Clues for the word "CROOK"
We've had 64 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 97 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 04, 2025.
Definition of crook
- n. - A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
- n. - Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
- n. - The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
- n. - A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
- n. - A pothook.
- n. - An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
- n. - A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- n. - A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
- n. - To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
- n. - To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- v. i. - To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Referring Clues
- Bo-peep's staff
- No-good sort
- Shepherd's staff
- Petty thief
- Bad business partner
- Chiseler
- Nixon denied being one
- Swindler
- Hustler
- Curved piece
- Criminal
- Shepherd's aid
- Burglar, for one
- Key word in Nixon's infamous line
- Bend, turn, or curve
- Thief
- One with aliases and priors
- Robber
- Lawbreaker
- What Nixon denied being
- Gangster
- Law-breaker
- Item with which Osiris is usually pictured
- What Nixon said he was not
- One who practices breaking and entering
- Cop's quarry
- Ponzi scheme operator
- Staff on a sheep farm
- "___ and chase"
- Dishonest person
- "I am not a ___" (Nixon quote)
- No-good thief
- Thieving sort
- What Richard Nixon denied being
- Criminal employed by shepherd?
- Dishonest person (5)
- One bent on crime
- Figure a flier is not one to be trusted
- It's right to give a roasting about being a rascal!
- Se a flier as a criminal
- Can one ever go straight?
- Shepherd's dishonest associate?
- Type of person to credit with nothing good
- One bent on blagging?
- Swindler - crosier - ill (in Australia)
- Twister about to overcharge
- He gets credit for nothing good
- Villainous Aussie bounder in the outskirts of Cork
- Swindling individual
- See a flier as a villain!
- One bent on villainy
- Bad character or chicken-hearted flier
- Thief or swindler
- Criminal employed by shepherd?
- Dishonest sort
- Arm bend
- See a bird as a criminal
- Cool headed flier involved in crime
- Burglar, say
- See a flier as a criminal
- Can one ever go straight?
- Shepherd's dishonest associate?
- One bent on blagging?
- Shepherd's stick
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 31, 2025
- New York Times - May 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 07, 2025
- New York Times - April 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 31, 2024
- LA Times - July 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 08, 2024
- Family Time - May 05, 2024
- LA Times - March 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 05, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 25, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 29, 2023
- USA Today - November 28, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 09, 2017
- Universal - October 16, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 09, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - September 24, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 31, 2017
- And in 67 more crossword puzzles...