Clues for the word "LAY"
We've had 225 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 762 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on April 17, 2025.
Definition of lay
- imp. - of Lie, to recline.
- a. - Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
- a. - Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
- a. - Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.
- n. - The laity; the common people.
- n. - A meadow. See Lea.
- n. - Faith; creed; religious profession.
- n. - A law.
- n. - An obligation; a vow.
- a. - A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
- a. - A melody; any musical utterance.
- v. t. - To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.
- v. t. - To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.
- v. t. - To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
- v. t. - To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
- v. t. - To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit.
- v. t. - To cause to lie dead or dying.
- v. t. - To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- v. t. - To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
- v. t. - To apply; to put.
- v. t. - To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
- v. t. - To impute; to charge; to allege.
- v. t. - To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
- v. t. - To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
- v. t. - To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
- v. t. - To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
- v. t. - To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
- v. t. - To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- v. t. - To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- v. i. - To produce and deposit eggs.
- v. i. - To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
- v. i. - To lay a wager; to bet.
- n. - That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
- v. t. - A wager.
- v. t. - A job, price, or profit.
- v. t. - A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
- v. t. - A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
- v. t. - The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
- v. t. - A plan; a scheme.
- imp. - of Lie
Referring Clues
- Place, as a bet
- Minstrel's song
- Put
- Ballad
- Nonprofessional
- Not in the profession
- Song played on a mandolin
- Of the congregation
- Set down
- Like some sermons
- Put down
- Not of the cloth
- Nonclerical
- Assign, as responsibility
- Place
- Put in position
- Reclined
- Give, as odds
- Not clerical
- ___ of the land
- Stock (up)
- Make, as a wager
- Be productive, as chickens
- Romantic narrative
- Spend, with "out"
- Set (down)
- Deliver, hen-style
- "Now I ___ me down to sleep..."
- Install, as carpeting
- Set up, as a foundation
- Place (a bet)
- Produce a clutch
- Assemble, as bricks
- Install, as carpet
- Word before off, on, up, down, in or out
- Place, as tiles
- What hens do
- Was prone
- Hens do it
- Nonexpert
- Bet
- Troubadour offering
- Wager
- "Now I ___ me down to sleep ..."
- Hit a short golf shot to be safe, with "up"
- Place at the track?
- Of the people
- Not professional
- Not in the clergy
- Nonexpert, as an opinion
- Explain, with "out"
- Get the ___ of the land
- Offer, as odds
- Put (down)
- Place, as tracks
- "Now I ___ me down to sleep ..."
- Put down, as a track
- ___ low (hide out)
- Install, as tile
- Word with about or away
- Not ordained
- Surrender, with "down"
- Troubadour's song
- Produce, as eggs
- ___ an egg (bomb)
- Deposit
- Place, as bricks
- Was supine
- Frito follower
- Not ecclesiastical
- Explain, with "out"
- Get the ___ of the land
- Casual sexual partner, as it were
- Old ballad
- Song
- Tune
- Produce, as an egg
- Install, as a carpet
- Deposit, as an egg
- Deposit
- Bring forth, as 59-Acrosses
- Install, as tiles
- ___ an egg (fail publicly)
- Place down
- Minstrel song
- Do brickwork
- Frito- ___
- 'Now I ___ me down ...'
- Nonclergy
- Work with bricks
- 'Now I ___ me down...'
- ___ siege to
- Metal band As I ___ Dying
- "Now I ___ me down ..."
- ___ an egg (flop)
- "Now I ___ me down to sleep"
- Store (up)
- Word before or after "Lady" in a Dylan title
- Secular
- ___ aside (abandon)
- Air
- "Now I ___ me ..."
- Be a productive chicken
- Sexual partner
- ___ down the law
- Do a hen's job
- Install, as linoleum
- Cease, with "off"
- Place at the track
- Hen's task
- Put down, as track
- Kind of preacher
- Frito go-with?
- "Now I ___ me down to ..."
- Narrative poem or song
- Put in position, as bricks
- Word with odds or bricks
- Non-clerical
- Spread over surface
- Frito's partner
- Place (down)
- Produce eggs
- Produce an egg
- Enron indictee
- Poem set to music
- Assail, with "into"
- Place, as a wager
- Install, as a tile floor
- Produce hen fruit
- Was idle
- Often-misused irregular verb
- Establish
- ___ an egg
- Put down, as railroad track
- Put down, as floor tile
- Put down, as floor tiles
- ___ an egg (what a hen may do)
- Produce eggs, like a hen
- Opposite of stand up (with "down")
- Put down, as carpeting
- Be a productive hen
- Word before and after "Lady," in song
- Make eggs
- Install carpet
- Non-professional
- Amateur
- Install, a floor tile
- Put down, as tile
- Deposit eggs
- "___ Your Hands On Me" (Bon Jovi)
- Repeated word in Dylan hit about a lady?
- Rockers As I ___ Dying
- As I ___ Dying
- Bon Jovi "___ Your Hands On Me"
- Rest of the song!
- Song of Malaya
- What the chickens do in Malaya
- What a cackling female may do
- Put "unprofessional"
- Put those eggs down!
- No ecclesiastical letter from lady
- Being unprofessional, got rested
- Put down a deposit (on a nest?)
- Amateur song
- Uninitiated
- Set (table)
- Produce (egg)
- See 16
- Arrange song
- Song of the once penniless lady
- Dismiss from work temporarily, with "off"
- ___ a finger on (touch)
- "As I ___ Dying" (Faulkner novel)
- Position
- Impute, as blame
- Song of a once penniless lady
- Put down as a poem
- NOFX "El ___"
- Early potato chip marketer
- Big name in chips
- ___ down the law (be firm)
- Song birds do
- Put down, as carpet
- Install, as bricks
- Drop an egg
- Install, as sod
- Unordained
- Place down, as tile
- Set (a table)
- Put "To execute, behead"
- Fill an empty nest?
- Place horizontally
- Put down as unprofessional
- Put down some things to sit on, perhaps
- ___ it on the line
- Set
- Word often misused in place of "lie"
- Put in place, as bricks
- ___ down the law (get tough)
- Song or melody to perform without piano
- ___ it on thick
- Word sometimes confused with "lie"
- Place on the floor
- Place down, as marble tiles
- "(___ Your Head on My) Pillow"
- Gently place
- Song of the broody hen?
- ___ it all on the line
- Hens do this
- "___ it on me!"
- Frito-___ snacks
- Word often confused with "lie"
- One sung in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July?
- "Chickens ___ eggs"
- Sam Smith's "___ Me Down"
- Put down a deposit (on a nest?)
- Produce, like an egg
- Install, as brick
- Produce, like eggs
- What a good hen will do
- Put down, as sod
- What a productive hen will do
- Be a good hen
- Be a tile installer
- What a 9-Across will do
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 17, 2025
- LA Times - April 13, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 04, 2025
- LA Times - April 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 02, 2025
- Family Time - March 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 20, 2025
- New York Times - February 11, 2025
- Family Time - February 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2025
- Family Time - January 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 10, 2025
- New York Times - January 01, 2025
- Daily American - December 28, 2024
- New York Times - December 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 24, 2024
- Family Time - December 22, 2024
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