Clues for the word "CREEP"
We've had 122 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 298 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 27, 2026.
Definition of creep
- v. t. - To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
- v. t. - To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
- v. t. - To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
- v. t. - To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
- v. t. - To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
- v. t. - To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
- v. t. - To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
- v. i. - To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- n. - The act or process of creeping.
- n. - A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
- n. - A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
Referring Clues
- Undesirable
- Hardly Mr. Right
- Unwelcome person
- Weirdo
- Unsavory one
- Cad
- Tread stealthily
- Progress little by little
- Pussyfoot around?
- Definitely not Mr. Right
- Real stinker
- Sleazeball
- Dirty rotten scoundrel
- Slither
- Total loser
- Move on one's belly
- Sleazebag
- Advance slowly
- Repulsive sort
- Move stealthily
- Move slowly
- Unlikely candidate for Mr. Right
- Skeevy sort
- Steal (in)
- Disturbing company
- Loser
- Move surreptitiously
- Move like an insect
- Move furtively
- Move sneakily
- Move very slowly
- Inch along
- Advance gradually
- Move on hands and knees
- Move like ivy
- Pussyfoot
- Eddie Haskell, e.g.
- Move close to the ground
- Really bad blind date
- Someone who gives you the willies
- Sleazy sort
- Go slowly
- Repulsive one
- Peeping Tom, e.g.
- Obnoxious one
- Lowlife
- Unpleasant fellow
- Slither slowly
- Go on all fours
- Un- pleasant fellow
- Skulk
- Move like a toddler
- Slimeball
- Odious one
- Crawl
- Social dud
- Dirtbag
- Proceed stealthily
- Jerk
- Nightmarish blind date
- Grow along the ground
- One who inspires uneasy feelings
- Obnoxious sort
- Willies giver
- Sleazoid
- Scoundrel
- Walk on tiptoe
- Tiptoe
- Go at a snail's pace
- Repulsive individual
- Repulsive person
- One who makes your skin crawl
- One who gives you chills
- Move at a snail's pace
- Move quietly
- Barely move
- Move like a water moccasin
- Move very gradually
- Grow like a vine
- Move in typical rush-hour traffic
- Move like a snake
- Grow like ivy
- Slink
- Repugnant person
- Radiohead hit of 1992
- Skeezy type
- Crawl stealthily
- Advance stealthily
- Unpleasant person
- The despised fellow will never make good progress
- Person disliked for slow progress?
- The nasty fellow will be slow to move
- Proceed as native Americans, quietly on the trail
- Move with stealth
- Cringing, unpleasant person (slang)
- Loathsome one
- Sneak
- Move silently
- Inch is equal to another with a hundred up
- Grovel to Conservative overlord
- What are reptiles doing on the native American page?
- Despicable sort
- Crawl along
- Only a crawler would go so slowly
- Move slowly and quietly
- Move like a millipede
- Unsavory sort
- What vines do
- Move on all fours
- Nasty type in slow motion
- Move like a cat burglar
- Move slowly and carefully
- Inch
- Tiptoe, say
- Climb, as a vine
- One unwelcome in your DMs
- Oaf
- Go stealthily
- Proceed during rush hour, say
- Person disliked for slow progress?
- Move along in a sneaky fashion
- Radiohead's highest-selling single
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 16, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 15, 2025
- Daily American - December 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 28, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 25, 2025
- LA Times - April 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2024
- LA Times - October 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 01, 2024
- And in 268 more crossword puzzles...