Clues for the word "CONTAIN"
We've had 33 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 49 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 13, 2026.
Definition of contain
- v. t. - To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
- v. t. - To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
- v. t. - To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
- v. i. - To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
Referring Clues
- Hold in check
- Restrict
- Have or hold
- Keep under control
- Not let get widespread
- Have inside
- Hold
- Keep from spreading
- Comprise
- I cannot (anag) - hold back
- Include
- Hold and look closely at a tin, shaking it
- Hold that Nat gets agitated when there's money around
- Not pouring into the can I prepared to hold it
- Suppress it? No, I can't possibly
- Anyhow, I can't hold on or hold back
- To hold back is not unusual in a murderer
- Include - restrict
- Not disturbed in murderer's hold
- Hold on to last request sent in to murderer
- Hold and study article cast in metal
- Killer trapping 2 in hold
- The one inside cannot possibly hold it
- Enclose
- Suppress the anti - anti is wrong
- Have within
- Bottle as opposed to a tin, for a change
- Hold, consist of
- Hold the murderer, not tied up, inside
- Hold it against, anti-change
- Hold within
- Take in and cheat at, getting found out in the end
- Encompass
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 17, 2025
- LA Times - September 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 03, 2024
- Daily American - July 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 23, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 11, 2022
- Daily Quick - September 03, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 26, 2022
- Daily American - July 26, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 09, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - November 27, 2017
- Mirror Classic - November 17, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 18, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - June 16, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - December 23, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 11, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 09, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 06, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - March 23, 2016
- Guardian Quick - January 18, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - December 07, 2015
- And in 19 more crossword puzzles...