Clues for the word "CRANKS"
We've had 17 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 26 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on September 21, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Winches
- Constant complainers
- Grouches
- Parts of hurdy-gurdies
- Car starters of old
- Oddballs
- Eccentrics
- Jack-in-the-box handles
- Stimulates, with "up"
- Model T starters
- Curmudgeons
- Turns the handle
- Eccentrics beginning to cause rows
- Stubborn or eccentric characters get a hundred lines
- 100 lines for eccentrics
- Features of jack-in-the-boxes
- Makes rapidly, with "out"
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - September 21, 2025
- New York Times - August 23, 2025
- Daily American - November 05, 2024
- Daily American - October 25, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 05, 2024
- Daily American - December 20, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 21, 2023
- Daily American - November 05, 2022
- Daily American - October 25, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - February 05, 2018
- Daily American - December 20, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - September 21, 2017
- USA Today - June 06, 2017
- New York Times - August 09, 2016
- LA Times - April 11, 2015
- Washington Post - September 07, 2014
- LA Times - December 24, 2013
- Thinks Daily - May 25, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - April 08, 2011
- Universal - March 05, 2011
- Thinks Daily - July 20, 2010
- New York Times - March 26, 2008
- Thinks Daily - May 25, 2007
- New York Sun - November 02, 2006
- Washington Post - December 17, 2003
- New York Times - July 25, 1999