Clues for the word "CLINCH"
We've had 29 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 33 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on December 04, 2024.
Definition of clinch
- v. t. - To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
- v. t. - To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
- v. t. - To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
- v. t. - To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
- v. i. - To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
- n. - The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
- n. - A pun.
- n. - A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
Referring Clues
- Lock up
- Sew up
- Put on ice
- Secure
- Boxing maneuver
- Assure, as a pennant
- Nail down
- Make final
- Ice
- Assure
- Settle (a deal) conclusively
- Figure not to get far in a loving embrace
- Confirm - embrace
- Grapple - confirm
- Settle - embrace!
- Drive home (an argument)
- Tight (or amorous) embrace
- Secure report of a congregation that's little more than gross?
- Simple matter, holding trainee in embrace
- Not how boxers should settle matters
- 12'6" kind of 15
- Embrace large number left in church
- Confirm chlorine measurement
- Confirm
- Grasp
- Fighter's embrace
- Secure, as a playoff berth
- Grip
- Lock up, as a playoff spot
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - December 04, 2024
- New York Times - September 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 12, 2024
- LA Times - May 14, 2023
- LA Times - May 21, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - April 24, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 29, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 04, 2015
- New York Times - December 29, 2013
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 10, 2013
- USA Today - December 03, 2013
- Guardian Quick - June 29, 2013
- Guardian Quick - December 29, 2012
- LA Times - July 08, 2012
- Post Puzzler - July 01, 2012
- USA Today - March 14, 2012
- Guardian Quick - December 17, 2011
- Post Puzzler - August 07, 2011
- Universal - September 26, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - August 30, 2010
- Guardian Quick - March 23, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - December 22, 2009
- Guardian Quick - April 02, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - October 13, 2008
- Universal - August 24, 2008
- Netword - March 30, 2008
- Guardian Quick - September 26, 2007
- LA Times - October 22, 2006
- Netword - November 17, 2005
- And in 3 more crossword puzzles...