Clues for the word "DIRECT"
We've had 88 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 130 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 24, 2025.
Definition of direct
- a. - Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
- a. - Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
- a. - Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
- a. - In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
- a. - In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
- v. t. - To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
- v. t. - To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
- v. t. - To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
- v. t. - To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
- v. t. - To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
- v. i. - To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
- n. - A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
Referring Clues
- Run the show
- Nonstop
- Run
- Not beating around the bush
- Follow in Fellini's footsteps
- Person-to-person
- Lacking a stopover, as a flight
- Face-to-face
- Tell actors how to act
- Administer
- Point the way
- Candid
- Tell others how to act
- Straight from the source
- Emulate Spielberg
- Lead
- Straight
- Not roundabout
- Straightforward
- Frank
- Lead the orchestra
- Give orders to
- Oversee
- Without stops or detours
- Plain-spoken
- Issue orders
- Like the fastest route
- Helm a movie
- Control
- ___ free kick (referee's call in soccer)
- Steer
- Straightforward board member has no alternative
- Straightforward letters of credit
- Type of object, in grammar
- What boss of video shoot will do
- As the crow flies
- Order credit to be changed
- Credit (anag) - steer
- By the shortest route
- Oversee jab? No carburettor needed
- Welshman fuddled in speech, outspoken ...
- Possibly credit with being straight
- Manage to show the way
- Straight, without diversion
- Frank's address
- Manage to be frank
- Manage without an intermediary
- To the point
- Immediate availability of credit
- Frank's awful, heartless, malign woman
- Frank's guide
- Aim straight
- Call the shots?
- Express train
- Straight - guide
- Fearful performance lacking a guide
- Honest conduct
- Frank guide
- Steer straight
- Show where to go - straight
- Unambiguous aim
- European nations cutting scandal, becoming honest
- Unambiguous order
- Tell to turn, say
- Blunt point
- Point of scandal engulfing the City
- Show how to get there without having to change trains
- Outspoken, shocking court
- Immediate order
- Scandal envelops the City as the crow flies
- Be in charge of a movie set
- Immediate credit, perhaps
- Straightfroward letters of credit
- Frank, call the shots!
- Guide
- Without stopping en route
- Be at the helm of
- Ghastly court order
- Part of AC/DC
- Lead in a movie?
- Proceeding by the shortest way
- Like a nonstop flight
- Immediate credit arranged
- Word before "flight" or "deposit"
- Supervise
- Emulate Chloe Zhao
- Like a flight with no layovers
- Set the scene?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 15, 2025
- LA Times - May 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 05, 2024
- New York Times - February 06, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 13, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 13, 2023
- USA Today - April 12, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 21, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 09, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 16, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 16, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 29, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2022
- USA Today - December 14, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2022
- Mirror Classic - December 12, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 13, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 05, 2017
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