Clues for the word "MERIT"
We've had 135 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 515 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on January 26, 2026.
Definition of merit
- n. - The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
- n. - Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
- n. - Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
- n. - To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
- n. - To reward.
- v. i. - To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Referring Clues
- Philip Morris brand
- Like some raises
- Rate
- Worth
- Kind of raise
- Excellence
- Have coming
- Kind of badge for a scout
- Kind of system
- Reason for a raise
- Be worthy of
- Reason for a badge
- Kind of pay
- Alternative to Virginia Slims
- Kind of badge
- Scholarship criterion
- Kind of scholarship
- Deserve
- Criterion for a raise
- ___ badge, boy scout's award
- Earn
- Basis of a Scouting badge
- Badge justification
- Cause for a raise
- Promotion prompter
- Scholarship basis
- Kind of badge, or what gains it
- ___ badge (boy scout's award)
- Academy Award of ___ (official name for an Oscar)
- Promotion basis
- Kind of Boy Scout badge
- Commendable quality
- Be deserving of
- Type of system or badge
- Type of Boy Scout badge
- Basis for some raises
- Virtue
- Have it coming
- Basis of a scout badge
- ___ badge
- ___ badge
- Reason for an award
- Kind of badge for a Boy Scout
- Brand introduced by Philip Morris in 1975
- Kind of pay or badge
- Reason for raises
- Worthiness
- Badge consideration
- Boy Scout badge
- Fair criteria for giving raises
- Boy Scout's reward: ___ badge
- Reason for some raises
- Good reason for promotion
- Value
- Justify
- Reason for a raise, maybe
- Deserving praise
- Basis for promotion
- What "honorable mention" indicates
- Boy Scout ___ badge
- Raise reason
- Raise reason, maybe
- Raise criterion
- Deserve to receive
- Badge type
- Deserve to get
- Positive quality
- Claim to praise
- Reason to earn a badge
- Be deserving
- The worth of some ritual
- French sea, Italian desert
- What gives me right to it!
- Earn (a reward, eg)
- Commendation
- Reason for a scout's badge
- Worth millions, weary - needing uplift
- Value of an order
- Worth seen in former Italian leader
- It's worth getting right in time, perhaps
- Worth resetting the timer
- Worth putting right in time, possibly
- It's worth getting right in time, possibly
- It's worth getting the wrong time about right!
- Maybe the time's about right for worthiness
- Excellence that deserves to be honoured
- Odd time to get in right talent
- Weary maiden rejected virtue
- Worth some ritual passage
- Time right, possibly, for quality
- Desert from which weary male returned
- Talent encountered when touring Rhode Island
- To me, a piece of writing has value
- It may get you a raise
- Raise basis, maybe
- Value gathered when assimilating scripture
- Deserve entire mark-up? No, just some of it
- It's worth police force accepting spiritual guidance
- Just deserts included in former itinerary
- What movement of timer could be worth
- Revolutionary flag millions value
- It's a virtue, yet returning to cover it would be daring
- Be entitled to a new timer
- Word before badge or raise
- Worthiness, value
- Quality of a new mitre
- Boy Scout's badge
- Basis for a raise
- Value of getting the time about right?
- Qualify for
- Virtue of being right during a bad time
- Praiseworthy quality
- Reason for a promotion
- Reason to give a scouting badge
- Scout's honor
- The value of keeping a key part in trim, perhaps
- Kind of badge or raise
- Grant criterion
- Quality
- The value, to me, of some ritual
- ___ badge (Scout's award)
- What a good argument has
- Warrant
- Earn through good work
- The "Order of ___" could be "12 Down"
- Distinction
- ___-based scholarship
- Earn fair and square
- ___ badge (award for a scout)
- Worth taking time to travel right through
- Deservingness
- Basis of some scholarships
- Order of worth
- Scholarship factor
- "Charms strike the sight, but ___ wins the soul": Alexander Pope
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - January 26, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 21, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 15, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2025
- New York Times - December 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 30, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 06, 2025
- LA Times - October 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 09, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 22, 2025
- Mirror Mini - July 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 20, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 13, 2025
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