Clues for the word "PRIVATE"
We've had 48 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 62 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 27, 2024.
Definition of private
- a. - Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.
- a. - Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.
- a. - Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.
- a. - Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.
- a. - Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
- n. - A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
- n. - Personal interest; particular business.
- n. - Privacy; retirement.
- n. - One not invested with a public office.
- n. - A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
- n. - The private parts; the genitals.
Referring Clues
- Buck ___ eye
- First Army rank of 39-Across
- Gomer Pyle, for one
- Not open to the public
- Low Army rank
- Just between us
- Not for the public
- One following general directions?
- The information you would like to keep to yourself
- Not disclosed
- Platoon member
- Confidential
- Beetle Bailey, e.g.
- Babble on
- Kind of eye
- Not to be shared with anyone
- Military rank
- Like much property
- Not for many to know
- Trap I've set for soldier
- Away from prying eyes
- Secret
- Gas about Number 4 gets ranker
- Tommy's secret
- Not open to scrutiny
- Rank
- Talk about the quartet that's for your ears only
- Undisclosed military rank
- Place for business? Proactive to work with rest
- Soldier's babble on receiving one stripe
- A privet (variegated) makes a garden so
- See 16
- Confidential, secret
- How much, including tax if Anne is involved, for initiative?
- Special soldier
- Economy independent of government knackers 'arry
- Where one may be taught a lesson with ice down jockstrap, might you say?
- Word of warning
- Secret serviceman
- Nonpublic
- Eg arm borne by soldiers, those taking a back seat?
- Public's opposite
- Rank as confidential
- Personal
- It's for your ears only, soldier
- Like diaries with locks
- Enlisted man
- Not public
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 27, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - September 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 13, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - May 28, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - January 09, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 11, 2023
- USA Today - October 29, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 13, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 13, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 30, 2023
- USA Today - January 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 22, 2022
- Mirror Quick - January 26, 2018
- New Zealand Herald - January 20, 2018
- Guardian Prize - November 11, 2017
- Your Life Choices - November 08, 2017
- Mirror Quick - September 01, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 14, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - June 23, 2017
- Mirror Quick - June 16, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 28, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - April 14, 2017
- Universal - February 23, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - February 15, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - August 17, 2016
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