Clues for the word "APES"
We've had 442 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1147 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on February 17, 2026.
Referring Clues
- Mimics
- Barbary beasts
- Jungle creatures
- Copies
- Primatologists' subjects
- Parrots
- "2001" characters
- Fossey's fascination
- Some are "great"
- King Kong and others
- Greystoke's foster parents
- Parodies
- Lunks
- Monkeys' uncles
- People preceders
- "Planet of the ___"
- Subjects of Darwinian theory
- King Kong's kin
- Simians
- Gibbons and others
- Henchmen
- Goons
- Jungle swingers
- Earth rulers in a 1968 film
- Steps in human evolution
- Monkeys' uncles?
- Bronx Zoo houseful
- Gorillas and chimps
- Extras in the opening of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
- "Great" beasts
- Real swingers?
- Makes fun of, in a way
- Big galoots
- Forest swingers
- Captors in a sci-fi classic
- Tarzan's raisers
- Zoo animals
- Zoo houseful
- Level on the evolutionary ladder
- Gibbons and gorillas
- Animals of the species Pan troglodyte
- Primatologist's study
- Makes like
- Gorillas and such
- Pithecologists' study
- Hairy Halloween costumes
- Pals of Tarzan
- Knuckle draggers
- Monkey's uncles?
- Lummoxes
- Copiers
- Mimics mockingly
- Acts like
- Steps in the evolution of man
- "Tarzan of the ___"
- Big lugs
- Some early "astronauts"
- Hairy copiers
- Humans' cousins, to evolutionists
- Heston's jailors, in a sci-fi film
- Gibbons et al.
- Dian Fossey studied them
- Large copiers
- First-scene characters in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
- Orangutans, for instance
- Some of our fellow primates
- Imitates
- Chimps and such
- Mighty Joe Young and others
- Chimps and kin
- Big brutes
- Earth's dominant society, in a Wahlberg film
- Gibbons
- Louis Leakey studied them
- Does a takeoff
- Fossey's focus
- King Kong and kin
- Study subjects of some primatologists
- Those always monkeying around?
- Chimpanzees and gorillas
- Galoots
- Creatures studied by Goodall and Fossey
- Impersonates
- Tarzan's pals
- Zoo attractions
- Subject of Jane Goodall's study
- Subjects for Fossey and Goodall
- Orangutans and gibbons
- Primatologist's subjects
- Copycats
- Gibbons, e.g.
- Big louts
- Hired thugs
- Gibbons, for example
- Bonobos, e.g.
- Cornelius and Dr. Zaius, e.g.
- They might go bananas for bananas
- Goes bonkers, with "out"
- Anthropoids
- Fossey focus
- Mocks, maybe
- Gibbons and chimps
- Orangutans and gorillas
- Cornelius and Zira, in a 1968 sci-fi film
- Long-armed critters
- Gorilla and gibbon
- Dian Fossey subjects
- "Planet of the ___"
- Chimps and orangutans
- King Kong's cousins
- Zoo swingers
- Chimps and gorillas
- Monkey relatives
- Primates without tails
- Greystoke's foster family
- Some primates
- Gorillas, for example
- Flatters, in a way
- Primatology study
- Chimps, for instance
- Chimps, for example
- Long-armed animals
- Some simians
- Barbary swingers
- Popular zoo attractions
- Yerkish speakers
- Mocks by imitating
- Natural mimics
- Tarzan's friends
- They go bananas over bananas
- Kong and Young
- Nairobi Trio players
- Planet dwellers in a 1968 film
- Does likewise
- They communicate using Yerkish
- Emulates
- Some are great and some are lesser
- Fossey's study
- Some communicate using Yerkish
- They go bananas for bananas
- Learns primate-style
- Cornelius and Zira, e.g.
- Big palookas
- Bronx Zoo denizens
- "Tarzan" movie extras
- Monkey's uncles
- Follows suit
- Yerkish users
- Hairy hulks
- Gorillas
- Chimpanzees and bonobos
- Family business owners, perhaps
- Kong's kin
- Tarzan's "family"
- Hairy animals
- Zoo dwellers
- Earth's dominant mammals, in a Heston film
- Friends of Tarzan
- "Great" swingers
- Palookas
- Big lummoxes
- Orangutans, e.g.
- Zoo's houseful
- Fossey%C2%92s focus
- Fosseys focus
- Takes off on
- Jungle film regulars
- Astronaut Taylor's captors
- Imprisoners of Charlton Heston in 1968
- They might monkey around
- Animals studied by Yerkes
- Orangoutangs
- 60 Across and family
- They swing a great deal
- Plays Simon says with
- Tarzan movie extras
- Chimps and others
- "Planet of the ____"
- Rock of Gibraltar mammals
- Zoo beasts
- Gibraltar Barbary beasts
- "Rise of the Planet of the ___"
- Gibbons and Orangutans
- King kong, et al.
- Tarzan's clique
- 'Planet of the ___'
- Jungle group
- Gorillas and gibbons
- Gorillas, e.g.
- Tarzan's cronies
- Tarzan's gang
- Tarzan's posse
- Tarzan's coterie
- Tarzan's entourage
- Scopes trial reference
- Gorillas and gibbons
- Chimps, e.g.
- Big goons
- Kin of Kong
- Kong's cousins
- Nim Chimpsky and kin
- Ridicules
- Lugs
- Safari-park dwellers
- They might monkey around?
- Animal antagonists in a 2011 film
- Silverbacks
- Does little work
- Sci-fi planet inhabitants
- Heston's captors, in a sci-fi film
- Jane Goodall study
- Barbary residents
- Tarzan's neighbors
- Extras in "2001"
- Tailless primates
- Hairy ones
- Does an impression of
- Some anthropoids
- Orangutans, for example
- With competence
- Takes after
- Silverbacks, e.g.
- Zoo favorites
- Mighty Joe Young and kin
- "Tarzan" characters
- Some of them have learned to sign
- Mirrors
- Hulking brutes
- Some swingers
- Dian Fossey study
- Zoo primates
- King Kong and Magilla Gorilla
- Chimps and orangs
- Large primates
- Tarzan's foster family
- Powerful primates
- Most hominoids
- Burlesques
- Heston's hairy co-stars
- Darwinian ancestors
- Gorillas and chimpanzees
- Inhabitants of a sci-fi planet
- Big tree climbers
- Chimps and gibbons
- "2001" extras
- Goodall's subjects, e.g.
- "Great" hominids
- "Planet of the ___" (1968)
- Some early astronauts
- "Tarzan" creatures
- "Dawn of the Planet of the ___"
- Chimps, orangutans and such
- Humankind's cousins
- Does impersonations of
- Makes a recording
- Big primates
- Hairy primates
- Humans' cousins
- Inhabitants of a certain sci-fi planet
- Is a copycat
- Zira and Cornelius, in a 1968 film
- Jungle animals
- Tarzan's adopters
- Long-armed beasts
- Pithecological study
- Gorillas, for instance
- Fossey subjects
- Kong and kin
- Chimpanzees
- Hairy jungle creatures
- Does impressions of
- Sci-fi talkers since the '60s
- Orangs and such
- Extras in a Tarzan movie
- Long-armed banana lovers
- Large copiers?
- Dr. Zaius and kin
- Jungle primates
- Rwanda primates
- Jane Goodall's subjects
- Primates
- Does
- Dominant species, on a sci-fi planet
- Dian Fossey or Jane Goodall study
- National Zoo houseful
- Some beasts at 20-Across
- Gorillas or chimps
- Creatures in Darwinian theory
- Many knuckle-walking creatures
- Orangutans, gorillas and such
- Burroughs beasts
- Pretends to be
- Copyists
- Homo sapiens relatives
- Title characters of nine sci-fi films
- Jungle beasts
- Tarzan raisers
- Orangutans
- Gorillas, perhaps
- Large, hairy zoo favorites
- Animals found in PEAS?
- Large monkeys
- Big, hairy creatures
- They are larger than chimps
- Zira and Zaius, e.g.
- Hairy zoo creatures
- Planet inhabitants?
- Colonel George Taylor's movie captors
- Copies records, having missed start
- Imitates in every aspect
- They have their planet, rather like us
- Peas (anag)
- Some of the cheapest copies
- Among the cheapest zoo exhibits?
- Tarzan's adoptive family
- Makes fun of
- Tarzan's jungle family
- Takes off cloaks, but not at first
- Drs. Zira and Zaius, e.g.
- Caesar and his followers, in a series of films
- Clumsy fellows
- Animals needing mushy peas?
- "Great" or "lesser" creatures
- Talking creatures in a 2014 film
- Chest beaters
- Mocks through mimicry
- Dr. Zaius and others
- Goodall subjects
- Gorillas or orang-utans
- Imitates animals
- Crude dudes
- "Dawn of the Planet of the ___" (2014 film)
- Hairy hominids
- Beasts in Tarzan novels
- Some zoo house dwellers
- "2001" creatures
- "War for the Planet of the ___" (2017 movie)
- Gorillas and chimpanzees, for example
- Primatology subjects
- Zoo house denizens
- Gibbons and orangs
- Those in a Budapest zoo?
- Many tailless primates
- African primates
- Uncouth sorts
- Cheeta and kin
- Animals kept in shape somehow
- Dystopian planet inhabitants of film
- Tarzan's troop
- Mimics monkeys
- King Kong and his family
- Planetary rulers, in a Boulle novel
- Ham-handed fellows
- Section at a zoo
- Most tailless primates
- Residents of a 1968 movie "planet"
- Many primate house residents
- Parrots or copies
- Big monkeys
- Rulers of a sci-fi movie planet
- Orangs, for instance
- Those in the Budapest zoo?
- "Great" or "lesser" beasts
- Darwinian theory figures
- Gibbon and orang
- Boulle's planet dwellers
- "Tarzan" extras
- "Great" creatures
- Orangutans and others
- Planet rulers of sci-fi
- Humans' closest relatives
- They like bananas and split peas
- Outdoor section of a zoo
- Zoo exhibit
- Monkey’s uncles
- Anthropoid animals
- Chimpanzees and such
- Close relatives of humans, DNA-wise
- Gibraltar denizens
- Animals needing mushy peas?
- Caesar's army, in a popular film franchise
- Bonobos and chimpanzees
- King Kong and family
- Tailless simians
- Siamangs, e.g.
- Timeless recordings of animals
- Donkey Kong and others
- Gorillas are "great" ones
- Chimpanzees and orangutans
- A group of them may be called a shrewdness
- Primatologist’s subjects
- Our closest relatives at the zoo
- Bonobos and gibbons, e.g.
- Long-armed primates
- Gibbons and gorillas, e.g.
- Brutes
- Certain simians
- Some sign language users
- Hairy jungle swingers
- Animals found in 16-, 20-, 35-, 51- and 58-Across
- Bonobo and orangutan
- Primates with short tails or no tail at all
- Bonobos or gorillas
- Jane Goodall subjects
- Animals that Goodall and Fossey studied
- Close relatives of humans
- Zoo creatures
- Chimps and bonobos
- The avant-garde "artists" Congo and Pierre Brassau
- Orangutans or bonobos
- Animals studied by Tetsuro Matsuzawa
- Many beat their chests
- Gibbons, etc.
- Mocks
- Does the same as
- Cranky Kong and Donkey Kong, for example
- Animal anagram of 23-Down
- They share our blood types
- Gibbons or gorillas
- Creatures described as catarrhine, from the Latin for "downward-nosed"
- Gorillas and bonobos
- Subjects of primatologists
- Among the cheapest zoo exhibits?
- Gorillas and orangutans
- Donkey Kong and King Kong
- Uncreatively draws from
- Primatology focus
- Close relatives of monkeys
- Lord Greystoke's imitative associates
- Some monkey house inhabitants
- Donkey Kong Jr. and others
- Bonobos and orangutans, e.g.
- Relatives of monkeys
- Primates like Koko
- Gibbons and bonobos
- Primates such as Binti Jua
- Impersonates, maybe
- Humans' closest living relatives
- Tarzan's peeps
- Primates in "Tarzan"
- Mammals with prehensile feet
- "Great" animals
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - February 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 14, 2026
- Daily American - February 03, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 25, 2026
- LA Times - January 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 23, 2026
- New York Times - January 07, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 06, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 20, 2025
- LA Times - November 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 27, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 17, 2025
- Daily American - November 08, 2025
- Daily American - October 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 12, 2025
- LA Times - October 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 25, 2025
- Mirror Mini - September 19, 2025
- LA Times - September 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 31, 2025
- Daily American - August 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 13, 2025
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