Clues for the word "AFOOT"
We've had 98 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 354 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 26, 2026.
Definition of afoot
- adv. - On foot.
- adv. - Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.
Referring Clues
- "The game is ___": Holmes
- What the game may be
- Stirring
- Under way
- Happening
- Underway
- In progress
- "The game is ___"
- Going on
- Brewing
- Like the game, to Sherlock Holmes
- Walking
- What Sherlock said the game was
- On the move
- "You must have grown ___!"
- In motion
- In the works
- What the game is, to Holmes
- Under way, to Sherlock Holmes
- In the offing
- "The game is ___!" (Sherlock Holmes line)
- What the game was to Sherlock
- Currently in progress
- "The game is ____!"
- Not on horseback
- Underway, to Sherlock Holmes
- Under way, as a game
- Like Sherlock Holmes' game?
- "The game is ___" (Holmes quote)
- "The game is ___" (Holmes)
- Like the game, to Holmes
- In progress, to Holmes
- Happening now
- What the game is, to Sherlock
- Like skullduggery, perhaps
- "The game's ___!"
- "The game is ___": Sherlock Holmes
- Like Holmes' game
- Underway, to Holmes
- In operation
- Going on, to Sherlock
- Taking place now
- Like the game, to Sherlock
- In progress, to Sherlock
- Just begun
- Going on, to Holmes
- Underway, to Sherlock
- "The game is ___" (Sherlock Holmes)
- "... Watson, come! The game is ___"
- Like Sherlock's game
- Impending
- Taking place
- Like a pedestrian
- Under way, to Sherlock
- Happening now, à la Sherlock
- Progressing
- Underway, as a game
- Happening, as "the game"
- Happening, to Dr. Watson
- In the process of happening
- Happening, as Sherlock's game
- In the wind
- Astir
- Going on, a part of a yard
- About to happen
- In the pipeline
- Going out on a limb
- About twelve inches?
- A measure in operation
- One to measure up
- See 1 across
- Under way (of plan)
- What's happening as a rule
- What's going on in the Yard?
- Happening now, as the game
- What the game is, old-style
- Happening, to Holmes
- Underway, as Holmes's game
- Abroad - not very far?
- Happening, going on
- Currently going on
- Active, per Holmes
- Active, as "the game"
- Unfolding
- Active, as a game
- In circulation or operation
- In progress, as Sherlock's "game"
- Looming, to Holmes
- "The game is ___" (Sherlock Holmes declaration)
- Get ___ in the door
- Sherlock's "in progress"
- Taking place right now
- On, as Sherlock's game
- Beginning to happen
- Happening presently
- In progress, quaintly
- Currently happening
- Like Sherlock Holmes's "game"
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 26, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 11, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 16, 2025
- LA Times - November 09, 2025
- LA Times - August 24, 2025
- Daily American - August 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 31, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 08, 2025
- Mirror Mini - January 11, 2025
- New York Times - January 05, 2025
- USA Today - November 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 27, 2024
- New York Times - October 15, 2024
- Daily American - August 14, 2024
- New York Times - July 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 11, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 29, 2024
- LA Times - June 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 15, 2024
- Mirror Mini - May 24, 2024
- New York Times - May 22, 2024
- New York Times - April 22, 2024
- Daily American - March 27, 2024
- USA Today - March 11, 2024
- USA Today - March 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 28, 2024
- New York Times - February 22, 2024
- USA Today - January 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 01, 2024
- LA Times - December 07, 2023
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