 Dec 2020
Account for one dumped on prairie
Describe partner that was unattractive
Account for old grassland
Justify one's inclusion in old scheme The Sun Two Speed 15 Aug 2020
Clarify The Telegraph Quick 29 Jul 2020
Describe partner that was ugly The Sun Two Speed 16 Jul 2020
Account for former partner getting even
Describe former lover? Unattractive The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Oct 2019
Describe former flat
Justify first of ideas in ditched strategy? The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Sep 2019
Justify The Telegraph Quick 25 Aug 2019
Justify bringing one into old scheme The Sun Two Speed 22 Jun 2019
Clarify The Washington Post 20 Jun 2019
Clarify LA Times Daily 20 Jun 2019
Account for former partner, one in scheme
Account for former partner, one in scheme
Defend student in former trouble The Telegraph Toughie 09 Jan 2019
Clarify
Give a reason for former partner lacking beauty The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Dec 2018
Clarify former intention about island
To clarify may be currently attractive
. Clarify once — Freedom fighters with nuclear head can kidnap international leader
Justify old patent
Give a reason for The Times Concise 30 May 2018
Gloss ruined axle pin
Part 4 of today's quote Canadiana 05 Mar 2018
Describe old prairie The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Feb 2018
Make clear The Telegraph Quick 19 Feb 2018
Say why it's no longer clear The Sun Two Speed 16 Feb 2018
Account for axle pin coming loose The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Dec 2017
Account for The Telegraph Quick 15 Dec 2017
Make clear The Times Concise 03 Jul 2017
Interpret old proposal one introduced
Clarify Thomas Joseph 08 Oct 2016
Strip next, bare to make it clear
Say why former partner's not attractive
Make clear it's out of the ordinary The Telegraph Toughie 21 Jun 2016
Account for former husband maybe left in drag The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Apr 2016
Describe former lover: ugly? The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Mar 2016
Spell out to Oriental it's wrong on the Steppe Irish Times Crosaire 06 Feb 2016
Account for former programme one's appeared in The Times Cryptic 05 Feb 2016
Demonstrate disparaging comment on former lover? The Times Cryptic 15 Jan 2016
Set out east and cross level area
Former wife's simple enough to clarify
Old and unexciting - tell me why?
Defend fifth bowler, side without one's ordinary
Clarify Eugene Sheffer 01 Apr 2015
The Who "I Can't ___"
Interpret former patent
Give an account of old flame, no oil painting?
Elucidate
Make comprehensible
Make comprehensible
Clarify
Lover that was hardly hunky offers excuse
Account for former partner of homely aspect
Make clear
Clarify
Account for.
Clear up.
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