Clues for the word "POWER"
We've had 135 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 229 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 09, 2025.
Definition of power
- n. - Same as Poor, the fish.
- n. - Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
- n. - Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
- n. - Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
- n. - The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
- n. - The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
- n. - A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
- n. - A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
- n. - The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
- n. - A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
- n. - Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
- n. - A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
- n. - The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
- n. - Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.
- n. - The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.
- n. - An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
- n. - Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
Referring Clues
- Megalomaniac's desire
- Authority
- Motor-driven
- Major nation
- Might
- Kind of plant
- ___ lunch
- Word that can follow the starts of the answers to the six starred clues
- Might have debts in Puerto Rico (5)
- Word before tie or lunch
- Strength
- Word with trip or strip
- Word with cord or chord
- With 72-Across, Toro product
- Plant output
- Electricity
- Knowledge, it is said
- Juice
- Word preceding plant or lunch
- Political strength
- Great strength
- Generator output
- Homer-hitting ability
- "___ to the people!"
- Kind of surge
- Source of corruption
- "The great aphrodisiac," per Henry Kissinger
- Kind of nap or tie
- Knowledge, it's said
- Kind of struggle
- Computer button
- Auto security feature
- "___ to the people!"
- It corrupts, Acton said
- Kind of brake or broker
- Work divided by time, in physics
- Kind of lunch or plant
- Outlet output
- Mightiness
- Blackout lack
- VCR button
- Despot's desire
- It may be electric
- Kind of a struggle
- Nintendo's ___ Glove
- Word with tie or cord
- DVR button
- Clout
- Government
- Legal ability
- Ability to act
- Strengthen
- Juice, so to speak
- *Authority
- Megalomaniac's motivation
- Actor Tyrone
- World ___
- Homer Simpson's workplace
- Potency
- "___ of attorney"
- Ability to make things happen
- Word before house or plant
- Exponent
- Give juice to
- ___ Rangers
- Type of line or plant
- High-carb bite
- Magnifying capacity
- Kind of plant or lunch
- Lack during a blackout
- Type of plant or failure
- Electricity supply
- Maya
- Word that can follow sea, solar or staying
- It's measured in watts
- Capability
- Electricity, e.g.
- Remote button
- ___ nap
- Tower of ___
- Might start to pursue debtor
- See 20
- The ability to be soft on a debtor?
- Force - potentiality
- The nation's strength
- The nation's electricity
- 'Switched on' energy?
- Force
- Exponent's indication
- Supply with energy
- "To save us all from Satan's ___..."
- See 17
- Strength shown by guy in red under pressure
- Man imprisoned, with ruler in control
- The captive monarch: she's kept in a mount
- Energy authority
- Word that can follow each half of 16- and 53-Across and 10- and 26-Down
- Drive a prisoner to the end of his tether
- With 61-Across, turn off, as a computer
- Captured soldier and queen might
- Very modest debtor might
- Home run-hitting ability
- *Reason for resetting a digital clock
- The strength to achieve much extraordinary prowess
- Generator production
- Home run hitter's asset
- *Aid in a speaker's presentation
- Word with "cord" or "couple"
- Motor driver
- Heat vision or mind reading
- Cleanup hitter's attribute
- What despots have
- Instigate
- A storm might knock it out
- The ability to make some flower pots
- See 59-Across
- The ability to make a prisoner royal
- State electricity?
- National force
- "All ___ to the People" (1996 documentary)
- Political force
- "On" button
- The ability to be soft on a debtor?
- Ability to develop a certain amount of prowess
- *Telekinesis or invisibility, e.g.
- Word after "Black" or "Red"
- Word after "solar" or "girl"
- See 1-Across
- TV remote button
- Asset when doing a clean and jerk
- Omari Hardwick TV series
- "More ___ to you!"
- 'Switched on' energy?
- Strength can bring a certain amount of prowess
- It might be lost in a storm
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 09, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 24, 2025
- LA Times - September 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 10, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 13, 2025
- Family Time - February 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 27, 2025
- Daily American - January 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 21, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 01, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 20, 2024
- Daily American - June 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 22, 2024
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