Clues for the word "CAP"
We've had 383 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1046 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on July 21, 2026.
Definition of cap
- n. - A covering for the head
- n. - One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys
- n. - One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
- n. - One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
- n. - The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
- n. - A respectful uncovering of the head.
- n. - The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- n. - Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use
- n. - The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.
- n. - Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- n. - A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
- n. - A percussion cap. See under Percussion.
- n. - The removable cover of a journal box.
- n. - A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- n. - A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
- v. t. - To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.
- v. t. - To deprive of cap.
- v. t. - To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
- v. t. - To salute by removing the cap.
- v. t. - To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.
- v. i. - To uncover the head respectfully.
Referring Clues
- Beanie
- Balmoral, e.g.
- Tam-o'-shanter
- Beret
- Tube top
- Kind of gun
- Topper
- Kind of pistol
- Insignia site
- Diamond topper
- Spending limit
- Limit
- Put a lid on
- Insignia spot
- Mushroom morsel
- Top off
- Salary limit
- Toy gun noisemaker
- Mortarboard
- Lens protector
- Upper limit
- Part of some uniforms
- Top
- Mortarboard, e.g.
- Mushroom part
- Part of a baseball uniform
- Commencement wear
- Salary max
- Budget limit
- Place for a team's insignia
- Part of graduation attire
- Oil well feature
- Culmination
- Feather holder?
- Ceiling
- See 17-Across
- It's often put on backward
- With 13-Down, they go off with a bang
- Climax
- Put a ceiling on
- Gown's partner
- Toy gun ammo
- Jockey's wear
- Beret or beanie
- What a teen often wears backwards
- Detonating device
- Part of a graduate's ensemble
- It may be placed on a salary
- Deerstalker, e.g.
- Hat with a visor
- Pen cover
- Cardinal's cover
- Toy gun insert
- Head covering
- Biretta or beret
- Toy gun "ammo"
- Small explosive
- Topper on the diamond
- Outdo
- "Yankee Doodle" headgear
- Smurf topper
- Something tossed up after graduation
- Part of an umpire's uniform
- Salary restriction
- Part of a ballplayer's uniform
- Tipping point?
- Lid
- Seal, as an oil well
- Ceiling of a sort
- Spot for a feather
- Team spending limit on player salaries
- Baseball headgear
- Mushroom topper
- Diamond headgear
- State govt. seat (and what each surname is in 17- and 62-Across and 11- and 25-Down)
- Toothpaste tube cover
- Pop-bottle topper
- Toothpaste-tube cover
- Surpass
- Baseball player's hat
- Bottle topper
- Highest level
- Mushroom top
- Keep from increasing
- Dental work
- Maximum level
- Toothpaste-tube closer
- Baseball fan's hat
- Restrict, perhaps
- Deerstalker, for one
- The end of night?
- Crownwork
- Maximum spending limit
- Graduating student's headwear
- Yankees uniform item
- Twist-off, e.g.
- One may be applied to salaries
- Bit of toy ammo
- Financial limit
- Ammo for a small gun
- Maximum limit
- Toothpaste topper
- Ceiling figure
- Mushroom feature
- Ballplayer's headwear
- Pitcher's top
- Yankee's cover
- Price limit
- ___ and gown
- Budgeting concern
- Brimless hat
- Salary ceiling
- Toy-pistol ammo
- Ballplayer's headgear
- Gown partner
- Pop's top, perhaps
- ___ and trade
- Trade partner?
- Lid for a lad
- Kepi
- "Lid" in each of this puzzle's theme entries
- Trade's partner
- Lad's lid
- Put a limit on
- Limit, as a salary
- Baseball team insignia site
- Graduation flier
- Baseball hat
- Beanie or beret
- Pinnacle
- Ballpark souvenir
- Dentist's offering
- Beret, for one
- Pitcher's chapeau
- Ballplayer's hat
- Upper bound
- Baseballer's topper
- Ball-player's headgear
- Type of headgear
- Baseballer's hat
- Price ceiling
- Beret, e.g.
- Fez or beret
- Beanie, e.g.
- Tam, e.g.
- With "and" and 40-Across, emissions-reducing method whose first word (this answer) can follow the start of the answers to starred clues
- Pitcher's topper
- Beer-bottle topper
- Maximum
- Hat
- Gas-tank topper
- Investment money, briefly, or this puzzle's theme, backward
- Restrict, in a way
- Pirate headgear
- Bottle top
- Uniform item, perhaps
- Tam O' Shanter, for one
- Keep from going higher
- Kiddie gun ammo
- Beret or biretta
- Twist-off thingy
- Chickadee feature
- Lid or chapeau
- Very small explosive
- Something tossed on the last day of school
- Tassel spot
- Gas-tank stopper
- Stadium souvenir
- Tube top?
- See 42-Across
- Thinking thingie
- Santa suit part
- Toy pistol need
- Cover
- Place for a baseball insignia
- Oriole's crown?
- Headgear
- Where to find a soft drink's promotional code
- Budgetary concern
- Headgear often worn backward
- Angel's wear
- Visored headgear
- Word with baseball or gas
- Pop top
- Bottle cover
- Fez, for one
- Nurse's topper
- Tooth cover
- Baseball player's topper
- Artificial crown for a tooth
- Oriole topper
- Part of a baseball player's getup
- Spending ceiling
- Gown's go-with
- Fez or kepi
- Place for a tassel, maybe
- Baseball uniform part
- Top of a mushroom
- See 111-Across
- Item of apparel often worn backward
- Toothpaste tube topper
- Marker top
- Expense limit
- Tam or fez
- Budgetary limit
- Cough syrup cover
- Partner of trade
- Budgeter's concern
- Baseball topper
- Bit of attire sometimes worn backward
- Bit of toy "ammo"
- Relative of a 1-Across
- Golfer's hat
- Mad or red follower
- Headwear
- Deck post topper
- Lid or limit
- Gas tank cover
- Top of a toothpaste tube
- Lens cover
- Finish off
- Head-warmer
- See 4-Across
- Ball player's head covering
- Baseball ___ (head wear)
- Baseball player's headgear
- Top limit
- Medicine bottle topper
- Something a baseball player wears
- Baseball player's head covering
- Commencement headwear
- Little leaguer's headwear
- Coke bottle cover
- Toothpaste tube top
- Better part of landscape
- baseball player's headwear
- "So that's where the ___ to this old pen went!"
- Casual headwear
- Set a limit on
- Baseball player's lid
- Toothpaste lid
- Casual hat type
- Sun blocker
- Bottle part
- Fred Durst's accessory
- Nirvana "Pen ___ Chew"
- Fred Durst's headwear
- Flat brimless hat
- Surpass by following with something better
- It's topping for a player to get one
- Showing some turn of pace, it's topping
- Surpass, possibly at cricket or baseball
- It goes to one's head, possibly at night
- Could one do better than doff it?
- In landscape, a snowy mountain top
- It goes to one's head
- International honour can go to one's head!
- The lid has the size on it, if you turn it over
- See 51-Across
- Upper boundary
- See 34-Down
- Stadium souvenir, perhaps
- 57 Across feature
- Casual hat with a visor
- Another feather in one's ___
- Better clubs used by a professional, originally
- Part of a Santa suit
- Cover for leading characters in Crime and Punishment
- Soft hat, like a beret
- Underworld boss
- ___ and gown (graduation garb)
- Jar lid
- Baseballer's wear
- Ruth wore one
- Put limits on
- Bottle lid
- "Stuck a feather in his ___ and called it macaroni" ("Yankee Doodle" lyric)
- Tooth topper
- Graduate's headgear
- Contain, as a spewing oil well
- Pitcher's lid
- Ceiling starting 19-Down
- Bit of graduation attire
- Ballplayer's topper
- Part of many a Bic pen
- Tube top?
- Better chess opening, taking a pawn
- Upstage
- Angel topper?
- Impose an upper limit on
- Toque or kepi
- Cardinal's topper?
- Spending max
- Place for a 25-Across
- Do better than cover the top?
- Place a limit on
- Much of a mushroom
- Gown accompanier
- Top cover? But you can exceed it!
- Is the fool's one made of paper?
- Soft hat
- Noisemaker in a toy pistol
- One may be twist-off
- Headwear item
- Ammo for a toy gun
- Small lid or cover
- A banger, perhaps, not exactly a car
- Gown go-with
- Hat for an Angel
- Shortstop topper
- Tassel's place
- Stopper, of a sort
- Do better than raise the pace a bit?
- Tam or beret
- Gown complement
- Jar top
- Graduating senior's decoration project
- Protective lid
- Nat's hat
- Partner of gown or trade
- Item of headwear
- Commencement cover
- Bit of dental work
- See 24-Down
- Common sun blocker
- Bit of casual wear
- Soda bottle top
- Graduation need
- Word after "baseball" or "bathing"
- Beret or tam
- Souvenir shop purchase
- Gear with a bill
- Place for a baseball team's insignia
- Baseball ___
- Word after "ice" or "shower"
- Baseball accessory
- Graduating student's toss
- Word after "gas" or "bottle"
- Lid on a head
- Monetary limit
- Highest level allowed
- Hot
- Twistable container part
- Ballplayer's sunblocker
- Billed hat
- Noodle covering
- Casual headwear unit
- Word after "spending" or "thinking"
- Max
- Close-fitting hat
- Cutoff point
- Portobello part
- Part of an oil well, maybe
- Could one do better than doff it?
- Shiitake part
- What a retractable pen lacks
- Beanie, for example
- Graduate's headwear
- Lens ___
- Toadstool topper
- What a pitcher wears up top
- Uniform item, often
- Absolute upper limit
- "Put on your thinking ___"
- A mushroom's is called a pileus
- Cough syrup dosage unit, maybe
- Finalize
- Word after "price" or "ice"
- Lie, in slang
- Complete, with "off"
- Do better at baseball, say?
- Beer bottle top
- Pen lid
- Fitted ___
- Put a restriction on
- Baseball fan's headwear
- "Baseball" or "knee" follower
- Better impose an upper limit
- Locale for a Snapple fact
- Topper in a Super Mario costume
- Part of a knitted outfit for a baby
- Swimmer's wear
- Tam
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 21, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - July 14, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 02, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 15, 2026
- Mirror Mini - June 03, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 31, 2026
- LA Times - May 03, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 17, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - April 16, 2026
- Mirror Mini - March 14, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 11, 2026
- New York Times - March 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 23, 2026
- Mirror Mini - February 22, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - February 10, 2026
- LA Times - January 21, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 03, 2025
- LA Times - November 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 24, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 04, 2025
- LA Times - November 03, 2025
- LA Times - October 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 27, 2025
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