These answers for “Chance” are grounded in actual crossword completions. The clue structure has appeared before, and these entries matched it successfully in those published puzzles.
Suggested Answers:
- PROBABILITY
- LUCK
- HAPPENSTANCE
- POTLUCK
- HAZARD
- OPPORTUNITY
- RISK
- BETON
- HAP
- FATE
- INADVERTENT
- LOOKIN
- PROSPECT
- POSSIBILITY
- ACCIDENT
- TURN
- RANDOM
- SHOT
- DARE
- RANDOMNESS
Synonyms and Definitions
LUCK
- Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, hazard, lot, portion
HAPPENSTANCE
- Synonyms: coincidence
HAZARD
- Synonyms: adventure, endangerment, gamble, guess, jeopardize, jeopardy, luck, peril, pretend, risk, run a risk, stake, take a chance, take chances, venture
RISK
- Synonyms: danger, lay on the line, put on the line, risk of exposure, risk of infection
HAP
- Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place
FATE
- Synonyms: designate, destine, doom
INADVERTENT
- Synonyms: accidental
PROSPECT
- Synonyms: aspect, candidate, expectation, medical prognosis, outlook, panorama, prognosis, scene, view, vista
POSSIBILITY
- Synonyms: hypothesis, opening, possible action, possibleness, theory
ACCIDENT
- Synonyms: chance event, fortuity, stroke
TURN
- Synonyms: act, become, bend, bit, bout, call on, change by reversal, change state, crook, deform, ferment, flex, go, good turn, grow, move around, number, play, plough, plow, release, reverse, rick, round, routine, sour, spell, sprain, tour, turn of events, turn over, turning, twist, work, wrench, wrick
SHOT
- Synonyms: barb, blast, blastoff, bourgeon, buck, burgeon forth, changeable, charge, chatoyant, crack, dart, dash, dead reckoning, dig, dissipate, film, flash, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, germinate, gibe, guessing, guesswork, hit, inject, injection, iridescent, jibe, nip, pellet, photograph, pip, pullulate, scoot, scud, shaft, shoot, shoot down, shooter, shooting, slam, snap, snapshot, sprout, spud, stab, take, tear
DARE
- Synonyms: daring, defy, make bold, presume
RANDOMNESS
- Synonyms: entropy, haphazardness, noise, s, stochasticity