Word "MERIT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
any admirable quality or attribute
Synonyms:
virtue
Examples:
work of great merit

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
be worthy or deserving
Synonyms:
deserve

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
Synonyms:
deservingness, meritoriousness

Crossword Clues for MERIT

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Worth or superior quality (5) Puzzler 02 Aug 2025
Be worthy of USA Today 31 Jul 2025
Deserve USA Today 28 Jul 2025
In term break, I have earned (5)
Deserve to receive Newsday 14 Jul 2025
Deserve to get USA Today 08 Jul 2025
Worth; mitre (anag.) The Telegraph Plusword 30 Jun 2025
Some rituals have something going for them. (5)
Value an order (5) Puzzler Cryptic 25 Jun 2025
Scholarship basis Universal 23 Jun 2025
Commendation (5) Mirror Quick 15 Jun 2025
Deserve new timer (5) Mirror Cryptic 15 Jun 2025
Mega bore turning up in desert
The worth of some ritual
Quality of a new mitre (5)
Excellence shown in former item (5)
Remit change, and you may deserve recognition (5)
Scout's __ badge
It's worth setting the timer (5)
Deserve The Times Concise 20 May 2025
Difficult term but I got in with an above-average mark (5)
___ badge (Boy Scout reward)
Basis for some badges
Earn Commuter 07 May 2025
Commendation Mirror Quick 07 May 2025
Deserve new timer Mirror Cryptic 07 May 2025
The value to some farmer, it seems (5)
Commendation Mirror Quick 30 Apr 2025
Deserve new timer Mirror Cryptic 30 Apr 2025
Warrant Universal 25 Apr 2025
In summer, it has its value (5)
When it comes to excellence, the French sea has it (5)
Worth, deserve
Earn Commuter 26 Mar 2025
The value, to me, of a pointless rite (5)
What gives me right to it!
Value of getting the time about right? (5)
Deserve The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 02 Mar 2025
Be deserving of Wall Street Journal 26 Feb 2025
Warrant New York Times 26 Feb 2025
Virtue The Telegraph Quick 25 Feb 2025
Basis for a promotion
Retrospective component of entire market value The Times Cryptic 22 Feb 2025
___ badge (scout's award) New York Times 17 Feb 2025
Scholarship criterion Commuter 14 Feb 2025
Become jaded with material initially sent over, though it does have some worth
Be worthy of Newsday 12 Feb 2025
Be worthy of Newsday 10 Feb 2025
Deserve to get Commuter 10 Feb 2025
Value of retirement's reduced on retirement (5)
Deserve USA Today 31 Jan 2025
The "Order of ___" could be "remit" (5)
A broken timer? What's it worth?
Deserve new timer Mirror Cryptic 27 Jan 2025
Worthiness, value Mirror Quick 27 Jan 2025
It's worth Tim meeting the queen
The value, to me, of some ritual (5)
Real value of timer (5)
Virtue The Telegraph Quick 21 Jan 2025
Worth, deserved esteem The Times Concise 11 Jan 2025
Worth getting new timer (5) Puzzler Cryptic 09 Jan 2025
Worth being married prior to tax going up? The Telegraph Toughie 02 Jan 2025
Deserve Mirror Tea Time 28 Dec 2024
Deserve Puzzler Backwords 25 Dec 2024
The value of using a timer
Virtue Premier Sunday 15 Dec 2024
Deserve Mirror Classic 13 Dec 2024
___ badge (scouting award)
Deserve The Sun Two Speed 04 Dec 2024
Value in tax with millions retrieved The Sun Two Speed 04 Dec 2024
In term break, I deserve it (5)
Commendation Mirror Quick 24 Nov 2024
Deserve new timer Mirror Cryptic 24 Nov 2024
Deserve a new timer (5)
Deserve Mirror Tea Time 14 Nov 2024
It's worth getting the wrong time about right!
Earn new timer (5)
Deserve Eugene Sheffer 05 Nov 2024
Worth resetting timer? (5)
Deserve USA Today 22 Oct 2024
"Charms strike the sight, but ___ wins the soul": Alexander Pope New York Times 19 Oct 2024
In time Rita receives order (5)
To be so highly deserving makes the writer right? It follows! (5)
Exhaust manifold initially receding in value The Times Cryptic 12 Oct 2024
Deserve to get Newsday 09 Oct 2024
Virtue of being right during a bad time (5)
The value of keeping a key part in trim, perhaps (5)
Deserve Thomas Joseph 03 Oct 2024
Worth Mirror Quick 02 Oct 2024
Deserve new timer Mirror Cryptic 02 Oct 2024
Earn timer reset (5)
PlusWord No 841 solution The Telegraph Plusword 09 Sep 2024
Quality of deserving well (5)
Worth or superior quality Puzzler Backwords 07 Sep 2024
Promotion basis TIMER anagram) (5)
Worth getting new timer (5) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Sep 2024
Earn Commuter 04 Sep 2024
"If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no ___ of yours: nature did it": Charlotte Bronte (5)
The worth of some rituals (5)
Worth or value (5)
Rightfully earn
Quality in charmer, I think The Times Quick Cryptic 26 Aug 2024
Warrant (5) Puzzler 19 Aug 2024
Some rituals have commendation (5)
Deserve to be right, but in the wrong time (5)
Scholarship factor LA Times Daily 12 Aug 2024
Warrant Universal 02 Aug 2024
Commendation Mirror Quick 24 Jul 2024
Deserve new remit Mirror Cryptic 24 Jul 2024
___ badges (what Boy Scouts earn)
Are entitled to have half the trimesters off (5)
For a change remit credit (5)
Value held by calmer Italian
One who sets puzzles beginning to reconsider the object's value
Deserve Mirror Tea Time 05 Jul 2024
Basis for a scholarship or scouting badge
Reason for a scholarship
Look for the right time - it's worth it!
Have a right to superior quality, with some temerity (5)
Worth me slowing down
Desert strong point (5)
Quality setter runs with it
Be worthy of one in a difficult term (5)
Be deserving of Wall Street Journal 15 Jun 2024
Be worthy of excellence (5)
Rate, justify (5)
Order of worth
Raise justification
Earn USA Today 31 May 2024
Order a new mitre (5)
Worked-for attribute
Deserve the termbreak I put in for (5)
After the end of summer, it has benefit (5)
Unusual timer's value
Value found in some rites (5)
Above-average exam mark The Times Concise 20 Apr 2024
A praiseworthy quality
Kind of badge or scholarship
Excellence good quality
Be entitled to a new timer
Deserve USA Today 07 Apr 2024
Earn Commuter 03 Apr 2024
I need this term to prove my worth
Tim hesitates to show his worth
Richly deserve it, after half the Summer has gone (5)
To me, a piece of writing has value (5)
Excellence deserving honour (5)
Boy scout badge type (5)
Deserve one, in term break (5)
Commendation Mirror Quick 25 Mar 2024
Deserve new remit Mirror Cryptic 25 Mar 2024
Worth shown in some rituals (5)
Bad actor left hammer? It could be seen as a virtue (5)
Deserve new remit Mirror Cryptic 08 Mar 2024
Commendation Mirror Quick 08 Mar 2024
Warrant ends in your alibi arrested by police (5)
Warrant ends in your alibi arrested by police The Telegraph Toughie 06 Mar 2024
Deserve; remit (anag.) (5)
Deserve new remit Mirror Cryptic 23 Feb 2024
Earn (a reward, eg) Mirror Quick 23 Feb 2024
Some consumer items having worth The Sun Two Speed 23 Feb 2024
Deserve The Sun Two Speed 23 Feb 2024
Warrant Puzzler Backwords 21 Feb 2024
An extract from Homer I translated as ?desert" (5)
Worth putting right in time, possibly (5)
Earn; deserve
Maybe the time's about right for worthiness (5)
Earn millions before tax returns (5)
Earn millions before tax returns The Telegraph Toughie 07 Feb 2024
Deserve Thomas Joseph 06 Feb 2024
Earn, deserve (5)
Excellence of beer oddly neglected in American university (5)
Deserve Thomas Joseph 23 Jan 2024
Worth; timer (anag.) (5)
Basis of some scholarships USA Today 10 Jan 2024
Warrant LA Times Daily 07 Jan 2024
Good point about weary male (5)
Value of some game ritual (5) Puzzler Cryptic 30 Dec 2023
Worth coming back from retirement?
Deserve earn
Deservingness New York Times 22 Dec 2023
Deserve, myself, having a right to it (5)
Deserve new timer Mirror Cryptic 16 Dec 2023
Commendation Mirror Quick 16 Dec 2023
Basis of a Boy Scout's badge
Basis for promotion
National ___ Scholar
Deserve broken timer (5)
___ badge (Girl Scout award)
Word before "badge" or "raise" USA Today 08 Nov 2023
Excellence seen in consumer items The Sun Two Speed 05 Nov 2023
Deserve The Sun Two Speed 05 Nov 2023
Be worthy of Premier Sunday 05 Nov 2023
Kind of badge New York Times 21 Oct 2023
Earn Universal 16 Oct 2023
Deserve Premier Sunday 10 Sep 2023
Deserve Wall Street Journal 05 Sep 2023
Deserve Thomas Joseph 31 Aug 2023
Deserve Thomas Joseph 18 Aug 2023
Worth The Telegraph Quick 24 Jul 2023
Be worthy of Newsday 04 Jun 2023
Queen visiting Massachusetts Institute of Technology? Goodness! The Times Cryptic 22 May 2023
___ badge (Boy Scout award)
Be worthy of New York Times 12 May 2023
Worth The Telegraph Quick 08 May 2023
___ badge (Boy Scout's badge)
Deserve The Times Concise 27 Apr 2023
Kind of badge for a Boy Scout
___ badge (award for a scout) New York Times 26 Dec 2022
Be entitled to The Guardian Quick 03 Dec 2022
Be worthy of Newsday 21 Nov 2022
Deserve LA Times Daily 02 Nov 2022
Worth The Guardian Speedy 09 Oct 2022
Deserve Universal 09 Oct 2022
Be worthy of Wall Street Journal 26 Sep 2022
Scholarship criterion Universal 24 Sep 2022
Excellence The Guardian Quick 24 Sep 2022
Basis for promotion
Excellence of French waters, exactly what’s needed The Times Cryptic 15 Aug 2022
Scholarship basis LA Times Daily 11 Aug 2022
Worth The Telegraph Quick 30 Jul 2022
__ badge LA Times Daily 29 Jul 2022
Excellence Newsday 18 Jun 2022
Reason for some raises Newsday 09 Jun 2022
Flag raised after millions desert The Times Cryptic 18 Apr 2022
Kind of badge or scholarship
Warrant queen held in hand — not the last The Times Cryptic 05 Apr 2022
Deserve Thomas Joseph 19 Mar 2022
Be worthy of The Washington Post 09 Mar 2022
Be worthy of LA Times Daily 09 Mar 2022
Basis for a promotion or a scholarship
Worthiness Universal 15 Feb 2022
Dormer I think displays good qualities The Times Cryptic 24 Jan 2022
Give weary maiden backing to achieve a good grade The Times Cryptic 05 Jan 2022
Value; earn The Guardian Speedy 26 Dec 2021
___ badge (Boy Scout award)
Kind of system or raise
Deserve — virtue The Guardian Quick 28 Oct 2021
Deserve to get USA Today 13 Oct 2021
Earn fair and square USA Today 05 Oct 2021
Deserve USA Today 06 Sep 2021
___-based scholarship USA Today 07 Aug 2021
Warrant New York Times 01 Aug 2021
Reason for a raise Newsday 29 Jul 2021
Scholarship basis Thomas Joseph 07 Jun 2021
Deserve The Times Concise 26 May 2021
Deserve USA Today 17 May 2021
Value in flag, patriotism finally returning
Deserve to receive USA Today 09 May 2021
Deserve The Telegraph Quick 05 May 2021
Qualify for Newsday 01 May 2021
Reason for a raise?
Quality of being good The Washington Post Sunday 18 Apr 2021
Distinction LA Times Daily 27 Mar 2021
Distinction The Washington Post 27 Mar 2021
Scholarship basis USA Today 22 Mar 2021
Be worthy of Newsday 15 Mar 2021
Deserve Canadiana 01 Mar 2021
Earn USA Today 16 Jan 2021
Commendable quality USA Today 14 Jan 2021
Be worthy of The Washington Post 06 Jan 2021
Be worthy of LA Times Daily 06 Jan 2021
Deserve Wall Street Journal 28 Dec 2020
Worthiness
Deserve Newsday 15 Dec 2020
Worth The Telegraph Quick 06 Dec 2020
Deserve Thomas Joseph 05 Dec 2020
Earn through good work Newsday 18 Nov 2020
Warrant New York Times 23 Oct 2020
Deserve Eugene Sheffer 16 Oct 2020
Timer reset? That displays worthiness 
Be worthy or deserving Irish Times Simplex 02 Sep 2020
Worth Thomas Joseph 12 Aug 2020
Be worthy of USA Today 07 Aug 2020
Kind of badge for a scout New York Times 29 Jun 2020
Deserve to get Newsday 21 Jun 2020
Value characters coming back from retirement The Telegraph Toughie 15 May 2020
What a good argument has Newsday 02 May 2020
___ badge, Boy Scout award
Kind of scholarship New York Times 23 Feb 2020
Expression of doubt in Cambridge University? Goodness!
Praiseworthy quality Newsday 29 Nov 2019
Kind of badge for a boy scout
Badge consideration Wall Street Journal 23 Nov 2019
Be deserving of Wall Street Journal 19 Nov 2019
Reason for a raise USA Today 10 Nov 2019
Grant criterion Newsday 08 Nov 2019
Scout's honor New York Times 25 Aug 2019
Reason to give a scouting badge Family Time 18 Aug 2019
Worth The Times Concise 21 Jul 2019
___ badge, Boy Scout award
Virtue of some rituals
Worthiness Newsday 11 Jul 2019
Value in tax with millions raised The Sun Two Speed 07 Jul 2019
Deserve The Sun Two Speed 07 Jul 2019
  Worth Rome writer ignoring argumentative individual at intervals?
Middle East artist regularly getting distinction
Reason for a promotion USA Today 18 Jun 2019
Value in tax with millions retrieved
Worthiness Wall Street Journal 06 Jun 2019
___ badge (Boy Scouts reward)
Be deserving of Newsday 27 May 2019
Deserve to receive Newsday 14 May 2019
Goodness! Monsieur has raised flag!
Excellence seen in consumer items The Sun Two Speed 07 Apr 2019
Deserve The Guardian Speedy 31 Mar 2019
Value rejected in retirement? The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Mar 2019
Worth yours truly slowing down The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Mar 2019
Raise reason Jonesin 19 Mar 2019
Club, first in table, displaying worth
Excellence of top female in American university
Praiseworthy quality USA Today 10 Feb 2019
Worthiness
Scout's honor
Reason for a promotion
Praiseworthy quality
Some consumer items having worth The Sun Two Speed 14 Dec 2018
Basis for a raise USA Today 23 Oct 2018
___ badge, one for a boy scout
Tide detergent capsules New York Times 30 Sep 2018
Worth millions, flag that's turned up The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Sep 2018
Worth New York Times 10 Sep 2018
Be entitled to The New Yorker 27 Aug 2018
___ badge, Boy Scouts achievement
Reason to earn a badge USA Today 18 Aug 2018
Boy Scout's badge Universal 09 Aug 2018
Word before badge or raise USA Today 12 May 2018
Excellence encountered around Royal Institution
Commendable quality Newsday 23 Mar 2018
Deserve Universal 28 Feb 2018
Good quality, that may earn a scholarship
Deserve New York Times 05 Feb 2018
Deserve
Boy Scout's badge
Basis for a raise
Basis for a raise
Reason for a raise
Reason to earn a badge
Word before badge or raise
Be deserving of
Worth
Deserve
Revolutionary flag millions value
Value emergency room with German nurses
Kind of badge for a boy scout New York Times 30 Oct 2017
It's a virtue, yet returning to cover it would be daring
Foreign sea — it becomes desert
Weary spymaster returns with warrant
Reason to earn a badge New York Times 26 Jul 2017
Claim to praise Newsday 21 Jul 2017
Reason for a scout's badge Jonesin 27 Jun 2017
__ badge LA Times Daily 21 Jun 2017
__ badge The Washington Post 21 Jun 2017
Positive quality The Washington Post 15 Jun 2017
Positive quality LA Times Daily 15 Jun 2017
Worth millions, weary — needing uplift
Benefit of remarkable timer Irish Times Crosaire 03 Jun 2017
Kind of Boy Scout badge LA Times Daily 30 Jan 2017
__ badge
Kind of Boy Scout badge
Positive quality
Kind of badge for a boy scout
Reason to earn a badge
Worthiness
Be worthy of
Worthiness New York Times 01 Jan 2017
Have coming Wall Street Journal 23 Dec 2016
Excellence The Telegraph Quick 13 Nov 2016
Excellence, worth The Times Concise 31 Oct 2016
Kind of Boy Scout badge Universal 07 Oct 2016
Criterion for some scholarships The Washington Post 09 Aug 2016
Worth admitting former Italian player
Worth found in former itinerary The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Jul 2016
Rate Wall Street Journal 14 Jul 2016
Goodness me -- solver finally has got it! The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Jun 2016
What movement of timer may be worth
Cause for a raise Universal 15 May 2016
Value of claim ultimately getting exhaust put back The Times Cryptic 22 Apr 2016
Value of claim ultimately getting exhaust put back
Weary male falling over in desert The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Apr 2016
Credit La Manche, say, for having it
Philip Morris brand New York Times 02 Mar 2016
Reason for a Boy Scout badge Jonesin 26 Jan 2016
Deserve 1000 coming back weary?
Kind of Boy Scout badge
Mark raised flag in desert The Times Cryptic 23 Dec 2015
Badge type USA Today 16 Dec 2015
Deserve to appear in some rituals The Sun Two Speed 14 Dec 2015
Have coming The Chronicle of Higher Education 07 Aug 2015
Raise criterion Universal 08 Jun 2015
Badge justification Jonesin 26 May 2015
Mark's weary on return! Goodness!
Reason for a raise LA Times Daily 03 May 2015
Worthiness LA Times Daily 23 Apr 2015
Type of system or badge USA Today 29 Mar 2015
Deserve; excellence The Times Concise 16 Feb 2015
Worth millions, weary, needing to retire The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Feb 2015
Have coming Newsday 12 Feb 2015
Be worthy of
Reason for a raise
Worthiness
Deserving praise Universal 01 Jan 2015
Reason for a scout's badge
Have coming
Deserving praise
Raise criterion
Have coming
Deserve to receive
Deserve
Be worthy of
Be deserving of
Badge type
Type of system or badge
Worth millions with flag raised
Deserve
Deserve to get
Promotion basis
Kind of badge for a Scout
Basis for promotion
Raise reason
Excellence
Boy Scout ___ badge
What "honorable mention" indicates
Earn
Reason for a raise
Value
Promotion basis
___ badge
Have it coming
Kind of badge
Have it coming
Scholarship basis
Good reason for promotion
Basis of a Scouting badge
Reason for some raises
Reason for a raise
Excellence
Earn
Worth
Worth
Worthiness
Earn
Brand introduced by Philip Morris in 1975
Scholarship basis
Boy Scout's reward: ___ badge
Earn
Kind of badge for a scout
Deserve
Deserve to get
__ badge
Reason for a raise
Reason for an award
Kind of raise
Kind of badge for a Boy Scout
Reason for an award
Reason for a raise
Kind of badge
Be worthy of
Kind of badge, or what gains it
___ badge (boy scout's award)
Basis of a Scouting badge
Be worthy of
Earn
Rate
Badge justification
Type of system or badge
Reason for a badge
Worth
Worth
Criterion for a raise
Promotion basis
Promotion basis
___ badge, boy scout's award
Be worthy of
Type of Boy Scout badge
Scholarship criterion
Promotion basis
Be worthy of
Deserve
Basis for some raises
Scholarship criterion
Kind of scholarship
Promotion prompter
Reason for a raise
Be worthy of
Raise basis
Academy Award of ___ (official name for an Oscar)
Cause for a raise
Have coming
Kind of badge for a scout
Deserve
Kind of Boy Scout badge
Virtue
Alternative to Virginia Slims
Commendable quality
Reason for a badge
Kind of pay or system
Excellence
Deserve
Deserve
Kind of badge
Type of badge
High value
Kind of system
Basis of a scout badge
Worth
Reason for some raises
Kind of raise
Have coming
Worth
Earn
Deserve
Scholarship criterion
Reason for a raise
Badge justification
Boy Scout badge
Warrant
__ pay (bonus of sorts)
Scholarship criterion
Like some raises
Have coming
Type of badge
Boy Scout badge
Earn
Scout badge type
Raise criterion
Kind of pay
Promotion basis
Worthiness
Earn
Deserve
Deserve
With 45 Down, award in 37 Across' group
Kind of system
Case determinant
Deservingness
Kind of badge
Reason for a badge
Good quality
Excellence
Kind of badge
Deserve
Value
Give weary maiden backing to achieve a good grade
Philip Morris cigarette brand
Rate
Reason for a raise
Kind of badge for a scout
Have coming
Earn
Warrant queen held in hand — not the last
Dormer I think displays good qualities
Worth
Kind of badge earned by a Boy Scout
35 Deserve
Type of badge
Scout's badge
____ badge
Like some raises
Philip Morris brand
Worth
Kind of badge
Like some raises
Boy scout badge
One kind of badge
Earn
Type of badge
Laudable quality
Warrant
Part of N.M.S.Q.T.
Promotion basis, sometimes
Value
Kind of Scout badge
Legion of ___
Deserve
Boy Scout's ___ badge
Boy Scout badge
Virtue
Basis of a scout badge
Basis for a scout badge
Kind of scout badge
Basis for a Scout badge
Scholarship consideration
Parliament rival
Order of ___, British decoration.
Worthwhile quality
___ badge.
Worth.
Excellence.
Earn.
Virtue.
Praiseworthy quality.
Deserve.
Part of O.M.
Reason for an award.
Be worth of.
Legion of ___.
Due reward.
Be worthy of.
Desert.
Scout's badge.
Scout badge.
Commendable quality.
Earn by service.
Order of ___.
___ system, opposed to spoils system.
___ badge
Part of O. M.
Recognition.
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