Clues for the word "OPENING"
We've had 39 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 40 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Mini crossword on September 25, 2025.
Definition of opening
- p. pr. & vb. n. - of Open
- n. - The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.
- n. - A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.
- n. - Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business.
- n. - A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings.
Referring Clues
- With 14-Across, what latecomers may miss
- Word that may follow eye or grand
- Available job
- Job possibility
- Performance the night before the reviews come out, typically
- Slot
- Broadway event
- Aperture
- Orifice
- Premiere
- Favourable opportunity
- ___ Ceremony
- Kind of band on big tour
- Inauguration
- Supposing one's knocked out by Earth's opportunity?
- Vent
- First opportunity
- Door of opportunity?
- Opportunity to get round writer with gin cocktail
- Moves at first opportunity
- Vacancy
- Number 1 or 2 of 11
- Job
- First hole?
- Initiating a breach
- Chance for what George and Gilbert do
- Opportunity
- No peg in oddly shaped hole
- Starting gate
- See 26
- Vacancy for launch
- Write in, having shot back, about the vacancy
- First aperture
- Employment opportunity
- Window of opportunity
- What people on a waiting list wait for
- An opportunity for a key man?
- Starting sequence of chess moves
- Sicilian Defense in chess, e.g.
Last Seen In
- Mirror Mini - September 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 29, 2025
- New York Times - February 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 21, 2023
- USA Today - September 17, 2022
- Mirror Mini - September 25, 2017
- Mirror Quick - September 15, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - September 15, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - September 02, 2017
- Washington Post Classic - May 07, 2017
- Rock n Roll Crossword - April 17, 2016
- Guardian Quick - March 02, 2015
- Universal - February 18, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - February 17, 2015
- Guardian Quick - September 27, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - September 25, 2014
- Guardian Quiptic - January 27, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - December 19, 2013
- Guardian Quiptic - December 09, 2013
- Guardian Quick - September 01, 2013
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 04, 2013
- LA Times Sunday - May 20, 2012
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 04, 2011
- Washington Post - May 06, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - January 26, 2011
- Guardian Quick - June 18, 2010
- Universal - May 23, 2010
- And in 10 more crossword puzzles...