Clues for the word "ACTION"
We've had 103 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 194 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on October 06, 2026.
Definition of action
- n. - A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
- n. - An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
- n. - The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- n. - Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
- n. - Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
- n. - Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
- n. - Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
- n. - The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- n. - A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
- n. - A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
- n. - A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
- n. - An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
- n. - The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
Referring Clues
- Auteur's order
- Director's cry
- Film director's cry
- Film genre
- Video store category
- Shout on the set
- Sound stage shout
- Director's order
- Director's call
- Fast-moving-film feature
- Chase scenes, shootouts, etc.
- Director's shout
- Movie director's cry
- Shout from Martin Scorsese
- Schwarzenegger's film genre
- Director's directive
- Cry on the set
- Doings
- Schwarzenegger film genre
- Fast-moving film genre
- Call before shooting
- Bruce Willis genre
- Stallone's genre
- What doers take
- Call on the set
- Jackie Chan genre
- Activity
- Director's "start"
- "Camera" follower
- Military encounter
- It follows lights and camera
- Deed
- Director's "Start!"
- A piece of the ____
- Court proceeding
- Events in a film
- Kung fu movie genre
- Movie category
- Lure for a gambler
- Director's word
- "Lights! Camera! ___"
- Lawsuit
- Armed conflict I observed in part of London
- Director's call for battle
- Word yelled on a set
- Something done
- Not CIA (anag)
- See 2
- What one's doing is fighting
- Deed (or the doing)
- Deed, maybe battle
- Aid for match reviewers producing analytic prose?
- See 3
- Deed - lawsuit - battle
- Play opens here, with a battle
- Battle or lawsuit, maybe
- Battle (in the law courts?)
- Director's cue?
- Conflict - lawsuit
- Battle - one taking place in West London suburb
- Case for stations?
- Battle to get individual into west London area
- Fighting a case
- I enter London suburb in case of battle
- Movie genre
- Soldiers see it
- Director's call for fighting
- Watch part of the war
- Spirit and a fizzy tonic(6)
- Order to start shooting in battle
- Prisoner bottling it up after a battle
- Something done for the first person in Acton
- Excitement one found in west London
- Accomplishment
- Removal of dissident group's head leads to fighting
- CIA not involved in court case
- Movement in first part of play has no retrospective
- Performance of first part of play now showing
- Fighting a lawsuit
- Take proceedings against one in part of London
- War artist's genre?
- One during first part of play briefly incapacitated
- Fighting to get something done
- Thing screamed on a set
- Combat
- Firearm feature
- Movie genre, or director's command
- Set cry
- In a west London town, I make a case
- Battle
- Start filming battle
- Director's "Begin!"
- I can't repair the hole in the case
- Roll call?
- Movement
- Movie director's "Start!"
- Word a director shouts
- Movie director's shout
- Excitement
- Movie genre with car chases
- Movie genre ... or a shout on a movie set
- ___ film
- With 68-Across, posable plaything ... or a verbal hint to each half of 4-, 7- and 10-Down and 46-Across
Last Seen In
- New York Times - October 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - August 21, 2026
- Daily Quick - June 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - May 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 01, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - April 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - November 07, 2025
- Daily American - October 29, 2025
- LA Times - September 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 21, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 12, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 02, 2025
- LA Times - June 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 09, 2025
- Daily American - March 29, 2025
- New York Times - February 23, 2025
- Daily American - November 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 08, 2024
- USA Today - October 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 17, 2024
- And in 164 more crossword puzzles...