Clues for the word "OPEN"
We've had 649 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1827 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on July 19, 2026.
Definition of open
- a. - Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead.
- a. - Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed.
- a. - Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
- a. - Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect.
- a. - Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc.
- a. - Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised; exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent; as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt.
- a. - Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter.
- a. - Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open.
- a. - Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.
- a. - Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the an far is open as compared with the a in say.
- a. - Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.
- a. - Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.
- a. - Produced by an open string; as, an open tone.
- n. - Open or unobstructed space; clear land, without trees or obstructions; open ocean; open water.
- v. t. - To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room; to open a letter.
- v. t. - To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.
- v. t. - To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
- v. t. - To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc.
- v. t. - To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting.
- v. t. - To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers.
- v. i. - To unclose; to form a hole, breach, or gap; to be unclosed; to be parted.
- v. i. - To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view.
- v. i. - To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy.
- v. i. - To bark on scent or view of the game.
Referring Clues
- Up for grabs
- Sports event
- More than ajar
- Frank
- Receptive
- Begin bidding
- Crack
- Ready to serve
- With 34-Across, like some women's shoes
- Up front
- Many a tournament
- Door sign during store hours
- Out-of-doors
- Unseal
- Available
- ___ to suggestions
- Ready for business
- Tourney type
- Free of defenders
- With 58-Across, a reception feature
- Dentist's request
- Unwrap
- Golf or tennis championship
- Unlock
- Court contest
- Exposed
- Big tournament
- Doing business
- Store door sign
- Certain tournament
- Word with sea or season
- Uncover
- Dentist's directive
- Store sign
- Uncap
- Dentist's order
- Dentist's direction
- 26-Down's request, "___ wide!"
- Walt Whitman's "Song of the ___ Road"
- Say "one club," say
- Unwrap, as a gift
- ___-heart surgery
- "Yes! We're ___!" (storefront sign)
- Sign on a store door
- Store sign after 9 a.m.
- Sign in a store window
- Start the bidding
- Forthright
- Crack ___
- 9:00-5:30 store sign
- Welcoming
- Actively trading
- Candid
- As yet undecided
- Shop window sign
- Speaking freely
- Diner sign
- Kind of batting stance
- Like some primaries
- Easy to get into
- Australian ___ (tennis tournament)
- Up-front
- Storefront sign
- Season starter?
- Welcoming window word
- "___ mouth, insert foot"
- Not shut
- Admitting all contestants
- Make the initial bet
- Ready to do business
- Come-one come-all competition
- In full flower
- Hold jacks or better
- Tournament type
- Ready for customers
- Aboveboard
- Unclog, as a drain
- Undecided
- Word before sesame or sandwich
- Sesame starter?
- For anyone
- Dentist's instruction
- Speak freely, with "up"
- Make the initial bet, in poker
- Unclog
- Without a roof
- Set up shop
- Unfilled
- Walt Whitman's "Song of the ___ Road"
- Like some tournaments
- All-comers tournament
- Type of tournament
- Kind of tournament
- Unlocked
- Not resolved, as a question
- Bid first, in bridge
- Word before season or bar
- Double-click, perhaps
- Airy
- Nonexclusive
- Break the seal on
- Bid one club, say
- Unfolded
- Make the first bid
- Subject to further consideration
- Unguarded, as a receiver
- Accessible
- Double-click, maybe
- Uncluttered
- Unscheduled
- Start the business day
- Transparent
- Common neon sign word
- Like a frame in which a strike or spare isn't bowled
- Ajar
- Say "One club," for example
- Store window sign
- Aptly named tournament
- Overt
- Like a Roman atrium
- Lead off
- Unrestricted
- Word on a store sign that's flipped daily
- Big golf tournament
- Both pros and amateurs may be in one
- Start admitting customers
- Have a premiere
- Accepting customers
- Accessible to all
- Kick off
- Not closed
- Still not settled
- Not buttoned
- Amenable
- Unobstructed
- Free
- Word on a store sign
- Admitting customers
- Door-sign word
- ___ for business
- ___ season
- Unrestricted contest
- Unsettled, as questions
- Start, as an investment account
- Unguarded, in football
- Type of enrollment
- "___ mouth, insert foot"
- Major tennis event
- Outspoken
- ___ for business
- "___ sesame"
- Poker declaration
- Play first with Goren
- "___ Arms" (Journey)
- Shut companion
- Ajar, e.g.
- In business right now
- Business sign
- Warm up the crowd
- Devoid of a cover
- Be the first band to play
- Type of sea or season
- Like a great receiver, often
- Aboveboard's partner
- Neon sign word
- Accessible to everyone
- In full bloom
- Without walls
- Word from a dentist
- Dentist's word
- Come-one, come-all competition
- Ali Baba's command
- Sesame starter
- Word preceding book and letter
- Approachable
- Not secret
- ___-book exam
- "___ sesame"
- Make the first bet
- Unwraps
- Not hidden
- Word with "shop" or "sea"
- Admitting all
- Still unfilled
- Word in a shop window
- Free of obstructions
- Word with house or shop
- Not booked
- Tournament for all
- Ajar, say
- Still unfilled, as a position
- Word with "house"
- Place the first bet
- Willing to listen
- Begin, as a thread
- For everyone
- Welcoming customers
- Still to be filled
- Word with French or U.S.
- Obstruction-free
- ___ mike (coffeehouse event)
- Take the stage first
- "___ Arms" (Journey)
- Not zipped
- Perform before the headliner
- Bid first
- Tennis tournament
- With 31A, Ali Baba's keywords
- ___ season
- Use a key
- Bid one diamond, say
- Above board, so to speak
- "___, sesame!"
- Golf tornament
- Sign on a shop's door
- Relatively free
- Friendly
- Ready to accept customers
- Porous
- Store-window sign
- Not settled
- "___ Arms" (Journey tune)
- Having nothing scheduled
- Not yet filled
- Play before the headliner
- Sign on a store's door
- Available, as a job
- Available for use
- Remove the lid
- Tournament format
- Door sign
- Store door word
- Admitting clients
- Tourney format
- Tourney, often
- Allowing customers
- Tourna-ment format
- Store sign
- Unlatch
- Pop the tab on
- ___ seas
- Play a key part in?
- Like LAX, around the clock
- Receiving customers
- "Yes, we're ___"
- Start, as a savings account
- Sincere
- Unguarded
- Taking customers
- Willing to consider new ideas
- In full bloom, as flowers
- Unfurl
- Not invitational
- Spread out
- Frank and honest
- With 7-Down, easy things to score goals on
- Golf tournament
- Get the crowd warmed up
- Letting anyone play
- Pop the cork
- "Sesame" starter
- Unreserved
- Tournament that takes all comers
- Go on first
- "Yes, we're ___" (store sign)
- Pop one's cork?
- Let customers in
- Amenable (to)
- "___ sesame!"
- File command
- Pop the cork, e.g.
- Word with "sesame"
- Shop door sign
- Word with "sea" or "season"
- Not buttoned, as a shirt
- Inaugurate
- Golf tournament, sometimes
- Word in many golf tournament names
- Begin the bidding
- Public
- Word on a store flip sign
- Not locked
- Spreads out, as a map
- Unclose
- "___ wide" (dentist's directive)
- Start serving customers
- "___ All Night"
- Shop sign
- Admit customers
- Start shooting
- Unpack
- Honest
- Start
- Shop sign that may be flipped
- Take the lid off
- Broad-minded
- Store sign between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
- Unsolved, as a case
- Welcome sign
- Pro-am tourney, often
- Unzip
- Feature of many a wedding reception
- Start for seas or seasons
- Tourney for all
- "___ Arms" (#2 hit for Journey)
- Like most businesses between 9 to 5
- Part of Ali Baba's command
- Bet first
- Like a store ready for business
- Store sign during business hours
- Available for business
- Welcoming store window sign
- Yet to be filled
- Not invitational, in tournaments
- Begin serving customers
- Crack, as a book
- Instruction from a dentist
- Currently retailing
- Tournament type for all
- Available to receive customers
- Tournament for all comers
- Precede the headliner
- ___-book test
- Opposite of closed
- Word before air, fire or water
- Store sign that might be flipped at 9 a.m.
- Remove the wrapper from
- Word with "bar" or "season"
- Take the top off
- Unsolved, as a crime case
- For all to see
- Relatively uncluttered
- Outdoors
- U.S. ___
- Sign on a shop door
- Begin the business day
- In business
- Emotionally honest
- Unseal or uncap
- Offer the first bid
- Undo
- Untie
- Unsealed
- Unbarred
- Store sign that's opposite of closed
- Opposite of close
- Word a dentist says
- Opposite of locked
- Opposite of shut
- Unconcealed
- Window sign
- Take the cap off
- In the clear for a pass
- Sign word
- Play just before, with "for"
- Begin to write after the first of October
- Frank has to begin
- Frank is allowing access
- Like an unshut door
- Not fully closed
- Sign on a store
- Like 7-Eleven, right now
- Allowing access to inside
- Unclosed
- Uncork
- Golf tourney, for one
- Paul Westerberg: "___ Season"
- Pete Townshend "Let My Love ___ the Door"
- Journey's "Arms" were this
- "Into the Great Wide ___"
- Creed "With Arms Wide ___"
- Paul Westerberg soundtrack "___ Season"
- Springsteen "___ All Night"
- Queensryche song that never closes?
- Tom Petty "Into the Great Wide ___"
- The Georgia Satellites "___ All Night"
- Madonna "___ Your Heart"
- Welcoming Queensryche song?
- Frank - unsettled
- Dixie Chicks "Wide ___ Spaces"
- "___ Your Heart"
- Bob Dylan "___ the Door, Homer"
- Frank, ready to do business, ...
- Without concealment
- Public seems upset about a magic formula
- Undecided, to be frank
- Start with nothing to write
- Love writer accessible to everyone
- Clear "The Duck & Swan"
- Frank has nothing to write
- Start to write on the disc
- Frank is prepared to do business
- Unsealed letter to a writer
- Accessible - frank
- Frank's in gym regularly taking hooks
- Confide one's inner feelings to surgery
- We showed recently that without minimal knowledge work comes to a stop
- Yet to be decided - nothing put on paper
- Circular enclosure with free access
- Go first round to the prison
- Start to make love to a writer
- Love to write 20 that's spaced out
- Allow access to a circular enclosure
- Be first, when there's a vacancy, to write to
- Accessible - candid
- 22 down set the ball rolling
- Frank - doing business
- Not secretive
- Not enclosed
- Frank - accessible
- Frank and actors are mine
- See 12
- With which to offer hearty welcome
- Candid - ready for business
- Passable
- Traditional room heater
- Love prison, that's plain!
- Honest - frank
- Duck and swan up in the air
- Duck and another bird up in the air
- Yawning, having nothing to record
- How to address the writer ready to do business?
- Start shooting to increase global warning?
- Not being tied, fuel producers rake in one less than 9k
- Free to start
- Agree on a prim, unusually improper, arrangement?
- Profound love holding desire back? I'm amazed!
- Unguarded on the field
- Lead the bidding
- Word preceding handed or minded
- ___ house
- Forthcoming
- Admitting new students
- Not prevaricating
- Unfold, ___ out
- Old author ready for business
- Yet such a championship may be close
- Unfasten the duck cage
- Allow access to duck enclosure
- Start one off about parking
- Love to write when free
- Ring writer ready to entertain new ideas
- Frank, old writer
- Exposed old writer
- Candid writer of love letter?
- Frank, given pressure, left an office so by design?
- Sporting event stopped being without fixed limits
- Begin the games, running round
- Unrestricted tournament
- Load, as files
- Letting in customers
- Like a relationship where you can date other people
- Be the first band
- French ___ (major tennis tournament)
- Free-thinking
- Unlock the duck coop
- Accepting bookings
- Bat first in innings
- Like some secrets, oxymoronically
- Like most businesses from 9 to 5
- Not reticent
- Liable to show an upsurge in nepotism
- Yes album "___ Your Eyes"
- To be candid, there's nothing to write
- One way to be minded?
- Like some relationships
- Start of Ali Baba's command
- Undecided, to start with
- Begin a Broadway run
- It's there for anybody to win!
- Agape
- Holding no emotions in
- Emotionally frank
- Begin
- U-turn from close
- Cafe sign
- A round enclosure easy of access
- Selling one's goods
- Undecided, to begin with
- Break the seal
- Uncork, as a bottle
- Apt to share one's feelings
- Be the first act
- Daytime store window sign
- Frank is the one playing the piano inside
- Sort of letter to take out of the envelope
- Begin without concealment
- Uncork, say
- Request from a dentist
- With "and" and 62-Across, easily settled
- Premiere
- Round enclosure, fully accessible
- Guileless
- Golf event
- With 11-Down, night for amateur comics
- Like a free choice of ways to go to work
- Unfold
- Frank has a letter to write
- Not hush-hush
- For all to attend
- Welcoming sign
- ___ secret
- Remove the cork from
- To be honest, there's nothing to write
- Inclusive tournament type
- ___ mic night
- Earnest
- Sign with the times
- "Come in, we're ___"
- Nothing to write? Make a start!
- Start being candid
- Start, as an investigation
- Frank has to ring a writer
- Word before "house" or "mind"
- Pop the cork from
- With 2-Down, dentist's request
- Remove bottle caps
- Accepting business
- Go first
- ___-and-shut
- Not holding back emotions
- Business sign that's flipped in the morning
- Spread out and work two ways
- Word before "seas" or "season"
- Prepared to admit
- Available to the public
- Access, as a computer program
- Australian ___
- Frank is the one staggering round the piano
- Initiate
- It's "broken" in the three longest answers
- Dentist's command
- Partner of 7-Down
- Agreeable (to)
- Like some letters
- "___ Range"
- Emotionally unguarded
- Nothing by writer accessible?
- Be the first bidder
- Not just ajar
- Tennis tourney designation
- Like some minds and marriages
- Like a door admitting a draft
- Willing to be convinced
- Frank's championship?
- See 7-Down
- With 67-Across, doctor's order ... and a hint to 40-, 50- and 58-Across
- Fully accessible
- ___ to the public
- Convene
- & 16. Real estate showing
- Conducting business
- Prepare to consume, as a novel
- Sign on a store's door during business hours
- Quick to share feelings
- Straightforward
- Not yet settled
- ___ your purse (pay up)
- Start by being honest
- With nothing blocking the way
- Parking in the wrong one, to start with
- Start to make music with some women
- With 52-Across, type of barbecue
- Frank's university
- Begin by taking round to the fold
- Tennis championship
- Not yet decided
- Inviting store window sign
- 13-Across opposite
- To be frank, there's nothing to write
- Competition for Naomi Osaka
- Needing closing
- Links event
- Frank has less than twopence
- "___ for a surprise"
- Free of blockages
- Uncovered
- ___ FOR BUSINESS (store door sign)
- Free-wheeling
- Like a store on its first day
- Begin the betting
- Like some nonmonogamous relationships
- Word with secret or source
- Not taken
- Not ___ to the general public
- Start (with)
- "___ Water" (Caleb Azumah Nelson book)
- Unfenced
- "I'm an ___ book!"
- Perform before a headlining band
- In basketball, unguarded
- Straightforward or ready for customers
- Nonmonogamous, in a way
- Word with season or mind
- "I'm ___!" ("Pass it to me!")
- Inviting store sign
- Like an inviting door
- Lead
- Double-click, say
- Not closed but ...
- Keep an ___ mind
- Willing to talk
- Shut? No, the opposite
- Perform before the main act
- Sign outside a store
- Word with French, British or Australian
- "I'm keeping my options ___"
- Like a store during business hours
- One side of a storefront sign
- Store sign displayed from 9 to 6, say
- Unlatched
- Ready to admit customers
- Word in many tournament names
- Sign that's visible during business hours
- Remove the lid of
- Unsolved, as a math problem
- Unbox
- Like a running faucet
- Available, like a time slot
- Vulnerable
- Divest of wrapping paper, perhaps
- Work a door
- Serving customers
- Storefront sign during business hours
- Tap, as an app
- Not covered
- Not protected by defenders
- Word before "marriage" or "minded"
- Frank's love for a writer
- Start from the top end
- Frank quietly interrupts one, somehow
- Like an un-shut door
- "Love is an ___ Door" from "Frozen"
- Word before ended, handed or minded
- Unanswered, as a question
- Launch, like an app
- Closed? No, not at all
- Use a doorknob
- P.G.A. Tour event
- Liable to be candid
- Like the NYSE at 9:30 a.m. Eastern on most weekdays
- Like some questions or doors
- Word before air or fire
- Double-click, as a file
- Receptive (to)
- Up for new experiences
- Like a 24-hour diner
- Major tennis tournament
- Go on before the main show, say
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - July 19, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 15, 2026
- LA Times - July 12, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 25, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 08, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 07, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 05, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - June 04, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 01, 2026
- New York Times - June 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 27, 2026
- New York Times - May 25, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 24, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 15, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 11, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - May 05, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 29, 2026
- Daily American - April 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 14, 2026
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