Clues for the word "INVENT"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 47 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on February 25, 2026.
Definition of invent
- v. t. - To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
- v. t. - To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.
- v. t. - To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.
Referring Clues
- Think up
- Make up
- Cook up
- Dream up
- Fabricate
- Hatch
- Coin
- Take after Edison
- Emulate Edison
- Devise
- Create
- Make up new effect
- Make up new technology
- Make up new sound
- Coin in hole
- Design for the first time
- Create trendy opening
- Devise (something new)
- Make up (something false)
- Opening batting, the wrong way to find something new
- In a hole? Use your ingenuity
- Design tips from Italian outlet
- Counterfeit coin?
- Do what Edison did in outlet
- Create, devise
- When in a hole, be creative!
- Come up with
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - February 25, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - August 11, 2025
- New York Times - October 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 16, 2023
- USA Today - May 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 26, 2022
- Guardian Everyman - November 26, 2017
- Universal - October 30, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - October 23, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - July 20, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - June 07, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - September 21, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - September 09, 2016
- LA Times - July 11, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - April 20, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - April 06, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - July 29, 2015
- Universal - June 05, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 29, 2014
- Rock n Roll Crossword - December 14, 2014
- Guardian Quick - February 19, 2014
- Washington Post - November 04, 2013
- LA Times - May 24, 2013
- Universal - November 27, 2012
- Rock n Roll Crossword - October 07, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - June 15, 2012
- Washington Post - March 17, 2012
- And in 17 more crossword puzzles...