Clues that lean on synonyms can be the trickiest. You’re forced to pin down the one exact word the puzzle wants out of a dozen possibilities after all. That’s exactly what happened with the “Necessitate” clue from the Evening Standard. When you hit a wall like this, the smartest move is usually to skip ahead, work through easier clues, and let the crosses feed you a few letters back. That’s the approach I took here, and since you’re already reading, you can check the answer below along with a few other popular guesses.
Necessitate Crossword Clue Answer
ENTAIL is the popular answer to the “Necessitate” clue in puzzles like the Evening Standard and Wall Street Journal.
However, REQUIRE, NEED, and OBLIGE are also synonyms for necessitate that could also work based on the puzzle. As far as the clue goes, it’s a verb that means to make something necessary, and the words we’ve mentioned have all closely related meanings.
