Clues for the word "BUST"
We've had 139 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 199 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on January 09, 2026.
Definition of bust
- n. - A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
- n. - The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.
Referring Clues
- Flop
- Abject failure
- Head and shoulders
- Arrest, slangily
- Narc's coup
- Narc's operation
- Failure
- Tabletop sculpture
- Sting operation, perhaps
- Sculpture on a pedestal, perhaps
- Go broke
- Go over 21, in blackjack
- Narc's arrest
- Lose at blackjack
- Tame, as a bronco
- Break, as balloons
- Sculptured form
- Boom alternative
- Run in
- California alternative?
- Get 22
- Utter failure
- Sculptor's creation
- Complete failure
- Sculpted head
- Cop's arrest
- Bankrupt
- Narc's goal
- Demote
- Roman sculpture
- Pedestal topper
- Pedestal topper
- Exceed 21, in a way
- Small statue
- Sample of statuary
- Sculpture of a sort
- "Pike's Peak or ___!"
- Boom follower, maybe
- Wash out
- Piece for a niche
- Head-and-shoulders sculpture
- Piece of statuary
- Arrest
- Washout
- Boom's opposite on Wall Street
- Pedestal sculpture
- Head sculpture
- Total failure
- Head statue
- Go over 21
- Exceed 21 in twenty-one
- Sculptor's piece
- Head-and-shoulders statuette
- Lose, in a Vegas game
- It's often head and shoulders
- Museum work
- Piece of sculpture
- It's head and shoulders
- Complete dud
- Opposite of 15-Across
- Sculptured head
- Boom's opposite
- 14-Across's result
- Break
- Police incident
- Portrait sculpture
- Exceed 21 in blackjack
- Museum figure
- Go over in blackjack
- Classic sculpture
- Police arrest, informally
- Sculpture transported, so we hear
- Sculpted piece
- Broken
- Art consisting of a head and shoulders
- Statue
- Statuette
- Sculptor's portrait
- Unwelcome concert event, to partier
- Financially ruined
- Raid - boobs
- Young MC "___ a Move"
- Pinch boobs
- Broken - bankrupt - sculpture
- Objection about what's repeated in Picasso's sculptural work
- Bass: turn way down
- Broken stub, maybe
- Portrait - broken
- No money in one's chest
- Though ruined, you still get some bus tickets
- Bosom - ruined
- Piece of sculpture - broken!
- Breast - broken
- Broken - chest
- Chest - broke
- Chest, or above it exhibited?
- Work at a museum
- Boom's counterpart
- Broken - bosom
- 8 across
- Bosom - broken
- Simply claiming Bob is out of order
- Smashed sculpture?
- Reach 22, perhaps
- Sculptor's product
- Statue in a study
- Work of Beethoven?
- Bosom
- Police operation that needs support?
- Broken sculpture
- Sculpture's gone to the wall
- Sculpture more than chipped?
- Chest requiring reparative surgery?
- Sculpture
- Measurement signified by the first number in a dressmaker's "38-26-36"
- Statue of the upper body
- Reach 22, in a game
- Shattered piece of sculpture?
- Face-and-torso likeness
- Clapped-out public transport's on time!
- Broken stub, possibly
- Sting success
- Upper body sculpture
- Police raid
- *It might be placed on a pedestal
- Arrest in the art gallery
- It's heads-up in a museum
- 3D portrait
- Break apart
- Badly damaged coach having trouble starting
- ___ a move (start dancing)
- Go over 21, say
- Partly built street reduced to ruins?
- Shattered sculpture?
- Lose a bet in blackjack
- Sculpture of the head and shoulders
- Opposite of boom
- Type of sculpture
- Get three eights in blackjack, say
Last Seen In
- LA Times - January 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - November 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 22, 2025
- Family Time - March 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 31, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 31, 2024
- Mirror Mini - November 09, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 08, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 21, 2024
- USA Today - August 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 21, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 15, 2024
- USA Today - July 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 03, 2024
- USA Today - February 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 07, 2023
- Mirror Mini - November 09, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 04, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 01, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 22, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 01, 2023
- USA Today - July 17, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 26, 2023
- USA Today - April 12, 2023
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