Clues for the word "DRAW"
We've had 229 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 520 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 22, 2026.
Definition of draw
- v. t. - To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
- v. t. - To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
- v. t. - To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.
- v. t. - To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
- v. t. - To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
- v. t. - To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
- v. t. - To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.
- v. t. - To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.
- v. t. - To select by the drawing of lots.
- v. t. - To remove the contents of
- v. t. - To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
- v. t. - To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
- v. t. - To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
- v. t. - To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
- v. t. - To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
- v. t. - To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
- v. t. - To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
- v. t. - To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.
- v. t. - To withdraw.
- v. t. - To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
- v. i. - To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.
- v. i. - To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
- v. i. - To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
- v. i. - To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.
- v. i. - To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
- v. i. - To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
- v. i. - To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
- v. i. - To become contracted; to shrink.
- v. i. - To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.
- v. i. - To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.
- v. i. - To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
- v. i. - To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
- n. - The act of drawing; draught.
- n. - A lot or chance to be drawn.
- n. - A drawn game or battle, etc.
- n. - That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
Referring Clues
- Challenge to a gunslinger
- Tie
- Select at random
- Western command
- Select a winner in a sweepstakes
- Gunslinger's command
- Performer who fills the club
- Sketch
- Old West command
- No-win situation
- Gunfight command
- Take a card
- Poker variety
- End even
- Ring result
- Chess result, sometimes
- Pick a card
- Shout at a shootout
- ___ the line (set a limit)
- 20-20, e.g.
- Challenge in a western
- Duel action?
- Something you can do to the starts of 17-, 21-, 37-, 53- and 60-Across
- Shootout shout
- Gunslinger's cry
- Create a cartoon
- Oater challenge
- Attraction
- Ending where neither side wins
- Shout heard at the O.K. Corral
- Unholster
- Audience attracter
- Possible result of a chess game
- Shout heard at the O.K. Corral?
- Attract
- Make a line, maybe
- Gunfight challenge
- Word before back or bridge
- Play Pictionary
- Old West challenge
- Get new cards, in poker
- Possible end game outcome
- Extract
- Take from the deck
- Style of poker
- Quick ___ McGraw (old cartoon horse)
- Make a face?
- Deadlock
- Make pictures
- Get ready for a shooting?
- Tie in chess
- Challenge to an old sheriff
- Make a sketch
- Try to fill a straight
- Make a sketch of
- Game with no winner
- Club-filler
- Challenge Matt Dillon
- "Reach!"
- Western challenge
- Kind of poker
- Club filler
- Possible chess result
- Get water
- Pull your weapon
- Etch or sketch
- Command uttered in many a Western
- Art 101 task
- Standoff
- "___ Me Nearer"
- Shallow gully
- Tournament seeding
- Command to a Western gunslinger
- Select a card
- Chess standoff
- "Reach!"
- Score the same
- Stud alternative
- Lure
- Inconclusive outcome
- Poker variation
- Box office need
- Bring in
- Pull out of the holster
- Attract, as an audience
- Showdown command
- Showdown directive
- Do a sketch
- Tie game
- Stalemate
- Doodle
- Play Pictionary, say
- Make an image
- Start of a tournament ... or the end of a match?
- Command shouted in many Westerns
- Take cards, in poker
- Tied up
- No-win result
- Start of a Scrabble game
- Close, as curtains
- Enticement
- Pull
- Billiards backspin
- Command in Uno
- Challenge from a gunslinger
- Shoot-out shout
- Sudden death cause
- Result of a king vs. king endgame
- Create, as a cartoon
- Produce a 45?
- Gunfighter's "Go!"
- Attract a crowd
- "win, lose or ___"
- Poker game
- Sketch out
- Make a cartoon, e.g.
- Delineate
- Action in go fish
- Do sketching
- Common chess outcome
- No-win situation?
- Sketch a picture
- Main attraction
- Common chess ending
- Wild West gunfighter's "Go!"
- Sketch something
- Gunslinger's dare
- 1-Across in the present tense
- Depict
- Gunfight order
- Make pictures with a pencil
- Produce a picture of a tie
- Use a sketch pad
- Take out a tie
- Go for blood?
- Tied game
- Allman Bros. "Win, Lose or ___"
- Tie - attract
- Get weapon out but don't win
- Raffle that has no winner
- Unsheathe and turn to parry with
- Portray as the person the spectators are coming to see
- Charge for coming back to tow
- An attractive result?
- No-win situation, something that's decided by luck
- Popular entertainer gets minor rise
- A magnet to get your gun out?
- Pull upward
- Attraction of the lottery
- Tie up the Guardian's charge?
- See 21
- Snag
- The attraction of the Lottery
- Depict - raffle
- Approach or pull away
- Allure
- Pull out a piece
- Pick out (raffle)
- Dunkirk began fightback from a no-win situation
- Get back custody
- Avoid calling attention to something
- Tie with some untanned rawhide
- Defensive measure ensuring game finished level?
- Create caricatures
- Tournament director's responsibility
- No-win situation?
- One end of a chess game
- Be a lure to
- Duelist's shout
- To tow back, charge
- Part of a city where people talk with a Southern accent?
- Match that neither team wins
- Common chess result
- The result of equality
- Game that ends even
- Depict or deduce
- In reverse, literally
- Shootout order
- Neither win nor lose
- Try for a better hand
- Make faces, perhaps
- Compete in Pictionary
- Do caricatures
- Use a pencil
- Chess result, often
- Pick from a deck
- "Do I need to ___ you a map?"
- Choose from a hat
- Do some sketching
- One-up, say
- Create a likeness of, maybe
- Receive from a deck
- Pull out a result
- Tie game result
- A raffle or lottery
- Make a portrait of
- Depict as an attraction
- Take from a deck
- Chess result
- Pick a card, any card
- The result of being backward?
- It adds one point to a soccer team's standing in the English Premier League
- Appeal
- Frequent result between two chess grandmasters
- Gunfighter's cry in the Wild West
- Do some doodling
- Create a sketch of
- Pick from a deck of cards
- Tie score
- Make art with a pencil
- Participate in Blacktober
- Take a card from the deck
- Create sketches
- Common result in championship chess
- Outcome with no winner
- Make faces, say
- An attractive result?
- Use a marker
- Word before 2 or 4, on Uno cards
- Action in Uno
- Create a portrait
- ___ a blank
- Game result with no winner
- Word with lots and straws
- Take in, as a breath
- Prepare to duel
- What duelists and doodlers do
- Win or lose alternative
- Pull to open
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 30, 2025
- Daily American - December 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 08, 2025
- LA Times - September 25, 2025
- Daily American - September 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 05, 2025
- Daily American - July 30, 2025
- Daily American - July 21, 2025
- New York Times - June 29, 2025
- Daily American - June 05, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 08, 2025
- Daily American - May 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 05, 2025
- USA Today - February 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 07, 2025
- USA Today - December 09, 2024
- New York Times - December 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 02, 2024
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