Clues for the word "ABET"
We've had 664 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1933 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on May 26, 2026.
Definition of abet
- v. t. - To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
- v. t. - To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
- v. t. - To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
- n. - Act of abetting; aid.
Referring Clues
- Help in a heist
- Assist in crime
- Help
- Be a partner in crime
- "Not on ___!" ("No way!")
- Provide with a hideout, perhaps
- Help at a heist
- Help with the heist
- Aid in crime
- "Not on ___!"
- Assist illegally
- Not on ___
- Look out for, maybe
- Help a hood
- Be an accessory to
- Aid's partner
- Advance the cause of
- Opposite of hinder
- Help with a heist
- Help in holding up
- Help in a holdup
- Help a hoodlum
- Assist, in a way
- Give relief to a thief
- Help in crime
- Help, as a prankster
- Help, as a lawbreaker
- Aid in a felony
- Act as lookout, say
- Assist in high jinks
- Act as a shill for, e.g.
- Help at a holdup
- Help in ways one shouldn't
- "Not on ___"
- Encourage, in a way
- Help in piracy, e.g.
- Aid, in a way
- Support when one shouldn't
- Support, in a way
- Aid in wrongdoing
- Be a lookout for, say
- Aid and ___
- Assist in wrongdoing
- Play lookout for, for example
- Aid by being a lookout, e.g.
- Help hold up
- Look out for?
- Drive away, as a thief?
- Be a lookout for, maybe
- Lend support to
- Help in a getaway, e.g.
- Help when one shouldn't
- Support
- Look out for, say
- Help illegally
- Help with wrongdoing
- Help in wrongdoing
- Support in skullduggery
- Assist in evil
- Help with a prank
- Assist in shady doings
- Help in mischief
- Help in a bad way
- Help in a heist, say
- Watch for the cops, perhaps
- Be a lookout for, e.g.
- Stand lookout, perhaps
- Assist a cat burglar
- Be the lookout, maybe
- Give a bandit a hand
- Help a hooligan
- Act the lookout, e.g.
- Foster a felon
- Facilitate a felony
- "Wanna make ___?"
- Drive the getaway car for
- Watch for the cops, e.g.
- Help with a heist, e.g.
- Promote criminal activity
- Provide a hideout for, perhaps
- Drive the getaway car, e.g.
- Serve as an accomplice
- Encourage in a way that should be discouraged
- Assist in illegality
- Help a fugitive
- Assist larcenously
- Aid an arsonist, say
- Be good at helping be bad
- Assist in a felony
- Egg on a felon
- Watch out for the cops, perhaps
- Be the lookout for, maybe
- Help to hold up
- Aid in illegal activity
- Watch for the cops, maybe
- Drive the getaway car, say
- Encourage criminality
- Act as a henchman
- Cover for a hood
- Provide a hideout for, say
- Further a felony
- Help, as in wrongdoing
- Aid in a swindle
- Watch for the cops, say
- Assist in a crime
- Act the accomplice
- Drive the getaway car for, say
- Support, in a criminal way
- Help the wrong way?
- Be partly responsible for a holdup
- Act as lookout for, e.g.
- Help, wrongly
- Help out in a bad way
- Conspire with
- Act as a fence for
- Be a confederate of
- Act as a lookout for
- Be a wheelman for
- Help hold up, for example
- Help in a stickup
- Vigoda of "Barney Miller"
- Watch for cops, e.g.
- Provide a bank blueprint, e.g.
- Help in a scam
- Watch out for, maybe
- See 34-Down
- Watch for cops, say
- Act as an accessory to
- Be in cahoots with
- Help out on a job
- Help with the job
- Provide a bank floor plan for, perhaps
- Assist with an inside job, say
- Stand lookout, say
- Misdirect the police, say
- Provide a fake alibi for, e.g.
- "Wanna make ___?"
- Act as lookout, e.g.
- Assist in shady business
- Say "They went that-a-way" when they didn't, say?
- Assist in a scam
- Help with a felony
- Connive with
- Help wrongly
- Encourage in crime
- It's illegal to do it
- Aid in a crime
- Do an accessory's job
- "Not on ___!"
- Help feloniously
- Help in a crime
- Aids associate
- Help to do wrong
- Help in
- Assist in malfeasance
- Support, as a scofflaw
- Aid partner
- Be on the lookout, maybe
- Support in a crime
- Cover for hoods
- Assist a criminal
- Be a party to
- Partner, in crime
- Assist, as a criminal
- Help in a plot
- Countenance
- Help unlawfully
- Help, as a hood
- Aid and ___
- Be an accessory
- Drive the getaway car, maybe
- Help a crook
- Aid in larceny
- Look out for, possibly
- Assist with a felony
- Don't dissuade
- Assist, as a bad guy
- Aid in a scam
- Assist to do wrong
- Help in hooliganism
- Help a lawbreaker
- "Wanna make ___?"
- Assist nefariously
- Act as an accomplice
- Support in chicanery
- What accomplices do
- Act as an accessory
- Be an accomplice
- Watch for cops, perhaps
- Assist a prankster
- Encourage criminally
- Aid criminally
- Obey the lawbreaker
- Incite criminal activity
- Sanction misdeeds
- Look out for a looter, e.g.
- "Not on ___!" ("No way!")
- It is a crime to do this for a criminal
- Look the other way, e.g.
- Act as a getaway driver, e.g.
- Help hold up?
- Sanction wrongdoing
- Sanction in wrongdoing
- Sanction misdeeds, perhaps
- Help in a swindle
- Help with an inside job, maybe
- Withhold evidence, e.g.
- Whistle when the cops come, e.g.
- Drive a thief away?
- Don't tell, perhaps
- What an accomplice will do
- Facilitate feloniously
- Aid illicitly
- Hide the loot, maybe
- Back the mob, e.g.
- Watch for the watchman, e.g.
- Second a second-story man
- Promote criminal activity, in a way
- Cover for a crook
- Look out for, e.g.
- Misdirect the police, perhaps
- Furnish with a false alibi, e.g.
- Aid companion
- Help in a way one shouldn't
- Be a bad helper?
- Pitch in at a crime scene?
- Assist in malfeasance, e.g.
- Be an accessory before the fact, e.g.
- Help make a no-no a go-go
- Partner of aid
- Further a felon
- Help in a criminal act
- Encourage when one should discourage
- Be the lookout man, e.g.
- Support in wrongdoing
- Assist unadvisedly
- Be liable, in a way
- Lend a dirty hand?
- Second in crime
- Arm thugs
- Aid feloniously
- Help badly?
- Give shelter, perhaps
- Help, as a crook
- Assist a hooligan
- Help a hustler
- Assist a cat burglar, e.g.
- Help to escape
- Help with a job
- Assist in criminal activity
- Put oneself at risk, in a way
- Help to perpetrate
- Put a hood up?
- Act as a lookout, perhaps
- Obey the lawbreaker?
- Knowingly shelter a fugitive, e.g.
- Help, in a bad way
- Create a distraction during, maybe
- Criminally assist
- Keep hidden, perhaps
- Participate in a crime
- Be an accessory to the crime
- Help do wrong
- Spur on
- Keep an eye out for?
- Help hoods
- Back up a lawbreaker
- Aid in illegality
- Help, as a hoodlum
- Enable, as a felon
- Assist an offender
- Assist with the arson, say
- Carry the gas and the matches, say
- Egg on a misdemeanant
- Give a yegg a leg up
- Aid a crook
- Assist a felon
- Assist a wrongdoer
- Help a con artist
- Facilitate, as a felon
- Case the joint, say
- Act as a lookout, e.g.
- Get hush money from, for instance
- Watch out for the cops, say
- Further feloniously
- Assist feloniously
- Provide with a hideout, e.g.
- Lend a sly hand
- Assist in an assault
- Assist shadily
- Cooperate, as in a crime
- Help with a holdup
- Whistle when a cop comes, e.g.
- Stand watch, say
- Provide a gun for, maybe
- Aid in a heist
- Help pull off a crime
- Give illegal aid to
- Back a baddie
- Illegally lend a hand
- Assist
- Promote, as criminal intent
- Support the scofflaw
- Help hold up, say
- Help on the sly
- Be a shill for
- Help criminally
- Help underhandedly
- Help slyly
- Help illicitly
- Help a thief
- Help with a crime
- Aid illegally
- Help, in crime
- Incite illegally
- Help a prankster
- Lend an illegal hand
- Assist wrongly
- Help a criminal
- Help shadily
- Drive the getaway car
- Encourage evildoers
- Lend an illicit hand
- Be a 51-Across
- Help a felon
- Help surreptitiously
- Lend a sneaky hand
- Lend a hand
- Partner of 5-Across
- Lend a hand illegally
- Lend a surreptitious hand
- Serve as a henchman
- Help a perp
- Further wrongdoing
- Contribute to, as a crime
- Help to stick up
- Assist in criminality
- Encourage
- Be a wheel man for
- Case the place for, say
- Aid, as in crime
- Provide a hideout for a crook
- Lend support to a lawbreaker
- Act the accessory
- Help create a racket, say
- Help to the hideout, e.g.
- Aid's partner, in crime
- Act as a lookout, say
- Assist in lawbreaking
- Assist with a job
- Assist in a felonious manner
- Act as accomplice to
- Act as lookout, perhaps
- Aid in a caper
- Help commit a crime
- Aid in criminality
- Incite by encouragement
- Support in a swindle
- Be a partner in a crime
- Act as a fence for, e.g.
- Launder money for, e.g.
- Assist, as in a heist
- Scope out escape routes, e.g.
- Help in an underhanded way
- Be criminally helpful
- Aid illegalities
- Assist a crook
- Aid a felon
- "That's ___!" (You're on!)
- What henchmen do
- Aid in a scam, e.g.
- Disable the security system for, say
- Give an underhanded hand?
- Help, as in a heist
- What a crook's accomplice will do
- Assist with a job?
- Countenance, as a crime
- Assist in a bad way
- Help to harm
- Aid
- Help, as in the getaway
- Whistle when a cop comes
- Distract the security guard, say
- Assist with a crime
- Assist in bad doings
- Assist an arsonist
- Aid, as in wrongdoing
- Foster feloniousness
- Assist, as with crime
- Fence the loot for, say
- Lookout, perhaps
- Provide an alibi for, say
- Contribute, as to criminality
- Aid by serving as a lookout, perhaps
- Lend a dirty hand to
- Aid an arsonist, e.g.
- Stand watch for, say
- Help complete a job
- Assist illicitly
- Be the lookout, e.g.
- Help in a burglary
- Aid a criminal
- Connive with a criminal
- Actively encourage
- What enablers do
- Assist, as an outlaw
- Act as lookout
- Assist badly?
- Cooperate with in a caper
- Disable a surveillance camera for, say
- Opposite of "discourage"
- Harbor after a heist, say
- Collude with
- Provide the bank layout to, say
- Help do bad
- Fence for a felon, say
- Help with, as a crime
- Assist with a heist, say
- Distract the security guards for, say
- Withhold information about, say
- Aid in evil
- Make ___: wager
- Help, as a fugitive
- Sanction
- Help on a heist
- Assist in a heist
- Be the lookout for, say
- Provide a fake 62-Across for, e.g.
- Act the lookout for, say
- Aid in a bad way
- Help in the wrong way
- Assist an arsonist, e.g.
- 34 Across in wrongdoing
- Cover for
- Act the henchman, say
- Assist a robber, e.g.
- Support in criminality
- Be complicit in, as a caper
- Egg on
- Provide an alibi for, e.g.
- Help (the enemy)
- Assist others in a criminal activity
- Harbor unlawfully
- Assist in shenanigans
- Aid in escape, perhaps
- Promote
- Stand behind
- Drive a getaway car for, say
- Lend a hand in holding up?
- Be an accomplice to
- Provide a bank floor plan for, say
- Provide a fake alibi for, say
- Help on the job?
- Penal code verb
- Attract pigeons for, say
- Help with a job?
- Enable a criminal
- Aid in mischief
- Provide cover for, say
- Provide an alibi for, perhaps
- Encourage, as evil
- Assist escapees, e.g.
- Help a baddie
- Aid a baddie
- Be the lookout
- Support in crime
- Aid a lawbreaker
- Help a miscreant
- Support a felon
- Help someone break the law
- Aid in a criminal act
- Countenance a crime
- Aid in evildoing
- Be an accomplice in Lincoln, ending in court
- Help in a felony
- Help a criminal commit a crime
- Help on a heist, for example
- Be a cohort in a crime
- Help a scofflaw
- Harbor a fugitive, e.g.
- Support a scofflaw
- Help a criminal in the act
- Support a criminal
- Participate with someone else in a crime
- Aid in a criminal activity
- Assist someone in a criminal activity
- Help a thief, for example
- Condone taking a gamble
- Assist (in doing wrong?)
- Assist in some nefarious activity
- Help someone in a bad way
- Help to get a flutter?
- Hide from the cops, e.g.
- Encourage (wrongdoing)
- Harbor, say
- Help when you shouldn't
- Give assistance to
- Harbor, e.g.
- Help in criminal doings
- Encourage what a gambler has
- Incite (to commit an offence)
- Give aid to a Yankee
- Collaborate with a criminal, in a way
- Facilitate in felony
- Assist a burglar
- Fence the loot
- Harbor a fugitive
- Lend support to, criminally
- Act as accomplice
- Enable lawbreaking, say
- Contribute to crime
- Disarm an alarm for, say
- "Wanna make ___?"
- Provide bad service?
- See 5 Down
- Aid (felon)
- Illegally assist
- Illegally help
- Illegally aid
- Egg on a steak, say
- A sporting investment aid
- Help to take a gamble
- A girl gave help
- Elizabeth's about to help
- Assist sailor with alien
- Encourage to be offbeat
- Support article with stake
- Bishop during meal raised support
- Take part in crime, a risky undertaking
- Help with an inside job, say
- Help in a swindle, say
- Lend a hand in committing a crime
- Act as lookout for, say
- Be a criminal accomplice for
- Assist crooks
- Help out illegally
- Be a co-criminal
- Help in a bad deed
- Harbor, as a fugitive
- Prime a crime
- Help, as Bonnie and Clyde
- Aid and ___ (help illegally)
- Support a robber
- Be a wheelman for, say
- Help badly?
- Back up on a job?
- Help with a criminal act
- Help with a robbery, say
- Verb often seen with "aid"
- Assist a shoplifter
- Act lookout for, say
- Aid in iniquity
- Help in holdups
- Support a fraudster
- Help a bandit
- Provide job support
- Help a robber
- Keep watch for, maybe
- Help with a wager?
- Assist with half of letters?
- Support unlawfully
- Help rob the bank
- Help to escape, say
- Receive stolen goods from, say
- Act as lookout for, perhaps
- Assist with a heist
- Aid and ___ (help in a crime)
- Provide fake cover for, e.g.
- Help in the worst way?
- Help a felon out
- Aid and ___ (assist in wrongdoing)
- Provide job support for?
- Assist in mischief
- Assist in a getaway, say
- Help the offense?
- Aid, as a felon
- Aid in lawbreaking
- Act as a lookout for, say
- Help with a job?
- Antonym of "hinder"
- Assist wrongfully
- Help the bad guys
- Help in a holdup, say
- Lend a helping hand, in a bad way
- Facilitate some wrongdoing
- Assist with 46-Down
- Cut through barbed wire for, say
- Bachelor drowning in drink rejected help
- Lend a hand when one shouldn't
- Act as a lookout
- Act as a getaway driver, say
- Help during a heist
- Help a fraudster
- Drive a getaway car, e.g.
- Help to hold up, say
- Assist in infractions
- Help with a burglary
- Be a lookout, maybe
- Conspire in crime
- "Aid" accompanier
- Felonious verb
- Help, as with a holdup
- Act as an accessory to, illegally
- Provide the bank blueprints for, say
- Aid a wrongdoer
- Snow the heat, maybe
- Help with illegal activity
- Stand lookout for, as a heist
- Help to commit a crime
- Aid and ___ (assist in crime)
- Help somebody in a bad way
- Help avoid the heat, perhaps
- Help someone steal
- Assist with a scam
- Help a robber, say
- Help in a bad way?
- Create a diversion for, maybe
- Assist with a scam, say
- Help out with a job
- Criminally aid
- Help wanteds?
- Help flee a collar
- Assist badly?
- Be on the lookout for?
- More than encourage an active thief
- Help in a risky way
- What an accessory may do
- Help a criminal commit crime
- Provide job support?
- Lie for, say
- Help a prankster pull a prank
- Help lift something, maybe?
- Give some bad assistance
- Help with a job, in a way
- Assist on the job
- Help with something illegal
- Turn off the security cameras for, maybe
- Back up on the job?
- To encourage in wrongdoing is always a gamble
- Harbor, perhaps
- Give a bad hand?
- Act as the lookout, e.g.
- Help out with a crime
- Help an outlaw, say
- Be a partner with in crime
- Provide illegal help to
- Be on the lookout?
- Assist with a wrongdoing
- Assist someone in criminality
- Drive a getaway car, say
- Assist's criminal partner
- Give a false alibi for someone, say
- Help crooks
- Provide crooked support for
- Stand lookout during a heist, say
- Drive for, maybe
- Plan a getaway for, perhaps
- Perform a felonious favor for
- Assist, as a lifter?
- Give some immoral support, perhaps?
- Help a bad actor
- Words on either side of "___ is ___"
- Partner in crime?
- A wager can encourage crime!
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 26, 2026
- LA Times - May 13, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 02, 2026
- Daily American - April 29, 2026
- LA Times - April 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 16, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 07, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 05, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 03, 2026
- Your Life Choices - April 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 01, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 31, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 19, 2026
- LA Times - March 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 07, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 20, 2026
- Daily American - February 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 11, 2026
- New York Times - February 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 05, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 03, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 02, 2026
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