Clues for the word "BAIL"
We've had 219 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 365 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on August 20, 2026.
Definition of bail
- n. - A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
- v. t. - To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
- v. t. - To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
- v./t. - To deliver; to release.
- v./t. - To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
- v./t. - To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
- n. - Custody; keeping.
- n. - The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
- n. - The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
- n. - The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
- n. - A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
- n. - A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
- n. - The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
- n. - A certain limit within a forest.
- n. - A division for the stalls of an open stable.
- n. - The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
Referring Clues
- Kind of bond
- Get-out-of-jail money
- Release money
- Keep a leaky boat afloat
- It may be forfeited
- Jump (out), as from a plane
- It may be jumped
- It may be skipped or jumped
- It's limited by the Eighth Amendment
- Throw out water
- Get-out-of-jail fee
- Cost of leaving, for some
- Bondsman's payment
- Help the boat float
- Rescue, with "out"
- Remove, as water from a boat
- Night court payment
- Bondsman's security
- It's set by a judge
- Judge's determination
- Cost of freedom?
- Leave in a hurry, slangily
- Leap from a plane, with "out"
- You shouldn't skip it
- Extricate from a financial predicament, with "out"
- Abandon a commitment
- Leave quickly, in slang
- Way to get out of 1-Down
- Jump (out)
- Take off
- What a judge may grant
- Cost of leaving
- Rescue, with "out"
- Pre-trial court payment
- Leave in a hurry
- Pretrial payment
- Night-court payment
- Quit
- Public defender's request
- Prevent a sinking
- One thing to do with a bucket
- What some people jump
- Money for release
- Court security
- $50, in "Monopoly"
- Can opener?
- It may be forfeited or jumped
- Lift out leakage
- Some people skip it
- One may get out on it
- Empty the bilge
- It's often posted
- Price of freedom
- Court collection
- Perp's payment
- Jump from a plane, with "out"
- What a judge sets
- Keep the boat afloat
- Cost to get out of 46-Across
- Help (out)
- Defender's concern
- The price of freedom
- Leave, slangily
- Dump water overboard
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- Fee to get free
- Criminal charge?
- What a felon may be free on
- Judges setting
- Judges setting
- ____ bond
- Prisoner's concern
- Kind of bondsman
- It could be jumped
- It may be posted
- It may be posted
- Flee, informally
- See 36 Across
- $50, in 'Monopoly'
- Free money?
- $50 'Monopoly' payment
- Leave when things get tough
- $50, in 'Monop-oly'
- Get-out-of-jail cost
- Jump ship, with 'out'
- Defense attorney's request
- Money posted in court
- Bucket handle
- Court payment
- Judge's setting
- Amount set by a judge
- Use a parachute
- It maybe posted
- $50, in Monopoly
- Something you might be out on
- Ship water
- Something it's against the law to jump
- What some bondsmen offer
- Leave quickly, so to speak
- Court setting
- It's illegal to jump it
- Bondsmen provide it
- Eighth Amendment topic
- $50 Monopoly payment
- Cash for security
- Bondsman's concern
- Get-out-of-jail cash
- Judge's setting?
- Bondsman's contribution
- Trust fund?
- Bucket in a boat
- One way to pass water?
- A bad thing to jump
- Empty a boat, in a way
- What some prisoners make
- Amount to get sprung
- Abandon
- Save the canoe
- Accused's need
- Cost to get out of jail
- Absent oneself
- Something one shouldn't jump
- Payment that's posted
- It helps one avoid jail time
- Rescue from trouble, with "out"
- Scoop water
- Try to prevent a sinking
- Accused's bond
- Bondsman's offering
- Something an arrested person tries to "make"
- Empty of water
- Pitch water
- Dip out
- Dip out water
- Remove water from a boat with a container
- Remove water from a boat
- Get water out of the boat
- One way to keep from sinking?
- Renegade (on)
- Surety
- Wicket crosspiece
- One of two on the stumps
- One of four involved in a game offering security
- One of four in 10 to provide surety
- Temporary release of the accused - wicket crosspiece
- Part of a wicket - legal payment
- Remove water from -- part of wicket
- Financial security essential for cricketer
- See 24
- Security for temporary release
- Security for release - part of a wicket
- One may be out on it or out when it's off
- Might one get out on this part of a wicket?
- Leave unceremoniously
- Free cash?
- The price of freedom?
- Renege (on)
- Defendant's bond money
- Security for the Italian undergraduate
- Cross piece on wicket
- ___ bondsman (someone who gets a defendant out of jail)
- Skip out (on)
- Free money?
- Depart unceremoniously, in slang
- Accused person's bond
- Post bond
- It may be set at $100,000
- Flee, so to speak
- Leave suddenly, slangily
- Attend to a leaking boat
- Totally abandon one's plan
- It's a crime to skip it
- Scoop out water
- Leave quickly, informally
- Abandon an effort, in slang
- Scram from danger
- Try to avert a sinking
- Can opener?
- Try to stay afloat, perhaps
- It can get you out of a place it rhymes with
- Given it, one is somewhat liable to return
- Leave
- Clear of water
- Cut out early
- Leave suddenly
- Pretrial court payment
- Leave abruptly, slangily
- Cancel your plans, slangily
- Scoop out, as water
- One with a partner at the wicket?
- Exit in a hurry
- Flake out
- Cancel at the last minute
- Flake at the last minute
- Leave early
- Sailor's emergency container
- Leave abruptly
- Abandon ship
- The ___ Project (pretrial support group)
- ___ fund (prison abolitionist's organization)
- High court figure, at times
- Leave a party early
- Suddenly back out
- Something a person in jail might make
- Flake out at the last minute
- Flake (on)
- Back out unexpectedly
- Remove water
- Dip out suddenly
- Abandon one's social plans
- Flake
- Skip out of a party
- Not stick around
- Target of Illinois' Pretrial Fairness Act
- Leave folks hanging
- Call off plans abruptly
- Duck out early
- Abruptly call off one's plans
- Back out (on)
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - August 20, 2026
- Daily American - July 19, 2026
- LA Times - May 12, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 29, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 17, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 19, 2025
- LA Times - December 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 10, 2025
- New York Times - November 03, 2025
- LA Times - October 05, 2025
- Daily American - September 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 12, 2025
- LA Times - August 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 08, 2025
- New York Times - August 02, 2025
- LA Times - July 19, 2025
- Daily American - July 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 16, 2025
- LA Times - May 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 29, 2025
- Daily American - May 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 27, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 02, 2025
- USA Today - March 12, 2025
- LA Times - March 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 27, 2025
- New York Times - January 21, 2025
- LA Times - January 14, 2025
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