Clues for the word "BORDER"
We've had 48 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 60 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 27, 2026.
Definition of border
- n. - The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
- n. - A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
- n. - A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
- n. - A narrow flower bed.
- v. i. - To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- v. i. - To approach; to come near to; to verge.
- v. t. - To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
- v. t. - To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
- v. t. - To confine within bounds; to limit.
Referring Clues
- Guard's locale
- Place for a guard
- Edge
- With 39-Across, this puzzle's title
- Country's boundary
- Touch on
- It separates countries
- Land's end
- With 28-Down, theme of this puzzle
- ______ Guards
- Frontier
- Sentry's place
- Edge of a nation
- Place for a patrol
- Canadian / United States divide
- Garden planting
- Canada-United States divide
- Boundary
- Rio Grande forms this between Mexico and the United States
- Margin
- Canadian/United States divide
- Big-head taking command of the side!
- Embarrassed, steal back to the frontier
- See 11
- One said to have lodgings at the frontier?
- Paying guest loses a skirt
- Book on community that shows extent of state's authority
- Road in centre of South African frontier
- Neighbour appears in the garden
- Steal back to the German frontier
- Bishop with book in bed
- International flower scene?
- Edging in front of brown Fiat
- Touch
- Land line?
- "Welcome to ..." sign locale
- Outline
- River, often
- Edge or frontier
- International line?
- Verge on being a sort of collie?
- First completed part of a jigsaw puzzle, often
- Line across the bottom of the United States
- Fringe
- Line on a map
- Frame
- One said to have lodgings at the frontier?
- Hem
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 27, 2026
- Daily Quick - August 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 31, 2023
- LA Times - July 01, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 24, 2023
- Family Time - December 25, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - November 15, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 30, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 28, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - November 27, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 01, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 31, 2017
- Universal - July 20, 2017
- Guardian Prize - June 24, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 30, 2017
- Family Time - November 07, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - May 27, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 27, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 20, 2015
- USA Today - November 09, 2015
- Guardian Quiptic - October 19, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 09, 2015
- Universal - September 07, 2014
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