Clues for the word "NICK"
We've had 130 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 258 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of nick
- n. - An evil spirit of the waters.
- n. - A notch cut into something
- n. - A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
- n. - A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
- n. - A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
- n. - A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
- v. t. - To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
- v. t. - To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
- v. t. - To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
- v. t. - To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
- v. t. - To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).
- v. t. - To nickname; to style.
Referring Clues
- Shaving wound
- Shaver's woe
- Cutlet?
- Shaving cut
- Notch
- Shaving injury
- Pottery flaw
- Short cut
- Minor wound
- Cause for a Band-Aid
- Make the cut?
- Insignificant injury
- Small cut
- Santa Claus...
- Holiday season saint, familiarly
- Razor damage
- Shaving mishap
- CHIP
- Bad name for a barber
- Paper cut, e.g.
- Small groove
- Just in the ___ of time
- Actor Nolte
- Sign of a close shave?
- Nolte of "Tropic Thunder"
- Xmas saint
- He comes in time?
- Styptic-pencil target
- Christmas saint
- Shaver's mishap
- Shaver's bane
- Superficial wound
- Shaver's flub
- SpongeBob's network, familiarly
- Popular saint
- Mar
- Minor shaving accident
- Scratch
- Nolte of "Tropic Thunder"
- Just in the ___ of time
- Faldo of the PGA
- Accidental cut
- Notch for a bow string
- Short cut?
- Barbershop boo-boo
- Minor cut
- Hemingway's Adams
- Barbershop boo-boo
- Take a short cut
- Shallow notch
- Small shaving cut
- Kids channel, familiarly
- "Jolly old" saint
- Little cut
- Barbershop mishap
- Boo-boo by a barber
- Styptic pencil target
- Golfer Faldo
- Barbering boo-boo
- Slip with a Bic
- Shaving accident
- Minor damage
- Small notch
- Lockup in Leeds
- Just barely cut
- Santa epithet
- Jolly old saint
- Cut
- ___ At Nite
- ___ Jr. (Sprout competitor)
- Kroll of "Kroll Show"
- Steal
- Slammer - swipe
- Mason of Pink Floyd
- Steal (informal)
- Colloquially, a prison or police station
- Draw blood in prison
- Take leaders from newsman in Classic knees-up
- Arrest - steal
- Sibling partly leaves 22 2 in the station
- Score - police station
- Devil can steal
- Small cut - if old, the devil
- Steal - prison
- Prison - cut
- Prison - steal
- Cut in the constabulary?
- Animator asks for cut - then stop
- Prison's a devil when old
- Boy possessed by time?
- Cut a prison term
- ___ of time
- Downing Street official who resigned after the 2017 general election
- Steal in prison
- Lift slammer
- Shaver's injury
- ___ at Nite (channel featuring old sitcoms)
- "Wild 'n Out" host Cannon
- Steal, in British slang
- Old devil at the police station
- Santa Claus' shaving mishap?
- "At Nite" network
- Tiny notch
- Mr. Mancuso
- Barbering mishap
- Cutlet?
- Barber’s blunder
- Name the prison
- Pilfer
- Santa alias
- China flaw
- Consequence of a dull razor, perhaps
- Make a mark when you pinch
- Razor mishap
- Slight cut from shaving
- Steal from the station
- In the ___ of time (just before the deadline)
- Shaver's cut
- Pilfer, to Brits
- Lift the can
- Disney fox Wilde
- In the ___ of time
- Final critical moment
- One of the Jonas Brothers
- Mishap during a shave
- TV's ___ at Nite
- Tiny cut
- "The Last of Us" actor Offerman
- Small scratch
- Wee cut
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 22, 2026
- Daily American - December 21, 2025
- Daily American - October 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 07, 2025
- Daily American - July 15, 2025
- New York Times - July 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 24, 2025
- Daily American - March 17, 2025
- Daily American - February 21, 2025
- New York Times - February 12, 2025
- Daily American - February 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 03, 2024
- USA Today - September 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 05, 2024
- New York Times - July 31, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2024
- New York Times - June 12, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 24, 2024
- Mirror Mini - January 14, 2024
- Daily American - December 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 07, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 01, 2023
- And in 228 more crossword puzzles...