Clues for the word "ATBAY"
We've had 46 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 164 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on November 30, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Held off
- Cornered
- Unable to flee
- In check
- How you might hold a vicious animal
- Without an out
- Unable to retreat, as an animal
- On the defensive
- With one's back to the wall
- Unable to attack
- Held in check
- One way to be held
- Held back
- In a position of no escape
- No longer dangerous
- No longer a threat
- Backed into a corner
- Kept ___ (held off)
- A way you wouldn't want to be held
- Up a tree
- Trapped
- How one may be held
- Hemmed in, perhaps
- Out of striking distance
- Cornered, as a wild animal
- How an angry dog should be kept
- Cornered, as a hunted animal
- Like cornered prey
- Like a rat in a trap
- Trapped in a corner, say
- Prevented from attacking
- Like a contained enemy
- Up a tree, say
- Forced to turn and face the attackers
- A river protects British on the defensive
- Delayed from acting
- Unable to retreat
- Good spot to keep an enemy
- Good way to keep an enemy
- Like a cornered wild animal
- Forced to turn defiant
- How to turn desperate
- Like an animal with its back against the wall (2 words)
- Kept in check
- Unable to come any closer
- One way an animal may be held
Last Seen In
- New York Times - November 30, 2025
- LA Times - September 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 04, 2025
- New York Times - August 10, 2025
- Daily American - December 28, 2024
- Daily American - November 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 09, 2024
- New York Times - November 26, 2023
- LA Times - June 20, 2023
- New York Times - June 02, 2023
- New York Times - January 26, 2023
- Daily American - December 28, 2022
- Daily American - November 02, 2022
- USA Today - June 07, 2022
- New York Times - January 24, 2022
- Wall Street Journal - January 08, 2018
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 10, 2017
- Universal - November 05, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - October 21, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 14, 2017
- Universal - October 13, 2017
- Netword - September 23, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 13, 2017
- New York Times - September 01, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 20, 2017
- LA Times - July 20, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - June 09, 2017
- USA Today - March 03, 2017
- USA Today - December 29, 2016
- LA Times - December 28, 2016
- And in 134 more crossword puzzles...