Clues for the word "HINGE"
We've had 113 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 247 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on September 29, 2026.
Definition of hinge
- n. - The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
- n. - That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
- n. - One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- v. t. - To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
- v. t. - To bend.
- v. i. - To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.
Referring Clues
- Pivotal point
- Door swinger
- Venus' flytrap feature
- Knee, essentially
- Door part
- Opening and closing facilitator
- Door joint
- Gate part
- Door pivot
- Door attachment
- Door hardware
- Turning device
- Gate pivot
- Stamp album sticker
- Depend (on)
- Door-hanging hardware
- Door squeaker
- Turning point
- Be dependent
- Flexible joint
- Swinging joint?
- Be contingent
- Shutter attachment
- Swinger's hardware
- Door device
- Swinger's hardware?
- Depend
- Door fastener
- Door dingus
- Gate squeaker
- Gate hardware
- Connector with a pivotal role
- Pivotal part
- Door support
- Pivot
- Door-frame attachment
- Door piece
- Door holder
- Its role is pivotal
- Gate-hanging hardware
- Gate swinger
- Swinger on a jamb
- Be contingent (on)
- Stamp collector's fastener
- Bit of hardware
- Gate joint
- Doorway joint
- Door-hanging device
- Joint
- Door-hanging attachment
- Door feature
- Door creaker
- Bit of gate hardware
- Swinging joint
- Hardware store item
- Part of a swinging door
- Door's swinger
- Gate hardware item
- Thing on a door
- Piano lid feature
- Elbow, essentially
- Door jamb attachment
- Bit of shutter hardware
- Part of a door
- Going topless, complain there'll be swinging around here
- On the door, he's full of gin - drunk!
- Depend on Mercury to keep in with sweetheart
- Joint on which things turn
- Fastening for door etc
- One of an opening pair
- Bracket partner's joint
- On what a door swings
- One might hold the door for you
- Something else's turning point
- What a door depends upon!
- Device for letting door etc swing
- Bellyache, wife having left ... get coupling!(5)
- 8 mechanism and little or nothing else
- Joint on which something swings
- Neigh out of turn
- Gummed holder in a stamp album
- Circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; door facilitator
- It lets door move in hospital that is no good inside
- Pivot within general section
- Type of joint involved in stretching elbow
- Door-hanger's need
- Piece of gate hardware
- Door doohickey
- Squeaky gate attachment
- Door-swinging hardware
- Moveable part in breathing equipment
- Knee or elbow, anatomically
- Door-to-wall hardware
- Door fixture
- Thing engineered to hold sort of joint
- What a door swings on
- Bumble alternative
- Bit of hardware for a cabinet
- Hardware connection
- Squeaky door part
- Door part that might squeak
- Rely (on)
- "The dating app for people who want to get off dating apps"
- Door hanger
- Certain swinger
- Part of a door or a laptop
- Trunk hardware
- Coffee Meets Bagel alternative
- Shutter hardware
- Dating app that's "designed to be deleted"
- Door opener
- Dating app "designed to be deleted"
- Hardware not found on a sliding door
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 29, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 29, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 07, 2026
- LA Times - May 27, 2026
- Mirror Mini - May 27, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 11, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 11, 2026
- LA Times - October 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 09, 2025
- Mirror Mini - May 26, 2025
- LA Times - March 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 12, 2025
- USA Today - January 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 05, 2025
- LA Times - December 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 30, 2024
- LA Times - November 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 05, 2024
- LA Times - July 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 23, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 09, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 23, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 07, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 12, 2023
- Family Time - August 28, 2023
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