Clues for the word "EXACT"
We've had 107 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 327 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 09, 2026.
Definition of exact
- a. - Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
- a. - Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
- a. - Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
- a. - To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
- v. i. - To practice exaction.
Referring Clues
- Squeeze (from)
- Strict
- On the money
- Obtain by demand
- Obtain, as vengeance
- Right on
- Precise
- Demand
- Get by coercion
- Dead-on
- Get by force
- *With 55-Across, quote from an auto-body shop
- Meticulous
- More than approximate
- Right on the button
- Strictly precise
- On the nose
- Force payment, as of a tax
- On the button
- Kind of change
- Painstaking
- Word that shouldn't precede replica or estimate
- Right on target
- To the letter
- Require
- Accurate
- Scrupulous
- Not approximate
- Right-on
- Better than close
- On the dot
- Letter-perfect
- Right on the nose
- Compel payment
- Take, as by taxation
- Word that shouldn't precede "estimate" or "replica"
- Right on the money
- Not rounded
- Rigorous
- Not off by even a hair
- To the decimal
- On the nail
- Like some change
- Word before change or revenge
- Perfect
- Specific
- Spot-on
- Word-for-word
- More than demand
- Better than estimated
- To-the-letter
- Precise, as a replica
- With no need for an estimation
- To the penny
- Identical
- Precise old law?
- Precise former spouse has to do something
- Not just close
- Like dead-on accountant
- Demand and obtain
- Short book on law is accurate
- By the previous wife, do right
- ... to practise extortion, to be precise
- An earlier performance, right?
- Force out? That's nice
- Performers no more precise
- Demand to be precise
- Demand payment? Just so!
- Screw that's not begun to screw?
- Old law was strict
- Chop back, chop, remove centre right
- Demand payment out of turn
- Correct former partner's play
- Demand and obtain, as vengeance
- Call for cut rejected by court
- Former wife gets to do something right
- So it's been repealed? That's perfect
- Spot on skirt's first to go in intercourse
- Demand English vote on legislation
- Former spouse to take steps to be accurate
- Compel former lover to take turn
- Precise demand
- Squeeze
- Former lover has to pretend to be faithful
- Demand, extort
- Strict former partner has to do something
- Specific thing used to chop up disembowelled convict
- Strictly correct
- Demand is strictly correct
- See special instructions
- Former simulation, accurate in all details
- Former statute, correct in every detail
- Demand made by former partner to behave
- Cut up court? Correct
- Very accurate
- Former performance? Just so!
- Precise old law?
- One time performance is flawless
- Satisfactory to sticklers
- Obtain, as revenge
- Not rounded off
- Faithful old performance
- A repealed statute, to be precise?
- For once, behave right
- Correct old law
- ___ change
- Not even a little off
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 09, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - October 01, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - September 26, 2026
- LA Times - September 02, 2026
- Your Life Choices - August 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - August 18, 2026
- Your Life Choices - August 17, 2026
- Daily Quick - July 25, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 23, 2026
- Daily Quick - June 02, 2026
- Daily American - May 30, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - April 24, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 15, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 26, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 31, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 11, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 26, 2025
- New York Times - August 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 28, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 23, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 21, 2025
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