5-Letter Word for The Best (Crossword Answers)

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Showing 20 crossword answers for “the best” (5 letters)

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  5 letters•down•NYT Crossword•Last seen 04 May 2026
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  • Best imaginable
  • Like the best-case scenario
  • Best possible
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  5 letters•across•NYT Crossword•Last seen 11 Feb 2025
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  • Best effort
  • One's best effort, so to speak
  • Best competitive stuff
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  5 letters•across•NYT Mini•Last seen 14 Jan 2026
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  • 2024 film role for which Mikey Madison won Best Actress
  • 2024 film that won Best Picture
  • Best Picture winner at the 2025 Oscars
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  5 letters•down•NYT Crossword•Last seen 10 May 2026
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  • Best Play and Best Upset
  • Awards with a Best Boxer category
  • Athletic awards such as Best Upset and Best Moment
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  5 letters•down•NYT Crossword•Last seen 01 Dec 2025
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  • Best of the best
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  5 letters•across•NYT Mini•Last seen 23 Jan 2026
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  • Two-time Best Actor nominee Nick
  • Nick with two Best Actor nominations
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  5 letters•down•NYT Crossword•Last seen 16 Jan 2026
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  • Best Original Song Oscar winner from 2014's "Selma"
  • 1989 film for which Denzel Washington won Best Supporting Actor
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  5 letters•across•NYT Crossword•Last seen 10 Oct 2025
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  • Best-selling singer whose album titles are all Arabic numerals
  • Singer ___ Laurie Blue Adkins (who's best known by her first name)
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  5 letters•across•NYT Crossword•Last seen 24 Jul 2025
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  • "___: The Origins of Our Discontents," Isabel Wilkerson best seller
  • 2020 nonfiction best seller subtitled "The Origins of Our Discontents"
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  5 letters•down•NYT Mini•Last seen 08 Jul 2025
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  • Best-possible test grade
  • Best possible grade
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  5 letters•across•NYT Crossword•Last seen 10 Sept 2023
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  • Less than one's best, in sports lingo
  • It's not one's best performance
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  5 letters•down•NYT Crossword•Last seen 14 Aug 2023
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  • Best supporting ___ (Academy Awards category)
  • Best ___ (Academy Awards category)
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  5 letters•down•LA Times•Last seen 06 May 2026
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  • Writer/director Alexander with two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay
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  5 letters•across•NYT Crossword•Last seen 30 Apr 2026
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  • First movie to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
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  5 letters•across•NYT Crossword•Last seen 24 Apr 2026
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  • Best-selling author who founded Paris's Théâtre Historique
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  5 letters•across•NYT Crossword•Last seen 04 Apr 2026
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  • Best-selling 2010 Kitty Kelley celebrity biography
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  5 letters•down•NYT Crossword•Last seen 29 Mar 2026
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  • Unlikely Best in Show winners
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  5 letters•down•NYT Mini•Last seen 15 Mar 2026
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  • Puts in order from best to worst, maybe
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  5 letters•across•NYT Crossword•Last seen 13 Mar 2026
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  • ___ Rooney, best-selling author of 2024's "Intermezzo"
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  5 letters•down•NYT Crossword•Last seen 01 Jan 2026
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  • Who won Best Supporting Actor for Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas?"