Clues for the word "APE"
We've had 751 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2988 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on February 17, 2026.
Definition of ape
- n. - A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.
- n. - One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
- n. - A dupe.
- v. t. - To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
Referring Clues
- Barbary beast
- Galoot
- Imitate
- Cousin of a lemur
- Goon
- Do a Little bit
- Mimic
- Act like
- Large copier
- "Tarzan" extra
- King Kong, e.g.
- Copy
- Tarzan's foster mother
- Pithecanthropus relative
- Uncouth one
- Burlesque
- Do an impression of
- Do, so to speak
- King Kong
- Flatter, in a way
- Go ___ over
- Make like
- Go ___
- One who swings a good deal
- Rue Morgue culprit
- Gorilla
- Do a takeoff on
- Simian
- It has long arms
- Aldous Huxley's "___ and Essence"
- Copycat
- Do the same as
- Jungle swinger
- Bruiser
- Animal that beats its chest
- Lout
- Big goon
- One way to go
- Gibbon, e.g.
- Orangutan, for one
- Mirror
- Gibbon or gorilla
- Big clod
- Mock, in a way
- Copier
- Simple tool user
- Gibbon, for one
- Dian Fossey subject
- Barbary ___
- How fans may go
- Big galoot
- Chest thumper
- Big brute
- How the excited go
- Tree climber
- Emulate
- Yerkes Center inhabitant
- Parrot
- Bad way to go?
- Distant cousin
- Boorish brute
- Uncultured one
- Knuckle dragger
- Lug
- Clumsy lug
- "The Naked ___" (1960's best seller)
- Human's cousin
- Lummox
- Tailless simian
- Gibbon or orangutan
- Tree swinger
- Companion for Tarzan
- Lubber
- Companion of Tarzan
- Big bruiser
- Big lug
- Big hairy one
- Cousin of a human
- Take off on
- Donkey Kong, for one
- Siamang, for one
- Ursine : bear :: pithecan : ___
- Impersonate
- Pal of Tarzan
- Raiser of Tarzan
- Koko who communicates through American Sign Language, e.g.
- Zoo attraction
- Donkey Kong, e.g.
- Caricature
- Long-armed animal
- Troglodyte
- Copier at the zoo?
- Tarzan movie extra
- Monkey's cousin
- Rue Morgue perpetrator
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" beast
- King Kong, for one
- Wild way to go
- Primatologist's study
- Tarzan raiser
- Monkey's uncle?
- Chimpanzee or gorilla
- Groomer in the jungle
- Tarzan's foster mother, e.g.
- Filmdom's Cornelius or Dr. Zaius
- "Leggo, you big ___!"
- Jungle groomer
- "Great" or "lesser" creature
- Knuckle-dragger
- Gorilla, e.g.
- Hominoid family member
- Crazy way to go
- Large copier?
- Furry relative of humans
- Distant relative of Scopes?
- Gorilla, for instance
- Imitator
- Mighty Joe Young, for one
- Large, ungainly fellow
- Emulate Rich Little
- Musclebound brute
- Darwinian ancestor
- Mighty Joe Young, e.g.
- King Kong was a big one
- Mighty Joe Young, notably
- Breast-beating vegetarian
- Bananas
- Tarzan's playing companion, as a youth
- Filmdom's Cheeta or Clyde
- Way to go
- Friend of George of the Jungle
- Take after
- Hairy Halloween costume
- Gorilla in the midst of the five longest across answers
- Bonobo, for one
- Friend of Tarzan
- Tarzan cohort
- Big lummox
- Palooka
- Moviedom's Mighty Joe Young, e.g.
- Kin, to an evolutionist
- Bonzo, for one
- Follow, as in Simon Says
- King Kong is one
- Evolutionary ancestor
- Zoo swinger
- Do Little work
- Go wild, with "out"
- Chimp, for one
- Class clown, often
- Form of the Egyptian god Thoth
- Way to go?
- Uncouth person
- Grape ___ (Hanna-Barbera cartoon character)
- Clumsy person
- ___ hangers (high motorcycle handlebars)
- With 6-Down, ancestor from long ago
- Siamang, e.g.
- Pongid, e.g.
- Orangutan, for example
- Do like
- Chimp or orang
- Roughneck
- Giant copier
- Thug
- Chimpanzee, for example
- "The Hairy ___" (Eugene O'Neill play)
- Ham, e.g.
- "George of the Jungle" character
- "Great" creature
- Subject for Jane Goodall
- Big oaf
- Mock
- Swinger in the zoo
- Hairy arm swinger
- Gibbon or orang
- O'Neill's "The Hairy ___"
- Knuckle-walking beast
- Halloween costume
- Boorish sort
- Chimp or gorilla
- Gibraltar denizen
- Tarzan neighbor
- Word after go or great
- Gorilla, for one
- King Kong, for example
- Long-armed beast
- Tailless primate
- Sound like
- Clumsy one
- Gorilla or chimp
- Go ___
- Echo
- Chimp, e.g.
- Kong, e.g.
- Rainforest inhabitant
- Chest beater
- Bonobo, e.g.
- "The Hairy ___" (O'Neill play)
- Orangutan, e.g.
- How you go when you lose it?
- Arm-over-arm swinger
- Gorilla or gibbon
- Desmond Morris' was naked
- Nonhuman primate
- One of Goodall's group
- Cornelius or Dr. Zaius, e.g.
- Jungle creature
- "Lemme go, ya big ___"
- Pet for King Solomon
- Hairy creature
- "Congo" villain
- J. Fred Muggs, for one
- Do an impression
- Creature in a Huxley title
- Monkey's uncle, maybe
- Simious creature
- Forest resident
- Primatologist's study, perhaps
- Filmdom's Dr. Zaius, e.g.
- Practice "monkey see, monkey do"
- "Lemme go, ya big ___!"
- Jane Goodall subject
- Greystoke raiser
- Roddy McDowall portrayal of 1968
- George of the Jungle's pal
- Associate of Tarzan
- Do likewise
- Prosimian's larger cousin
- It may be great at the zoo
- Tarzan's cohort
- Hanna-Barbera had a grape one
- Barbary primate
- Primatologist's subject
- Hairy anthropoid
- "The Hairy ___" (O'Neill play)
- Huxley's "___ and Essence"
- Rue Morgue killer
- It is naked, in a Desmond Morris title
- Zoo denizen
- It's naked in a Desmond Morris title
- Bonobo or siamang
- Orangutan
- Chest-beater
- Tarzan's protector
- Fossey focus
- "The Hairy ---" (O'Neill play)
- Forest swinger
- Zoo biggy
- Donkey Kong or King Kong
- Distant cousin of humans
- Mad about, with "over"
- Zoo beast
- O'Neill's "The Hairy ___"
- Chest-thumping critter
- Breast-beating creature
- Chimp, for example
- Terror of the Rue Morgue
- Common costume for a costume party
- Practice monkey-see, monkey-do
- Hairy one
- Dramatic way to go?
- Simang, e.g.
- Big klutz
- King Kong was one
- Long-armed primate
- Chest-beating creature
- Costume party costume
- Go ___ (flip)
- Going ___
- "Congo" villain
- Grape ___ (Hanna-Barbera beast)
- Talk like
- Clumsy brute
- Tarzan film beast
- Great ___
- Agile tree climber
- "George of the Jungle" creature
- Hairy brute of the jungle
- "Lemme go, ya big ___"
- Orang or chimp
- Crazy, metaphorically
- Kim Hunter played one opposite Charlton Heston
- Can finish
- Tailless mammal
- Dr. Zaius, for one
- Oafish sort
- Human cousin
- Cinematic Heston enemy
- Human ancestor
- "Damned dirty" creature
- Rip off
- Tailless mammal
- Mime
- Monkey
- Primate
- "Tarzan" beast
- Hairy critter
- Zoo primate
- "The Hairy ___"
- CGI star of a 2011 summer blockbuster
- King Kong, notably
- Rainforest denizen
- George of the Jungle's best friend
- "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ___"
- Human's hairy cousin
- Large primate
- Genetically enhanced creature, in a 2011 film
- Big animal in the jungle
- O'Neill's hairy title character
- Desmond Morris's "The Naked ___"
- Zoo resident
- Show no originality
- Clumsy guy
- Clumsy fellow
- Kong, for one
- Orangutan or chimp
- Zoo critter
- Clumsy galoot
- Zoo creature
- Zoo favorite
- IRS employee
- 'Tarzan' extra
- One of Tarzan's clique
- Springtime abbr.
- Unoriginal one
- Show unoriginality
- Gibraltar beast
- Big galoot
- Bonzo, e.g.
- Orang, e.g.
- Gorilla or chimpanzee
- Anthropoid
- Behave like
- Mock, maybe
- Tailless zoo creature
- Do
- "Kinsman" of Tarzan
- Uncouth clod
- Do impressions of
- Zoo animal that beats its chest
- Chest-thumping creature
- Pretend to be
- Jungle dweller
- Hairy brute
- Imitation
- Lowlands beast
- Moviedom's Kong or Dunston
- Tarzan "parent"
- "Great" beast
- Simian beast
- Magilla Gorilla or Mighty Joe Young
- Make fun of
- Alarming way to go?
- Rhesus
- Pithecologist's concern
- Animal high on the evolutionary ladder
- Barbary, for one
- Go ___: lose it
- Tarzan's adoptive mother
- "The Naked ___" (1967 Desmond Morris bestseller)
- Cornelius or Zira, in a 1968 Heston film
- Do a send-up
- Brute
- Bull in a china shop
- Goes ___
- Go ___ (flip out)
- Primatologlst's subject
- "Is man an ___ or an angel?": Disraeli
- "Great" simian
- Bonobo or gibbon
- Breast-beating primate
- Primate house resident
- Wild way to go?
- Mimicker
- Fossey friend
- Mindlessly mimic
- Hairy hominoid
- Professor Bobo of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," e.g.
- Went ___ (freaked)
- O'Neill title character
- Clod
- Gibbon, for instance
- Hairy hulk
- Do monkey see monkey do
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" character
- Oaf
- Koko who signs, e.g.
- Antithesis of grace
- Chimpanzee, e.g.
- Simian creature
- Largest arboreal animal, e.g.
- Tarzan's "mom"
- Rue Morgue terror
- "Great" primate
- Hairy copier
- Big lunk
- Gibraltar resident
- Big, clumsy guy
- Lemur's kin
- Big primate
- "Congo" attacker
- Go___ (freak out)
- Chest-beating beast
- Arboreal critter
- Breast-beating beast
- Lug or thug
- Swinger in the jungle
- How the wildly excited go?
- "Great" or "lesser" animal
- Nonhuman sign language learner
- Boor
- Parody
- Crazy way to go?
- Big monkey
- Barbary animal
- Zoo biggie
- Say with gestures
- Lemur cousin
- Gorilla, for example
- Gibbon
- Tarzan tender
- George of the Jungle's sidekick
- Hairy zoo creature
- Powerful primate
- Animal in Darwin's "The Descent of Man"
- Pantomime
- Simian cousin of a 55-Down
- Huge primate
- Large creature in a zoo
- Lemur kin
- Go ___ (lose it)
- Big, uncouth guy
- Primate category
- Koko or Kong
- Simian in the center of 17-, 38- and 60-Across
- Hairy thug
- Vine connoisseur?
- Hairy primate
- Chimp, for instance
- Hairy beast
- Kerchak in "Tarzan," e.g.
- Big bumbler
- Flatter, maybe
- Jungle beast
- Copier jammed into this puzzle's theme answers
- Jungle chest-beater
- Tarzan's "mother"
- Animal with an opposable thumb
- Powerful jungle creature
- Make fun of, maybe
- "Impression"-able creature?
- Humanlike critter
- King Kong or Donkey Kong
- Animal known for impressions
- A bonobo is what kind of mammal?
- Do a parody of
- Jungle primate
- Sight at Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park
- Dr. Zaius of moviedom, e.g.
- Certain primate
- Beast that imitates
- Animal that may "arm-swing"
- Tarzan's friend Cheeta, for one
- Cheetah, actually
- Koko, e.g.
- Animal whose name is a synonym of "parrot"
- Tarzan's adoptive mother, e.g.
- Uncouth sort
- Friend of Fossey
- Barbary ___ (kind of monkey, really)
- Chimp or orangutan
- Wou-wou, e.g.
- Go ___ (come unglued)
- Neighbor of Tarzan
- Moviedom's Dr. Zaius, e.g.
- "Great" one in Africa
- An anthropoid primate
- "Tarzan" creature
- Chimp
- Tarzan's friend
- Big chimp
- Buddy, e.g.
- Do a takeoff
- Chimpanzee
- Large monkey
- Large zoo creature
- Baboon, for one
- Large zoo animal
- Large, hairy creature
- Large hairy animal
- Big animal at the zoo
- Big, hairy animal
- It's bigger than a monkey
- Big hairy creature
- "Dunston Checks In" creature
- Chest-beating vegetarian
- It's big at the zoo
- "Gorillas in the Mist" extra
- Hairy zoo critter
- Hairy zoo resident
- Swinging zoo attraction?
- Huge, hairy zoo attraction
- Orangutan or gibbon
- Hairy zoo denizen
- Animal that's "great" or "lesser"
- Large, hairy zoo creature
- Chum of Tarzan
- "___ Escape" (1999 PlayStation game)
- ...and companion
- Hominidae member
- Big hairy animal at the zoo
- Young or Kong
- ___-man
- Bonzo, in "Bedtime for Bonzo"
- Tree-swinging creature
- Breast-beating jungle dweller
- Hairy vine connoisseur?
- Tarzan's stepmom
- Big buffoon
- Dr. Zaius, for example
- One of George of the Jungle's pals
- Engage in mimicry
- Tailless Old World primate
- Huge zoo attraction
- Creature with long arms
- Chest-beating zoo attraction
- Bronx Zoo creature
- Dr. Zaius, e.g.
- Huge, hairy jungle creature
- Zoo attraction with lots of hair
- 31-Down attraction
- Creature covered head-to-toe with hair
- Kind of man, to The Kinks
- Neil Sedaka "I Go ___"
- "Pink Bubbles Go ___" Helloween
- "Statutory ___" The Black Dahlia Murder
- Nirvana "Very ___"
- Kind of man, to Kinks?
- Imitate uncritically
- Copy sample evenly
- Copy from a cheap edition
- Bonobo, for example
- It's hairy and scary
- Kinshasa Declaration protectee
- Make fun of, in a way
- Do the same thing as
- Hulking henchman
- Uncouth fellow
- Simian - copy
- Tropical forest denizen
- Brawny henchman
- Human's relative
- Imitate primate
- Lunkhead
- Subject for Dian Fossey
- Big zoo attraction
- Type of animal Dian Fossey studied
- Caesar of a rebooted sci-fi film series, e.g.
- Crazy, in a phrase
- Resident of San Simian?
- Hominoidea member
- Beginning of a natural progression
- The Naked ___ (Desmond Morris title)
- Rain-forest dweller
- Barbary ___ (Gibraltar animal)
- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" killer
- Research subject for Fossey or Goodall
- See 13
- Stumblebum
- Terk or Kerchak in "Tarzan," for example
- Chimpanzee or orang
- Large African animal
- Mock by mimicry
- Gorilla or chimpanzee, for example
- Kind of animal Terk is, in Disney's "Tarzan"
- Copy clumsily
- Rearer of Tarzan
- Donkey Kong or Magilla Gorilla
- "Congo" creature
- Desmond Morris' "The Naked ___"
- Clumsy sort
- Donkey Kong looks like one
- Beast in a primate house
- Play "monkey see, monkey do"?
- Large animal featured in the movie "Congo"
- Barbary ___ (a monkey, really)
- One rampaging in 2018's "Rampage"
- Large jungle creature
- Heston called one dirty
- Big jungle brute
- Full-body animal costume
- Subject for 30-Down
- "Great" African
- Friend to Tarzan
- Jungle-movie suit
- Creature at the zoo
- Powerful zoo creature
- Powerful African creature
- Beast in The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Jessica Lange's biggest co-star
- Primatology specimen
- Copy a piano key
- Be imitative
- Pal of George of the Jungle
- Mighty animal
- Primatology subject
- Caesar, in a 2010s movie franchise
- Hairy Hollywood heavy
- Parody, in a way
- Tarzan's Cheeta, e.g.
- Hulking hoodlum
- Anthropoid primate
- Human's closest relative
- A human is a great one
- Zoo attraction with huge muscles
- Brachiating beast
- Monkey's uncle?
- Tailless jungle beast
- Fossey or Goodall focus
- Hardly a sage
- Many a tailless primate
- Animal that can learn sign language
- Human, for one
- Hoodlum
- Human relative
- Big-and-clumsy one
- Hairy swinger
- Siamang or orangutan
- "Tarzan" critter
- Muscular zoo creature
- Jungle animal
- One step down on the evolutionary scale
- "Great" hominid
- Hulking thug
- Copy out of a cheap edition
- Silverback, e.g.
- Animal mimic?
- Fossey or Goodall subject
- Many a simian
- One may walk on its knuckles
- Certain early "astronaut"
- Any of Tarzan's adopters
- Bone smasher in the opening scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
- Barbary ___ (kind of monkey)
- Grape ___ (cartoon gorilla)
- Gorilla or orangutan
- Tarzan associate
- Zoo heavyweight
- Big simian
- Powerful creature of the jungle
- Hairy rainforest dweller
- Zoo creature with great strength
- "Gorillas in the Mist" primate
- Man’s relative
- A primate
- Monkey relative
- The largest arboreal animal is one
- Primate with a short tail
- Something studied by a primatologist
- Clint's Clyde, in a 1978 movie
- Subject for a primatologist
- Koko the gorilla, e.g.
- Big swinger
- Animal known for imitating
- Tarzan's Cheeta, for one
- Chimpanzee, for one
- Really big primate
- Hairy, tailless animal
- Big creature that copies movements
- Baboon or bonobo (circle this answer's second letter [the only in the grid] for a bonus)
- Try to be like a piano key
- Human's closest living relative
- Sci-fi's Dr. Zaius, for one
- Creature that copies
- Parrot, or a certain primate
- Animal hidden in "banana peel"
- "Great" animal
- Orangutan or gorilla
- Quite a boor
- Chimpanzee or bonobo
- Dr. Cornelius, in a sci-fi film series
- Monkey's relative
- Zoo draw
- Western gorilla, for example
- Mountain gorilla, for one
- Bononbo, e.g.
- Powerful creature covered in hair
- Chimp or gibbon
- Primate with no tail
- An orangutan is one
- Powerful beast
- Gorilla Grodd, e.g.
- Animal closely related to humans
- Primate smarter than a monkey
- Massive zoo creature
- "Gorillas in the Mist" animal
- Member of the superfamily Hominoidea
- Echo, perhaps
- Hominid
- Certain close relative
- Simian animal
- Mimic a primate?
- ___ Escape: PlayStation game featuring monkeys
- Animal such as the abstract painter Congo
- At the zoo, could it give a penguin a start?
- Halloween costume requiring a full-body suit
- Tarzan's mom, for one
- Animal aptly found in "banana peel"
- King Kong or Kanzi
- Gibbon or bonobo
- Word after big or go
- Social climber?
- Human, e.g.
- Swinging zoo attraction?
- Orangutan or chimpanzee
- Tarzan's mom is one
- Monkey? No, bigger
- Chest-beating zoo inhabitant
- Primatologist's animal
- "Great" hairy creature
- Terk in "Tarzan," for one
- Subject for conservationist Dian Fossey
- A creature that can be "great"
- Fossey subject
- Primate such as Cranky Kong
- Baboon or bonobo
- Hairy beast stronger than a man
- Zoo dweller
- Great ___ (gorilla or human, e.g.)
- Gorilla or bonobo
- "The One and Only Ivan" animal
- Huge zoo creature
- Mojo Jojo, e.g.
- Silvery gibbon, e.g.
- Member of Tarzan's tribe
- Sight in Congo's Virunga National Park
- Primate in a long-running sci-fi franchise
- Monkey see, monkey do kind of animal
- Huge zoo beast
- Leftmost image in the iconic illustration "The March of Progress"
- Huge hairy creature
- Zoo attraction, "big" time
- Mighty Joe, e.g.
- Central figure in a classic sci-fi series
- Hairy, strong creature
- Kerchak or Kala in Disney's "Tarzan"
- Chest-beating mammal
- What some people confuse with a monkey
- Subject of much Jane Goodall research
- Primatologist's interest
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