Clues for the word "ADOPTION"
We've had 39 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 55 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on July 31, 2026.
Definition of adoption
- n. - The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
- n. - Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
- n. - The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
Referring Clues
- Alternative to pregnancy
- Enactment, as of a law
- Family court issue
- One way to enlarge a family
- Pet subject
- Animal shelter transaction
- Pet-shelter transaction
- Animal shelter deal
- Pet shelter deal
- Animal shelter activity
- Taking on
- A daughter's choice - one way to create a family
- One way to parenthood
- Orphan's hope
- Notice work getting into shape for a takeover
- The assumption is that now the potion's been mixed
- Getting a daughter by choice rather than haphazardly!
- The assumption is now the potion has been mixed
- Taking trouble to point out
- Assuming there's now a choice
- Taking of child as one's own
- Act of taking as one's own
- Espousal
- These days an alternative to fostering
- Taking up dubious point, confusion ahead
- The assumption is there is now a choice
- Acceptance of notice before election
- A daughter with chance to have a new child
- Selecting commercial alternative
- A party overcomes tricky point in formal selection of candidate?
- Notice alternative selection
- A possibility of acquiring a daughter?
- Legal taking on of children
- The assumption is the fuss is over a lost point
- Subject of the Nicole Chung memoir "All You Can Ever Know"
- Nowadays, a choice in family planning
- Taking on, or making a fuss, over the lost point
- Animal shelter goal
- Option for becoming a cat owner
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 31, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 27, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - July 26, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - October 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 08, 2025
- USA Today - February 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 21, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 06, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 24, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 25, 2023
- LA Times - April 23, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - January 07, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 24, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 18, 2022
- Your Life Choices - August 13, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 05, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 03, 2017
- Mirror Daily - October 06, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 25, 2017
- Family Time - July 24, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 17, 2017
- Netword - April 24, 2017
- Mirror Daily - October 06, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 29, 2016
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