Clues for the word "LAY"
We've had 229 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 829 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on May 12, 2026.
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
- Chip maker in a 1961 merger
- Deposit, as eggs
- Herman ___ (potato chip entrepreneur)
- It's from the laity, this song
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 12, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 08, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 23, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - March 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 16, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - March 13, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 02, 2026
- New York Times - February 22, 2026
- LA Times - February 20, 2026
- New York Times - February 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 14, 2026
- New York Times - February 10, 2026
- LA Times - January 29, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 28, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 24, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 19, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 17, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 20, 2025
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