Clues for the word "FAULT"
We've had 66 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 95 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 27, 2026.
Definition of fault
- n. - Defect; want; lack; default.
- n. - Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
- n. - A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
- n. - A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
- n. - In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
- n. - A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
- n. - Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
- v. t. - To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
- v. t. - To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
- v. i. - To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
Referring Clues
- Quake locale
- Poor service
- Criticize
- Blame
- Tennis server's goof
- Quake spot
- Wimbledon no-no
- Geologic fracture
- Geological concern
- Rock fracture
- Culpability
- Tennis "misstep"
- Double ___
- Court official's call
- Service error
- San Andreas, for one
- Blame game subject
- Shortcoming
- Geologist's big break?
- Crust crack
- Quake site
- Tennis umpire call
- Mistake
- Earthquake line
- Pin the blame on
- Seismological concern
- *Tennis umpire's cry
- Earthshaking matter?
- Earthshaking matter
- Tennis miscue
- "It's my ___" (blame-taking phrase)
- Tennis player's error
- Source of an underground movement?
- Denali National Park sits on one
- Cause for an underground movement
- Responsibility
- 14-Across' concern
- Defect
- San Andreas ___
- Seismology concern
- Geological fracture
- Site of an earthquake
- Crack in the crust
- Flaw
- No-___ insurance
- A mistake by the soccer people last month
- Turn, possibly flat out, making an error
- A mistake going flat out around the bend!
- Mistake by a serviceman?
- Imperfection
- Flaw - defect
- Site of some seismic activity
- Responsibility for a mistake
- Mistake made by the soccer people last month
- Seismologist's discovery
- Stepping on the baseline when serving in tennis, e.g.
- Tennis judge's cry
- Mistake by the soccer authority last month
- Failing, defect
- Error
- Earthquake-prone rift
- It's ground-breaking
- "It's not my ___!"
- Geological rift
- Server error?
- Something wrong at the FA last month
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 27, 2026
- Daily American - February 22, 2026
- Mirror Mini - December 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 11, 2025
- Daily American - June 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 31, 2024
- LA Times - July 26, 2024
- New York Times - June 24, 2024
- Daily American - February 22, 2024
- USA Today - July 14, 2023
- Daily American - June 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 28, 2023
- New York Times - December 12, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 23, 2022
- Wall Street Journal - December 19, 2017
- New York Times - December 07, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - August 27, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 22, 2017
- Netword - June 26, 2017
- Netword - June 15, 2017
- Daily American - June 09, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - March 25, 2017
- And in 65 more crossword puzzles...