Clues for the word "PEN"
We've had 519 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1440 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on December 05, 2025.
Definition of pen
- n. - A feather.
- n. - A wing.
- n. - An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
- n. - Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
- n. - The internal shell of a squid.
- n. - A female swan.
- v. t. - To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
- n. & v. - To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
- n. - A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
Referring Clues
- Ballpoint, e.g.
- It comes to a point
- Big house
- Fenced-in area
- Cartridge holder
- Corral
- Place for a pig
- Parker or Waterman
- Flair, e.g.
- Mont Blanc, e.g.
- Popular White House souvenir
- Fold
- Figurative powerhouse
- Compose
- Site of ink...or oink
- Confident solver's tool
- White House souvenir
- Draft, say
- Cooler
- Its tip may be felt
- International writers' org.
- Warm-up spot, for short
- Signature piece?
- Holder for 6- or 43-Across
- Paper mate
- Check endorser's need
- Crib
- Signature piece
- Writer
- It has ink inside
- Paper Mate product
- Pork place
- Sheepcote
- "The tongue of the mind": Cervantes
- Stock holder
- State ___
- Sword conqueror
- Cross of gold, perhaps
- Encage
- Bic or Schaefer
- Script writer
- Slammer
- Cross promotion?
- Implement for John Hancock
- Pokey
- Place to take stock?
- Many a retirement gift
- Part of a desk set
- Barn adjunct
- What you might be doing this puzzle in
- Quill, sometimes
- Cross product
- Write
- Pilot, e.g.
- Compose, in a way
- Script
- Coop
- Proverbial sword beater
- Cross product (but not in math)
- Pocket protector item
- Sword's superior, in a saying
- Relief pitcher's locale
- Farm house?
- Pig's digs
- Hoosegow
- Female swan
- Stock holder?
- Farm enclosure
- Mighty weapon
- Sword vanquisher
- Con's quarters
- Set down
- Sword vanquisher, figuratively
- Cygnet's mother
- Calligraphy tool
- Put down on paper
- Sword's superior?
- Sword's superior
- Something used by a standout sudoku solver
- White House memento
- Writing implement
- Sword vanquisher, proverbially
- Confident crossword solver's tool
- Pigs' place
- Parker or Bic
- Autograph instrument
- Check writer's need
- With 40-Down, friend you may have never met
- School tool
- Waterman product
- Implement for a confident crossword solver
- Purchase from Parker
- Swift weapon?
- Prison, slangily
- Where you might find a long sentence?
- Farm house
- Word that can precede the first words of 17-, 24-, 38-, 50- and 62-Across
- Bic Clic Stic, e.g.
- Ink holder
- Quill, e.g.
- Ink or oink site
- Quill, once
- Writer with ink
- Scribe
- It used to be light as a feather
- Sword beater of adage
- Writing tool
- Clink
- Pigsty
- Endorser's need
- Highlighter, essentially
- Writing instrument
- Porker pad
- Place for livestock
- Signing need
- Check-writing need
- Signing-ceremony souvenir
- Sword's mightier rival
- Sword superior
- Briefcase item
- Animal enclosure
- Montblanc, e.g.
- Cob's companion
- Sword's superior, proverbially
- Part of it may be felt
- Sword trumper
- Bic item
- It's mightier than the sword
- Correctional facility
- Calligrapher's implement
- Lady swan
- Parker product
- Autograph hound's necessity
- It may be felt
- Some like it felt
- Kind of knife or name
- Write thing
- Con's confines
- Farm area
- Place that's "up the river"
- Letter writer?
- Calligrapher's instrument
- Reliever's spot, for short
- Cattle enclosure
- Cross or Parker
- Porker's pad
- Put down, in a way
- Treaty-signing memento
- Writing utensil
- Pound
- Autograph hound's offering
- Implement for an experienced crossword solver
- International writers' org. with appropriate initials
- Shut (in)
- Kind of pal
- Sty
- It's mightier than the sword, in a saying
- Some folks are in it for life
- Livestock enclosure
- Cygnet's mom
- Con-tainer?
- Stockyard section
- Risky tool for sudoku solving
- Con's home
- Calligrapher's concern
- Enclosure
- Bic
- Pigs digs
- Corral, for one
- "The tongue of the mind," per Cervantes
- Place for inks or oinks
- Tool for a confident solver
- Put on paper
- Cage
- Enclose
- It's full of oink or ink
- Sword conqueror?
- Author
- Check-writer's need
- Sword vanquisher?
- Farm sight
- Signer's need
- Desk item
- Desk-set item
- Desk set item
- Writing need
- Signing aid
- Stationery buy
- Autographing need
- Nerd-pack occupant
- Nerd-pack item
- See 26-Down
- Calligrapher's tool
- Place for 11-Down
- Pigs' digs
- Farm sight
- Inky tool
- Pigsty, e.g.
- Ink-filled tool
- Felt-tip, e.g.
- Pig digs
- Permanent marker
- Contract signing need
- Animal house
- Pilot product
- Pocket protector insert
- Sword slayer
- Banyard enclosure
- One chained to a desk, say
- Cooler, slangily
- Autograph hound's implement
- Declaration of Independence writer?
- Feather-and-ink successor
- Flair for writing?
- Signer's implement
- Ending for bull or pig
- Penitentiary, slangily
- Prison, informally
- Confident crossword solver's choice
- Place for pigs
- Office necessity
- Bic, for one
- Put in writing
- Place for an 11-Down
- Contract signer's tool
- Livestock locale
- Confident crossword solver's implement
- It's mightier than the sword?
- Pig holder
- Where to do 65-Across
- Sword's superior, in saying
- Calligrapher's need
- Fence (in)
- Confine
- Whitehouse souvenir
- Laser ___
- Quill, for one
- Promotional freebie
- Mont Blanc offering
- Memento from a bill-signing ceremony
- Digs of pigs
- Hogs' home
- Clic Stic or InkJoy
- Fountain or light ___
- Quill, perhaps
- Piggy's place
- Pig's place
- Autographing implement
- Pocket-protector item
- It's said to be mightier than the sword
- Contract requirement
- Write a script
- Prop for "win, lose or draw"
- Calf's place, maybe
- Hotel freebie
- One with a signature role?
- Confident solver's prop
- ___ name
- Paddock
- See 89-Down
- Marker, e.g.
- Quill ___
- Weapon in a maxim
- Montblanc offering
- Joint
- Ranch enclosure
- Montblanc product
- Home for hogs
- Biro
- Ballpoint, for one
- Autograph hound's takealong
- Marker alternative
- Gift that may be gold-plated
- Pitcher's warm-up spot, for short
- Compose, as prose
- Porker's place
- Lockup
- Cattle holder
- Montblanc, for one
- Word with pig or play
- Ballpoint
- Babe's environs
- Writer's tool
- Paper Mate or Parker
- Bic stick
- Parker or Cross
- Presidential souvenir
- Place for cons
- Fountain ___
- Some people don't care if its tip is felt
- Coop kin
- Drawing tool
- Signing implement
- Ballpoint or quill
- Submarine dock
- See 25-Across
- Barnyard enclosure
- What a bank chain might hold
- Signing ceremony souvenir
- Calligraphy instrument
- Relief pitchers' place, for short
- John Hancock item
- White House signing ceremony memento
- Light ___
- It's "mightier than the sword"
- Confident solver's choice
- Pencil alternative
- It's mightier than the 52-Down, so they say
- Cross, Parker or Montblanc
- Stockade
- Souvenir at a bill signing
- Ink stick
- Quill
- Ball-point, e.g.
- Writer's tool that uses ink
- It's filled with ink
- Ink container
- Place to find ink or oinks
- Signatures are signed with one
- You may write with it
- Something people write with
- Something to write with
- Autograph seeker's accessory
- Autograph-seeker's need
- Cob's mate
- Thing with ink
- What brave people use to fill in crosswords
- Checkwriter's need
- Cause of a pocket stain, perhaps
- Calligrapher's item
- Ballpoint, for example
- Be the author of
- "The ___ Is Mightier" ("Celebrity Jeopardy" category on "SNL")
- Be the author
- Signee's instrument
- Thin Lizzy: "I put ___ to paper but I was frightened"
- See 11-Across
- "The Sword & the ___" Regina Spektor
- Who "Guitar and ___"
- To write a song
- See 20
- Write in hope, naturally
- Write a splendid piece for the piano
- Writer of a pointed article?
- Write an enclosure
- The proverbial sword-beater!
- A writer in prison
- Write letters to coppers
- Writer in an American prison
- Writer showing points to a political leader
- Write from prison
- Write pigheaded letters!
- Enclose a twopenny piece
- A writer's enclosure?
- One of those writing instruments with soft points
- One chained to a desk
- It might make a clicking sound
- Product from 26-Across
- Bank counter fixture
- Tool for confident solvers
- Tenpenny ballpoint?
- Calligraphy need
- "To hold a ___ is to be at war": Voltaire
- Popular writer?
- Sing Sing, e.g.
- Name or knife preceder
- Signer's writer
- You might click it open
- The write thing
- Enclosure for female swan
- Sword's superior, it's said
- Tyson's home, for a while
- Quill or biro
- Sheep enclosure
- Quill cousin
- Tenpenny ballpoint?
- Sword beater, it's said
- Part of a stockyard
- "The ___ is mightier than the sword"
- Farm structure
- Bic or Paper Mate product
- Implement for confident crossword solvers
- Signing tool
- Implement with ink
- Bill-signing memento
- Signer's tool
- Signing ceremony item
- Signature piece?
- Cattle digs
- Write with this
- Signee's signer
- Write a pointed article
- Sty, e.g.
- With 10-Across, a foreign correspondent
- Highlighter, for instance
- Sow's enclosure
- Signature instrument
- Traditional retirement present
- Felt-tip implement
- Horse holder
- Jail, informally
- Boardom?
- Stock holder?
- Enclosure with hogs
- The enclosure of a threepenny bit
- Confident solver's implement
- Chained item in a bank, perhaps
- As used in writing a pointed article?
- Bic buy
- French politico Marine Le ___
- A ballpoint for less than twopence
- Write down
- Sty or stylus
- See 44 Across
- Instrument with which to write
- Check-signing need
- Note-taking need
- Thing chained to a bank desk
- Animal's cage
- Animal's enclosure
- Signature maker
- Bill-signing souvenir
- Hotel room amenity
- Thing with a felt tip
- Old-style author's tool
- Oinker's abode
- Drug injector
- Prison or cooler
- A writer to shut up?
- One may have gel ink
- 33-Across need
- Part of an animal farm
- Home near a barn
- An enclosure
- Signature provider
- Hotel room freebie
- Something to sign with
- Having quiet ways, shut up!
- One might have a felt tip
- It's the write thing
- Cause of an ink stain
- Pig's enclosure
- Inky implement
- Inker's tool
- ___ and ink
- A writer with quiet ways
- Gel ___
- Sword beater
- Ballpoint ___
- Signature item
- Bill signer's need
- One may be erasable
- Jail, for short
- Something opened with a click
- Word before "pal" or "name"
- Compose, perhaps
- Mighty tool
- "___15" (Erskine and Konkle comedy)
- Ink-filled implement
- Bull ___
- Writer of a pointed article?
- Something you might click to open
- Ballpoint or felt-tip
- Signature facilitator
- Ink-filled writing tool
- It can cause a bad shirt-pocket stain
- Stockyard structure
- Stock room
- Note-taking tool
- Check-endorsing need
- ___ and paper
- Implement stored in a notebook's spiral
- Signing-ceremony memento
- It might click for a writer
- Writing implement filled with 37-Down
- Crossword solving option
- Corral, e.g.
- Writers' org. with apt initials
- Autograph tool
- Word with poison or pig
- Signer of autographs
- Felt-tip or quill
- What may be filled with ink ... or oink
- Something to doodle with
- Book signing tool
- Signature creator
- Zoo cage
- Stylus relative
- Inky writing tool
- Scribe's need
- Writing utensil for some crossword solvers
- Caricaturist's tool
- Jot things with this
- Bic product
- Stock room?
- A writer's enclosure?
- Tool for signing an autograph
- It is the write thing?
- Holding area
- Brush alternative, for calligraphers
- "Fountain" tool
- Writing implement with ink
- Back-to-school purchase
- Handy signer?
- Something brought out with a restaurant check
- Writer's implement
- Signature need
- It might need to be recapped
- Signature producer
- Ballpoint or highlighter
- Branded item at a bank, maybe
- Check-writing implement
- Contract-signing tool
- What's mightier than the sword, in a saying
- Word after poison or bull
- Cross piece?
- Source of an ink stain
- Sign-in sheet attachment
- Autograph seeker's tool
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 31, 2025
- New York Times - October 16, 2025
- Daily American - October 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 10, 2025
- LA Times - August 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 21, 2025
- Daily American - August 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 18, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 06, 2025
- LA Times - July 25, 2025
- New York Times - July 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2025
- LA Times - July 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 03, 2025
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