Stumped by ‘Prefix with phone’? Find the answer here!

As a detective, my first instinct was to break down the clue into its separate components. The clue ‘Prefix with phone‘ suggested that we were looking for a word that could be combined with ‘phone‘ to form a meaningful term. While there were multiple prefixes that could apply here, I started to eliminate possibilities based on their likelihood of pairing with ‘phone‘. For instance, ‘micro‘ or ‘nano‘ were probably too small to combine with a device like a phone.

That left me to consider the possibilities of prefix words that could incorporate with ‘phone‘ in a meaningful way. One such word that came to mind was ‘megaphone‘, which had a clear definition and common usage in society. ‘Mega‘ was therefore a very likely candidate as the answer to our clue. After some reflection, I realized that ‘mega‘ as a prefix could be used with many words to imply something large, or powerful, like ‘megastar‘ or ‘mega corporation‘, giving me additional confidence in my answer.

In the end, it was this process of identifying possible prefixes, narrowing down likelihood of use with ‘phone‘, and considering possible word pairings that led me to a confident answer of ‘MEGA‘ as the solution to our crossword clue.