Clues for the word "ABACUS"
We've had 108 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 227 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on March 19, 2025.
Definition of abacus
- n. - A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.
- n. - A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.
- n. - The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
- n. - A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.
- n. - A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.
Referring Clues
- You can count on it
- Counting aid
- Calculator of a kind
- Item with beads
- Early computer
- Beaded counter
- You can always count on this
- Device you can count on
- Calculator precursor
- Early calculator
- Count on it
- Something you can still count on
- Ancient calculator
- Calculator that has no on-off switch
- Counter-intuitive calculator?
- Beaded calculator
- Eastern summer
- Adding device
- Ancestor of the adding machine
- Calculator that doesn't need batteries
- Early summer?
- Chinese calculator
- Old calculator
- Old counter
- Erstwhile calculator
- Old computer?
- Primitive calculator
- Gadget you can count on?
- It may be counted on
- Ancient adder
- Beaded device
- Calculator's ancestor
- Basic adding machine
- Ancestor of a calculator
- Low-tech calculator
- Early caculator
- Old counter?
- Calculator of old
- Calculator with beads
- Adding device of old
- Calculator of a sort
- Calculator that doesn't shut off
- Ancient calculating tool
- You can count on it?
- Counting frame
- Asian calculator
- A vehicle carrying a hundred? You can count on it!
- Tool that's counter-productive?
- As a cub (anag)
- Mechanical calculator
- Counting device
- You can count on a taxi returning for us
- Tot with this baby face? Busy wiping walls
- A frame? You can count on it
- Counter to sound of group swear word?
- Calculating device
- To get a bus round central places is something you can count on
- Beaded counting frame
- Grab a customer holding calculator
- You can count on it being a frame
- Counter
- You can count on it being at the top of a column
- Jack and Bill meet us at the counter
- American coach keeps bill for calculator
- Where an adder slides to and fro?
- Four keys introduce us to computer
- Calculator used in French exam in Australia
- Article on scuba divers, one reckons
- A graduate copper's calculator
- Chinese takeaway counter?
- A carousing god missing church? You'd count on it!
- You can count on a god abandoning church
- Clicking counter
- Clicking calculator
- Bead calculator
- A taxi is turning up to get us - count on it
- Couple from Punjab at last have end of semolina (and a bit of custard) under the counter
- A coach keeps bill for calculator
- A maximum possible speed in a vehicle? You can count on it
- Calculator nearly makes a graduate swear
- As a cub developed, you could count on it
- A taxi picked up by American? You can count on it
- An old calculator may make a graduate swear endlessly
- American after a taxi back? You can count on it!
- A Hackney revolutionary at the Guardian? You can count on it!
- Bill using public transport? You can count on it
- A number in a vehicle counter
- Counter beginners' account at the Guardian
- A system for paying contributors across union counter
- Computer ancestor
- Computing device
- We can count on it if a vehicle reverses over us
- Arithmetic class device
- Counter on which one may tell one's beads?
- Precalculator calculator
- Manual calculator
- Ancient counting frame
- Frame + beads + wires
- Early form of computer
- Bead counter?
- Simple adding device
- Here's one frame you can count on
- Cranmer ___ (calculation tool)
- Something you can always count on
- You can't say it doesn't count
- Counting tool with beads
- Counting device with beads
- You can count on one
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - March 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 28, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 26, 2024
- Your Life Choices - September 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 05, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 13, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 24, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 23, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 08, 2024
- USA Today - February 15, 2024
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