Clues for the word "PASS"
We've had 358 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 836 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on October 18, 2026.
Definition of pass
- v. i. - To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.
- v. i. - To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.
- v. i. - To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.
- v. i. - To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.
- v. i. - To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
- v. i. - To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.
- v. i. - To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.
- v. i. - To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
- v. i. - To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.
- v. i. - To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
- v. i. - To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
- v. i. - To take heed; to care.
- v. i. - To go through the intestines.
- v. i. - To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
- v. i. - To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
- v. i. - To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- v. i. - In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
- v. t. - To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.
- v. t. - To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- v. t. - To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- v. t. - To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- v. t. - To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.
- v. t. - To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.
- v. t. - To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
- v. t. - To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.
- v. t. - To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.
- v. t. - To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
- v. t. - To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
- v. t. - To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- v. t. - To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
- v. i. - An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.
- v. i. - A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- v. i. - A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
- v. i. - A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
- v. i. - State of things; condition; predicament.
- v. i. - Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
- v. i. - Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
- v. i. - Estimation; character.
- v. i. - A part; a division.
Referring Clues
- Be approved
- It's often made freshly
- Bidder's option
- Quarterback's option
- Make the grade?
- Gridiron option
- Skip a turn
- Overtake
- Mountain path site
- Freebie
- "No bid"
- Quarterback's tactic
- Bridge declaration
- Site of a mountain route
- Certain school grade
- Gridiron move
- Mountain spot
- Get by
- Hail Mary, e.g.
- Avoid summer school
- Go by
- Frontier scout's discovery
- Leave behind ... or not leave behind
- Bridge option
- Quarterback's move
- Final bid
- [No bid]
- Free ticket
- Route for a wagon train
- Not fail
- Part of a wagon train's route
- Bridge call
- Object of a scout's search
- Throw
- Say no
- Meet the requirements
- Quarterback option
- Flirtatious overture
- Place to head 'em off
- Complimentary ticket
- Ratify
- Route through the Rockies
- Where to head 'em off
- Quarterback's call
- Succeed
- Football throw
- Permission slip
- Meet with approval
- Not flunk
- Student's permission slip
- Air play?
- Turn down, with "on"
- Alley-oop, e.g.
- Base on balls, in baseball lingo
- Fail's opposite
- Bridge comment
- Flirtation
- Quarterback's throw
- Head-'em-off spot
- Call in a huddle
- It may be forward
- Approve, as a bill
- Proceed beyond
- It should end with a reception
- Pull ahead of
- Hall monitor's request
- "No bid"
- Don't partake
- Don't stop at
- Do OK in a class
- Decline to participate
- Avoid an F in class
- Grid play
- Football play
- Mountain shortcut
- Court transfer?
- Admission permit
- Amorous overture
- Emulate Brett Favre
- "Head 'em off at the ___!"
- Mountain route
- Donner or Khyber
- Drive by
- React to a weak hand
- Move on ahead
- Use the left lane
- It's often made in a fresh manner?
- Where to head off a cowboy
- "Do not ___ go"
- Third-and-long option
- Way between mountain peaks
- What Brett Favre likes to do
- Montana specialty
- While away
- Free ride
- Elapse
- Word before or after "over"
- Poker choice
- Overstep
- Avoid flunking
- Decide to skip a turn
- Avoid an F
- Get course credit
- Risk an interception
- Coquette's wink, say
- Pigskin throw
- Decline
- Decline to bid
- Overtake and go beyond
- Go away
- _ out; faint
- Ticket
- "Head 'em off at the ___!"
- Blow over
- Forgo play
- Brenner or Donner
- "Press Your Luck" option
- "___ the witness" ("I've no more questions")
- "I forfeit my turn"
- "You can go to the next person"
- Bridge bid
- Bye
- British Columbia's Red ______
- Take advantage of a broken line
- What a QB must be able to do
- Yukon's White ____
- Exceed
- *Common secret
- Bomb, e.g.
- See 50-Across
- Make the grade
- Bomb
- Decline, with 'on'
- Fail to fail
- Forgo bidding
- Bidding option
- Bridge utterance
- Rush alternative
- Bridge choice
- Just say no
- Get a good grade
- Throw a football
- 'Family Feud' option
- Quarterback's ploy
- Get a C, e.g.
- Go by, as time
- Go beyond
- Go ahead of
- Aaron Rodgers aerial
- Don't bid
- Scrabble option
- Run alternative
- Joe Flacco option
- Get around
- Tebow throw, say
- Get any grade above an F
- "No, thanks"
- Donner or Monarch
- Skip it
- Disregard
- Lateral, e.g.
- Not run, maybe
- Skip over
- Forego bidding
- British Columbia's White ______
- Get a B, e.g.
- Slip by
- Move the puck
- Access to the school hallways
- Hand at dinner
- "I'd rather not"
- Drew Brees option
- Manning-to-Welker play
- Tick away
- Outrun
- QB option
- -
- "Don't want it"
- Yukon and White ______ railway
- Huddle decision
- Football action
- Mountain gap
- Narrow route
- Gridiron throw
- Free admission
- Clue for four puzzle answers
- Emulate a quarterback
- QBs do it sometimes
- Joe Flacco might do it
- Go beyond the limits of
- Don't bet on it
- Lateral
- Late ___
- Annie Oakley
- Bye, essentially
- Fail to flunk?
- Gridiron "Hail Mary"
- Result
- Bid alternative
- Option for Tom Brady
- Some do this with flying colors
- Third-and-long play, usually
- Hand off
- Throw, as a football
- Huddle choice
- Hail Mary, for one
- Entry ticket
- Move beyond
- Notch between mountains
- With 53-Across, look just like
- Come to an end
- Try to hit the end
- Permit
- Football bomb
- Student's goal
- Succeed in school
- Hall ___ (card used in school)
- ___ or fail
- Get good grades in school
- Opposite of fail
- Get ahead of
- QB's option
- Advance to the next grade
- Don't fail to find a way through the mountains
- Go by steamship after old man
- It gets you backstage
- Transfer to be approved
- Make it through
- "Fail" alternative
- Quarterback play
- QB play
- What a quarterback might do
- Backstage access
- "All Things Must ___" (George Harrison)
- Gridiron play
- Harrison "All Things Must ___"
- Rush's song off "Presto" that went long? (with "The")
- '97 Phish live album "Slip Stitch and ___"
- Beatles "Don't ___ Me By"
- Way to get through Fathers and Sons
- Document that allows father onto ship
- Dated briefly, making move
- Way through a predicament
- To succeed in exam, don't answer question
- Be accepted as fatherly saints?
- Inelegantly swan dips to cause bubbles to surface?
- Dad goes on a ship with a free ticket
- See '23'
- It can mean freedom to the OAPs
- It's a permit, miss
- A free ticket will be acceptable
- I don't know highland route
- It'll do to get you by
- Regularly praises exam success
- It enables travellers to overtake on the left
- Licence is almost out of date
- Meet one's maker, while wearing pyjamas inside out
- Decline to respond to come-on
- Decline to answer
- Spend (19, say) - don't know
- Succeed with a saucy suggestion
- I don't know success
- Turn down improper proposal
- Licence to overtake
- Spend a penny on a ship
- Play on the gridiron
- Succeed in exam
- Basketball throw
- Regularly praises move in ball game
- Mountain defile
- Approve route through mountains
- Advance a grade
- Dad's at the bus terminus with a free ticket
- Musical Youth "___ the Dutchie"
- My father's son? I don't know
- Hit the tight end
- See 28
- See 45-Down
- "You can skip me"
- Gridiron attempt
- Opt out
- Old man's first in school for exam result
- Try for a receiver
- Almost every play, in arena football
- Get a C, say
- Lapse
- Old man's second exam result
- Less-than-broad way
- "I have no bid"
- Manage not to 47-Across
- Earn grade points for
- Choose not to bid
- See 3 Down
- Hand over, at dinner
- Football-catching play
- Comment at a bridge table
- Go beyond on the road
- Bridge "no bid"
- "No thanks, I'm good"
- Get an A, B, C or D
- Legislate
- Not have to retake, say
- Make the grade?
- Dad's on the way down, but will get by
- "Hard no"
- Throw to a teammate
- Avoid failing
- Furlough
- "Nah, I'm good"
- "Not for me"
- Word after "boarding" or "touchdown"
- "I'll skip it"
- Fail to bid
- "I'm good"
- Opening between mountains
- "No bid," in bridge
- Don't be a ball hog
- Rugby throw
- It may lead to a great reception
- "Nah, not my thing"
- Try to connect downfield
- Be accepted as fatherly saints?
- Word with hall and press
- Aftermath of faking the handoff
- Mahomes-to-Kelce connection
- Play with a receiver
- Go from third place to second, in a race
- Mountain ___
- See 23 Down
- Complementary ticket
- "Skip me"
- "Not interested"
- "Nah, none for me"
- "Skip me for now"
- Football toss
- "Not my thing, sorry"
- "I don't know the answer, next question"
- Assist, often
- Throw to a tight end, say
- *Fiery feelings
- Mountain path
- Earn a "C"
- "None for me"
- "I'm good, thanks"
- "Nah"
- Get a D or higher on
- "This too shall ___"
- Hall ___
- ___/fail class
- "Nah, thanks"
- "I'll skip this quiz question"
- Drive around
- Screen play?
- Choose not to take part
- Wile away
- ___ muster: make the grade
- Get a grade other than an F
- Travel
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - October 18, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - October 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - September 17, 2026
- Daily American - August 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 31, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 21, 2026
- Daily American - July 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 13, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - May 27, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 25, 2026
- Daily American - May 25, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 21, 2026
- New York Times - May 14, 2026
- Your Life Choices - May 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2026
- New York Times - April 12, 2026
- Your Life Choices - April 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 30, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 29, 2026
- Daily American - March 10, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - March 09, 2026
- LA Times - March 03, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 28, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 10, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 27, 2026
- LA Times - January 18, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 17, 2026
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