Clues for the word "OPERATOR"
We've had 57 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 74 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on October 08, 2025.
Definition of operator
- n. - One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
- n. - One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.
- n. - A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.
- n. - The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.
Referring Clues
- Smooth worker
- Numbers person?
- Numbers person
- Wheeler-dealer
- Number finder
- One whose working days are numbered
- Zero personality?
- Lily Tomlin's Ernestine, for one
- Lily Tomlin's job as Ernestine
- Phone company employee
- Switchboard worker
- Person who's a zero?
- One at the switchboard
- Phone-company employee
- Someone standing by?
- AT&T employee
- Switchboard employee
- One whose working days are numbered?
- Proprietor
- Switchboard overseer
- Technician
- Worker 'standing by'
- Lily Tomlin character
- Old phone company worker
- User
- Surgeon who's on the switchboard?
- Smooth player
- Telephonist
- Person working a switchboard
- Worker
- Machinist's work rate poor
- A dubious character, this masked man in theatre?
- User of machine etc
- Wheeler-dealer - telephonist
- Machinist works to rule at first
- Perhaps it's Norma Hill who answers the call
- Surgeon who will do you if he can
- Musical show high spot for a worker
- Worker from the outskirts of Prague interrupting speaker
- Tosca, say, to Romeo, who's working the machine
- Worker with poor rate when working?
- A canny type, Macbeth perhaps has to take on king
- Manipulator
- Surgeon, one formerly employed in telephone exchange
- Work on stage "flipping twaddle" - a plus or a minus?
- Mechanic
- or -, in math
- New line for a trooper
- Lily's Ernestine, e.g.
- Poor rate negotiated for a worker
- Smooth talker
- Number cruncher?
- Surgeon who's on the switchboard?
- + or -, to mathematicians
- One receiving many calls at work
- Zero personality?
- "Smooth ___" (Sade hit)
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - October 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 17, 2025
- Daily American - July 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 23, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 07, 2023
- Mirror Daily - August 11, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 17, 2023
- Daily American - July 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 28, 2023
- Mirror Daily - October 15, 2022
- Mirror Daily - June 12, 2022
- Guardian Prize - November 25, 2017
- Universal - November 03, 2017
- Mirror Classic - September 15, 2017
- Universal - September 04, 2017
- Mirror Daily - August 01, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - July 17, 2017
- Daily American - July 06, 2017
- Guardian Quick - June 08, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - April 28, 2017
- Mirror Daily - April 24, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - April 09, 2017
- Mirror Daily - August 01, 2016
- Mirror Daily - April 24, 2016
- USA Today - November 16, 2015
- And in 44 more crossword puzzles...