Clues for the word "BAFFLE"
We've had 24 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 56 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on October 09, 2025.
Definition of baffle
- v. t. - To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
- v. t. - To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
- v. t. - To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
- v. i. - To practice deceit.
- v. i. - To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
- n. - A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
Referring Clues
- Cause to be stuck
- Discombobulate
- Perplex
- Puzzle
- Confound
- Confuse
- Dumbfound
- Keep hitters off balance, e.g.
- Mystify
- Present a poser to
- Stump
- Puzzle - foil
- Flummox
- Fox starts to frolic freely in hay?
- Frustrate
- Bewilder
- Stump with device to retrain the flow
- Fox comes to grief at last in tortuous fable
- Bewilder gnome with excellent returns
- Spirit phenomenal, when up for puzzle
- Throw
- Fox first to feature in rewritten fable
- Nonplus
- Defeat the formation of much unsafe flab
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - October 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 05, 2024
- USA Today - September 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 02, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 16, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 22, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 05, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 09, 2022
- New York Times - December 01, 2017
- LA Times - November 23, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 04, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 01, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 30, 2017
- LA Times - May 17, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - May 16, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - April 22, 2017
- Netword - April 04, 2017
- Guardian Quick - February 17, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - September 14, 2016
- Guardian Prize - May 28, 2016
- Guardian Speedy - April 03, 2016
- Guardian Quick - December 17, 2015
- And in 26 more crossword puzzles...