Clues for the word "FILE"
We've had 174 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 324 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on November 12, 2025.
Definition of file
- n. - An orderly succession; a line; a row
- n. - A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
- n. - An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
- n. - The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.
- n. - A roll or list.
- n. - Course of thought; thread of narration.
- v. t. - To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
- v. t. - To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
- v. t. - To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
- v. i. - To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
- n. - A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
- n. - Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.
- n. - A shrewd or artful person.
- v. t. - To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
- v. t. - To smooth or polish as with a file.
- v. t. - To make foul; to defile.
Referring Clues
- Folder's locale
- Smooth
- Put away, in a way
- Tool for a prisoner's escape, maybe
- Computer record
- F.B.I. info
- Something to keep tabs on
- Manicurist's tool
- It may be used on a nail
- Do some manicuring
- Rasp
- Hard drive item
- Dossier
- Tab site
- Document burial place
- Do a taxing task?
- Stick in a cabinet, say
- Companion of "Edit" and "Tools"
- Grind down
- Collection of papers
- Submit, as a news story
- Computer unit
- Smoothing tool
- Gumbo seasoning
- Trimming tool
- Submit, as a suit
- Set of related records
- Manicure tool
- Use an emery board on
- Submit formally
- Grind, in a way
- Cabinet member?
- Folder holder
- Carpentry tool
- Stereotypical escapee's tool
- Nail groomer
- Tool in a purse
- Arrange in a cabinet
- Store
- Fingernail shaper
- Document place
- Secret Service dossier
- Type of cabinet
- Rank partner
- Word with nail or data
- Server item
- Register as a candidate
- Record holder
- Manicurist's need
- Put in the archives
- Beauty-shop tool
- Folder filler
- Put into the archive
- Emery board
- Submit, as 1040s
- Something to keep tabs on?
- Blacksmith's tool
- Put away
- Do clerical work
- Machinist's tool
- Do an office task
- Thing in a folder
- Do a clerical job
- Do secretarial work
- Office holder
- Folder contents
- Manicurist's device
- Mani-pedi prop
- Toolbar option
- Alphabetize, maybe
- Nail technician's need
- Rank crossing
- Categorize
- Info in a folder
- Computer menu heading
- Record collection
- Send in the taxes
- Clichéd prison contraband item
- Nail shaper
- It's often left hanging
- Store in a folder
- Hoof-care tool
- Take the edge off
- Make smooth
- Put in folders
- Rank and ___
- Nail ___
- Submit one's taxes
- Toolbar heading
- Do a secretary's job
- Row
- Woodworking tool
- Arrange
- Menu bar heading
- Something on a disk
- Fingernail smoother
- Paperwork task
- Mani-pedi implement
- Store accessibly
- "___ and Forget" (classic humor piece by James Thurber)
- Gumbo thickener
- Escape tool secreted in a cake, in cartoons
- It may have a .doc extension
- Quannet
- Meet the April 15 deadline
- Submit a return
- Do a secretarial chore
- Put away neatly
- Store logically, as documents
- Manicure implement
- Organizer
- Where a manager keeps documents
- Where manager keeps documents
- '80s cowpunks Rank and ___
- Sugar "___ Under: Easy Listening"
- Set of related records kept together
- Crocodile document holder
- A tool for life?
- Document folder
- Computerised record of a turbulent life?
- Smoothing tool - orderly batch of documents
- (Set of) documents- line
- Smoothing agent in the cabinet?
- Record of a small body of soldiers
- See 8
- Tool for data collection
- Submit to the IRS
- Wildlife trail?
- Record change of life
- Collected documentation of a new life
- Folder
- JPEG or MP3
- Smooth fellow, left-leaning priest
- Smooth and put in order
- Computer folder item
- The FBI may have one on you
- Fingernail-smoothing tool
- Circular ___ (wastebasket)
- PDF or MP3
- Organize
- Cabinet selection?
- Hand tool
- Put away for future reference
- Use a rasp
- Item in a folder
- Keep in a folder
- Email attachment
- Something to open or save
- A tool in the cabinet?
- Keep in a cabinet folder
- Desktop document
- Word ladder, part 3
- One may be scanned for viruses
- Put in a folder
- Folder insert
- A tool for life?
- Cloud upload
- –
- Information stored about a turbulent life?
- Tend to, as taxes or fingernails
- Word with circular or nail
- Computerised record of a turbulent life?
- Submit, as a tax return
- Menu item
- Computer menu sighting
- First option on a computer menu
- Item in a computer folder
- Nail salon tool
- Finish one's taxes
- Rank's counterpart, on a chessboard
- Menu that "Print" and "Save" are under
- Single ___
- Spicy herb seasoning in gumbo
- Mani-pedi tool
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 12, 2025
- Daily American - August 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 23, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 27, 2025
- Daily American - June 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 15, 2025
- LA Times - March 21, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 05, 2025
- USA Today - January 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 15, 2024
- USA Today - November 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 07, 2024
- Daily American - October 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 17, 2024
- LA Times - September 06, 2024
- Family Time - August 26, 2024
- LA Times - August 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 11, 2024
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