Crossword-Solution: KEY 3 letters, 614 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Key	n.	An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place.
Key	n.	An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.
Key	n.	That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter.
Key	n.	A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem.
Key	n.	That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position.
Key	n.	A piece of wood used as a wedge.
Key	n.	The last board of a floor when laid down.
Key	n.	A keystone.
Key	n.	That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
Key	n.	A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock.
Key	n.	A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.
Key	n.	An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.
Key	n.	A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.
Key	n.	The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.
Key	n.	Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
Key	v. t.	To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
KEY	anagram	KYE

We have 614 clues for the answer “KEY”

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"Brand New ___": Melanie	1 answer
"Defense of Fort M'Henry" author	1 answer
"Defense of Fort M'Henry" writer	1 answer
"The Defense of Fort McHenry" author	1 answer
"The Star-Spangled Banner" author	1 answer
"The Star-Spangled Banner" composer	1 answer
"The Star-Spangled Banner" lyricist	1 answer
"The Star-Spangled Banner" writer	1 answer
'Brand New --' ('71 hit)	1 answer
*A child might spy through one	1 answer
*Basketball area	1 answer
*Decryption tool	1 answer
+ and = share one	1 answer
1812 versifier	1 answer
Important computer button	1 answer
A capo adjusts it	1 answer
A cipher needs one	1 answer
A helpful one while solving this puzzle is C	1 answer
A major or minor	1 answer
A major, e.g.	1 answer
A major, maybe	1 answer
A minor, e.g.	1 answer
A minor, perhaps	1 answer
A musical major	1 answer
A or B, but not X or Z	1 answer
A or B, in music	1 answer
A skeleton one is very useful	1 answer
A- or B-flat	1 answer
A-flat, e.g.	1 answer
ALT or ESC	1 answer
Aid for a decoder	1 answer
Alt, for one	1 answer
Answer book	1 answer
Answer sheet	1 answer
Answer to a puzzle	1 answer
Anthem composer	1 answer
Anthem lyricist with a musical name	1 answer
Anthem man	1 answer
Anthem name	1 answer
Anthem writer Francis Scott ___	1 answer
Arena where the Storm plays	1 answer
Author of "Defense of Fort M'Henry"	1 answer
Author of "The Star-Spangled Banner"	1 answer
Author of our national anthem.	1 answer
B minor, e.g.	1 answer
B, E or G, e.g.	1 answer
Battle of Baltimore witness	1 answer
Bit of Florida	1 answer
C major or D minor	1 answer
C major, e.g.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ARETE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble KEY 3-letter words that start with K 3-letter words that end in Y 3-letter words containing EY 3-letter words containing YE 3-letter words with K and E

Sentences with KEY (5)

Mean while Warr arose, And fields were fought in Heav’n; wherein remaind (For what could else) to our Almighty Foe Cleer Victory, to our part loss and rout Through all the Empyrean: down they fell Driv’n headlong from the Pitch of Heaven, down Into this Deep, and in the general fall I also; at which time this powerful Key Into my hand was giv’n, with charge to keep These Gates for ever shut, which none can pass Without my op’ning.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Having eased restrictions on private enterprise in 1990 and having adjusted some key prices, Czechoslovakia is now implementing a broad two-year program to make the difficult transition from a command to a market economy.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Liddy looking at it said,— “Did you ever find out, miss, who you are going to marry by means of the Bible and key?” “Don’t be so foolish, Liddy.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Unknown to all but Hester Prynne, and possessing the lock and key of her silence, he chose to withdraw his name from the roll of mankind, and, as regarded his former ties and interest, to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean, whither rumour had long ago consigned him.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

The design of the ASR-33 assigned each character key a basic pattern that could be modified by flipping bits if the SHIFT or the CTRL key was pressed.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with KEY (3)

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater... The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

Sarah Dessen This Lullaby

Your mind is the key to opening the door of opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.

Sharon Salzberg Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 640 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).