Clues for the word "CORNER"
We've had 62 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 67 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 22, 2026.
Definition of corner
- n. - The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- n. - The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
- n. - An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
- n. - A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- n. - Direction; quarter.
- n. - The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
- v. t. - To drive into a corner.
- v. t. - To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
- v. t. - To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
Referring Clues
- Safe place in the ring
- Hot ___ (third base)
- Convenience outlet, often
- Tree
- Dog-eared piece
- Where ends meet
- Wall intersection
- Take over, as the market
- Rook's starting place
- Timeout place
- Where Hollywood meets Vine?
- 19 Across intersection
- Dunce's place
- Yours is a safe place in a boxing ring
- Meeting place
- Where Hollywood meets Vine
- Fifth and Main, e.g.
- Timeout spot
- Time-out spot, usually
- Castle's place, initially
- Meeting place?
- Intersection
- Rook's initial place
- ____ Gas (where Peterson starred as Oscar
- Drugstore location, often
- With 41-Across, corporate status symbol ... and a hint to the circled letters
- With 44-Across, V.I.P. area represented four times in this puzzle
- Where two streets cross
- Place for a "Walk-Don't Walk" sign
- Genesis "Man on the ___"
- Angle
- See 12
- Trap large bird in flight; inert, remove skin
- Where rook starts on the chess board
- Investigator misses nothing in a crook
- See 11
- See 5
- See 14
- Crook is heartless public official
- Position at which an angle is formed
- Where seconds do the work of a minute
- Trap heartless public official
- Tree in which rook sits before moving
- See 1
- Take over, as a market
- See 21 Across
- Where streets meet
- Whence the ball comes in from an angle
- Trap
- Trap at the end of the street
- Nook
- Walgreens location, often
- One of four in a crossword grid
- Where two edges of a jigsaw puzzle meet
- The boxer's angle
- *Vital piece
- Home plate edge
- Word before "store" or "office"
- "Nobody puts Baby in a ___"
- Where puss may be in a tight spot?
- Word before "store" or "booth"
- Rook's starting space
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 11, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 05, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 14, 2024
- USA Today - September 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 24, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - August 26, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 18, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - September 13, 2017
- New York Times - August 31, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - August 09, 2017
- Rock n Roll Crossword - July 09, 2017
- LA Times - June 22, 2017
- New York Times - May 23, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - May 05, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - March 14, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - September 21, 2016
- Canadiana - July 11, 2016
- Netword - September 13, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 04, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - January 14, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 29, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 05, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - February 06, 2014
- And in 37 more crossword puzzles...