Clues for the word "MATCH"
We've had 128 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 193 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of match
- n. - Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
- v. - A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
- v. - A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
- v. - A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
- v. - A matrimonial union; a marriage.
- v. - An agreement, compact, etc.
- v. - A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- v. - Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- v. - Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
- v. - A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.
- v. t. - To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
- v. t. - To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.
- v. t. - To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
- v. t. - To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.
- v. t. - To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
- v. t. - To marry; to give in marriage.
- v. t. - To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.
- v. i. - To be united in marriage; to mate.
- v. i. - To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
Referring Clues
- Part of a book?
- Lighter alternative
- Lighter Wimbledon event (5)
- Success on a slot machine
- What twins' clothes usually do
- Light, maybe
- Go together
- "Three on a ___" (1932 Bette Davis melodrama)
- Equal
- Stick in a box
- Fit together
- Go Fish success
- Agree completely
- Fire starter
- It could be made in heaven
- Dating service discovery
- Item in a book
- Word with maker or box
- Word with box or maker
- Game, set, ___
- Success on TV's "Concentration"
- Fire igniter
- It's only useful when struck
- With 64-Across, 1-/66-Across movie of 2005
- Twin
- Fire lighter
- Tennis competition
- Correspond
- Go together perfectly
- Cigarette lighter
- Football game
- Success story for Cupid
- Boxing event
- Vesta
- Marriage broker's suggestion
- It gets hot when you strike it
- Harmonious pair
- Sports event in which teams compete to win
- ___.com (dating site)
- Tennis contest
- Contest
- One of 20 in a book
- Be equal to
- "#1 in dates" website
- 6-3, 2-6, 7-6, e.g.
- Alternative to a lighter
- "The Grudge ___"
- Word that can follow the first parts of 17- and 52-Across and 11- and 25-Down
- Fire stick
- You may strike it to start a fire
- A game - that's what a striker needs
- Wrestling competition
- It's struck from a book
- Smoker's alternative to a lighter (5)
- Smoker's alternative to a lighter
- Label tries to do this with band and producer
- Formal contest - game
- Tally
- Equal - lucifer
- Marriage with a redhead?
- A contest to be equal to
- Be equally light?
- In which to do as well as the opposition?
- Game for which a stick is used
- The corresponding fixture
- A well balanced game
- Is it exactly like another game?
- Be equal to the competition
- Be equal to a sporting occasion
- See 22 down
- Marriage and Dot's court battle almost over?
- Lucifer
- Dating site goal
- Court session
- Lucifer's equal
- Fixture - fit with - smoker's aid
- Prove equal to the contest
- Light fixture
- Striker's union
- Three on a ___
- Stick in a book
- Sporting contest
- Marriage is a contest
- Lighter in appropriate colour?
- See 10
- It's the same as the other contest
- Contest that can lead to a flare-up
- Game involving a striker?
- Equal game
- One of 20 in many books
- Equal in the game
- Game
- A light "The perfect partner"
- Has it a striking similarity?
- A game
- Game of football
- Vesta's equal?
- One fixture much like another
- Item torn out of a book
- Make a pair
- Source of ignition
- Light competition?
- What socks usually do
- Be equal to the contest
- Boxing bout
- Look like a well balanced game
- Vesta, relation of Lucifer?
- Court event
- Formal game
- Detachable stick in a book
- “Concentration” goal
- May flare up when there's friction!
- Candle lighter
- Marriage with a redhead?
- Tennis event
- 12-Down contest
- Be equally light?
- [See notepad]
- Success in Go Fish or on Her
- Be equal in a game
- In which to do as well as the opposition?
- In which to do as well as one's opponent?
- A well balanced game?
- One getting fired after a strike?
- Part of a tennis set
- Dating app success
- A tie to suit?
- Stick by a fireplace
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 13, 2025
- Daily American - January 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 15, 2024
- Daily American - September 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 16, 2024
- New York Times - August 18, 2024
- USA Today - August 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 09, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 18, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - June 16, 2024
- New York Times - May 05, 2024
- Daily American - April 05, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 27, 2024
- Daily American - January 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 10, 2023
- And in 163 more crossword puzzles...