Clues for the word "CORRECT"
We've had 39 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 62 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on June 10, 2026.
Definition of correct
- a. - Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
- v. t. - To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
- v. t. - To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).
- v. t. - To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.
- v. t. - To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
Referring Clues
- On target
- Remove errors from
- Right
- Reverse a trend
- Make right
- Anatomically ___
- Proper
- Proper
- Proper
- Proper
- Proper
- Proper
- Proper
- "Bingo!"
- Fix
- "That's right!"
- "Yes"
- PC part?
- With 39-across, what's revealed on the back of Trivial Pursuit cards
- (Put) right
- See 6
- Precise
- Punish and no mistake!
- Rectify, perhaps politically?
- Referee's first in Centre Court to check faults
- See 12
- Error-free
- What's right and proper in cleric or rector?
- ___ conventional cure
- True
- Blimey vicar, there's no alternative? That's right!
- Right of officer to be wrong about court
- Accurate
- See the misguided rector as right!
- Amend
- Rectify, perhaps politically?
- Amend to "punish"
- "Ding ding ding!"
- Emend
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - June 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 08, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 27, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 22, 2026
- Daily Quick - September 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 10, 2024
- Daily American - October 08, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 18, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 13, 2024
- New York Times - May 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 01, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 26, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 18, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 02, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 17, 2023
- Your Life Choices - March 27, 2023
- New York Times - February 09, 2023
- USA Today - January 14, 2023
- Daily American - October 08, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - October 01, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - September 12, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 02, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 29, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 24, 2022
- Daily Quick - June 13, 2022
- And in 32 more crossword puzzles...