Clues for the word "READ"
We've had 414 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1074 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 16, 2026.
Definition of read
- n. - Rennet. See 3d Reed.
- imp. & p. p. - of Read
- v. t. - To advise; to counsel.
- v. t. - To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
- v. t. - To tell; to declare; to recite.
- v. t. - To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
- v. t. - Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
- v. t. - To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
- v. t. - To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
- v. i. - To give advice or counsel.
- v. i. - To tell; to declare.
- v. i. - To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
- v. i. - To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
- v. i. - To learn by reading.
- v. i. - To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
- v. i. - To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
- v. t. - Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
- v. - Reading.
- - imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
- a. - Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
Referring Clues
- Audition for a part
- Interpret
- Do one of the three R's
- Crack the books
- Understand
- Deciphered
- Soothsay
- Library byword
- Construed
- Peruse
- Study
- Pored over
- Did Time?
- Library urging
- Devour, in a way
- Do library research
- Librarian's advice
- Try for a part
- Use a book
- Audition
- Scan, say
- Use a library
- Like books
- Scanned
- Crack a book
- Make out
- Take in the mail
- Get between the covers?
- Examine volumes
- Take to mean
- Run one's eye over
- Scan
- ___ the green (prepare to putt)
- "___ my lips!"
- Prophesy
- Use the library
- Go through
- Try for a role
- Go through volumes
- Reference books?
- Size up
- Use cue cards
- Leaf through
- Go for a part
- Go over Time?
- Librarian's imperative
- Orate, but not off-the-cuff
- Take in People
- Get into a novel
- Glance over
- Enjoy a book
- Narrate a story
- Utter aloud, as from a book
- Look over
- Enjoy Joyce
- Bone up on
- Part of ROM
- Narrate a story, often
- Take in, perhaps
- Go over a script
- Hit the books
- Peer at pages
- Interpret, as tea leaves
- Predict, as someone's fortune
- Enjoy People, say
- First instruction in many a homework assignment
- Be a bookworm
- Scan the paper
- Enjoy Stephen King, say
- Follow a script
- Participated in a book group
- Peruse Donne and Bradstreet
- Made out
- "___ my lips!"
- Enjoyed London or France
- Interpreted
- Predict
- Enjoy New York, say
- Digested a digest
- Analyze before putting, as a green
- Not waste Time?
- Understood
- Hear, to a CBer
- Enjoy a novel
- Sit down with a book
- Went through, as an article
- Reviewed
- Gauged
- Scan, as a UPC
- Cracked the books
- Checked, as a gauge
- Leafed through
- Go through a mag
- Gauge, in a way
- Enjoy a newspaper
- Enjoy London
- Sit with a book
- Check out
- Review one's notes
- Curl up with a good book
- Have a novel experience
- "Alive" author
- Use the library, in a way
- Make use of the library, in a way
- Relax with a good book
- Make sense of a language
- Prove your literacy
- Auditioned
- Enjoy "Ulysses," e.g.
- Interpret, in a way
- Enjoy "Buddenbrooks"
- Frequent auditions
- Scan or peruse
- Prove one's literacy
- Try to acquire a part?
- Enjoy a good yarn
- Boned up on
- Enjoy 44-Across
- "___ 'em and weep!"
- Pore over
- First word in a George Bush quote
- Prepare for a book club meeting
- Enjoy New York, say?
- Enjoy King or Koontz
- Auditioned (for)
- Complete a school assignment, perhaps
- Scan, perhaps
- Enjoy the paper
- With 40-Across, infer something ... and literally so
- Enjoy King and Koontz
- Interpret, as tarot cards
- Decipher, as music
- Do library study
- Cracked a book
- Study a script
- Write's companion
- Perused
- Audition (for)
- Entry in a bookworm's calendar
- ___ up on
- Make use of the library
- Take in the paper
- Enjoyed a magazine
- Acquire information, in a way
- Tackled, as a tome
- Take advantage of study hall, perhaps
- Do this to the newspaper
- *Go through volumes
- Use a Kindle
- Show one's literacy
- Digest digests
- Use a tabloid
- Digest digests
- Digest digests
- Enjoy the library
- What many do on train commutes
- Do the books?
- Share a bedtime story
- Interpret tea leaves
- Run through
- Take in a paper
- Do some research
- Consume People, say
- Patronize the library
- Have a novel experience?
- A novel experience?
- Examine tea leaves
- Understand a transmission
- Scrutinize
- Patronize the bookmobile
- Enjoy a magazine
- Librarian's urging
- Tackle Tolstoy, say
- Enjoy London or France?
- Go over a newspaper
- Scan, as a U.P.C.
- English class assignment word
- Book it?
- Library poster word
- Peruse some of Ludlum's works
- Use a Kindle, say
- Examine, as a thermometer
- Learned from a book
- Audition, in a way
- Write's companion?
- Psychic's verb
- Enjoy a story, say
- Interpret, as X-rays
- Get into "Get Shorty," say
- Peruse the paper
- Enjoy, as an e-book
- Gulp fiction?
- Like some tea leaves
- One way to acquire information
- Enjoy some haikus
- Look at a Nook, say
- One way to audition
- Enjoy a Kindle, e.g.
- Get hooked on a book
- This puzzle's theme word
- ___ between the lines
- Participated in a poetry slam
- Peruse a book
- How to get through volumes
- Enjoy books
- Spent time with Time
- Enjoy literature
- Use tea leaves, in a way
- Scanned through
- Enjoy King or Queen
- Enjoy a mystery
- Enjoy The Atlantic
- Went over
- James of "Shell Game"
- Homework assignment starter
- Be literate, in a way
- Use a Nook or Kindle
- Peruse a novel
- Like books and tea leaves
- Studied
- Predict using, as tea leaves
- Scan, as bars
- Consume a newspaper
- Enjoy Wilde or Wilder, say
- Do some text processing
- Word on a library bookmark
- Look through a book
- Bibliophile's advice
- Enjoyed People
- Enjoy an e-book
- Emulate a bookworm
- Utter aloud
- Recite
- Enjoy a good book
- What you do with a library book
- What to do with a book
- What to do at the library
- Homework instruction
- What to do in the library
- Put a book to good use
- Enjoyed a good book
- Settle down with a good book
- Enjoy the printed word
- Studied a book
- What a dog-eared book has been
- Make sense of the written word
- Study article penned by socialist
- It's easy to do if you've got a book, hard if kids are bugging you*
- Enjoy the written word
- Peruse (4)
- Pore over a book
- Look at a book (4)
- Prove to be literate
- Study a book
- Look at a book
- The Killers "___ My Mind"
- Killers "Can you ___ my mind?"
- "I ___ the news today, oh boy"
- Gordon Lightfoot "If You Could ___ My Mind"
- "If You Could ___ My Mind"
- Interpret printed matter
- See what has been written about publicity
- Study (for a degree?)
- Interpret what's set down regularly in freehand
- Learn to cut bread
- A good book, for instance, can be dear
- Study once more the advertisement
- Study once more the advert
- Study once again the publicity
- Not quite ready to be a student
- Studied once more the advert
- Study, once more, the publicity
- Understand an article to be in red
- Measure energy or fuel consumption
- Peruse writing
- Study an article in red
- Study what stops traffic around midday
- Study a book about publicity
- Study one in scarlet?
- Comprehend written words
- Undertake a course of study
- Some furniture - a desk etc - for study
- Not quite willing to study
- Enjoy "Jane Eyre"
- Study in the library
- Scan documents, say
- Used books
- Enjoyable book, good ___
- Admonish severely, ___ the Riot Act
- Scanned (book)
- Observe what's indicated on kind of instrument, it's said
- Tweak what the barely literate can do?
- Study prepared? Almost
- Studied colour in speech
- See 11
- See 24
- Be literate
- Take in interpretive view
- Analyze, as a golf green
- Recognize
- Use a teleprompter
- Scan text
- Consume Food & Wine, say
- Homophone of 46-Across
- Go through "Metamorphoses," say
- Analyze a lying golf ball
- Judge, as a golf green
- A book can be a good one about modern times
- Use a Kindle, e.g.
- Enjoy a paperback
- Enjoy London, say
- Like used books
- Get a ___ on someone
- Follow the script
- Learn about a 'for sale' notice
- Study for a lecture?
- Pore through
- Went for a part
- Interpret written words
- Text message status
- Decipher
- Part of CD-ROM
- Checked over
- Enjoy a page-turner
- Enjoy a comic book, say
- Have a novel experience?
- Devour a book
- Devoured a novel
- Try for an 18-Down
- Scan a book
- Interpret writing
- Crack a book ... or hit the books
- Spend time on Time
- Sat with a book
- Get lost in a book
- Enjoy "Nancy," say
- Run one's eye over: understand
- Consume text
- Peruse, as the news
- Got into a novel
- Learn about modern times
- Enjoy some flash fiction, say
- Like many old books
- ___ one's lips
- Text notification before a time stamp
- Studied colour on the radio
- Check out the Steel works
- What bookworms do
- Visit "Nevada," say
- Consume, as a novel
- Demonstrate literacy
- Show literacy
- Inbox label counterpart of "New"
- Learned
- What to do with a good book
- Spend time with Time, maybe
- Email status
- Consume Bon Appetit, say
- Run over
- Make use of a public library, perhaps
- Spend time with People, say
- What many children begin to do in kindergarten
- Perceptive sense
- Consume literature
- Left on ___ (ignored via text)
- Interpret a text message
- ___ lips
- Leave on ___ (ignore texts from)
- Correctly interpreted words and letters
- Word on a poster featuring a celebrity holding a book
- Curl up with a good book, say
- Not just use a book for decoration
- Enjoy a ZORA piece
- Spend time with a book
- Inbox category
- Peruse in pure admiration
- Recite from a book
- Interpretation of a situation
- "Never ___ the comments"
- ___ the room
- Inspect for information, as a gas meter
- Understanding of a situation
- Perused a book
- Pit-of-the-stomach feeling
- Enjoy some Emezi
- Enjoyed a book
- Interpretation
- Enjoyed a graphic novel
- Word with sight or speed
- Quick impression, as of a person
- Shared one's poetry, say
- What you do, If you get my meaning
- ___ receipts
- Enjoy "Piggie Pie!"
- Enjoy the Bible or Quran, say
- Take in
- Auditioned, maybe
- Enjoy a book of poetry
- Enjoy "Phoebe and Her Unicorn" or "Big Nate"
- Text status
- Enjoy some fan fiction, say
- Comprehend a book
- Enjoy "Where the Wild Things Are"
- Assessment of a situation
- Enjoy a zine
- Peruse a letter in red
- Used books?
- Pick up a newspaper
- Turn over a new leaf?
- Enjoy a book or magazine
- Rhyming word after speed
- Verb before lips and palms
- ___-a-thon
- Perceive
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2026
- Daily American - February 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 08, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 06, 2026
- Daily American - February 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 26, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 08, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 12, 2025
- Daily American - December 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 23, 2025
- New York Times - November 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2025
- Daily American - October 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 06, 2025
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