Rest
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

LIE
A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

NAP
Sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

SIT
Show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"

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TAKE
Engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

RELY
Have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"

CHIN
Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India

STOP
A brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"

EASE
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

AREA
A part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

LULL
Make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear"

STAY
Continuing or remaining in a place or state; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four-month stay in bankruptcy court"

5 letters

ROOST
A shelter with perches for fowl or other birds

CHILL
Coldness due to a cold environment

PERCH
Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes

RELAX
Cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"

SLEEP
A torpid state resembling deep sleep

PAUSE
Temporary inactivity

BREAK
An escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned"

6 letters

RECESS
A pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate"

REPOSE
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

RESIDE
Live (in a certain place); "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor"

SETTLE
Become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet; "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy"

DEPEND
Be contingent upon (something that is elided); "That depends"

SIESTA
A nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries)

UNWIND
Cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"

PILLOW
A cushion to support the head of a sleeping person

RELIEF
The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"

REMAIN
Be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

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SURPLUS
A quantity much larger than is needed

TAKETEN
Take a ten minute break; "The players took ten during the long rehearsal"

LIEDOWN
Assume a reclining position; "lie down on the bed until you feel better"

HOLIDAY
A day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover"

RECLINE
Lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch"

BREATHE
Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

LEISURE
Freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity; "he lacked the leisure for golf"

RESIDUE
Matter that remains after something has been removed

SLUMBER
A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

RESPITE
A pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate"

BALANCE
A wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat

QUIETUS
Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"

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BREATHER
Air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time

QUIETUDE
A state of peace and quiet

RESIDUUM
Something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"

INACTION
The state of being inactive

RESIDUAL
(often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing; "he could retire on his residuals"

DORMANCY
Quiet and inactive restfulness

TAKEFIVE
Take a break for five minutes; "The musicians took five during the rehearsal"

TAKEANAP

9 letters

REMAINDER
A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

CESSATION
A stopping; "a cessation of the thunder"

10 letters

RELAXATION
The act of making less strict

INACTIVITY
A disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"

TAKEABREAK

12 letters

INTERMISSION
The act of suspending activity temporarily

TRANQUILLITY
A disposition free from stress or emotion

14 letters

MOTIONLESSNESS
A state of no motion or movement; "the utter motionlessness of a marble statue"