Clues for the word "CIRCLE"
We've had 89 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 113 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on November 18, 2025.
Definition of circle
- n. - A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.
- n. - The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.
- n. - An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.
- n. - A round body; a sphere; an orb.
- n. - Compass; circuit; inclosure.
- n. - A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set.
- n. - A circular group of persons; a ring.
- n. - A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
- n. - A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
- n. - Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
- n. - A territorial division or district.
- n. - To move around; to revolve around.
- n. - To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.
- v. i. - To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.
Referring Clues
- Hour ___ (intersector of the poles of a celestial sphere)
- "Outside of a Small ___ of Friends" (74-Across tune)
- Gang
- There's simply no end to it
- Group
- Compass creation
- Wait to land
- Oater wagon formation
- Social group
- Group with common interests
- It can follow each word in 17-, 38- and 61-Across
- Go all around
- Sewing group
- Ring shape
- It may be vicious
- Geometric shape
- Hora's featured shape
- Rotary path
- Hora feature
- Geometry shape
- Arctic ______
- Word with sewing or traffic
- Friends, metaphorically
- It never ends
- Ring, geometrically
- Enclose
- Ring's shape
- Bull's-eye, for one
- Club
- Coterie
- Ring
- 'O' shape
- See 10-Across
- Vicious figure?
- Group of friends
- Group with a common bond
- Nice round figure
- Closed loop
- See 69-Across
- Wait to land, perhaps
- Perfect orbit
- Shape of a wedding ring
- Common shape
- Shape learned in preschool
- Hora dancers' formation
- Shape of a penny
- Word with "winner's"
- Hoop
- Shape of a ring or frisbee
- Round shape
- Shape made by tipsy cleric
- Go around
- Move round
- Go round
- ... round which could be magic
- ... or another, with bad speller introducing L
- Charming female needing extra pound for rounded figure
- The never ending round
- Circus ring
- A group often described as vicious
- Charming woman, about 50, in society
- Not a straight line
- Enchantress gripping student group
- Ring student beset by siren
- Ring round one's friends
- Line taken by turbulent cleric
- Round part of English game raised the French
- Group captures sorceress going round lake
- O for a group of friends, perhaps?
- Homer's enchantress kept pupil in orbit
- Ring cleric for a change
- Clique
- Shape of a pizza, typically
- Wagon train's defensive formation
- Shape confusing cleric
- It's endless and could be magic
- Change shape?
- Loop
- Group with similar interests
- Inner London group?
- Group of close friends
- Inner ___ (closest advisors)
- Common skirt shape
- O
- ___ of life
- Orbit
- Shape
- Revolve
- Geometric figure with no sides or corners
Last Seen In
- LA Times - November 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 08, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 16, 2025
- LA Times - March 06, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 16, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 11, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 23, 2024
- Daily American - May 27, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 27, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 22, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - February 10, 2024
- Mirror Mini - December 16, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 06, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - October 16, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 03, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - March 16, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - February 26, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - January 19, 2023
- Mirror Mini - December 16, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 07, 2022
- Universal - January 02, 2018
- Mindfood Daily - December 24, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - October 16, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - August 19, 2017
- Your Life Choices - June 15, 2017
- And in 83 more crossword puzzles...