Clues for the word "PRISON"
We've had 82 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 147 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on April 17, 2025.
Definition of prison
- n. - A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
- n. - Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
- v. t. - To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
- v. t. - To bind (together); to enchain.
Referring Clues
- "Fidelio" setting
- Where 38-Down spent 19 years
- Life may be spent here
- Con junction
- Slammer
- Sing Sing, for one
- Place of con confinement
- The time there might be five to ten
- Stir
- "___ Break": Fox TV drama
- Building without cell phones?
- Place to find pen pals?
- Place up the 58-Across?
- "___ Break": Fox TV drama
- Sentence structure?
- Con container
- Break site
- Lockup
- Con's place
- Pen
- Attica or Leavenworth
- Big house
- Penitentiary
- Place where con jobs are common?
- Alcatraz, notably
- "Folsom ___ Blues"
- Jail
- Where Cervantes wrote "Don Quixote"
- It's larger than a jail
- Quietly Ron is taken off to jail
- Pros in sort of jail
- Porn is circulating in jail
- The joint
- Stir - can
- Gaol
- The nick of time
- Place of confinement
- Priest is working for porridge
- Jug of porridge
- Parties regularly selected, happening in place with bars
- Jug can clink
- Can scientific leader probe the cause of mad cow disease?
- Nick priest who's working
- The slammer
- Place of incarceration
- Can
- Cooler
- Can spin or twist
- Birdcage
- Cage bird
- No rips (anag)
- Clink - jug
- 24, spin or 24
- It's cooler inside
- Can of wormwood!
- "Stone walls do not a ___ make ...": Richard Lovelace
- Where you'll find screws on the door
- Where you must go if you have time
- Stir up negative response to teacher under pressure
- Jail for almost prim child
- Bird in a cage
- Confinement
- Lever off end on can
- Nick is into dreadful porn
- Inside job
- Stir its top into a bit of brain
- No, sir. The pinhead is back in jail!
- Rip off a child and that's the punishment
- Spin or twist in jail
- Slade, the place for porridge?
- It shuts people up
- Stir the porridge
- Where at Parkhurst, initially, irons were used?
- Penal institution
- Jug for coppers? No sir!
- Alcatraz was one
- Chokey
- It takes time to get to know one well
- The clink of a jug
- A jug of porridge in the nick of time
- Joint, so to speak
- See 1-Down
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - April 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 13, 2025
- Daily American - December 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 26, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 01, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 19, 2024
- Daily American - June 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 23, 2024
- New York Times - April 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 23, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - October 23, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 09, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - June 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 02, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 22, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 17, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 16, 2023
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