NOUN: "beginning; commencement" Crossword Clue

We have the 5-letter answer for NOUN: "beginning; commencement" crossword clue, last seen in the Missing Letter Crossword March 23, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

NOUN: "beginning; commencement" Crossword Answer

↓24.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
2. the beginning or early stages

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

COMMENCEMENT (noun)
1. the time at which something is supposed to begin
2. an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred
BEGINNING (adjective)
1. serving to begin
BEGINNING (noun)
1. the time at which something is supposed to begin
2. the place where something begins, where it springs into being

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
NOTES

More Missing Letter Crossword (3/23/2025) Answers

Across

1. NOUN: "a playing card added to a pack as a wild card"

6. "___: First Class" (2011 sci-fi movie)

10. Famed NYC street

14. Overhead

15. Mythical Himalayan

16. NOUN: "a Tibetan Buddhist monk"

17. General feelings

18. Crazy, in Colombia

19. "Fine, we'll do it your way"

20. Devoured

21. Use your teeth

23. Most people have 206

25. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "island in the southern Marianas; unincorporated U.S. territory containing extensive U.S. military facilities"

26. NOUN: "an adherent of...the dominant religion of India"

27. NOUN: "a literary, cinematic, or televised work continuing the course of a story begun in a preceding one"

30. Non-human member of the family

33. The color of a tropical sea, often

34. The plant's demand in "Little Shop of Horrors"

36. Letter before dee

37. Maker of Enclave, Encore, and Envision SUVs

39. Fall behind

40. They take skiers up slopes

42. Free (of)

43. Any member of Las Vegas's NFL team

46. Yalies

47. Cash alternative

49. NOUN: "any of a subgenus...of rhododendrons with funnel-shaped corollas"

51. Skate park features

52. Poker variant

53. Where sailors head

54. Drink with a head

55. NOUN: "a high official with special privileges"

58. Webpages with site info

59. ___ the ending (blurt out a spoiler)

61. NOUN: "a visual representation of something"

63. NOUN: "a piece of evidence that leads one toward the solution of a problem"

64. Abbr. on a cornerstone

65. Finally gives in to someone's demands

66. They answer to boards

67. Elvis Costello's "___ Than Zero"

68. February symbol

All Answers

Down

1. Earth's most populous island (over 150 million people)

2. Passing notice

3. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city and port on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu, Japan"

4. Garden of Eden figure

5. VERB: "to free from confinement, danger, or evil"

6. NOUN: "a complex tissue in the vascular system of higher plants"

7. NOUN: "the cry of a cat"

8. "I have other examples, but I'll stop there"

9. NOUN: "a lustrous light gray ductile metallic element that resembles tantalum chemically and is used in alloys"

10. ADJECTIVE: "of a flaxen, golden, light auburn, or pale yellowish-brown color"

11. NOUN: "something that serves to alert a person to a problem, danger, or need"

12. Famous ___ (cookie brand)

13. NOUN: "a large long-haired wild or domesticated ox"

22. Part of an NFL game

25. Cantina dip, briefly

26. Rustic farmer, in England

27. Native-born Israeli

28. VERB: "to furnish for service or action by appropriate provisioning"

29. NOUN: "something given or received for something else"

30. Intoxicating

31. Spine-tingling

32. Actress Thompson of “Thor: Ragnarok”

35. Sewing machine creator Howe

38. Krispy ___ (Dunkin' rival)

41. Necklace piece

44. Clothing

45. Use a scale from 1 to 5 stars, say

48. Scottish girls

50. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city in northern Switzerland"

52. Fires off, as an outraged email

53. NOUN: "a usually imaginative narrative of an event"

54. Alpha-___ (crossword solver's favorite breakfast cereal, maybe)

55. Nicki Minaj's "___ Voom"

56. Disney CEO Robert

57. NOUN: "one that...annoys"

58. AGENCY: "independent agency charged with regulating all interstate and foreign [contact] by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable"

60. VERB: "to put into action or service"

62. West in 1936's "Klondike Annie"

All Answers