Clues for the word "PLAY"
We've had 233 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 370 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on December 04, 2024.
Definition of play
- n. - To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
- n. - To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- n. - To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
- n. - To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
- n. - To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- n. - To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
- n. - To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
- n. - To act on the stage; to personate a character.
- v. t. - To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
- v. t. - To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
- v. t. - To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
- v. t. - To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
- v. t. - To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
- v. t. - To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
- v. t. - To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
- n. - Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
- n. - Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.
- n. - The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
- n. - Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.
- n. - A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
- n. - The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.
- n. - Performance on an instrument of music.
- n. - Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
- n. - Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
Referring Clues
- Cavort
- Latitude
- Flexibility
- Be in the game
- VCR button
- Maneuvering room
- With 79-Down, something to do in the yard
- Wiggle room
- Go (along)
- DVD menu option
- See 32-Across
- Thespian production
- Something to stage
- See 12-Down
- Pass or run
- Game move
- Leeway
- Be in the game or in the band
- With 39-Across, pretend
- Fun and frolic
- Great White Way offering
- Tony candidate
- Tickle the ivories
- Tackle the tuba
- "Hamlet," for example
- Engage in tag, say
- Gambol or gamble
- Broadway production
- Chalk talk diagram
- "Will it ___ in Peoria?"
- TiVo remote button
- Put on the hi-fi
- Umpire's cry at the start of a baseball game
- Gambol
- Get in the game
- Word with date or money
- Broadway offering
- Drama, for instance
- Broadway show
- Globe production
- Dramatist's work
- DVD button
- Dramatic presentation
- Stage production
- It's staged
- Work antithesis
- One way to enjoy a game
- Dramatic work
- It's often staged
- Jack's proverbial need
- It makes Jack less dull
- It's staged!
- Remote button
- Fun and games
- Kennedy Center offering
- Bit of theatrics
- Quarterback's call
- Troup Group
- Troup Grp.
- Horse around
- "Rent" or "Bent"
- Staged event?
- Dramatic production
- "Romeo and Juliet," for one
- Stage offering
- Theatrical presentation
- Stage show
- Stage action
- Stage doings
- Join the game
- Stage presentation
- Work alternative
- Theater presentation
- Frolic
- Tony winner
- Run the stereo
- Run the stereo
- With 35-Down, much-anticipated cry every April
- School recess
- Theatrical event
- Fool around
- "Wit" or "Doubt"
- Recess activity
- What's behind the curtain?
- DVR button
- Theatrical production
- Broadway presentation
- Remote-control button
- See 52-Across
- Coach's call
- "Family Feud" option
- Euripides opus
- O'Neill effort
- Theater production
- Gamble or gambol
- ___ on words
- Indulge in sport
- Frisk about
- Opposite of work
- DVR option
- "foul ___"
- Take the field
- "Waiting for Godot," for one
- Have fun
- iTunes button
- "___ ball!"
- Work's antithesis
- Frolic and gambol
- Romp
- 14-Across, for one
- Stage drama
- Act as
- Gambit
- Perform at the piano
- Where a scene is seen?
- Ump's call after "Time!"
- Word with fair or foul
- Shakespeare work
- Recreation
- Word with time or money
- "picnic" or "tru"
- "Hamlet" or "Tru"
- Make good use of recess
- Word after passion or power
- The "thing," to Hamlet
- DVD remote button
- Work's opposite
- Enjoy recess
- Type of "ground"
- Make music
- Work for actors
- Drama
- After-school production, maybe
- Eugene Ionesco production
- Participate in a game
- Take part in games
- Perform music
- See 17
- Relaxing interval, but not for the cast?
- It's somebody's work, oddly enough
- Having set out after power, act
- See 26
- Work can be fun!
- Drama programme's first seen by the French and Spanish
- Work for fun
- Not a loud song, but it's dramatic
- Pay out pounds for fun
- Left foot grasps trifle
- See 24 down
- See 18
- Act as beginner in party, unlike minister
- Perform quiet, lazy pieces
- Perform a song at the piano
- Pay out pounds to take part
- Take part for fun
- Theatre performance
- Coppers put on drama
- Pundit initially put down performance
- DVR remote button
- Amuse oneself - drama
- Stage work
- Games room
- See 1 across and 22
- Slack - performance
- Perform words and music of song on piano
- Function associated with a right-pointing arrowhead icon, often
- Freedom of movement
- Commit suicide - be Plautus' Asinus, unlike Macbeth(4,3,5,4)
- Fork out about a quid for the show
- For example, 24 2 to take an unnecessary risk?
- See 6
- Perform song, with piano introduction
- Writer's work for which fee is about a pound
- Amusement caused by madcap laying trap
- See 1
- Page on amateur stage production
- Drama in parking place
- Put under pressure in drama
- The thing before the game
- See 16
- Pru's first amateur theatrical production
- 1 that's not 1?
- Word after word or sword
- Word with bill or ball
- Have some fun
- Work that's divided into acts and scenes
- See 2
- U-turn from work
- Perform a soft song
- Start to persuade amateur to take part in a game
- Engage in games
- Tom Stoppard creation
- Quiet ballad providing entertainment
- Recorder button
- But it's work for the dramatist
- Work of Shakespeare
- Word with safe or out
- "All work and no ___ ..."
- Latitude; compete against
- Work that can be fun
- A drama
- "A Raisin in the Sun," for one
- August Wilson creation
- Take the role of
- It's definitely not work
- Word that can precede each half of the starred answers
- Perform in a band
- Quarterback’s call
- Dramatic offering
- Follower of fair, foul or free
- With 25-Across, get as much approval from an audience as possible
- Enjoy a game
- With 62-Down, lie motionless
- Off-hours activity
- Work? No, the opposite
- Perform on the piano
- Button on an old VCR
- Amuse oneself
- Get a board game to the table
- "Angels in America" started as one
- Thing on Broadway
- "Proof" or "Doubt"
- Enjoy a board game
- "Take Me Out," e.g.
- YouTube button
- Acts as one?
- "The Glass Menagerie," for one
- Give about a quid for something Shakespearean
- Work? No, not at all
- "Stop Kiss," for example
- Stage performance
- "Fleabag" started as one
- Comedy or drama
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 04, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 12, 2024
- LA Times - October 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 20, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 30, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 08, 2024
- Daily American - January 30, 2024
- Daily American - January 28, 2024
- Daily American - January 20, 2024
- Daily American - January 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 13, 2023
- USA Today - October 10, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 10, 2023
- Daily American - August 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 31, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 27, 2023
- New York Times - July 27, 2023
- USA Today - July 19, 2023
- USA Today - July 15, 2023
- Daily American - July 13, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 26, 2023
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