Clues for the word "BOLT"
We've had 175 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 286 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on July 11, 2026.
Definition of bolt
- n. - A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
- n. - Lightning; a thunderbolt.
- n. - A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
- n. - A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
- n. - An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- n. - A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
- n. - A bundle, as of oziers.
- v. t. - To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
- v. t. - To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- v. t. - To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
- v. t. - To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
- v. t. - To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
- v. t. - To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
- v. i. - To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
- v. i. - To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- v. i. - To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
- v. i. - To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- adv. - In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
- v. i. - A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
- v. i. - A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- v. i. - A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- v. t. - To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- v. t. - To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
- v. t. - To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- n. - A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
Referring Clues
- Length of fabric
- Make a break for it
- Hightail it out
- Door fastener
- Nut's partner
- Take off quickly
- Short, heavy arrow used with a crossbow
- Nut's counterpart
- Karloff's 1931 neckpiece
- Frankenstein monster feature
- Lightning flash
- Roll of cloth
- Lightning zigzag
- Flash of lightning
- Door securer
- Split
- Hightail it
- Lock part
- Make a run for it
- Bail
- Cloth quantity
- Rush
- Escape
- Flee
- Shut tight
- Run out
- Fabric unit
- Like a ___ from the blue
- Run for it
- Lightning shaft
- Metal fastener
- Fabric quantity
- Lightning unit
- It may come from the blue
- Cloth roll
- Hotfoot it
- It may come from out of the blue
- Door lock
- A nut needs one
- Shaft of lightning
- Leave in a hurry
- It goes with a nut
- Cloth unit
- It secures a nut
- Suddenly run away
- Leave lightning-like
- Unit of cloth or lightning
- Skedaddle
- Surprise "from the blue"
- It may be put in a washer
- Make a quick getaway
- Aptly named sprinter Usain
- Like a ___ from the blue
- It might be held by a nut
- Run off
- ______ out of the blue
- Roll of fabric
- Bit of hardware
- Clap of thunder
- Run like heck
- Run away
- Cloth bundle
- Shackle part
- Piece of hardware
- Lightning stroke
- Eat hastily
- Eat and run?
- Leave suddenly
- Dart off
- Nut companion
- Run
- Lightning ___
- Fastest man alive
- Split in a hurry
- Fly the coop
- Cloth measure
- Nut partner
- ___ of lightning
- Electric weather phenomenon
- Men's 100-meter sprint record holder
- Take off
- Aptly named Olympics star
- Wallpaper roll
- Rush off
- Nut attachment
- What a nut might need
- Nut's companion
- Aptly named track star
- Get moving
- Part of a lock
- Head for the hills
- Aptly named Olympic sprinter Usain ___
- What a nut gets screwy on
- Lightning streak
- Fabric purchase
- Door locker
- Usain, the world's fastest human
- Track star with an apt name
- Nut holder
- Hardware store item
- Ultrafast Usain
- Leave hastily
- Latch
- Crossbow arrow
- Leave hurriedly
- Ben Lee song that hightails it?
- Short arrow for a crossbow
- Fasten - flee
- When shot, will it dash off?
- When horses do so, does one get shot?
- Fasten - run away
- Run away or be shot for security reasons
- Run away from a flash of lightning
- Dash for the bar
- Rush away - fastening bar
- Scoff and scarper
- Lightning? Run!
- See 9
- Frankenstein's monster feature
- Shot for security reasons?
- Quickly eat duck in sandwich
- Run away, seeing wolf
- Bar escape
- Sprint? Yes he does!
- Wolf in close up
- Something sticking out of Frankenstein's neck
- Run off some cloth from old mill town on leaving
- One shot for security reasons?
- Rush away
- Metal fastener screwed into a nut
- Rivet
- Dash off to fix things
- Eat like lightning
- Wolf you run away from
- Carpenter's fastener
- Part of a Frankenstein's Monster costume
- Scat or scoot
- Become tall and seedy
- Jamaican sprinter in bar
- Thunder "Run away!"
- Leave quickly
- Fastener
- Fabric shop roll
- Thunder "Run!"
- Shut up and eat!
- Shut up and run!
- Run, not necessarily to seed
- What often follows thunder and lightning
- Trousers' support
- Hustle away
- Run away from Usain?
- Unit of lightning
- Zeus's weapon
- Streak of lightning
- Dash
- Wolf you flee from
- Bit of lightning
- Runner Usain
- Lightning shape
- When shot, will it dash off?
- When horses do so, does one get shot?
- Symbol on the Flash's chest
- Disney hero with a "superbark"
- Flee suddenly
- Take off in a hurry
- Bit of hardware that fits in a nut
- Go on the lam
- Suddenly dart off
- Nut fastener
- Suddenly run off, or an Olympic runner
- Olympian Usain
- Eat quickly, with "down"
- Get out of the starting gate fast
- Locking bar
- Get out of Dodge
Last Seen In
- New York Times - July 11, 2026
- Daily American - June 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - April 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 20, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - March 01, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 26, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 09, 2026
- Mirror Mini - October 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 21, 2025
- Daily American - September 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 28, 2025
- Daily American - August 06, 2025
- New York Times - July 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 10, 2025
- New York Times - July 09, 2025
- LA Times - July 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 02, 2025
- New York Times - May 27, 2025
- Daily American - May 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 10, 2024
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