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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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)
Account for The Sun Two Speed 24 Feb 2024
Justify one's inclusion in old scheme The Sun Two Speed 24 Feb 2024
Account for what was once obvious (7)
Clearly describe (process)
Interpret former patent The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Feb 2024
Clarify what is no longer obvious (7)
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 The Guardian Cryptic 21 Dec 2023
Account for Essex's banks not attractive (7)
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
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
Account for 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 LA Times Daily 20 Jun 2019
Clarify The Washington Post 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
Account for former partner of homely aspect
Lover that was hardly hunky offers excuse
Make clear
Clarify
Account for.
Clear up.
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