Clues for the word "DEFER"
We've had 64 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 335 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 16, 2025.
Definition of defer
- v. t. - To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
- v. i. - To put off; to delay to act; to wait.
- v. t. - To render or offer.
- v. t. - To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.
- v. i. - To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.
Referring Clues
- Hold off
- Pass the buck
- Shelve
- Postpone, as enrollment
- Put off
- Yield
- Postpone
- Table
- Put on hold
- Put on the back burner
- Submit to authority
- Yield (to)
- Put aside
- Reschedule for later
- Push back
- Postpone an action
- Put off till tomorrow
- Delay, as payments
- Put off till later
- Hold in abeyance
- Schedule for later
- Put off, as loan payments
- Accede
- Put off until later
- Suspend
- Put off 'til later
- See 62-Across
- Table 'til tomorrow
- Delay
- Put off , prevent
- Acquiesce
- Yield to another's wish
- Yield in judgment
- Yield to another's opinion
- Flipping once more given food delay
- Put off upsetting Fred about an early start
- Submit
- Put off being unwisely freed
- Put off being freed, perhaps
- Yield of grass around about farm cut by 75%
- Show respect, albeit fed up, to the bitter end
- Put off upsetting 5
- Give best of iron to Paris
- Postpone being freed, perhaps
- Put off effin' Bambi!
- Put off, but provide food again on return
- Give way in Grande ferry
- See 21 down
- Put off, being fed up to the bitter end
- Yield the floor
- Put off having criminal freed
- Postpone being injudiciously freed
- Delay yield
- Freed after treatment put back
- Fed up with hesitation, postpone action
- Put off for another day
- Delay until a later time
- Postpone being freed, possibly
- Decline to decide
- Put off for later
- "I'll ___ to you on this one"
- Let someone else decide
- Leave for later
- Yield judgment (to)
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 31, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 30, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 09, 2024
- LA Times - November 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 22, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 01, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 22, 2024
- New York Times - September 11, 2024
- LA Times - July 18, 2024
- Daily American - July 15, 2024
- Daily American - June 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 06, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 01, 2024
- Your Life Choices - April 27, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 12, 2024
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