Clues for the word "BAR"
We've had 579 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1382 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 23, 2026.
Definition of bar
- n. - A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
- n. - An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
- n. - Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- n. - A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
- n. - Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
- n. - The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.
- n. - The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
- n. - The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
- n. - A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
- n. - Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
- n. - A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
- n. - An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
- n. - A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
- n. - A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
- n. - The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- n. - The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.
- n. - A drilling or tamping rod.
- n. - A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- n. - A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- n. - A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
- n. - To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
- n. - To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
- n. - To except; to exclude by exception.
- n. - To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
Referring Clues
- Crosspiece
- "Cheers" setting
- Ingot
- Reef
- Prevent
- Tollbooth part
- Common setting for a joke
- Lawyer's hurdle
- See 54-Down
- Obstacle
- Saloon
- Three Musketeers unit
- Axle, e.g.
- High-jump need
- Tender spot?
- It's moved in limbo
- Eliminate
- "Public house"
- Setting for many jokes
- Place to get a screwdriver
- Place for a gimlet or screwdriver
- Where to see a round of shots
- Limbo requisite
- Sot's spot
- Tavern
- Where spirits are located
- Place for a cold one
- Slot machine symbol
- Grill's partner
- Snack ___ (beach structure)
- High-jumper's hurdle
- Word with toll or roll
- Tender place?
- Setting for many a joke
- High jump equipment
- Mars or Milky Way
- Keep out
- "A guy walks into a ___ ..."
- Drinker's place
- High jump need
- Word with code or exam
- Except for
- Mars ___
- Rule out
- Cordial surroundings?
- Kind of exam
- It can precede the starts of 16-, 26-, 43- and 58-Across and 10- and 33-Down
- Setting of many jokes
- Mixologist's workplace
- Manhattan's place
- It's jumped in a high jump
- High jump need
- Kind of graph
- Judging by their names, where the answers to the four starred clues might be found?
- Honky-tonk
- 52-Across once passed it, with "the"
- Word defined by 17-, 25-, 35-, 45- and 58-Across
- Mars unit
- Mixologist's milieu
- Common joke setting
- It's raised to raise standards
- Meat market, often
- Pickup place
- Piano or roll follower
- Block
- Groggery
- Lieutenant's insignia
- Form of candy?
- Legal passage?
- Location for some brawls
- You might stand a round here
- Nineteenth hole
- Place for a snort
- Place to purchase a screwdriver
- Block passage through
- Exclude
- Watering hole
- Gold ingot
- Local meeting place, perhaps
- Dial unit
- Forbid entry to
- Fort Knox item
- See 36-Across
- Slot machine icon
- Slot symbol
- Where to find a zombie
- Blackball
- Many a joke setting
- Limbo obstacle
- Where a zombie might be seen
- Frequent karaoke setting
- Spot to spot spirits
- Mudslide locale
- Unit of pressure
- Manhattan buyer's place
- Happy hour site, and word that can follow each last name in the answers to starred clues
- What a high jumper jumps
- Limbo need
- Measure
- Hit blot's spot, in backgammon
- Word with raw and wet
- Cantina
- "Science for a better life" sloganeer
- Word with coffee or roll
- Shut out
- Theater lobby hangout
- Word after "Don't pass" and "Don't come" on a craps table
- Where Orvieto can be found
- Spot for a screwdriver
- Watering hole, so to speak
- Tap room
- Candy choice
- Joke setting
- Manhattan setting?
- Sour server
- Happy hour locale
- Grill partner
- Joint in many jokes
- Dart game locale
- Happy hour hangout
- "Cheers" setting
- Limbo prop
- Mixologist's place
- Soap purchase
- Ingot shape
- Chocolate unit
- Butter unit
- Hinder
- Slot-machine icon
- 81 Across server
- Old-fashioned setting
- Prohibit
- Soap unit
- "A guy walks into a ___ ..."
- Tender beginner?
- Milky Way unit
- Lush surroundings?
- Lifebuoy form?
- Cheers, e.g.
- Horizontal restaurant surface
- Candy unit
- Word with "code" and "chart"
- It may be raised
- You might have a shot at it
- Johnnie Cochran passed it
- The legal profession
- Home for some flies
- Form of chocolate?
- To succeed, you may have to raise it
- Shot spot
- Form for candy
- Type of exam
- Joke setting, often
- Place for many belts
- Musician's measure
- Lush surrounding?
- Public house
- Obstruct
- Legal profession
- Place for 90 Across
- See 6-Across
- Soap buy
- Milky Way, e.g.
- Attorneys, collectively
- Cake of soap
- Cell component
- Pole-vault prop
- Place for 49 Across
- Place for a pint
- 112-Down's milieu
- Enjoin
- "A guy walks into a ___
"
- "A guy walks into a ___ ..."
- Ivory unit
- Word after roll or scroll
- Where to take a shot
- Law symbol
- It's raised for a challenge
- Draft board?
- Room with a draft
- Sushi setting
- Ban
- Estop
- CBA word
- Happy Hour site
- Destination of many a fake ID user
- Business with a jukebox
- Manhattan setting
- Place for a draft
- Rare site during Prohibition
- It may be sandy or candy
- Lawyer's association
- Object from Mars?
- Place for a drink
- Attorneys, as a group
- Forbid
- Where to hold a pink lady
- With 114 Across, law grad's hurdle
- Writing in a box
- Tender area?
- Word with chart or graph
- Gold unit
- Rail
- Slot-machine symbol
- Proscribe
- Pub
- Impede
- Part of ABA
- Gin mill
- Row of black squares preceding or following six puzzle answers, thereby completing them
- Grill's go-with
- Unlikely place for free spirits
- Place to get smashed
- Keyboard spacer
- Keyboard spacer
- Cakelike cookie
- Place for pickups
- Quaffing place
- Place to stand around with a round
- Brewery client
- Cake like cookie
- Lounge
- Soap or candy unit
- Hotel feature
- Joint in many a joke
- Gin joint
- Salad setting
- ___ exam (test given twice a year)
- Word with cross or crow
- Tippler's haunt
- Nightclub
- Imbibing site
- Chocolate shape
- Sandy navigational hazard
- Place with drafts
- Candy in a wrapper
- Piece of chocolate
- Candy shape
- Where many a joke is set
- Kind of chart or code
- Stand in the way of
- Refuse entry
- Pub kin
- Spot for a shot
- Cheers, on TV
- Dive, maybe
- Liquor server
- Divider in a musical score
- "Guy walks into a ___ ..."
- Cheers, for one
- "Two guys walk into a ___ ..."
- Gridiron component
- Musical measure
- Where a zombie might be found
- A good place to belly up to
- Beer offerer
- Dove purchase
- Gymnastic equipment
- Drinks counter
- Staff section
- No, in a circle
- Salad or sushi
- Taproom
- Prevent from entering
- American pub
- It can be "bellied up" to
- Place to get served
- Room with a draft?
- Happy hour spot
- "Happy Hour" site
- Raising the ___
- See 120-Across
- Obstruction
- MacLaren's on "How I Met Your Mother," for example
- Archie's place
- Place for a cocktail
- Word with "cross" or "crow"
- Salad ___
- Courtroom railing
- Candy purchase
- Block of soap
- Lounge feature
- Disqualify
- Attorneys passed it
- See 10-Down
- Jungle gym part
- Milky Way, for one
- Pole vaulter's challenge
- Nineteenth hole [SEE NOTE for last week's bird explanation]
- Famous sitcom setting
- Candy purchase, sometimes
- Drinking site
- Vaulter's hurdle
- Tender opening?
- Round house?
- Cosmopolitan place
- Except
- 'Cheers' set
- Cheers was one
- Court accessory
- Piece of solid material
- Candy form
- Dove shape
- Drafty place?
- Manhattan developer?
- Follower of coffee, milk, or wine
- Tosspot's hangout
- Word that can follow the second parts of 17- and 56-Across and 10- and 24-Down
- "Cheers" location
- Hotel's watering hole
- Happy hour place
- Phil's or Cheers
- Place for a screwdriver
- Old fashioned spot
- Where many drafts are produced
- Measure, in music
- Place to drink up
- With 54-Across, tavern total
- ___ code
- Candy serving
- Social spot
- Kind of code or chart
- Preclude
- Keep from entering
- Happy hour sponsor
- Self-serve salad site
- Place for fuzzy navels
- Military band?
- ___ and grill (type of restaurant)
- Trivia night locale
- Backdrop for many jokes
- Setting for many a joke about a priest, a rabbi and a minister
- Cheers or Moe's
- No, in circular signs
- Measure marker
- For some, it's set low
- Happy hour venue
- Military decoration
- Many a lounge
- Chocolate purchase
- Place to run a 106 Down
- Legal exam
- Banish
- Soap cake
- Beer joint
- Piece of soap
- Musical unit
- Kit-Kat ___
- Candy ___
- Three Musketeer's candy unit
- Lawyers - for drinks (3)
- Word with salad or candy
- Part of a prison door
- Word after salad or sushi
- Word with candy or salad
- It's used for chin-ups
- Liquor location
- Pickup hangout
- Place for a pickup
- Place to "belly up to"
- Word after sports or wet
- Hunter S. Thompson character ___ Duke
- Karaoke joint, usually
- Prohibit from entering
- Candy unit, sometimes
- Where Moscow Mules may be served
- Place walked into, in classic jokes
- Part of a jail cell
- After-show spot
- Toby Keith "I Love This ___"
- What band hits after show
- Cocktail lounge
- Electric Six "Gay ___"
- Pink Floyd "Ibiza ___"
- Pub (and a word that can follow the second parts of 17- and
- John Hiatt "The Tiki ___ is Open"
- Sunset Strip's rocker hangout Rainbow ___ & Grill
- See 9
- Support (for a drinker?)
- Ballet dancer's exercise rail
- Counter
- Lever
- A piece of music
- Prohibition drinking place!
- Extra decoration in the saloon
- Except for soap?
- Keep out of the pub
- Exclude a hard-hearted bighead
- Except for some notes of music
- Keep out of the saloon
- Save soap
- Except for chocolate
- Piece of music in the pub?
- Except for the additional decoration
- Length of wood or metal - drinking place
- Drinking place or cabaret centre
- Decoration added to a drinking place
- Except for that hard-hearted bighead
- Extra decoration at the local?
- Except - lawyers
- Lawyers collectively
- Obstacle for the legal profession
- Some pressure to exclude Rod
- Setting of many a joke
- Reception feature
- Where you might see a newer band
- Exclusive drinking place?
- Code or chart type
- Sometimes you just have to raise it
- Rigid piece of metal
- Place to order a gin and tonic
- Place to hoist a few
- Cage constituent
- Where restaurant patrons might wait
- Pub counter
- Drinking establishment
- Saloon counter
- Advocates prohibition
- Except legal limitation
- What a pole-vaulter tries to go over
- Where to get a Black Russian
- Place for a martini
- Place to grab a drink
- See 64-Down
- What you try to go under when doing the limbo
- Keep out of a drinking place
- Nightclub or saloon
- Individual metal part of a jail cell
- Where a person in charge is making the rounds?
- Ingot, for instance
- Saloon necessity
- Railing
- Something for a gymnast
- Place for mixed drinks
- Drinking venue
- Space ___ (long key on a keyboard)
- Tender spot?
- Place to get a Rusty Nail
- Obstacle in drinking establishment
- Log of chocolate
- Don't allow extra decoration
- Obstacle in the pub
- Place for shots
- ___ exam
- Barrier
- "The Iceman Cometh" setting
- Sidecar site
- A bit of music in the pub?
- Prohibition, as related to alcoholic drink
- Pole vaulter's obstacle
- It's bellied up to
- Part of a prison cell
- Frequent joke setting
- Place to get 35-Down
- Roller coaster restraint
- Happy hour spot (1)
- Wings locale
- Trivia night site
- Chocolate block
- Tender start?
- Kickstand, basically
- Where to order rounds
- Stop from entering
- Saving to get chocolate?
- Pickup spot, perhaps
- Place for chin-ups
- Granola ___
- Where drinks were sold in prohibition?
- Don't allow to get a second award
- Extra decoration for the saloon?
- Decoration for the cake
- Place to order 53-Down
- Lush surroundings?
- Prevent legally
- Local watering hole
- Exclude from the pub
- Deny entry to
- Steel rod
- ___ exam (would-be lawyer's hurdle)
- Happy hour haunt
- Law student's exam
- Gold ___
- Pullup site
- Word following snack or space
- Restrict
- MacLaren's on "How I Met Your Mother," e.g.
- What a priest, a minister and a rabbi might walk into
- Nightspot
- See 39-Across
- Chocolate candy shape
- Server of shots
- House of spirits?
- Restaurant seating area
- Cell part
- Was it exclusive in Prohibition?
- Word after "grab" or "granola"
- Pole vaulter's target
- Word after "candy" or "snack"
- Refuse admission to
- ___ none
- Raise the ___
- An exclusive joint?
- Place for good spirits
- Karaoke locale, often
- ___ none (without exception)
- 35-Down seller
- Setting for TV's "Cheers"
- What "A guy walks into"
- It may be above a keeper's head
- It may have a tender behind
- Limbo item
- Stripe
- Outlaw
- Where rusty nails may get you hammered
- Conference without the jury ("side")
- Snickers purchase
- Shape of an ingot
- Stout server
- High-jump stick
- Word after "candy" or "coffee"
- Musical fragment
- Piece of limbo equipment
- High thing to set for oneself
- Word after "candy" or "pullup"
- Item used for pullups
- Except for soap?
- "Tango ___"
- Item used for chin-ups
- Something for a high jumper to jump over
- Save the chocolate
- Exclusive drinking-place?
- Extra decoration in a drinking place
- Milk ___ (Christina Tosi's dessert chain)
- It's raised by the best
- Place people walk into for jokes?
- Snack ___
- Belly up to the ___
- Manhattan purveyor
- One isn't good for cellphone service
- Place to make a round trip?
- Unit of cellphone signal strength
- Establishment with a liquor license
- Where to find a pink lady
- "That's a pretty low ___"
- Word after "lesbian" or "granola"
- Chocolatier's unit
- Place where you might order a mocktail
- Classic joke locale
- Piece of music in the pub?
- ___ and grill
- High-jump hurdle
- ___ mitzvah
- Stonewall Inn, e.g.
- Unit of candy or gold
- Snack or salad follower
- Speakeasy, basically
- Juke joint
- Word after "karaoke" or "Klondike"
- Extra decoration at the local?
- Trivia night setting
- Hershey or Kit Kat unit
- Unit of cellphone reception
- Limbo barrier
- Block, in a way
- Place to order a gimlet
- Standard to exceed, metaphorically
- Spot to take a shot
- Word after "soda" or "ice-cream"
- Uneven thing for gymnasts?
- Where shots are taken
- Cellphone signal unit
- Word after "space" or "salad"
- Horizontal gymnastics balancer
- Workplace for a young Abraham Lincoln
- Word before "chart" or "mitzvah"
- Something that can be raised or passed
- Cosmopolitan place?
- Setting for many a joke with a priest, a pastor and a rabbi
- Cell signal unit
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 23, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 06, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 20, 2025
- New York Times - November 17, 2025
- Mirror Mini - November 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 10, 2025
- Mirror Mini - September 07, 2025
- New York Times - September 03, 2025
- LA Times - August 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 26, 2025
- LA Times - August 24, 2025
- New York Times - August 23, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 22, 2025
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