Clues for the word "BEGGAR"
We've had 53 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 69 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on August 20, 2025.
Definition of beggar
- n. - One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
- n. - One who makes it his business to ask alms.
- n. - One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
- n. - One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.
- v. t. - To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
- v. t. - To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
Referring Clues
- Person with a hat, maybe
- One desiring change
- Penniless person
- One striving for change?
- Lazarus, for one
- Odysseus disguise
- Nonchooser, proverbially
- Penniless person with a hat, perhaps
- Tin cup holder, perhaps
- One wanting something for nothing
- Alms seeker
- Non-chooser, supposedly
- One with a hand out
- Mendicant
- Handout seeker
- Panhandler
- Alms-seeker
- Street corner cupholder
- Holy figure, in many religions
- Unlikely chooser?
- Charity seeker
- Non-chooser, it's said
- Change is important for him
- Pauper
- Nonchooser?
- Panhandling person
- One seeking a handout
- One who can't be a chooser?
- Carry round goods for one who can't afford them
- Be hard to swallow, as snack in pub: conviction follows
- Impoverish Russia symbolically over gulag being evacuated?
- He can't be a chooser, proverbially
- One cannot be a chooser
- Person who can't choose?
- One seeking alms
- Black moth: one found in old clothes
- No chooser, proverbially
- Saying what wish might be to carry around this one
- He has no choice, poor chap
- A self-employed solicitor?
- Pauper demands breakfast food in cafe
- 8s packed in hairy thing, bum
- One wanting food in pub?
- One asking Paddington, say, to eat horse
- Basic food in drinking establishment for 2
- No chooser, so they say
- Seeker of spare change
- Don't allow to bring food in for the poor fellow
- Soap and food sent in for someone needy
- One with hat in hand
- A derelict pub, exhort to go into
- Pauper to carry round with a horse!
- Change seeker
Last Seen In
- New York Times - August 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 08, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 01, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 23, 2023
- Guardian Quick - November 01, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 08, 2017
- Family Time - June 26, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - April 04, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - March 21, 2017
- Guardian Quick - March 18, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - March 02, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - February 24, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - December 16, 2016
- LA Times - December 11, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - July 21, 2016
- Guardian Speedy - May 29, 2016
- Netword - December 23, 2015
- Washington Post - March 26, 2014
- Chicago Reader - October 11, 2013
- And in 39 more crossword puzzles...