Clues for the word "PROFESS"
We've had 18 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 22 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on December 12, 2023.
Definition of profess
- v. t. - To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
- v. t. - To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
- v. t. - To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.
- v. i. - To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.
- v. i. - To declare friendship.
Referring Clues
- Affirm
- Maintain
- Affirm openly
- Claim
- Claim openly
- Openly state
- Claim of the journalists covering it
- Claim the newspapermen have got hold of
- Declare intention of entering journalism
- Foreign Office backed in media claim
- Make open declaration of
- State of being in force
- Declare academic has no alternative
- Claim to have put in the cupboard of
- Claim of the newspapermen suppressing it
- Assert openly
- Lay claim to
- Declare
Last Seen In
- Daily American - December 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 13, 2023
- Daily American - December 12, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 14, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 04, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - May 19, 2015
- New York Times - August 08, 2013
- New York Times - July 16, 2013
- Guardian Quick - August 10, 2012
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 28, 2012
- New York Times - September 29, 2011
- Thinks Daily - July 12, 2010
- LA Times Sunday - March 21, 2010
- Netword - July 11, 2009
- LA Times Sunday - January 04, 2009
- Universal - November 14, 2008
- Universal - November 04, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - October 27, 2005
- New York Times - March 21, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - June 22, 2004
- Guardian Prize - February 24, 2001