Crossword Heaven

Answer: ADOPTED

ADOPTED is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 24 times.

• Not a part of from the start
• Taken in
• Like many pets
• Voted to accept
• Like Bill Clinton or, eventually, Oliver Twist
• Accepted by vote
• Took as one's own
• Not biological
• Like Steve Jobs and Moses
• Assumed
• Took up
• Took on
• Claimed as one's own
• Got out of a shelter
• Given a home
• Passed, as legislation
• Took in
• Like a pet dog from a pound
• Brought home, as a shelter dog
• Put into effect, as a resolution
• Took home a "furever friend," say
• Brought into the family
• Enlarged one's family, in a way
• Welcomed to the family