Clues for the word "CALL"
We've had 220 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 381 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 11, 2026.
Definition of call
- v. t. - To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
- v. t. - To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
- v. t. - To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
- v. t. - To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
- v. t. - To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
- v. t. - To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
- v. t. - To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
- v. t. - To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.
- v. t. - To invoke; to appeal to.
- v. t. - To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- v. i. - To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
- v. i. - To make a demand, requirement, or request.
- v. i. - To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
- n. - The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.
- n. - A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
- n. - An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- n. - A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
- n. - A divine vocation or summons.
- n. - Vocation; employment.
- n. - A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
- n. - A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
- n. - A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
- n. - The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
- n. - A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- n. - The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
- n. - See Assessment, 4.
Referring Clues
- Telephone
- Poker action
- Decision
- Summon
- "Tails," e.g.
- Lead a square dance
- "Steeeerike!", e.g.
- Convoke
- Message Waiting instruction
- "Safe" or "out"
- ___ lily
- Ump's decision
- Ring up
- ___ letters
- "Out!" or "Safe!"
- Give a ring
- Do some telemarketing
- "Safe!" or "Out!"
- Holler
- Buzz, so to speak
- Bellow
- ___ waiting
- Pay to see a poker hand
- "Fair" or "foul"
- Ump's action
- Word with wolf or cattle
- Word with toll or roll
- Word after curtain or conference
- Put's opposite, in stock trading
- Word with roll or toll
- Short visit
- Ring
- Poker declaration
- Phone
- "I see you"
- Reason for ringing
- Predict
- Trading option
- Yell (out)
- Texas Hold 'Em bet
- Match the bet
- Shout
- Engage in telemarketing
- Use a phone
- Match the last raise
- Use the phone
- Diamond decision
- Work a square dance
- An ump is paid to make it
- Refuse to raise
- Word with role or house
- "Sooey!" e.g.
- Word with curtain or cattle
- What an umpire makes
- "Heads" or "tails," e.g.
- Cellular response?
- Shout out to
- Beck's partner
- Poker term
- Safe or out
- Put yourself on the line?
- Match a bet, in poker
- Cry out
- Poker announcement
- Cry out to
- Cry out to
- Shout, with "out"
- See, as a bet
- ___ and response ("human microphone" technique at Occupy Wall Street)
- Word with "role" or "house"
- Thing often dropped in a tunnel
- Phone up
- Beckon
- Poker tactic
- Reach by telephone
- Ump's announcement
- Keep in touch
- Play umpire
- Lure a duck
- Be an umpire
- One may be close
- See a bet
- Pay to see cards
- Match a bet
- Curtain ___ (post-show appearance)
- Safe or out, say
- Reach via phone
- "Steeerike!" is one
- Convene
- Refer to as
- Stay in without raising
- An umpire makes it
- Stock option
- Telephone interaction
- Reach by phone
- Contact by phone
- Ump's ruling
- Umpire's decision
- Give a name to
- Decide not to raise
- Ref's decision
- Poker player's "I'll stay in for now"
- Vociferation
- Dial up
- Birdsong
- Cold ___
- Don't raise
- Day trader's option
- ___ it a day (stop)
- Chirp or caw
- ___ to arms
- Poker player's action
- Drop in (on)
- Umpire's "Out!" or "Safe!"
- Pay a visit
- Don't check, bet, fold or raise
- "emergency ___"
- A poker strategy
- See the bet
- Social visit
- Dial the telephone
- Use the telephone
- Visit California before the end of April
- Prediction
- Get ahold of
- Blondie "___ Me"
- You hope for one from label
- Green Day "___ me pathetic"
- Phone - demand
- Visit
- Name Will shortly after Bill's rejected
- Demand for telephonic communication
- Drop in to see a hand?
- See everybody gets the message
- Drop in at the local library?
- Charlie's full name
- Term used in local library
- Umpire's ruling
- Summon - visit
- Equal a bet
- See 21
- Cry - summon
- Be in control
- Shout - name
- See 31
- ___ it a day
- "Curtain" or "cattle" adjunct
- Match a raise
- "Good ___"
- Vocation in 18's scenic book
- Summon some local luminaries
- Ring everybody following opening of club
- Ring everybody after end of epic
- Ring about the lot
- Cry about everything
- Bid one 24 down twice, to be honest
- It could be long-distance or collect, on a landline
- "___ Me by Your Name" (2017 film nominated for Best Picture)
- ___ it a night (go to bed)
- Necessity to use the phone
- "Don't ___ us; we'll ..."
- Sixth word ...
- "Safe!," in baseball, or "Safety!," in football
- Brief social visit
- Taps, e.g.
- Put's opposite, on Wall Street
- Decision reviewed in an instant replay
- See bets
- What a red handset icon may end
- Stock trader's option
- Pay a brief visit
- Drop in demand!
- Not just text
- Drop in and cry
- Do a telemarketer's job
- "Foul!" or "Fair!"
- Drop in and cry out
- Announce a square dance
- Name
- Poker player's declaration
- Use a mobile device
- Dial on a telephone
- "Let's ___ it a day"
- See 62-Across
- Drop in and see everybody
- Telemarketer's convo
- See 17
- Not raise or fold
- Demand a visit
- Continue without a raise
- Reason to ring?
- Word with cold or close
- Get on the line
- Drop in and see the lot
- Umpire’s ruling
- "Safe!" or "You're out!"
- Use the cell
- The demand for telephonic communication?
- "___ Your Girlfriend" (podcast)
- Phone conversation
- Referee's ruling
- Hail
- Drop in to see a hand?
- Use one's mobile
- Word after "close" or "curtain"
- "It's your ___" ("Up to you")
- Visit, with "on"
- Drop in at the local library?
- "Let's ___ it a night"
- Decision made by an umpire
- ___ to action
- Demand to see everything
- Hold 'em declaration
- Voice dial someone
- ___ option
- "Safe!" or "Strike!"
- Buzz
- See 38-Across
- Reason for a visit
- A cold one is unexpected (and usually unappreciated)
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 05, 2026
- New York Times - December 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 14, 2025
- New York Times - September 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 24, 2025
- New York Times - July 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 07, 2025
- LA Times - June 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 23, 2025
- LA Times - April 22, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 11, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 27, 2025
- New York Times - January 17, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 07, 2025
- Family Time - January 06, 2025
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