Clues for the word "DRIVE"
We've had 136 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 264 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on January 29, 2026.
Definition of drive
- v. t. - To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
- v. t. - To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
- v. t. - To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.
- v. t. - To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- v. t. - To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- v. t. - To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- v. t. - To pass away; -- said of time.
- v. i. - To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.
- v. i. - To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.
- v. i. - To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.
- v. i. - To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at.
- v. i. - To distrain for rent.
- p. p. - Driven.
- n. - The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.
- n. - A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
- n. - Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- n. - In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.
- n. - A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
Referring Clues
- Tee off
- Energy
- Charity money-raiser
- Get-up-and-go
- Auto suggestion
- Start a hole
- Automatic selection?
- Impel
- Opening shot
- Shot from a tee
- Play chauffeur
- Do a soccer mom's chore
- Hit off a tee
- "Home, James"
- Shoot from a tee
- Long golf shot
- Ambition
- Compete at Indy
- Hit from a tee, and word that can follow the first words of 20-, 28-, 49- and 59-Across
- Spin
- Automatic transmission setting
- Rodeo in Beverly Hills, for example
- Motivation
- Sunday outing
- Tee shot
- Outing in the car
- Offensive
- Hit from the tee
- Operate, as an auto
- Word to the chauffeur
- Neutral alternative
- Charity money raiser
- Compete in the Daytona 500
- Auto gear
- Motivate
- With 2-Down, allowing customers to stay in their cars
- Impetus
- Military offensive
- ___ home
- Car trip
- Computer component
- Computer part
- Joyride, e.g.
- Chauffeur
- The "D" of PRNDL
- Initiative
- Concerted push
- Transport, as Miss Daisy
- Sunday excursion
- Automatic transmission gear
- A disk can be slipped in one
- Steer
- Fund-raising effort
- Urge forward
- Hit from a tee
- Ambition's kin
- Doggedness
- Chauffeur's instruction
- Handle the steering wheel
- Golf stroke
- Campaign
- Control a car
- Past a road's curve
- Theme of this puzzle
- Organized effort
- Urge along
- Inner motivation
- Be automotive?
- Act the chauffeur
- Transmission setting
- Operate a car
- Operate an auto
- Operate a truck
- Disk ___
- Libido, e.g.
- Take the car from where it may be parked?
- Force of Red River
- Travel by car
- Private road
- Cars' smash ballad
- R.E.M. hit about cars?
- Avenue
- Cars "Who's gonna ___ you home tonight?"
- Thrust
- Approach shown by a forceful person
- Force to take the wheel
- A campaign to get people to use the roads
- Get up and go - for a spin
- Go by car
- Force to show initiative
- Ambition to cut the crap
- Play a golf shot with spin
- Road runs into nightclub, maybe
- Trip in car - road to house
- Conclude a bargain in a stroke
- Control and steer vehicle
- Urge to take the wheel
- Run-producing stroke
- Go for an excursion
- Ambition - steer
- Campaign rubbish left to be disposed of
- Force redhead into disreputable resort
- Send mad, ___ up the wall
- Trial run, test ___
- Compel the dunderhead to split
- Plunge right in, displaying energy
- Propel
- Control vehicle in approach to house
- Run sleazy bar bordering river
- Rubbish left out in avenue
- Urge to take plunge seizing Romeo
- Urge resistance in disreputable bar
- Force of Verdi composition
- Rubbish left out for chauffeur
- Cricket shot sees opener in Rawalpindi breaking duck
- Hit the road
- Hit the ball with spin
- Vigor
- Shot in the avenue
- Approach to a house
- Golf shot
- Work for Miss Daisy
- Shot from the tee
- Hit from the tee in golf
- Take the car from where it may be parked?
- Opening golf shot
- Force to take to
- Fundraising effort
- Hit the ball with vim and vigour
- First stroke, usually
- Take the wheel
- Inner determination
- [See notepad]
- Pilot
- Determination
- Operate a golf cart
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - January 29, 2026
- New York Times - January 10, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 27, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 13, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 08, 2025
- USA Today - February 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 12, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 18, 2024
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