Serious - Crossword Clue, Answer and Explanation

'serious' is the definition.
(sober can mean sensible or serious)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for sober that I've seen before include "Serious; muted in colour" , "Sensible - clear-headed" , "Serious - sombre" , "Abstemious - grave" , "Serious, dull" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times, the LA Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Star Tribune, The Mirror, the King Feature Syndicate, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, The Times, the Penny Press and The Telegraph.

'serious' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for staid that I've seen before include "Stuffy, traditional" , "Sedate, unadventurous" , "Sedate, sober" , "Stiff; serious minded" , "Sedate; dull" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times, the LA Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Star Tribune, The Mirror, the King Feature Syndicate, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, The Times, the Penny Press and The Telegraph.

'serious' is the definition.
(acute can mean serious in a medical sense)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for acute that I've seen before include "Sharp - sort of French accent" , "not seen in cafe here!" , "Very perceptive, having sharp mind" , "Grave" , "(Of an angle) less than 90 degrees" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times, the LA Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Star Tribune, The Mirror, the King Feature Syndicate, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, The Times, the Penny Press and The Telegraph.

'serious' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for stern that I've seen before include "Severe part of the ship?" , "having a forbidding appearance" , "Grim, strict" , "Demanding < back" , "Severe and unremitting: area of a ship" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times, the LA Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Star Tribune, The Mirror, the King Feature Syndicate, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, The Times, the Penny Press and The Telegraph.

'serious' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for major that I've seen before include "See 2" , "Important, significant" , "5,27 [PRIME MINISTER]" , "Army rank" , "Main course" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times, the LA Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Star Tribune, The Mirror, the King Feature Syndicate, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, The Times, the Penny Press and The Telegraph.

'serious' is the definition.
(both can mean solemn)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for grave that I've seen before include "Solemn in a cemetery?" , "Solemn, serious" , "Dignified" , "Sombre in the sepulchre" , "In which to lay a corpse" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times, the LA Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Star Tribune, The Mirror, the King Feature Syndicate, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, The Times, the Penny Press and The Telegraph.

'serious' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for solemn that I've seen before include "Formal, ceremonius" , "Formal, dignified" , "'Sedate, grave (6)'" , "gloomy" , "'Earnest, grave (6)'" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Mail, The Independent, The Star Tribune, The New York Times, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, the Penny Press and The Telegraph.

'serious' is the definition.
(I know that serious can be written as severe)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for severe that I've seen before include "Terrible" , "Strict, hard" , "Draconian" , "Austere, grim" , "Harsh - extreme" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Mail, The Independent, The Star Tribune, The New York Times, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, the Penny Press and The Telegraph.

'serious' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for earnest that I've seen before include "money involved in contract" , "Grave" , "Serious - advance" , "Oscar Wilde wrote ''The importance of Being . . . . . . . '' (7)" , "Something of value to bind a contract" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Star Tribune, the Evening Standard and The Telegraph.

Serious (5)