Clues for the word "POKER"
We've had 147 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 194 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 29, 2026.
Definition of poker
- n. - One who pokes.
- n. - That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
- n. - A poking-stick.
- n. - The poachard.
- n. - A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
- n. - Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
Referring Clues
- Fireplace rod
- Whence the phrase "pass the buck"
- Game with straights and flushes
- Draw game?
- Game played with a straight...or a straight face
- Bluffer's game
- Hearth tool
- Card game that's a hint to today's theme
- Source of 32-Down
- Tool next to a shovel, maybe
- Gamblers' holdings
- Texas Hold'em, e.g.
- Doc Holliday's game
- World Series game
- Cincinnati and lowball are versions of this
- Stud game
- Bret Maverick's forte
- Card game with televised tournaments
- Hand-raising activity?
- Texas Hold 'em, e.g., and a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Amarillo Slim's game
- Activity that involves seeing people?
- Cardroom game
- Texas Hold'em, for one
- Card game seen on TV
- Fire stirrer
- Often-televised card game
- See 66 Across
- Fireplace tool
- Casino game
- Game involving drawing and folding
- Game in "The Sting"
- Game for the start of 17 and 65-Across, 11 and 34-Down
- Game played by dogs in kitschy paintings
- Straight game
- It ends with a show of hands
- Fireplace adjunct
- ___ face
- It may involve cash on hand?
- It may involve drawing
- Word with face or hand
- Game in "The Sting"
- ___ face
- Game with a World Series
- Kind of face
- Vegas game
- Ends with a show of hands
- Game of hands
- Game with a kitty
- Texas Hold 'Em, e.g.
- Texas Hold 'Em e.g.,
- Stud's game
- Game often seen on ESPN
- Game that might involve a show of hands
- Baseball is a form of it
- Game that can follow the first part of this puzzle's four longest answers
- High-stakes game
- Game with straights
- Fire iron
- Game featured in "Maverick"
- Game with televised tournaments
- Game played with a straight face
- "The Odd Couple" card game
- Inspiration for some Yahtzee categories
- Card game
- Hearth instrument
- Pairs are seen in it
- Casino staple
- Card game with antes
- Hold 'em game
- Game involving folding
- Where to find a full house
- "Dead man's hand" game
- Game with an annual World Series held in Las Vegas
- Bluffing card game
- Bluffing game
- Gambling game
- Satisfactory in each game
- Card game for gamblers
- Hands on the table
- See 15
- Rod Laver's back following nudge
- Person pushing for a game?
- A stiff game
- The pushy person's game?
- Stiff game?
- Fireside game?
- Rod's game?
- Old-fashioned fireside game?
- Card game - fireside implement
- Fireside implement - card game
- Fine in a game
- Activity involving folding and drawing
- Agreed in a card-game
- See 1
- Popular gambling game
- Jabber of game
- Rude attention-getter is 12
- Hot tip for this 24
- Hand-to-hand combat?
- Fireplace prop
- Game with "tells"
- Game given some stick in the Ashes?
- Game, digitally rude sort
- Stick to game
- Hands in this sticker
- Writer holding king and queen in card game
- Game - fine cuts for each
- Fire-raiser's game?
- Game on the hearth
- Gamble with fire
- Fireside game?
- What's stirring about the Ashes game
- Authorisation put in for each rude attention-seeker?
- Stud or draw
- World Series card game
- Rude attention-seeker in game?
- Hand-to-hand combat?
- Rod for stirring a fire
- Game with a Las Vegas World Series
- A stiff game?
- Game suggested by the starred answers' starts
- It's handy at the fireside
- Card game with flushes
- Card game with flops
- Game for a good bluffer
- Game that could cause a flare-up?
- Game of checkers?
- Game with flushes
- A handy school game
- Part of a fireplace set
- A game faced impassively
- Person pushing for a game?
- The pushy person's game?
- Game with straight flushes
- Fireplace accessory
- "___ Face": Lady Gaga hit
- World Series of ___
- Stiff game?
- Hand-raising activity?
- Stud's game?
- Rod's game?
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- Old-fashioned fireside game?
- Game with folding and flushes
- Pot grower's activity?
- Game with an annual World Series since 1970
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 29, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - August 23, 2025
- New York Times - August 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 08, 2025
- New York Times - February 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 03, 2024
- Daily American - November 14, 2024
- USA Today - October 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 22, 2024
- New York Times - July 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 30, 2024
- New York Times - January 17, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 01, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 20, 2023
- Daily Quick - March 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 27, 2023
- Family Time - January 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 07, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 05, 2022
- Daily American - November 14, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 26, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 22, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - August 10, 2022
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