Clues for the word "SPRAIN"
We've had 52 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 77 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on August 29, 2025.
Definition of sprain
- v. t. - To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
- n. - The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.
Referring Clues
- Turn badly?
- Wrist injury, maybe
- Here's a twist
- Reason to get some ice
- Unwelcome twist
- Wrist injury
- Ankle injury, perhaps
- Ankle injury
- Ankle-swelling cause
- Sidelining cause
- Ankle woe
- Wrench
- Unwanted twist
- Wrench a part
- Common ankle injury
- Certain wrist injury
- Athlete's mishap
- Ankle mishap
- Minor ankle injury
- Joint injury
- Ankle problem
- Reason for icing
- Almost dislocate
- Unexpected twist
- Runner's woe
- Common sports injury
- Injury helped by a 1-down
- Injure a joint by twisting its ligaments
- King entering the country gets an injury
- Injury to ligaments
- Rick
- Rick is right in the country
- Minor muscular injury
- Slight muscle injury, eg to ankle
- Twist ligament(s)
- Odds on wet weather causing injury
- Rick runs through country
- Pops back to collect gunners' wrench
- Wrench, dislocate
- Twist artist during trip
- Runs in country getting injury
- Rick, from Paris, travelled north
- Painfully rips an ankle liable to this injury
- It hurts an artist to be in a whirl!
- Twist
- 66 Across ailment
- Inconvenient twist
- A wrench, just when the pair's got a break point
- The R in "country," or "wrench"
- Injury often iced
- Injury you may ice
- Take a turn for the worse
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 29, 2025
- LA Times - June 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 04, 2024
- LA Times - September 16, 2023
- Mirror Daily - March 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 24, 2023
- Mirror Daily - March 08, 2023
- Mirror Daily - January 06, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 31, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 24, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - January 27, 2018
- LA Times - September 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 04, 2017
- Mirror Classic - July 09, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - June 05, 2017
- Netword - May 07, 2017
- LA Times - May 03, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - March 03, 2017
- LA Times - February 03, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 05, 2016
- LA Times - June 19, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - June 08, 2016
- New York Times - February 28, 2016
- New York Times - November 27, 2015
- Universal - February 22, 2015
- Guardian Quick - February 04, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 29, 2015
- And in 47 more crossword puzzles...