Clues for the word "LEAP"
We've had 252 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 953 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on July 18, 2026.
Definition of leap
- n. - A basket.
- n. - A weel or wicker trap for fish.
- v. i. - To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
- v. i. - To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
- v. t. - To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
- v. t. - To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
- v. t. - To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
- n. - The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
- n. - Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- n. - A fault.
- n. - A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
Referring Clues
- Spring
- "Able to ___ tall buildings..."
- Hurdle
- Giant hop
- Capriole
- Act of faith
- Quantum ___
- Abrupt transition
- Cause of a non sequitur
- Flying ___
- Sudden transition
- Sudden increase
- Hop, skip or jump
- Kind of second
- Bound
- TV's "Quantum ___"
- Ballet practice
- Clear a hurdle
- Jeté, e.g.
- Long spring
- Axel, e.g.
- "Go take a flying ___!"
- Act of faith?
- ___ year (2004, e.g.)
- Ballet move
- Vault
- Proceed impulsively
- ___ of faith
- Jump
- Neil Armstrong made a giant one for mankind
- Act precipitately
- ___ year (2000, for one)
- Mimic a kangaroo
- Jump over
- Spring through the air
- Kind of year
- Leopard's move
- "Look before you ___"
- Entrechat or jeté
- Type of year
- See 20-Across
- Quantum movement?
- Word associated with February 29 and the additions to 20-, 38-, and 57-Across
- The kind of year we're having in 2008
- Lutz or axel
- Do a grand jeté
- Quantum ___
- ___ second
- Entrechat, e.g.
- Get over a hurdle
- Get off the ground
- ___ of faith
- Event celebrated in this puzzle, and an example of how the theme works
- Momentary abandonment of logic
- Look before you ___
- Go for a rebound
- Leave one's feet
- Leave the ground
- ___ year (2008 or 2012)
- Springing movement
- Spring up
- Ballerina's jete
- Ballerina's jete, e.g.
- One way to abandon ship
- Word with "frog" or "year"
- Faithful decision?
- Bissextile year
- Look before you do this
- One way to tackle a hurdle?
- Word with "Lambeau" or "quantum"
- Word with "quantum"
- Part of a bungee jump
- Be a bounder
- Leave the ground, in a way
- Parachute
- Word with frog or over
- Year or frog leader
- Word with frog or year
- Vault (over)
- Quantum event?
- Parachute, e.g.
- Quantum follower?
- Look follower?
- "... one giant ___ for mankind"
- ___ year (period of 366 days)
- Grand jeté, for one
- Hurdle (over)
- Look before you ___
- Start a bungee jump
- Word with "frog" or "year"
- Word with "Lambeau" or "quantum"
- Word with "quantum"
- Adjective for '08
- Axel or Lutz
- ___ year (2008 or 2012)
- Try to make it over a chasm, say
- Plunge
- Emulate a frog
- Take the plunge?
- Grand jeté, e.g.
- Frog head?
- Take the plunge
- Act like an antelope
- Acknowledge 2/29
- Acknowledge 2/29?
- Observe 2/29?
- Hop
- With 40-Across, periodic correction of the 64-Across
- Break in logic
- A look might precede one
- Frog maneuver
- Flaw in logic
- Express joy, in a way
- ___ in the dark
- Long jump
- It may be quantum
- Launch oneself into the air
- One may be taken in faith
- Jeté, say
- *Leave the ground
- Route to an illogical conclusion
- Abandon ship, in a way
- Pounce
- "Able to ___ tall buildings ... "
- One way to clear a hurdle
- 14-Across, for one
- Bound upward
- Big jump
- Capriole or jete
- Sharp increase
- Frog move
- Lambeau ___ (Green Bay Packer celebration)
- Big step
- Hurdle-clearing action
- Clear hurdles
- High jump
- Quantum distance?
- Frog's move
- Go for the rebound
- Go bungee jumping
- Emulate a leopard
- Graceful jump
- Move like a kangaroo
- "Quantum ___"
- Abrupt increase
- of faith?
- Frog "step"
- "Able to ___ tall buildings ..."
- ___ year
- Do a lutz or axel, say
- Illogical step
- Big spring
- Omission in logic
- Hopscotch move
- Certain year
- ___ year (2016, for one)
- Get off the ground?
- Gazelle jump
- ___ Day (Feb. 29)
- Stunt cyclist's feat
- Jump high
- Clear a hurdle?
- Every fourth year
- ___ Pad (children's learning game)
- Jump or bound
- ___ frog (fun activity)
- Take a bungee jump
- "ook before you ___22
- Spring turning pale
- Jeté, for one
- Michelle Branch "___ of Faith"
- You take a big one for stage dive
- Bound to be a sudden increase!
- Jump and turn pale
- Bound found in the four longest Across answers
- See 7
- Take to the air
- Do a grand jete
- Frogs do it
- Bit of faulty logic
- Unwarranted conclusion, figuratively
- Logician's error, maybe
- Meadow has first of primroses in spring
- See 18
- Ignoring third of debt, what could be repayable in 2008?
- Bound to find drink laced with drug
- ___ years (when presidents are elected)
- Cyclist's stunt
- Bound to be in a hole, apparently
- "Quantum" increase
- What to do every four years?
- "... giant ___ for mankind"
- Be hopping mad?
- Clear a hurdle?
- Logical omission
- Jeté, in ballet
- Clear hurdles?
- "Quantum" jump
- Make a big jump
- Overcome hurdles, say
- Jump forcefully
- Jete or axel
- Stunt double's feat
- Word with day or year
- Neil Armstrong quote word
- Bound over for one year
- ___ year (year with February 29th)
- Moment off the ground
- Ballerina's cabriole, e.g.
- Big logical step
- What spring lambs do softly on the meadow?
- ___ year (2020 or 2024)
- Armstrong's "giant" move
- Faith-based action
- Skip a year?
- Make a jump
- ___ year (2020, for example)
- ___ year (2020, for one)
- One year in four
- Faithful spring?
- ___ year (year with a February 29th)
- Clear a hurdle, say
- Move in ice dancing
- Bound or spring
- In ballet, a jete is one
- Kind of day or year
- Take a ___ of faith
- Dancer's jump
- Accept eagerly, with "at"
- Stretch in logic
- Act of faith?
- Jeté, e.g.
- Big advance
- Something not to look after?
- Bit of ballet choreography
- Dramatic ascent
- Compete in a long-jump event
- Jarring transition
- Word before "year" or "day"
- Jump like a frog
- Big hop
- With 2 down, the reason it's still February
- Kind of year with an extra day in February
- ___frog (game)
- Take a big jump
- Go for a rebound, perhaps
- Imitate a frog
- Increase dramatically
- Antepenultimate word in a noted Neil Armstrong quote
- Copy a lord, in a carol
- Gap in logic
- Sudden and jarring transition
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - July 18, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 02, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 24, 2026
- New York Times - June 24, 2026
- Mirror Mini - June 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 13, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 08, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 06, 2026
- Daily American - June 03, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 26, 2026
- Daily American - May 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 28, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 14, 2026
- Daily American - April 05, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 30, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 11, 2026
- LA Times - March 01, 2026
- Daily American - February 03, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 22, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 07, 2026
- Daily American - January 03, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 02, 2026
- LA Times - December 26, 2025
- New York Times - December 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2025
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