Clues for the word "FAST"
We've had 236 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 504 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on June 09, 2026.
Definition of fast
- v. i. - To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
- v. i. - To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
- v. i. - Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
- v. i. - Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
- v. i. - A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
- v. - Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
- v. - Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
- v. - Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
- v. - Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
- v. - Tenacious; retentive.
- v. - Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
- v. - Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
- v. - Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
- a. - In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
- a. - In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
- n. - That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
- n. - The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
Referring Clues
- Certain protest
- Crash diet
- Ramadan observance
- On the double
- Quick
- Lent activity
- Sexually unrestrained
- Ultimate diet
- Prisoner's protest
- Yom Kippur ritual
- Securely
- Take nothing in
- Like some tracks and talkers
- Observe Yom Kippur
- Firmly secured
- Secured
- Lickety-split
- How a painkiller should act
- Speedy
- Cut off all intake
- "___ Times at Ridgemont High" (Sean Penn comedy)
- Like a clipper, in its day
- More than diet
- Take part in a hunger strike
- Like lightning
- Like a cheetah
- Diet to the max?
- Allegro, in music
- Well-connected?
- Yom Kippur observance
- Observe Ramadan
- Adjective for the Road Runner
- Skip sustenance
- Go without food
- Swift
- Rapidly
- No-food protest
- Like some friends
- Abstain from food
- Observe Lent
- Eschew food
- Go on a hunger strike
- Flash-y?
- Partner of loose
- Prepare for a cholesterol test
- Fleet-footed
- With 32-Down, burger and fries, say
- Ramadan practice
- Ramadan ritual
- In no time
- Word that can precede the first word of 17-, 26-, 43- or 58-Across
- Religious abstention
- Hypersonic
- Like a Bullet Train
- Like Mad
- Quickly
- Eschew edibles
- Eschew chewing
- Completely cut calories
- Like some inaccurate watches
- "Spartacus" novelist
- Religious ritual
- Expeditious
- Quick on the draw
- Like some watches
- Starvation diet
- Religious requirement, sometimes
- One way to protest
- "Spartacus" author Howard
- Have no input?
- Fleet of foot
- Firmly fixed
- "Spartacus" novelist
- Consume less, in a way
- Like a shot
- Put nothing away
- Ritual abstinence
- Tightly
- Perchance
- In quick succession
- Purposely skip meals
- Hunger protest
- Extreme diet
- Rapid
- Acknowledge Ramadan
- Expeditiously
- Going like the wind
- In record time
- Partner of hard
- Unfading
- Protest of a kind
- ___ and 61-Across (one way to play)
- Eschew one's food?
- Not eat
- Don't eat
- Like some clocks
- Yearned
- ___ food
- See 117-Down
- At warp speed, say
- Express
- Swiftly
- Devoted
- Like Usain Bolt
- Zero-calorie protest
- Like a clock reading 5:05 at 5:00
- Crash diet to the extreme
- Forgo eating
- Chose chowlessness
- Eat nary a morsel
- Completely dry, as a racetrack
- With 59-Across, basketball tactic
- Snappy
- Chop-chop
- Radical diet
- Forgo all meals
- Go grubless
- Choose chowlessness
- Up-tempo
- Presto
- Observe Ramadan, in a way
- Some greens play this way
- Protest activity, for some
- Shun comestibles
- With 1-Across, Whoppers and McRibs, e.g.
- Purposely avoid eating
- Like some inaccurate clocks
- Word before food, paradoxically?
- With 65 Down, flimflam
- Accelerated
- Fleet
- Firm
- Really moving, or immovable
- With great speed
- Food or lane
- Opposite of slow
- Quick on one's feet
- Like a sprinter
- Good in a race
- Not liable to run quickly
- When food won't go down quickly?
- Secured when not eating
- "2 ___ 2 Furious" (2003 movie)
- Not slow
- Hard to catch
- Definitely not slow
- Like all sprinters
- Eddie Clarke adjective
- Spin Doctors "You Let Your Heart Go Too ___"
- Motley Crue "Too ___ for Love"
- Tracy Chapman's "Car"
- Stone Temple Pilots "___ As I Can"
- Sporting quickie?
- Secure
- Refuse to eat quickly
- Travelling fans late - coaches not moving here?
- Quickly fixed
- Rapid digestion of fats
- Quick way to get slim
- Quick - don't eat
- Soon fixed
- Moored fleet
- Securely locked in meat safe, towards the ceiling
- Quick - abstain from food
- Fleet unable to move
- Like bullet trains
- Don't eat seconds in lard
- Lent, perhaps
- How to lose weight quickly
- Observe Yom Kippur or Ramadan
- Stop taking things in
- Abstain from eating
- Rapid - diet
- Don't eat so quickly
- See 15
- High-speed diet?
- Don't eat hat for a quickie
- Firmly attached
- Certain form of protest
- Moving at high speed
- Rapid or rapidly
- Very quick
- Head of staff in large firm
- Forty days in a second?
- Don't eat such food from a takeaway
- Don't eat quickly
- Holiday, but no Orient Express!
- Refrain from eating quickly
- See 10
- Swift feeding off a starling
- Taking little time
- Like greyhounds
- Like all great sprinters
- Prison protest, perhaps
- Prison protest of sorts
- Skip courses
- Unable to move quickly
- When food won't go down quickly?
- Likely to win races
- Take no food
- Skip meals
- Like the Road Runner
- Go without fare
- Immovable
- Quick way to slim
- At high speed
- Firmly
- Observance on Yom Kippur or during Ramadan
- Wild place to live [blin...
- It’s broken by the hungry
- Word before "asleep"
- Go to extremes, foodwise
- Not leisurely
- Unable to move at speed
- Observe Ramadan, say
- Abruptly
- Breakneck ... or something to break
- Protest, in a way
- Like the person sprinting past you
- Like Shinkansen trains
- Like Atanarjuat
- Live on water, say
- Media ___: unplugged period
- What many do during Ramadan and Yom Kippur
- Contronym that means moving quickly or not moving at all
- #8
- Like the Formula Rossa roller coaster
- Accelerated path of advancement
- "Think ___!" ("Catch!")
- Like an Olympic sprinter
- Presto, musically
- Like some incorrect clocks
- Go without food intentionally
- Fixed firmly
- Like Formula One cars
- Shun food
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - June 09, 2026
- Your Life Choices - June 02, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 10, 2026
- LA Times - April 10, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 13, 2026
- Daily American - March 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 19, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 09, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 14, 2025
- LA Times - August 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 22, 2025
- New York Times - July 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 12, 2025
- LA Times - June 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 23, 2025
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