Clues for the word "PRESS"
We've had 249 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 494 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on October 17, 2026.
Definition of press
- n. - An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.
- n. - To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.
- n. - A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- v. - To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
- v. - To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.
- v. - To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.
- v. - To embrace closely; to hug.
- v. - To oppress; to bear hard upon.
- v. - To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.
- v. - To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
- v. - To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience.
- v. - To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.
- v. i. - To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.
- v. i. - To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach.
- v. i. - To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.
- n. - An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.
- n. - Specifically, a printing press.
- n. - The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.
- n. - An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.
- n. - The act of pressing or thronging forward.
- n. - Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.
- n. - A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng.
Referring Clues
- Squeeze
- Newspapers
- Basketball tactic
- Iron
- Word in telephone menu instructions
- Newspapers, with "the"
- Throng
- Get rid of wrinkles
- Fourth Estate
- Urge
- Phone menu imperative
- Decrease?
- Use a button
- Reporter's badge
- Reporters
- Basketball defense
- "... or ___ 1 for more options"
- Juice extractor
- Garlic-crushing tool
- With 13-Down, push a fellow in public relations
- Print media
- Newspapers, collectively
- Put the squeeze on
- Voice mail imperative
- Flatten
- With 11-Down, publicity rep
- Garlic-crushing device
- Hoops defense
- Fourth estate, as it's known
- Newspapers collectively
- Smooth, in a way
- News medium
- Defensive strategy in basketball
- Try too hard
- Publicity
- Reporters as a group
- Entreat with urgency
- Weightlifter's exercise
- Fifth estate
- Use an iron
- Use a steam iron
- Do ironing
- Remove wrinkles from
- Use a steam iron on
- Do some ironing
- Importune
- Apply force
- Telephone menu instruction
- "Meet the ___"
- "... or ___ one for more options"
- Vintner's device
- Bench activity
- Get pushy?
- Weightlifting maneuver
- The Fourth Estate
- Media
- Automated telephone menu command
- Type of conference
- The media
- Button word, sometimes
- Type of pass
- Weightlifter's movement
- Iron, as clothes
- Ink
- Reporter's badge word
- Activate, as an elevator button
- Cider maker
- Lift in a gym
- News media
- Don't take no for an answer
- Imperative in an automated telephone message
- Urge, as an issue
- Group providing coverage
- Basketball ploy
- "Meet the ___"
- The Times goes to it
- ___ release (message targeted to the media)
- Defensive basketball tactic
- Be insistent
- Word on some buttons
- Publish
- Printer's need
- Push
- Part of AP
- Squeeze juice from
- It makes the morning papers
- Newspaper industry
- Garlic ___
- "Full court" tactic
- Get pushy
- Bear down
- Use an iron on
- Word on a button
- Papers, collectively
- Push steadily against
- Panini maker, say
- Word on a reporter's ID
- People from the paper
- Remove creases in clothes
- Do laundry work
- Garlic gadget
- Bench exercise
- News crews, collectively
- Try to persuade
- Winemaking tool
- Hoops defensive strategy
- Book maker
- Button word
- Part of UPI
- Defensive hoops tactic
- Get the wrinkles out
- One of the corps
- Printing ___
- Push down
- Directive in some automated messages
- Pamphlet producer
- Printing machine
- Printing apparatus
- Winemaker's apparatus
- De-crease?
- Lean on
- Defense on a court
- Lithographer's equipment
- Media component
- Try too hard, competitively
- Button verb
- Inauguration V.I.P.: Abbr.
- Hold down
- Iron (a shirt)
- Garlic-crushing gadget
- Ask repeatedly
- Remove the wrinkles
- Get the wrinkles out of clothes
- Iron clothes
- Squeeze applied to newspapers?
- First Amendment word
- Urge to be part of the media
- Urge to use an iron
- Weightlifting exercise
- Entreat
- Never hurts to be friendly to them
- Bench lift
- Mags, media, etc.
- They make or break careers
- Push - papers
- Crush - Fleet Street of old
- Crowd
- Squeeze together
- Urge in the papers
- The reporters urge one to
- Journalists hurry
- Media machine?
- Egg on to flatten
- Decrease in newspapers
- 24 that shows where library users can find things in a crowd
- Urge to recruit willy-nilly
- Shanghai journalists?
- Closely packed crowd in lift
- Smooth journalists importune crowd
- Smooth journalists
- Crush the newspapers
- Newspapers - cupboard
- Crowd - papers
- Media report lack of ease in noble lady
- Force to serve papers
- Iron found in cupboard
- Tabloid producer
- Machine for printing newspapers
- Media attention
- Being 6, dispel wrinkles
- Push piano about on two poles
- Crowd of journalists
- Journalists harass crowd
- Jam in cupboard
- Iron in cupboard
- A crowd in the cupboard
- Flatten with an iron
- Push, as a button
- Flatten clothes
- Be very persistent
- Weightlifter's rep
- Word with permanent or printing
- News statement, ___ release
- "___ Your Luck" (1980s game show)
- ___ corps
- Thing to do to a button
- What to do to a button
- Move a button
- Winery device
- Word on a parking-garage ticket machine
- Times, Post, News, etc.
- Garlic-crushing utensil
- Notices the cupboard
- Newspapers in cupboard
- See 15
- Persist, with "on"
- Newspaper-printing machine
- Cider-making device seen in the newspapers?
- What to do with a button
- "Full court" NBA defense
- Smooth out, as pants
- To iron
- Squeeze applied to newspapers?
- Hound
- First Amendment topic
- Cider-making machine
- Weightlifter's maneuver
- Urge to be journalists
- Bench ___: exercise
- Flatten with a steam iron
- Basketball strategy
- Push against
- Coffee machine
- Specialty grill
- De-crease?
- It should be free in a democracy
- Freedom of the ___ (First Amendment right)
- Crush, as a garlic clove
- ___ and curl (salon treatment)
- Aggressive defense in basketball
- Journalists are importunate
- The journalistic crowd
- Deltoid-working exercise
- Newspaper media
- Tool for tofu or garlic
- First Amendment concern
- Cupboard the tennis racket's in?
- Garlic squeezer
- Garlic crusher
- Ink, so to speak
- Media machine?
- Silk ___ (hairstyling method)
- Leg ___ (quad exercise)
- Media coverage
- Cider mill fixture
- One of the media
- Word after "bench" or "free"
- Panini maker, e.g.
- Word with French or free
- Don't pull
- Silk ___ (hair straightening technique)
- Journalism
- Clear clothes lines, in a way
- Word with French or bench
- Its freedom is granted in the First Amendment
- "Any ___ is good ___" (public relations saying)
- Print and broadcast media
- Device in olive oil extraction
- Olive oil maker
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- LA Times - March 07, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 02, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 23, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 18, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 05, 2026
- Daily American - January 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 25, 2025
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