Clues for the word "BAN"
We've had 175 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 896 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on February 19, 2026.
Definition of ban
- n. - A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
- n. - A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
- n. - Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
- n. - An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
- n. - A curse or anathema.
- n. - A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
- v. t. - To curse; to invoke evil upon.
- v. t. - To forbid; to interdict.
- v. i. - To curse; to swear.
- n. - An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
Referring Clues
- Forbid
- Rule out
- Test-___ treaty
- Outlaw
- Interdict
- Exclude
- Shut out
- Secret competitor
- Embargo
- Proscribe
- Nuclear treaty result
- Keep out
- Outlawry
- Uncompromising law
- Blackout
- Prohibit
- Block
- Kick out
- Sure rival
- Roll-on brand
- Preclusion
- Stop O.K.'ing
- Prohibition
- U.N. chief ___ Ki-moon
- No-smoking ordinance, e.g.
- Put the kibosh on
- Blackball
- Interdiction
- Make taboo
- Disallow
- Sure alternative
- Taboo
- Make illegal
- Say "No more"
- Prohibit officially
- Maker of Intensely Fresh deodorant
- Arrid competitor
- Declare off-limits
- Author's kiss of death
- Proscription
- Officially bar from entry
- Legal prohibition
- Forbiddance
- Prohibit by official decree
- Informal denunciation
- Permit no more
- Put an embargo on
- Preventive measure
- Secret rival
- Criminalize
- Refuse to allow
- Arrid alternative
- Secret rival?
- Axe alternative
- Pass a law about, maybe
- The U.N.'s ___ Ki-moon
- Make illegal
- Make an exception?
- Put a stop to
- Illegalize
- Excommunicate
- Proscrip-tion
- Quit allowing
- Not allow
- Blacklist
- Moratorium
- Legal deterrent
- Heavy-handed measure
- Place on a blacklist
- Heavy handed measure
- Censor
- Punish by excluding
- Certain decree
- Big soda ___ (NYC public health initiative)
- Travel ___
- Stop allowing
- Secret alternative
- Judicial order
- Prohibit by law
- Boycott
- Officially prohibit and this puzzle's theme
- Condemnation form the church
- Legally stop
- Do away with
- Put on a blacklist
- Abolish
- Test ___
- Censure
- Officially prohibit
- Severe penalty
- Prohibit, as a pesticide
- Deny use
- Stifle legally
- Permanently exclude
- Stop
- Prohibit, as pesticides
- Bristol-Myers brand
- Right Guard rival
- Negative decree
- Keep away
- Place off limits
- Government stance on texting while driving
- Competitor of Secret
- Exclusion
- A decree that prohibits something
- International treaty subject
- Create an embargo
- Block or outlaw
- Complete block
- Declare verboten
- Test ___ (treaty subject)
- Exception
- Put an end to
- Smoking ___
- Stoppage
- Exile
- Cessation
- Deodorant brand
- Outlaw a hardcore album
- What PMRC will recommend
- Outlaw band from venue
- Exclude the big-headed one
- Don't allow a bachelor to have a bit of fun
- Forbid a bachelor to have a bit of fun
- Refuse to allow to catch up?
- Outlaw? Yes, a big-headed one!
- Don't allow to catch up
- Outlaw, you catch returning
- More than a moratorium
- Bar
- To outlaw an album
- Brand of roll-on deodorant
- Make 58-Across
- Strictly forbid
- Nuclear test ___
- Successor of 10 Down
- Halt order
- Right Guard competitor
- In prohibition, bank a thousand less
- Declare illegal
- Don't allow a bachelor to go to the North Pole
- Make verboten
- Prohibit bank robbery!
- Some husbands make no allowance!
- Restrict
- Kick out for good
- See 25 Across
- Veto
- Judge's seat
- Make off-limits
- Declare forbidden
- Legal end
- Declare taboo
- Force onto the black market, say
- Officially forbid
- Outlaw a bachelor, a motherless man
- Stop the use of
- Don't allow to leave the report unfinished
- “___ the bomb”
- Exclude a bachelor at the detention centre
- Outlaw robbing a bank
- Set out of bounds
- Focus of many a law
- Bar from entry
- Enjoin
- Right Guard alternative
- Something that might be put on plastic bags
- Refuse to allow to catch up?
- Severe punishment
- Severe social media punishment
- Make an exception?
- Forbid, or a deodorant brand
- Word that becomes its own synonym when the last letter is changed to "r"
- Excommunicate, e.g.
- Anti-troll measure
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - February 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 10, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 02, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 25, 2026
- New York Times - January 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 03, 2025
- LA Times - September 24, 2025
- New York Times - September 23, 2025
- Daily American - September 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 16, 2025
- LA Times - September 15, 2025
- New York Times - September 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 24, 2025
- New York Times - August 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 18, 2025
- Daily American - July 09, 2025
- LA Times - July 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 26, 2025
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