Clues for the word "ALLEY"
We've had 156 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 385 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on September 14, 2026.
Definition of alley
- n. - A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
- n. - A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
- n. - A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- n. - Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
- n. - The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
- n. - A choice taw or marble.
Referring Clues
- Back way
- Part of a tennis court
- Strike site
- Common trash can site
- Kind of cat
- Kegler's place
- Way with strays?
- Back street
- It may be blind
- No place for a big rig
- Possible location for a back door
- Bowler's hangout
- Bowler's milieu
- Narrow access
- Kegler's locale
- Urban cat's home, maybe
- Place for a spare
- Place for a spare?
- Spare site
- Bowler's place
- Where to find lanes
- Bowling site
- Where you can hear pins drop
- Narrow street
- Tin Pan ___
- Spot for a strike
- Strike zone
- Kegling spot
- Garbage can locale
- Indoor site of balls and strikes
- Bowling lane
- Pin spot
- Narrow area
- Place to bowl
- Back ___
- Cat's home, maybe
- Kegler's milieu
- Place for pins
- It has gutters to the left and right
- Place for pinheads?
- Tom's turf
- Kegler locale
- Place for a strike
- Space between buildings
- It might be blind
- Type of cat
- Pin site
- Narrow side street
- Place for a Dumpster
- Dangerous place to walk at night, perhaps
- Lane
- Cats' bailiwick
- Diagon, in Harry Potter books
- Back ___
- With 98-Across, showy play
- Bowling milieu
- Silicon ___ (N.Y.C. tech center)
- Stray cat's hangout
- Strike setting
- Cats' hangout
- Backstreet
- Cat's hangout
- Back-street
- Bowling spot
- 'Gasoline ___'
- Jenny Craig spokeswoman
- Kegler's path
- Pin-setter's place
- 'Cheers' cast member
- Back road
- Dumpster locale
- Small passageway between buildings
- Narrow road
- Narrow lane between buildings
- Dumpster location
- Passageway
- It has pins at one end
- Gasoline or Kirstie
- Where pins stand on end
- Tornado ___
- Site of some strikes
- ____ cat
- Keglers' mecca
- Bowling building
- Where you can hear a pin drop
- One place to find cats
- Hangout for some 38-Down
- Cul-de-sac
- Passage between buildings
- Dumpster's locale
- Service road
- "Gasoline ___"
- Tomcat's milieu
- What a back door may open to
- Narrow backstreet
- Place for pinsetters
- Mews in London
- Strike zone?
- "___ oop"
- Way in the back, often
- Locale for urban trash cans
- Kirstie of TV
- Way behind buildings
- Bowling area
- Part 5 of today's quote
- Bowling venue
- Bowling ___
- Narrow lane
- Passageway between buildings, sometimes
- "Look Who's Talking" actress
- Space between two buildings
- Scary road at night
- Robert Palmer: "Sneakin' Sally Through the ___"
- Joan Jett "Up Your ___"
- Stevie Ray Vaughan "Tin Pan ___"
- Narrow back street
- Passage
- Passage between houses, perhaps
- A path to go bowling along
- Path that leads everybody to extremes of ecstasy
- Everybody at a loose end on the 4th of July can go bowling here
- Narrow passageway
- It's narrow and may have pins at the end
- In a narrow way, it applies to bowling
- Marble passageway
- Narrow way
- Dumpster location, often
- Gutter spot
- Sports venue, bowling ___
- Astronomer lost his head in backstreet
- Passage concealed by several leylandii
- Site of some splits
- Narrow passage between buildings
- Feral cat's hangout
- Friend embraces European way
- Place for a dumpster, perhaps
- Bowling establishment
- Place to convert splits
- Bowling center
- "Cheers" actress
- See 56-Across
- Urban shortcut
- Kegler's spot
- Passageway between buildings
- ___ cat
- Cat hangout?
- Site of many strikes
- Place with balls and strikes
- With 81-Across, flashy basketball play
- Street closed to cars, maybe
- Place to strike
- What the back of a store might open onto
- Strike zone?
- Site of some gutters
- Where to get the ball rolling, maybe
- Narrow way between city buildings
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 14, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - September 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - August 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 23, 2026
- New York Times - June 22, 2026
- LA Times - June 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - June 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 23, 2026
- New York Times - April 13, 2026
- LA Times - March 01, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 24, 2026
- New York Times - February 16, 2026
- New York Times - February 01, 2026
- Daily American - January 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 12, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 30, 2025
- Daily American - October 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 16, 2025
- New York Times - October 13, 2025
- LA Times - September 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 26, 2025
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