Clues for the word "PLACE"
We've had 120 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 289 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 16, 2026.
Definition of place
- n. - Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
- n. - A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.
- n. - A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.
- n. - Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.
- n. - Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).
- n. - A definite position or passage of a document.
- n. - Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.
- n. - Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
- n. - Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
- n. - To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.
- n. - To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.
- n. - To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.
- n. - To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.
- n. - To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
Referring Clues
- Set down
- Deposit
- Show topper
- Rank
- Standing
- Take the silver
- Word with mat or kick
- Finish second
- Find a job for
- Take second
- Come in second
- Better than show
- See 59-Across
- Identify from memory
- Almost win
- Address
- Finish in the top three
- Location
- Situation
- Sundance Kid's Etta
- Proper niche
- Come in second at the track
- Put
- #15
- Almost win at the track
- "Peyton ___"
- Finish second, in a race
- Position
- Kind of card or mat
- Setting
- Finish second at the track
- Arrange
- Peyton or Melrose
- Locale
- Locate
- Finish among the first three
- Put down carefully
- "Melrose ___"
- Be runner-up
- Allotted spot
- Almost win, at the track
- Finish second in the Derby
- Follow the leader?
- Niche
- Do better than show
- Come in second, at the track
- Situate
- "Peyton ___"
- Park or Peyton
- Part 3 of a Christmas reminder
- Not quite win
- Site
- Where things are
- "There's no ___ like home"
- Lions' BC ______
- A location
- Put in position
- Spot
- Allocated position
- Don't just show
- Finish in the money
- Venue
- Cul-de-sac, in some addresses
- Park, in Monopoly
- More than just show
- Track bet
- Recognize
- Hiding ___
- Particular spot
- Person, ___ or thing
- Berth
- "Wheel of Fortune" category
- Region
- Finish second at Pimlico
- Put down
- Put pressure on doctor
- Delicate material under 1 across
- Wherever you can get soft and decorative fabric
- Spot for catching fish?
- Where to get soft and decorative fabric?
- See 1
- Where to go with 6 across, say
- See 9
- Put down 1 after spinning disc
- Where to find soft material
- Locus
- One's run out of fish in square?
- See 24
- ... location for one reported
- Dr. John "Right ___ Wrong Time"
- Home is just a step round the corner
- Put practically anywhere
- Fish, by the sound of it, in position
- ___ mat
- Medal, e.g.
- Location in which fish may be heard
- Put in a home, perhaps
- For "set-rate", the figure's entered
- Follow the leader?
- One of three properties in Monopoly
- Silver
- Fishy sounding location
- Quietly tie in position
- Location just a step round the corner
- Locality
- "Set for fish," you say
- ___ setting
- Word after fire or first
- Polling ___ (voting spot)
- Set down in an exact spot
- Where to step round the corner
- "Right ___, Wrong Time" (Dr. John song)
- "It's not my ___ to say"
- Mise en ___: French culinary term
- Where to get soft and decorative fabric?
- Identify
- One's home, just a step round the corner
- "Your ___ or mine?"
- Finish second in a horse race
- Anywhere considered each way?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 18, 2025
- LA Times - August 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 09, 2025
- Daily American - June 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 09, 2025
- USA Today - March 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 18, 2025
- Family Time - February 10, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 25, 2024
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