Clues for the word "ACROSTIC"
We've had 48 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 63 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 24, 2025.
Definition of acrostic
- n. - A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
- n. - A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.
- n. - Alt. of Acrostical
Referring Clues
- Word puzzle
- Clever verse
- Psalm 119, e.g.
- Word puzzle enjoyed by Queen Victoria
- Verse with a hidden message
- Feature of Psalm 119
- Diversion involving a quotation
- Type of word puzzle
- Puzzle in which the initial letters of each line form a word or phrase
- Puzzle that involves a quoted passage
- Puzzle involving a quote
- Initial puzzle?
- Puzzle or poem
- Puzzle that involves a quote
- Puzzle magazine offering
- Quotation puzzle
- Puzzle book offering
- Quote puzzle
- Word puzzle that involves a quotation
- Puzzle with a quote
- Word game
- Puzzle with a quotation
- Kind of quote puzzle
- Verse where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase
- A company registrar ought sometimes to issue cheques initially
- 99 actors composed a sort of verse
- A sign of wrong and right, we hear, in puzzle
- Initial letter puzzle
- Wordplay of a Socratic kind
- Poem where first letters of lines spell a word
- Account on "Cristo" with bad write up? That's puzzling
- Verse where eg the first letters in each line form a word or message
- Twitch after description of some clues unfinished in puzzle
- A clever rhyme or subtle teaser I constitute
- Verse that is initially puzzling
- Puzzle almost like this clue with curtailed credit
- A sign of wrong and right, we hear, in a puzzle
- Word puzzle using first letters
- A bad-tempered moment reportedly caused by a puzzle
- Short signs for wrong and right beneath a puzzle
- Puzzle brings on a vexed moment, reportedly
- Word puzzle, possibly Socratic
- A bad-tempered moment reportedly caused by puzzle
- Puzzle a ferocious beast, just over half still to go in
- Puzzle that spells out a quotation
- Form of writing in which certain letters, when taken in order, spell out a message
- A few clever lines causing riots, perhaps, in a cricket club
- Socratic form of puzzle
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 24, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 01, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 24, 2023
- Guardian Cryptic - December 18, 2017
- Universal - November 22, 2017
- Netword - October 27, 2017
- Netword - June 29, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - June 21, 2017
- LA Times - October 19, 2016
- USA Today - October 05, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 01, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 01, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - May 24, 2016
- Netword - January 20, 2016
- USA Today - October 28, 2015
- LA Times - March 03, 2015
- USA Today - January 02, 2015
- Guardian Quick - October 03, 2014
- LA Times - May 12, 2014
- Guardian Quick - January 07, 2014
- Netword - January 03, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - May 02, 2013
- LA Times - January 27, 2013
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 31, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - November 18, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - October 14, 2012
- Guardian Quick - July 03, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - April 29, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - April 15, 2012
- And in 33 more crossword puzzles...