Clues for the word "DOCTOR"
We've had 75 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 130 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on January 26, 2026.
Definition of doctor
- n. - A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
- n. - An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.
- n. - One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
- n. - Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.
- n. - The friar skate.
- v. t. - To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
- v. t. - To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
- v. t. - To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
- v. i. - To practice physic.
Referring Clues
- Alter deceptively
- Treat
- No, for one
- Person who's been given the third degree?
- Strangelove or Kildare
- Adulterate
- Neurologist or orthopedist
- With 28-Down, long-running British sci-fi series
- Tamper with
- Hippocratic oath taker
- Falsify
- Photoshop, say
- Fraudulently alter
- Member of the AMA
- Med-school graduate
- Medico
- Clinic worker
- Hippocratic oath reciter
- Medic
- One who usually doesn't treat anyone well?
- House on TV, e.g.
- 19-Across, e.g.
- Alter fraudulently
- Surgeon, for one
- With 69-Across, subject of this puzzle
- No or Oz, e.g.
- Sawbones
- One who's gotten the third degree?
- Medical practitioner
- Physician
- Person who gives physicals
- Medical professional
- Who's this first on TV? No, in Bond film
- Who?
- Man of words caught in entrance wearing long pants?
- Foster, Who, Jekyll or Livingstone
- Tamper with - falsify - one of the 14 films
- GP
- See 5
- Introductory line for explorer in TV guide: "Mostly old Inspector Morse reruns"
- Cook up rubbish fish
- See 7
- Month before last at hour 4, in derogatory Latin 1across 9
- A person well able to deal with any ill-feeling!
- Tamper with bones
- See 11
- Treat tripe and fish that's sent back
- Surgeon
- Who, say, is Spike?
- Cook sending tripe and fish back
- Physician uses entrance outside court
- See 10
- See 24
- Falsify income: small forged note and small coin to pick up - there you are!
- Part of MD
- Medical man
- Improve by alteration
- Health worker
- Hospital worker
- Fantastic Four foe
- Veterinarian, for instance
- Falsify, as a document
- World Health Organisation member?
- "Chicago Med" character
- Medico with a way in and out of court?
- See 22-Down
- BBC's "___ Who"
- Who on TV, with "the"
- Medical expert's door out of the court
- Who?
- Surgeon or internist
- Ph.D. holder's title
- Part of JD
- Gynecologist, for example
- Falsify, as a photo
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - January 26, 2026
- LA Times - January 05, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 06, 2025
- New York Times - December 04, 2025
- Mirror Mini - November 06, 2025
- New York Times - November 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 29, 2025
- USA Today - February 20, 2025
- Daily American - February 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 28, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 16, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 26, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 08, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 24, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 03, 2024
- LA Times - February 02, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 26, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 08, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 04, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - July 13, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 03, 2023
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