Clues for the word "CREAK"
We've had 50 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 107 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 02, 2026.
Definition of creak
- v. i. - To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.
- v. t. - To produce a creaking sound with.
- n. - The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
Referring Clues
- Sound of old floorboards
- Haunted house noise
- Floorboard sound
- It may come from a door
- Result of an oil shortage?
- Haunted house sound
- Sound in a haunted house
- Noise from a rickety floor
- Bones and doors may do it
- Spooky noise
- Spooky sound
- Squeaky sound
- Floor noise
- Sound from a floorboard
- Old floorboard sound
- Door sound, sometimes
- Ghostly sound
- Old floor noise
- Reason to lubricate
- Old-floor sound
- Sound like rusted hinges
- Unwelcome sound for a burglar
- Sound of an unsound floor
- Rusty hinge sound
- Rusty gate sound
- Old floorboards sound
- Squeaking sound
- Indication of an oil shortage?
- Staircase sound
- Squeak when walked on, as a floorboard
- Sign of age
- Noise from an old floorboard
- Sound spooky
- What old knees may do
- Scary story sound
- Sound from an old floorboard
- Audible sign of age
- Grate
- Sound of the wild corncrake deprived of food
- Groan (like a loose floorboard)
- Sound of inlet - or of disused hinge?
- Sound of an old wood floor
- Door complaint
- Floorboards sound
- Sound of a haunted house's floor
- Sound of water we hear
- Sound like an old floorboard
- Sound from an old staircase
- Grating sound
- What we hear when the cake mixture is about right
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 02, 2026
- Mirror Mini - October 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2025
- USA Today - October 15, 2024
- Daily American - August 15, 2024
- Daily American - March 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 20, 2023
- USA Today - September 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 20, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 23, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 14, 2022
- Daily American - August 15, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 18, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - November 28, 2017
- Mirror Mini - October 25, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 01, 2017
- New York Times - August 27, 2017
- New York Times - June 24, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2017
- Universal - December 29, 2016
- Guardian Quick - November 21, 2016
- LA Times - November 19, 2016
- Netword - November 15, 2016
- Universal - October 15, 2016
- New York Times - September 08, 2016
- Universal - August 25, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 01, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - June 02, 2016
- USA Today - April 18, 2016
- And in 77 more crossword puzzles...