Clues for the word "CAP"
We've had 377 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 994 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on April 07, 2025.
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
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 31, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 18, 2025
- Mirror Mini - March 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 04, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 18, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 04, 2025
- LA Times - January 30, 2025
- LA Times - January 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 19, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 17, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 15, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 30, 2024
- LA Times - December 22, 2024
- Daily American - December 05, 2024
- New York Times - December 03, 2024
- Family Time - November 24, 2024
- New York Times - November 17, 2024
- Mirror Mini - November 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 09, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 30, 2024
- New York Times - October 19, 2024
- USA Today - October 11, 2024
- LA Times - September 28, 2024
- LA Times - September 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 06, 2024
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