Clues for the word "ACT"
We've had 688 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2216 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 14, 2025.
Definition of act
- n. - That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
- n. - The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.
- n. - A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.
- n. - A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
- n. - A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- n. - A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.
- n. - Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).
- v. t. - To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
- v. t. - To perform; to execute; to do.
- v. t. - To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
- v. t. - To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
- v. t. - To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
- v. i. - To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.
- v. i. - To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will.
- v. i. - To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.
- v. i. - To perform on the stage; to represent a character.
Referring Clues
- Take steps
- Dramatize, with "out"
- Ham it up
- Show biz group
- Make a move
- Do film work
- Play the part
- Behave
- Pretense
- Fake it
- "If you ___ now..."
- Do something
- Decree
- Operate
- Masquerade
- Take a part
- It's the Law
- It may be staged
- Play piece
- Deed
- Play a role
- One of five in "Othello"
- Be in a cast
- Feign
- Have work in Hollywood
- Show piece?
- It may be hard to follow
- Take measures
- One of two in the play "Shylock Returns"
- Perform in plays
- Undertaking
- Tread the boards
- Function
- Do not delay
- Not hesitate
- Make a scene?
- Misbehave, with "up"
- Play a part
- See 46-Across
- Play part
- Part of a play
- It separates two breaks
- Take effect
- "___ your age!"
- With 62-Down, be demure
- Cleanup target?
- Do lines?
- Front
- Malfunction, with "up"
- "___ now!"
- Play one's part
- Do one's part?
- It's been passed
- Appear
- It may be passed on the Hill
- Don't just sit there
- Series of articles, maybe
- Stop stalling
- Work within a company, say
- Tea ___ of 1773, a cause of the Boston Tea Party
- The whole song and dance?
- Stage entertainment
- Follow direction?
- See 55-Down
- Collection of scenes
- Production part
- Fill in (for)
- Series of scenes
- With 57-Down, commercial entreaty
- What a scene is seen in
- Do something dramatic
- Performance piece?
- Not delay
- See 43-Across
- Vaudeville segment
- A third of some plays
- 26-Down segment
- Riot follower?
- Perform on the stage
- Step into character
- Vaudeville bit
- Vaudeville feature
- Work on a stage
- Riot or Stamp
- Congressional measure
- Stage performance
- A fifth of "Hamlet"
- Put-on behavior
- Get off the fence
- Opera division
- Play segment
- Group of scenes
- Go in the movies
- Nightclub bit
- Put on a show
- Facade
- Make a scene
- Circus segment
- Get up on stage
- It may be put on
- Play division
- Perform
- Congressional output
- Seem
- Be part of the picture
- Operetta division
- Play thing?
- Pretend
- Pretend to be someone you're not?
- "The Gong Show" offering
- Play a part?
- Parliamentary procedure
- Do some role playing
- Quit stalling
- Perform in a play
- One of five in "Julius Caesar"
- Brave face, maybe
- Behave badly, with "out"
- Perform in a movie
- Routine
- Function improperly, with "up"
- Legislator's creation
- Do some lines?
- Don't just talk
- Appear in a picture
- Put up a front
- Charade
- Congressional creation
- Ballet division
- Set of scenes
- Play on Broadway
- Accomplishment
- Don't just stand there
- With 40-Across, role-play (and a hint to this puzzle's theme)
- Bit of legislation
- Pretend to be
- Make it happen
- ___ I
- Put-on
- Do one's part
- Get busy
- Nightclub performance
- Comic's routine
- Don't wait
- Piece of legislation
- Nightclub routine
- Successful legislation
- Performance part
- Perform on stage
- Circus routine
- Comic's show
- Show initiative
- Play in a play
- Opéra part
- Perform on a stage
- Emulate Eastwood
- Shtick
- Work on Broadway
- Not sit on one's hands
- Play Romeo
- Misbehave (with "up")
- Brave face, sometimes
- Stop being apathetic
- Play part, or play a part
- Thing done
- Emulate Washington or Ford
- Behave in a certain manner
- It may be heroic
- Step into character, e.g.
- Take the initiative
- Song and dance, sometimes
- Play subdivision
- One-third of some plays
- Be a thespian
- False front
- Circus unit
- Make things happen
- Word with "riot" or "class"
- Legal instrument
- End up in a cast?
- A fraction of some plays
- Statute
- What a brave face is sometimes
- Hop to it
- Shakespearean segment
- Be a major player?
- Stamp or riot word
- Clean Air, e.g.
- Misbehave (with "up")
- "Clean up your ___!"
- Dramatic division
- Appear in a movie
- Play a character
- Emulate Will Smith
- One fifth of "Hamlet"
- Take the stage
- Bill, once passed
- Be in a cast?
- Unit for Shakespeare
- "Sister ___": Whoopi Goldberg film
- False pretense
- Work on a Broadway stage
- Section of a play
- Play period
- Perform one's scenes
- One way to earn an Emmy
- Do a portrayal
- "___ natural"
- Section of a script
- Musical performance
- More than plan
- See 1-Down
- Work between the wings
- Behave in a Spacey way?
- Class ___
- Create a role
- Performance
- Emote
- One may have several scenes
- ___ I
- "Sister ___": Whoopi Goldberg film
- Club routine
- Play dead, e.g.
- Do studio work
- More than talk
- Join a troupe
- Work in a studio
- A play may have one
- Play parts
- Bill
- Perform in a skit
- Do summer stock
- Volstead ___: Prohibition enabler
- "Just ___ naturally"
- Not be passive
- Operetta part
- Role-play
- Perform
- Make believe
- Make believe
- With 41-Down, it follows "Think globally"
- False show
- Role-play
- Spiel, e.g.
- Bit of song and dance, e.g.
- Formal decision
- Play a part, or play part
- Broadway play segment
- Patriot ___
- Join a cast
- Drama division
- Be decisive
- Join the cast
- Legislation
- Intermission preceder
- Try for a Tony
- Be a 15-Across
- Respond to a stimulus
- Earn an Obie, maybe
- Do something
- With 58-Across, first play division
- Not be idle
- Sequence of scenes
- Get off one's butt
- A good way to wind up in a cast
- Perform on a TV show
- Job of 8-Down
- "If you ___ now ..."
- Pretend to be someone you're not
- Emulate Olivier
- What thespians do
- Vegas attraction
- How to end up in a cast?
- It's divided into scenes
- You may need to clean yours up
- Don't hesitate
- Work in a play
- Vaudeville routine
- Several scenes
- Insincere display
- See 23-Across
- What a faker may put on
- One way to enjoy being in a cast
- Word with class
- Work as a thespian
- Legislation creation
- Comport oneself
- Recite lines
- House work?
- Perform in a cast
- Play charades
- Not just sit by
- Legislative edict
- Do some film work
- Circus performance
- Work for a director
- It precedes "of God" or "of war"
- Legislative decision
- Play the role
- Not stay idle
- Play Hamlet
- Drama part
- Create some drama
- Quit delaying
- Play part or play parts
- Take a stand
- Work in Hollywood, perhaps
- Talent show entrant
- Work in summer stock, say
- Riot or Homestead
- Fake being
- Drama section
- Misbehave, with "out"
- Dramatic unit divided into scenes
- Take to the stage
- Participate in an ensemble
- Volstead ___
- Legislative product, perhaps
- Word after sex or riot
- One may be hard to follow
- "No Exit" has one
- Have a role to play
- Part of a tv play
- Dramatize (with "out")
- Caught in the ___
- Do your part
- Appear in a play
- Perform lines
- Exploit, e.g.
- Congress creation
- Get in on the ___
- A.C.A. part
- Emulate Michael J. Fox
- Do a thespian's job
- Dissemblance
- Have a part
- Work with a cast
- Parliamentary output
- Scream "Stella," for instance
- Civil Rights, for one
- One way to earn an Oscar
- Revue segment
- Go before the camera
- Be on a role?
- Drama unit
- Not just sit
- Exam with a Science Reasoning section
- Play
- Move forward on a decision
- Work onstage
- Play section
- Conduct oneself
- Be in a film
- This fills a festival slot
- Vegas performance
- Don't delay
- Just do it
- Make one's move
- See 35-Down
- One of a pair in "Waiting for Godot"
- Creation of congress
- Make a decision
- One of two in "Hamilton"
- Vegas routine
- What Denzel Washington can do
- It may be tough to follow
- Play component
- Portray Romeo
- Coll. entrance exam
- Have a moving part
- With 15-Across, "Don't delay!"
- False modesty, e.g.
- Have a part in a play
- Perform a role
- Work in a cast
- Work with a company, say
- It's only make-believe
- Work on a soap, say
- Part of a musical
- German digit
- "Hamlet" division
- Stop quibbling
- Insincere show
- Opera segment
- Produce an effect, as medicine
- Play before the camera
- Get into character
- Have an onstage role
- Law
- Part of ACA
- Appear in a film
- "___ now!" (infomercial phrase)
- You might clean yours up or put one on
- Play a part ... or a play part
- "Hamilton" segment
- SAT alternative
- Perform a part
- "Sister ___"
- Achievement
- Feat
- Take on a role
- Star in a movie
- Play a part in a play
- Play a role in a film
- Perform in a film
- Star in a play
- Play a role in a movie
- Memorize words and make a scene
- Be in a commercial
- Do a part in a film
- Perform in a blockbuster film
- Participate in a play
- Participate in a commercial
- Play part found in a CAT?
- Take a starring role
- Say one's lines
- Do a actor's job
- Recite your lines
- Perform on stage in a play
- Perform a role on stage
- Learn lines and perform
- Perform drama or comedy
- Work on a film
- Participate in a movie
- Perform with lines
- Perform, in a way
- Perform in a TV commercial
- Practice one's lines
- Do scenes
- State lines?
- Simulate
- Get one's ass in gear
- Perform as someone else
- Perform in a commercial
- Be in a play
- Play a 16-Across
- Be in a movie
- "America's Got Talent" feature
- Assume a role
- Perform lines on stage
- Say one's lines on film
- Carry out one's lines?
- Perform for a director
- Test for college, not SAT
- Nirvana: "Lounge ___"
- Main ___
- Skid Row "Riot ___"
- Opera part
- Beatles "___ Naturally"
- It fills festival slot
- "Hard ___ to Follow" Brother Cane
- Warm-up or main
- Might be a warm-up one
- Headliner is the "main" one
- Warm-up ___
- One Direction "___ My Age"
- It gets booked for show
- Busted rockers put one on for the judge
- Chris Cornell "Disappearing ___"
- Pearl Jam "Riot ___"
- Court following a law
- Banks excluded from data legislation
- Work or play
- Work in a factory
- Current West End performance
- See 14
- A court deed?
- Give a courtly performance?
- Bill's foreseeable status, in fact?
- Work during play?
- Something to clean up, in fact?
- In practice, whatever you do
- One's turn to work?
- Produce an effect
- Pretend to be - deed
- Musical Whoopi Goldberg movie "Sister ___"
- Word following "riot" or "class"
- One of a trio in "Our Town"
- One-fifth of "Macbeth"
- Do some sketch work
- Get off your duff
- What -ation means
- Bestir oneself
- Congressional statute
- Story division
- Segment of a play
- Perform role
- Second sight?
- A short court appearance - it's the law
- Routine agreement, no pressure
- Sham
- Play unit
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay ___ (equal pay law passed in 2009)
- One of two in "Waiting for Godot"
- "That's a tough ___ to follow!"
- Use the Method
- Work with a troupe
- Make a scene?
- "Hair" piece?
- "America's Got Talent" segment
- Play a scene
- Freedom of Information ___
- Entertainer's routine
- Skit
- Don't just sit
- Be in the picture
- Exert energy
- Play a role onstage
- Recite Hamlet
- Portray
- Beckett's "Endgame" has one
- Lay about? No, U-turn
- Do a skit, say
- One of two in "Don Giovanni"
- Stage routine
- Pose
- Perform as a different person
- House product
- Rehearse one's lines
- Topic of a Senate debate
- Go onstage
- A court performance?
- Comedy ___
- When Macbeth stabs Duncan
- Only pretend to work?
- Play a 3-Down
- Stage show segment
- Study under Strasberg
- A court edict
- ___ of Congress
- Perform one's lines
- See 17 Across
- School recital segment
- "Macbeth" division
- The A of "FOIA request"
- Do something in play
- It's not for real
- Take effect, as meds
- One of five in many plays
- Not twiddle one's thumbs
- Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" has one
- Talent show entry
- Theater segment
- Electric central heating will do
- Portray a character
- Play the wildcat?
- Be directed?
- Play a part (in)
- Be dramatic?
- Work on a serial, say
- One of five in "Hamlet"
- Perform in a skit, say
- Univ. entrance exam
- Do some TV work
- Be a player
- One of two in Albee's "Three Tall Women"
- Appear onstage
- Its max. score is 36
- Thirty minutes on Broadway?
- Something a false person puts on
- Talent show participant
- Be a historic figure?
- Take the stage, perhaps
- Legislation with no devilish impact?
- Perform onstage
- Not just stand there
- One of five in a Shakespeare play
- Be involved in a chase scene
- Say "Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
- Word often followed by a Roman numeral
- Be effective
- Exam with a max score of 36
- Make a scene, in a way
- Apt exam for an aspiring theater major?
- Not sit idly by
- One of four in "The Crucible"
- Division of a play
- One of two in a typical musical
- Be a real character?
- Not just think
- Do what's expected
- "Macbeth" part
- Theater section
- Perform a stage role
- Entertain in a cast
- Be Cleopatra or George Washington
- Play an important role?
- H.S. exam with a Science section
- Noh segment
- Do one's part?
- Variety show segment
- Perform in the play "Sweat"
- Broadway division
- One of two in most musicals
- Juggling or magic, in a talent show
- Put on a performance
- III, e.g., in "Richard III"
- Stop hesitating
- ___ Up, political group formed in response to the AIDS crisis
- Enter the picture?
- Be in plays
- Section of a musical
- See 34-Across
- College application test
- Segment of a ballet
- Portray Harriet Tubman, say
- Segment of a musical
- Be James Bond, right now
- "Become" George Washington, say
- Glass-Steagall, for one
- Be Helen of Troy, today
- A play may have just one
- Perform like Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
- A 90-minute play often just has one
- "___ like you've been there before"
- Be in the picture?
- "___ Like You Know" (LaShun Pace song)
- Dramatic segment
- One may be tough to follow
- University entrance exam, for short
- Part of a play group?
- The musical "Come From Away" has one
- See 18-Down
- Not just sit around daydreaming
- Perform in character
- Lawmaker's creation
- Civil Rights ___ of 1964
- Play a role on stage
- Stage play part
- Exam taken by many jrs.
- A court deed?
- Be Moses or Abraham Lincoln
- Be Harriet Tubman right now
- Deputise for one at court
- Talent show performance
- Get your ___ together
- Give a courtly performance?
- Be part of a cast
- Playful "cat" anagram
- Bill's foreseeable status, in fact?
- The A in ICWA
- Work during play?
- Something to clean up, in fact?
- Perform in "Shrek the Musical"
- The second "A" of 22-Down
- One of two in the musical "Shucked"
- Exam that many take in H.S.
- Be Sebastian from "The Little Mermaid"
- There is one in "The Thanksgiving Play"
- Be Donkey in "Shrek The Musical"
- ___ Up (AIDS advocacy group)
- Be Genie in Broadway's "Aladdin"
- One's turn to work?
- One of two in the play "Trouble in Mind"
- Fulfill a Star Performer card in Cranium
- State lines?
- Be Aladdin in Broadway's "Aladdin"
- Performer's routine
- Perform as Aaron Burr in "Hamilton"
- ___ your wage (do only the work you're paid to do)
- Perform in "Blood at the Root"
- Provide the audience with some distraction
- "A Strange Loop" has just one
- Perform in "Radio Golf"
- Be a stage performer
- Be SpongeBob on the stage
- Subdivision of a play
- See 67-Across
- Be Elphaba in "Wicked"
- Pretend to be a vampire
- Appear in a TV ad
- Perform in "Trouble in Mind"
- Contribute to a company, say
- One of three in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
- Be in a cast?
- Bit of law
- ___ on one's 38-Across
- Magician's set
- That's unreal!
- Make moves
- Pretend on stage
- Perform a monologue, say
- Be someone else in front of an audience
- Play, or part of a play
- "You're a tough ___ to follow!"
- Play one's part?
- Work of Congress
- Play a part, or part of a play
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- New York Times - December 14, 2025
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- Mirror Mini - November 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 27, 2025
- New York Times - November 26, 2025
- New York Times - November 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2025
- LA Times - November 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 08, 2025
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- Your Life Choices - November 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 21, 2025
- New York Times - October 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 29, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 12, 2025
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