Clues for the word "JAIL"
We've had 128 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 228 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 08, 2025.
Definition of jail
- n. - A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- v. t. - To imprison.
Referring Clues
- Corner square in Monopoly
- Clink
- Set in "Die Fledermaus"
- Fine alternative
- You can get out of it free in Monopoly
- Corner after "GO"
- Monopoly square
- Monopoly corner square
- One corner of a Monopoly board
- Incarcerate
- Cooler
- Lockup
- One corner on a Monopoly board
- Square on a Monopoly board
- Detention square in Monopoly
- Monopoly board corner
- Monopoly corner
- It's next to Connecticut Avenue
- Monopoly lockup
- Con's confinement
- Sheriff's workplace
- "Go directly to ___" (Chance card phrase)
- Con's quarters
- Fine alternative?
- Corner in Monopoly
- Poky
- "Monopoly" square
- It's ten spaces past "Go"
- Square after Connecticut Avenue
- Space between Connecticut Avenue and St. Charles Place
- Monopoly space halfway between Go and Free Parking
- Word on two Monopoly squares
- Stir
- Hoosegow
- Put in the pen
- Consequence of rolling doubles three times in a row, in Monopoly
- Big house, so to speak
- St. Charles Place neighbor
- "Gunsmoke" set
- Keep in a can
- Bad "Monopoly" space
- Place to hear crime stories
- Setting of "Papillon"
- Big house
- Slammer
- It's between Connecticut Avenue and St. Charles Place
- Corner space in Monopoly
- The big house, small-time
- "The Usual Suspects" setting
- Monopoly square with bars
- Frequent spot for Mayberry's Otis
- Synonym for the ends of 17-, 25-, 41- and 55-Across
- See 33-Down
- Monopoly-board corner
- Typical western set
- Prison
- Screw's milieu
- "Gunsmoke" set
- Sheriff Taylor's office has one
- Pokey
- The clink
- Imprison
- Place with tons of bars
- A Monopoly corner
- Monopoly space adjoining Connecticut Avenue
- Monopoly space adjoining Connecticut ave
- Place to break out of
- Corner Monopoly space
- Penitentiary
- 'Monopoly' corner
- See 33-Across
- First corner after "Go" in Monopoly
- Location that prompted Thoreau to write "Civil Disobedience"
- Corner Monopoly square
- Where over two million Americans stay each year
- Penal institution
- Barred room
- Jug and cooler
- The slammer
- Monopoly square between Connecticut Avenue and St. Charles Place
- Place for corrections
- Lock up
- Part of "The Andy Griffith Show" set
- Where sentences are served
- Monopoly space that says "Just Visiting"
- Sheriff's lockup
- Monopoly location
- Kind of bait or bird
- See 68-Across
- Sheriff's facility
- Monopoly space with the words "Just Visiting"
- Clink or cooler
- Lift: elevator: Bridewell: ___
- Word after "In" or "Go to," in Monopoly
- "Just Visiting" Monopoly square
- Jack has trouble in prison
- Monopoly corner with "Just Visiting"
- Perp's surroundings
- "Freeway Time in L.A. County ___" (Sublime)
- Juliet has trouble in Holloway, say
- (Send to) prison
- Litre spilt by Jack's companion carrying a can
- Connecticut Avenue neighbor, in Monopoly
- Where Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous letter in 1963
- MLK's "Letter From Birmingham ___"
- Sentence structure?
- Where Bunyan began writing Pilgrims Progress
- "The Shawshank Redemption" setting
- Where bolting is normal, yet exceptional
- Stir trouble on 1st of January
- "Get Out of ___ Free" (card in Monopoly)
- Hoosegow or cooler
- Where a convicted criminal goes
- Monopoly square you "go directly to"
- Put away
- Yes, the Italian prison!
- Cooler, in non-slang
- Building with bars
- Word before "break" or "bird"
- Local lockup
- Bar room?
- Modern abolitionist's bane
- Martin Luther King's "Letter From Birmingham ___"
- Where time is served
- "Go directly to ___" (order in Monopoly)
- One image on a Monopoly board
- First corner square after Go on a Monopoly board
- Confine
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 08, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2025
- LA Times - July 31, 2025
- New York Times - July 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 29, 2025
- LA Times - April 03, 2025
- New York Times - January 09, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 05, 2024
- Daily American - December 04, 2024
- LA Times - December 03, 2024
- Daily American - November 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 07, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 21, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 12, 2023
- LA Times - April 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 12, 2023
- Daily American - December 04, 2022
- Daily American - November 30, 2022
- New York Times - September 27, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 11, 2018
- New York Times - January 03, 2018
- LA Times - December 20, 2017
- USA Today - December 11, 2017
- Washington Post Sunday - November 26, 2017
- And in 198 more crossword puzzles...