Clues for the word "PETER"
We've had 341 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 579 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on November 24, 2025.
Definition of peter
- n. - A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles,
- v. i. - To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out.
Referring Clues
- Fictional rabbit
- Detective Lord ___ Wimsey
- Westernizer of Russia
- One of Tom's rivals
- Martyr to Nero
- Nursery rhyme boy
- Man of Principle
- Die (out)
- "___ and the Wolf"
- One of the Fondas
- Nursery rhyme boy whose name is repeated
- Last Supper attendee
- Shelley's "___ Bell the Third"
- Finch of "I Thank a Fool"
- Great name?
- Pianist Nero
- ___ Gabriel, a bandmate of Phil Collins in Genesis
- Role in "The Robe"
- Ueberroth or Ustinov
- "___ Pan"
- Pumpkin eater of the nursery
- Blue ___ (ship's flag indicating imminent departure)
- Composer Warlock
- Title character of a Prokofiev favorite
- Fizzle, with "out"
- Russia's ___ the Great
- Actor Finch, who spoke the line referenced in 23-Down
- Flying Pan
- Paul and Mary's partner in folk music
- Graves of "Mission: Impossible"
- One of the "Brady Bunch" kids
- Man of Principle?
- "Quo vadis?" speaker
- Fizzle (out)
- Lose steam, with "out"
- Name repeated in a nursery rhyme
- He denied Jesus three times
- Pianist Serkin
- Boy in a Prokofiev piece
- Prokofiev character
- With 31-Across, author of the quote
- "Sledgehammer" singer Gabriel
- Apostle Andrew's brother
- Coyote or Finch
- Moniker before the first word in 17-, 28-, 47-, and 63-Across
- Pumpkin-eater of rhyme
- Piper the picker
- First pope's name
- Pop artist Max
- "Smilla's Sense of Snow" author Hoeg
- Actor Lorre
- One-time baseball commissioner Ueberroth
- Prokofiev's wolf catcher
- With 6-Down, dwindle to nothing
- One of the Farrelly brothers
- Artist Max
- Fade (out)
- Prokofiev title boy
- Baseball commissioner after Bowie
- P.D.Q. Bach creator Schickele
- Boy in "The Snowy Day"
- Nero at the piano
- MacNicol of "Numb3rs"
- Man with a principle
- '90s "Biography" host Graves
- Friend of Wendy
- With 87-Across, "Casablanca" actor
- One of the Apostles
- Pumpkin eater of rhyme
- Wane, with "out"
- Last Supper diner
- "Great" one
- Actor O'Toole
- ___ Pan (Captain Hook adversary)
- Fizzle, with "out"
- Rabbit of kid lit
- "Great" emperor
- Major apostle
- Diminish, with "out"
- "Jaws" author Benchley
- Dwindle to nothing (with "out")
- Pumpkin lover
- Nursery rhyme character whose name is repeated
- Pumpkin lover of rhyme
- One of a New Testament twelve
- Aka Simon
- Sellers of Hollywood classics?
- Spider-Man Parker
- Noted pumpkin eater
- "Jaws" author Benchley
- Pickled-pepper picker
- Wane, with "out"
- With 128-Across, performer nominated for 112-Across (he didn't win any) in all of the answers to starred clues
- A Fonda
- Exhaust, with "out"
- Wendy's friend
- He sang about a magic dragon
- Dwindle to nothing (with "out")
- Diminish, with "out"
- "Great" one
- ___ Pan (Captain Hook adversary)
- First pope
- "Great" emperor
- With 45-Across, rival of Skippy and Jif
- Ontario's ______Demeter
- One of the Benchleys
- Piper of rhyme
- Wendys pal
- Ustinov of "Topkapi"
- Fudge's brother in Judy Blume's "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing"
- Ustinov who played 1-Across
- '80s baseball commissioner Ueberroth
- Potter's rabbit
- Newspaper Jennings
- Wolf catcher of classical music
- Partner of Paul and Mary
- Actor Fonda
- Rabbit of story
- Early czar
- Wendy's pal
- Friend of Wendy
- Prokofiev hero
- Wendy's flying friend
- Newsman Jennings
- Writer Benchley
- 'Great' czar
- First name of 2-Down
- Gatekeeper on high
- An Apostle
- Early czar
- Dwindle to nothing, with 'out'
- Falk or Fonda
- One of a New Testament 12
- Potter rabbit
- Actor Coyote
- Detective Gunn of TV
- Heavenly gatekeeper St. ___
- Friend of Wendy, John and Michael
- ___ Parker, aka Spider-Man
- Director Weir
- Director Jackson
- Piper of children's verse
- Dwindle, with "out"
- One of the Greats
- With 29-Down, nursery rhyme starter
- Actor Gallagher
- Max the artist
- By tradition, no pope chooses this name
- One of the Brady Bunch
- Composer Tchaikovsky
- Pepper picker Piper
- Ustinov or Ueberroth
- Patron saint of fishermen
- Singer Frampton
- One of the Wailers of Bob Marley and the Wailers
- Actor Falk
- Disciple of Christ
- One of Hollywood's Farrelly brothers
- Film director "Weir"
- Anchorman ___ Jennings
- Pan on Broadway
- CBC's Mansbridge
- Hero in a Prokofiev work
- ___ Pan
- Fizzle (with "out")
- ___ Gabriel, original singer for Genesis
- Novelist Benchley
- Sellers of many films
- Novelist De Vries
- Name repeated before "pumpkin eater"
- Falk of "Columbo"
- One of the Brady boys
- Actor Finch
- Saint at a gate
- Piper the pepper picker
- ______ Woodcock (Ontario serial Killer)
- Singer Cetera
- Pan in the air
- Biblical guy
- Pan flying
- Patron Saint of people saved
- He denied Christ three times
- Grimes of opera
- A Beatrix Potter rabbit
- Fonda or Falk
- Piper or Pan
- The pumpkin eater of nursery rhymes
- Pumpkin-eater of nursery rhymes
- Sellers of movies?
- Pumpkin eater in rhyme
- Queen Elizabeth follows favourite saint
- Saint at the Pearly Gates?
- Rabbit of books
- Famed pumpkin eater
- Rabbit of literature
- "The Hobbit" screenwriter Jackson
- The Monkees' Tork
- Criss of Kiss
- Drummer Criss of Kiss
- Fleetwood Mac founder Green
- Bluesbreaker Green
- ___ Green Splinter Group
- Time to look outside cell
- Fondle that woman, husband's away so it's safe
- Name that blue flag
- Run out and look around the end of the street
- The first bit of pretentiousness upsets him
- The Great Tchaikovsky, for instance?
- Great man to run out!
- Tsar who had to look out for trouble starting
- Name one's favourite royal
- See 8
- Beatrix Potter's great character?
- Boy's name - maybe blue
- Run out and look around for a tin opener
- For a man, it's halved in equal shares
- Run out and take a squint around the end of the street
- Apostle - saint - first Pope?
- Name a borough
- Chap run out?
- Boy's name
- Trumpeter's name
- When blue, does he flag significantly?
- The man run out
- Saint who had to look out for trouble starting
- He has to look out for trouble starting
- He's safe
- He'll look out for a tin opener (in the safe?)
- Blue boy?
- He'll take a squint round the road junction
- Nominally favourite concert piece
- Man's name
- Boy's name - safe
- Keeper of hotel safes, formerly
- Safe name for a boy
- Safe accommodation detached from college
- 16 down's tripe merges into a catastrophe
- Look round the stereotypically Yorkshire cell
- Boy come to nothing when out
- Safe time to look around
- Saint recognized as the first Pope
- ___ Cottontail
- Fonda or Ustinov
- "Upon this rock" apostle
- Hockey Hall of Famer Forsberg
- Fade away, ___ out
- Need part transposed to right key for singer
- ... safe leader, say, rising to a height of incompetence, as a rule
- Dwindle away to nothing
- Leader of the Apostles
- 10 to dwindle
- Nag driving son away
- Posh neighbour, utter dope, moving
- Dwindle
- Sellers of movies?
- To some trumpeters, it means 'Rock'
- Henry's son
- Actor Dinklage
- Actor Ustinov
- Blue boy?
- Queen follows favourite saint
- He has to look around for a perfect ending
- Pan of fiction
- A name for sham woollen fabric?
- Stuyvesant or Minuit
- Is he out to terminate the supply?
- Does he get out due to exhaustion?
- "Family Guy" patriarch
- Saint's name
- Name a favourite piece of verse
- Beatrix Potter character
- He's among the trumpeters, having no ability to strum
- Pan resistant to aging
- Pan in Neverland
- With 18-Across, R.E.M. guitarist
- He needs to look around for a short time
- Popular peck picker
- Rocker Frampton
- See 1
- Mr. Jennings
- Max of pop art
- Dinklage of "Game of Thrones"
- "Show Me the Way" singer Frampton
- Pepper-picking Piper
- His little darling has a shorter tail
- Diminish slowly
- He assumes a lordly look upon losing heart
- Saint at the Pearly Gates?
- Alliterative Pan or Parker
- The man run out?
- Sellers, perhaps, taking a look around the East End
- Lose strength
- ___ Pan (Neverland flyer)
- He has his favourite period piece
- Cetera of Chicago
- Apostle's name
- He'll take a look around the West End
- 2020 Bachelor Weber
- Mr. Lorre
- Blue boy of flagging significance?
- Lorre or Falk
- "The Tale of ___ Rabbit"
- See 25-Across
- Fictional Pan
- He has a favourite piece of verse
- Run out and look around for central heating
- His friends may deprive him of his ultimate right
- Kid-lit rabbit
- Name a favourite monarch
- Pan for rabbit?
- He has to look out for the best conclusion
- "___ Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
- He'll have a good look around the West End
- Piper who picked a peck of pickled peppers, in a tongue twister
- Parker aka Spider-Man
- The Great Tchaikovsky, for instance?
- A name to look out for around the West End
- Beatrix Potter's great character?
- ___ out (dwindle)
- Reggae legend Tosh
- "Great" man
- Great tsar's favourite operatic piece
- ___ Rabbit
- Tosh of reggae
- Pan or Piper
- Rabbit of picture books
- Chap run out?
- "Game of Thrones" actor Dinklage
- When blue, does he flag significantly?
- Man run out?
- Picker of a peck of pickled peppers
- Look around for a short time, nominally
- HIV/AIDS activist Staley
- He'll look out for a tin opener (in the safe?)
- Pan handle?
- Filmmaker Jackson
- "Fargo" actor Stormare
- Name of one of those corgis Queen Elizabeth had?
- Falk or Finch
- Former "Doctor Who" star Capaldi
- Dad on "Family Guy"
Last Seen In
- LA Times - November 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 18, 2025
- New York Times - November 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 10, 2025
- Daily American - October 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 02, 2025
- New York Times - September 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 17, 2025
- Mirror Mini - June 14, 2025
- LA Times - June 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 17, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 29, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 22, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 04, 2025
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