Clues for the word "ACTING"
We've had 54 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 84 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on February 11, 2026.
Definition of acting
- p. pr. & vb. n. - of Act
- a. - Operating in any way.
- a. - Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent.
Referring Clues
- Strasberg subject
- Job for a thespian
- Temporary
- Dramatics
- Provisional
- Role playing
- Temporarily taking over another's duties
- Thespian's job
- Temporary, as a position
- Field's field
- Side job for some singers
- Stage work
- Behaving
- Thespian's skill
- Business for Ford?
- Trouper's skill
- Thespians' field
- Stage skill
- Performing
- Histrionic skill
- Thespian's specialty
- Performing a 14 Across
- "The perfect idiot's profession," per Katharine Hepburn
- Performing in a film
- Pretending
- Giant production taking a hundred in the drama profession
- Playing a part
- Stagecraft
- What hammy musicians also pursue
- Temporarily doing another's duties
- Bill can get girl for performance
- Paltrow's line difficult without former lover
- Thespian's profession
- Stand-in
- Performing the role of
- Taking on duties temporarily
- Taking part temporarily
- Word in temporary job titles
- Temporary work in the theatre
- Deputy in the theatre
- On 16, suffering with persistent pain - time for hospital
- Pretending to stand in
- Playing a role
- Thespian's work
- Not permanent
- Breaking a leg?
- Performing in a movie
- Embodying a character
- Playing field?
- Emma Watson skill
- Making a production?
- Pro tem
- Behaving like someone else
- Interim
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - February 11, 2026
- Daily Quick - November 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 30, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 05, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 22, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 26, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 30, 2024
- Daily American - June 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 26, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 11, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 09, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 30, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 05, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - March 22, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 21, 2022
- LA Times - August 18, 2022
- New York Times - September 25, 2021
- Evening Standard Easy - December 19, 2017
- Daily Quick - November 11, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - September 11, 2017
- LA Times - August 22, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - August 04, 2017
- And in 54 more crossword puzzles...