Clues for the word "PENAL"
We've had 90 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 281 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on January 14, 2026.
Definition of penal
- a. - Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
- a. - Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
- a. - Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
- a. - Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
Referring Clues
- Kind of colony
- Like some servitude
- Prison-related
- Kind of code
- With 32-Down, things that send people to jail
- Punitive
- Serving to punish
- Like prisons
- Kind of colony or code
- Kafka's "In the ___ Colony"
- ___ code
- Like correctional facilities
- ___ colony
- Like the Botany Bay colony
- Type of colony
- ___ servitude
- Disciplinary
- Kind of code or colony
- Word before colony or code
- Word with code or colony
- Correctional
- Word with law or servitude
- Word with statute or suit
- Word with colony or code
- Corrective, ideally
- ___ code
- Of punishment
- Code or colony preceder
- Type of colony or system
- Type of code or colony
- Certain code
- Type of colony to avoid
- Crime and punishment code
- Sort of colony
- "In the ___ Colony" (Kafka short story)
- Colony to avoid
- Like some laws
- Punishment-related
- Of prisons
- Type of "colony" or "system"
- Prison based
- Prison-based
- Jail-related
- Of jails
- Punishment related
- Re punishment
- Concerning punishment
- Pertaining to punishment
- Related to punishment
- Disciplinary, in a way
- Kind of colony in Kafka
- Concerned with corrections
- Like some colonies or codes
- Involving punishment
- For punishment
- Like some codes
- With 12-Down, exile site
- Word before code or colony
- Code or colony leader
- Corrective
- Prescribing punishment
- Code descriptor
- Corrections-related
- Colony type
- Type of colony or code
- Disciplinary panel, when assembled
- For punishment, ring around mid-morning
- Panel set up to provide punishment
- Points a friend out for punishment!
- To do with punishment
- Write to a chap in prison!
- Enclosure, a pound used for punishment
- It's punitive, putting a girl in extremes of peril
- Relating to punishment
- Sound out about name of punishment
- Unsparing writer, Capp
- Type of code
- A measure in China of discipline
- Refers to punishment that finishes men in the ring
- Like the punishment for a penman?
- Punitive outcome of the plane crash
- In Nepal, perhaps, it's punitive
- Like the servitude of a penman?
- Code type
- In the Cup, such ties are really punishing!
- ___ code (laws about punishment)
- Designed to punish
- Kind of reform or code
- Like certain corrections
- Kind of colony in the film "Papillon"
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - January 14, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - October 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 12, 2025
- New York Times - August 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 26, 2025
- LA Times - January 23, 2025
- Mirror Mini - January 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - June 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 03, 2023
- And in 251 more crossword puzzles...