Clues for the word "PLOT"
We've had 278 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 659 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of plot
- n. - A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
- n. - A plantation laid out.
- n. - A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
- v. t. - To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
- n. - Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
- n. - A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- n. - Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- n. - A plan; a purpose.
- n. - In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- v. i. - To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
- v. i. - To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
- v. t. - To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
Referring Clues
- Scheme
- Novelist's need
- It sometimes thickens
- Novel creation
- It's followed by moviegoers
- Cabal's plans
- Basic thread
- Parcel of land
- Paranoiac's worry
- Mark on a graph
- "The ___ thickens"
- Garden area
- An author might give it away
- Novel's essence
- Story line
- Represent graphically
- Paranoid's fear
- Novel idea
- Lead-up to a coup
- It often thickens
- Bit of intrigue
- Connive
- With 38-Down, common device on "The Twilight Zone"
- It may thicken
- Makings of a coup
- One to grow on?
- Storyline
- It might consist of a 19-Across
- Cook up
- Stove feature
- Churchyard unit
- Coup start
- Underhanded plan
- Novel idea?
- Surface for gardening
- Novel necessity
- Page-turner's asset
- Whodunit component
- Piece of property
- Mastermind's scheme
- Conspirator's creation
- Schemer's creation
- It may have a twist
- Subject for a conspiracy theorist
- Cemetery purchase
- Find the coordinates of
- Secret plan
- Map
- Conspiracy
- Screenwriter's concern
- It usually thickens
- Cabal's creation
- Schemer's hatching
- Whodunit's essence
- Mark on a map
- Secret scheme
- Whodunit kernel
- Be scheming
- Small area of ground
- Central story line
- Conspire
- Novelist's concern
- Schemer's conception
- It might thicken
- It thickens after a while
- It may be hatched
- Movie's story line
- Builder's site
- Flower bed
- Conspiracy theorist's subject
- Villain's creation
- Book thickener?
- Intrigue
- Novel underpinning
- Whodunit essence
- Something to build on
- This thickens, on Broadway
- Novel essence
- Land area
- Collude
- Ruse
- One often thickens on stage
- One often thickens on stage
- Prepare for a coup
- Cook up a scheme
- Conspiracy theorist's worry
- Book basis
- Novel need
- Whodunit foundation
- Whodunit basis
- Basis for a whodunit
- Scenario
- Contrive
- Whodunit blueprint
- Conspire (against)
- Machinate
- Basis of a novel
- Map out
- Thing to cook up
- It's hatched
- Garden ___
- A bad one may contain holes
- Map (out)
- Script essence
- Home's land
- Whodunit feature
- Movie's storyline
- Novel creation?
- Author's need
- Novel feature
- A good one will thicken
- Novelist's notion
- Burial unit
- Garden
- Cemetery piece
- *Story line for "The Hunt for Red October"?
- Burial place
- Essence of a novel
- Basis of a whodunit
- Piece of land
- Bit of land
- Whodunit storyline
- Evil scheme
- What paranoid people see everywhere
- Whodunit story line
- Map a course
- What cabalists do
- Plan a mutiny
- Author's concern
- What a spoiler might spoil
- Hidden plan
- Plan
- Building site
- Cook up a conspiracy
- Cemetery unit
- Novel's story line
- It might be twisted or misted
- Place to build
- Novel's thread
- Whodunit skeleton
- Conspirators' plan
- Burial site
- Novel staple
- What a spoiler may spoil
- "The ___ thickens!"
- Screenwriter's concept
- Connive secretly
- Boy gets/loses/gets girl, e.g.
- Devious scheme
- Narrative feature
- Thing in a cemetery or novel
- Storyline of a book
- Part of a good novel
- It often has a twist
- Every novel has one
- Scheme for part of garden
- Gist of the story
- Part of a novel
- Story element
- A good one will thicken in a book
- Plan to get into underage show
- Map out a tour
- Conspiracy to oust member
- Novel's storyline
- Scheme to get into show
- Patch of ground
- Guide snubs one, so has he lost it?
- Land is what the story is all about
- Small piece of ground
- Intriguing piece of ground
- Chart - area
- A story and bed
- Pig-headed group scheme
- Scheme to get money into the kitty
- A piece of land is what it's all about
- Ground needed for play
- Plan of the area?
- Allotment scheme?
- Intriguing scenario?
- Scheme to finish up with a fortune
- Storyline showing reason for policeman's unhappiness under pressure
- Piece of ground - conspiracy
- Story in bed
- What the gardener digs up is left in the casserole
- Conspire - small piece of land
- Plan using one less guide
- Cemetery section
- Flier without a single chart
- Story line - bit of land
- Bed design
- Plan to put money in the kitty
- Site for housing scheme
- Sovereign caught in drug conspiracy
- ... page number for land
- Piece of land that has 21 down lisping
- Ground plan
- Coppers share the action
- Where - briefly - to leave automobile scheme?
- Builder's purchase
- Vegetable garden - scheme
- Novel twist
- Literary element
- ... power to everyone with a piece of ground
- Plan shows parking place
- Garden design
- Aviator lacking a single chart
- Gunpowder, for one, left in container
- Scheme formed by pressure group
- The story of a piece of land
- 10 and co.'s ground
- Piece of land as pawn to fate?
- Plan made in secret
- What happens in a movie
- One may be hatched
- Gunpowder ___, also known as the Jesuit Treason?
- What a spoiler spoils
- What a movie spoiler might give away
- A scheme for vegetable production
- Film advancer
- Moviegoers follow it
- Feature of movies and novels
- What a cabal cooks up
- Scheme to get money in the kitty
- It reaches six feet under
- Plan to shoot round the corner
- Screenwriter's concoction
- Word before "hole" or "twist"
- It may thicken, so to speak
- Conspirators' concoction
- Novelist's starting point
- Cabal's contrivance
- Screenplay structure
- *The outcome of a story might hinge on one
- It may thicken, in a mystery
- Novelist's storyline
- One not included in a pilot scheme
- Story outline
- Evil plan
- An area scheme
- Novel framework
- Novelist's framework
- Literary framework
- Make a secret plan
- Plan or contrive secretly
- Outline
- Complex plan
- Narrative structure
- Scheme secretly
- Main part of a novel
- Pigheaded group conspiracy
- Need for building a house or story
- Kind of device used in filmmaking
- Backbone of a novel?
- Screenwriter's creation
- Hatched plan
- Space for a vegetable garden
- Story arc
- Allotment scheme?
- What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters
- Parcel
- Plan of the area?
- Gunpowder ___ (1605 English conspiracy)
- What a book review might spoil
- Film's story line
- Novel idea?
- Intriguing scenario?
- Twists can thicken it
- Hatch a scheme
- Thing that may have twists and turns
- "Thick" part of a novel?
- Secretly plan
- Heading in most movies' Wikipedia pages
- Story part that might have a twist
- It might thicken or be full of holes
- ___ twist (part of a story)
- It might have a twist or hole
- Sinister scheme
- One may thicken over time
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - December 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 13, 2025
- Daily American - December 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 25, 2025
- Daily American - October 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 19, 2025
- LA Times - October 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 20, 2025
- Daily American - September 02, 2025
- LA Times - September 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 02, 2025
- Daily American - June 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 14, 2025
- Daily American - May 13, 2025
- LA Times - May 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 08, 2025
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