Clues for the word "BISHOP"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 95 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on August 15, 2025.
Definition of bishop
- n. - A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
- n. - In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
- n. - In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
- n. - A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
- n. - A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
- n. - An old name for a woman's bustle.
- v. t. - To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
- v. t. - To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
Referring Clues
- Miter wearer
- An ecclesiastic
- Knight's neighbor
- It moves diagonally in chess
- King's neighbor
- Queen's neighbor?
- Diagonal-moving chesspiece
- It moves diagonally
- Chess piece
- Diocese leader
- King protector
- Knight's right-hand man, sometimes
- Man staying on one color
- World War 1 air ace Billy
- One often found by a king or queen
- Diagonal mover
- Priest's superior
- Knight's neighbor, at the start
- Certain chess piece
- Port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
- Spiritual supervisor
- Piece in a fianchetto opening
- Tapered-top piece
- Diocese head
- One of the chessmen
- Clergyman
- Senior clergyman
- Piece of the cloth?
- Twice jump a little way for a man on board
- Man's encore: to go on one leg
- Diagonal board mover
- Chesspiece which moves diagonally
- Clergyman twice seen at dance
- Loving, without discrimination, store supplying mulled wine
- Man of the church (or chess?)
- Someone of fluid sexuality's bound to become a clergyman
- Chesspiece
- Bound once more to precede senior clergywoman (some day?)
- Where the sexually ambiguous may get their gear, or one piece
- High-ranking clergyman
- Church dignitary
- Church leader
- Diagonal-moving piece
- A piece below the arch!
- It's a mistake to work this piece
- Senior member of the clergy
- See man on board
- Mulled wine I served in bookstore
- Man on board, such as one honoured as peacemaker in 1984
- Encore for dance piece
- Chessman
- Specially prepared wine I found in British store
- Man making mistake at work
- See overseer
- Chess piece that moves diagonally
- Piece that moves diagonally
- One's bound to support black man going on board
- Cleryman moved diagonally
- Repeat dance for man on board
- Cathedral head
- Diagonal moving chess piece
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - August 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 09, 2024
- Daily American - September 03, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2024
- Daily American - April 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 12, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 29, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 01, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 19, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - September 29, 2022
- Daily American - September 03, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - February 01, 2018
- Daily Quick - January 29, 2018
- Mirror Quick - November 09, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - November 07, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 20, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 28, 2017
- Universal - August 27, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 05, 2017
- Netword - December 04, 2016
- Guardian Quick - November 11, 2016
- And in 65 more crossword puzzles...