Wiktionary
vb. To be accountable or responsible to; to account to
Usage examples of "answer to".
And here was the answer to the dilemma of how to keep both town and garrison alive.
An'desha gazed down into the water-table as if the answer to his problem with Firesong lay there, as well as the answer to the question of what to do when the breakwater failed.
Those are the legacy of Kethry shena Tale'sedrin, and if you would deny Tale'sedrin to be of the Blood, then you Must answer to Kal'enel, for She decreed Kethryveris to be blood-sworn into the People.
The General saluted slowly in answer to this, and without another word, led the delegation of former s i to their posts.
You and An'desha are aliens on our soil, and do not necessarily have to answer to any authority in Valdemar for your actions so long as you don't break any major laws.
No one would need him until that happened * He could wait for as much as two days for an answer to his overture, if nothing went wrong.
Otherwise, there were many things in the world he would never know the answer to, and this was just one more.
LaValle had no answer to that, and so the assassin, with a bow, moved to the window and, defeating one trap with a flick of the wrist and carefully manipulating his body to avoid the others, slipped out to the wall and dropped silently to the street.