Clues for the word "POLICE"
We've had 76 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 86 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on March 17, 2025.
Definition of police
- n. - A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
- n. - That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
- n. - The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
- n. - Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
- n. - The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
- v. t. - To keep in order by police.
- v. t. - To make clean; as, to police a camp.
Referring Clues
- Cry before "Open up!"
- Constabulary
- Oversee
- Rioters' quieters
- Doorstep cry
- Keep in order
- Shout before "Open up!"
- They can be found in 20- and 55-Across and 10- and 26-Down
- Miranda rights readers
- Cops
- Sting's band, with "The"
- Members of the academy?
- Miranda rights reciters
- Kind of car or dog
- New York's finest, e.g.
- New York's finest
- Watch over
- Part Of RCMP
- Cry before Open up!
- Kind of state or station
- Fuzz
- Lawmen
- Law enforcement group
- Urban force
- Beat walkers
- Order preservers
- Control
- Some baton wielders
- Enforcement group
- Station
- Law enforcers
- NYPD part
- Urban officers
- State or station
- Patrol
- Word before or after state
- Old bill
- "Every Breath You Take" group, with "The"
- "___ Academy"
- 911 responders
- Stewart Copeland's band
- Long arm of the law
- Cast in 10 officers
- See 26
- In their manor, they known their station
- To criminals, they may seem not exactly polite
- River rats patrol
- Force one to say please quickly?
- Some say pigs crop up to finish cake
- Theirs is a service station
- Nick
- Forceful sort of service?
- Keep an eye on river insects
- Control river pests
- Boys in blue
- Bobby
- River bugs in force
- Bill for keeping the peace?
- Gun-toting group
- Use force to control opening offer in topless joint
- Cut back that is about 100: it's the law
- Regulate
- Arctic cap doesn't have a right to regulate
- 24 down force cut up rocks
- A force for good
- Just the sort of dog for a German shepherd
- Ride to a certain station
- Officers able to lope around, I see
- Criminal catchers
- Group with German shepherds
- In Napoli, certainly, a force
- Monitor closely
- Men in blue
- Cope, somehow, having £1 in coppers
- Band whose final album, "Synchronicity," was their most popular, with "The"
- Forceful sort of service?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - March 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 31, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2024
- Mirror Mini - January 14, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 20, 2023
- Mirror Mini - January 14, 2023
- New York Times - November 13, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - November 03, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 11, 2022
- New York Times - March 20, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 25, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 18, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 28, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 24, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - February 16, 2017
- New York Times - January 13, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 26, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - October 14, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 11, 2016
- Penny Dell Daily - June 03, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 17, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 09, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 30, 2015
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - October 18, 2015
- And in 56 more crossword puzzles...