Clues for the word "PROOF"
We've had 97 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 171 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on September 23, 2025.
Definition of proof
- n. - Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- n. - That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
- n. - The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
- n. - Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
- n. - A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.
- n. - A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.
- v. t. - Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
- a. - Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
- a. - Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
- a. - Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
Referring Clues
- ___ positive
- Smoking gun
- Math work
- Conclusive evidence
- 90 is a high one
- 86 is a high one
- Theorem ending
- Sufficient evidence
- Validation
- Evidence
- Number of spirits?
- David Auburn play that won the 2001 Pulitzer
- Smoking gun, e.g.
- Evidence, or word that can follow the starts of answers to starred clues
- Logic exercise
- Smoking gun, so to speak
- Portrait studio preview
- It's rarely over 100
- Check for typos
- Rye-bottle word
- QED preceder
- Vodka-bottle word
- Scotch statistic
- Confirmation
- DNA may provide it
- Spirits measure
- Trial print
- Prosecutor's burden
- Decisive evidence
- It can nail a case shut
- Case strengthener
- Alcohol measure
- 90 is a pretty high one
- Solid evidence
- Solid evidence
- Bit of math homework
- Irrefutable evidence
- Booze number
- Undeniable evidence
- Homework problem in geometry
- Whiskey bottle word
- Advanced math assignment
- Verification
- Theorem work
- Math homework assignment
- Evidence that establishes the truth of something
- Geometry class challenge
- *Smoking gun, e.g.
- Number on a liquor bottle
- Clear demonstration
- Ironclad evidence
- One might end "Q.E.D."
- Spirits strength
- Affirmation
- Bruce Springsteen "Living ___"
- Factual evidence
- Firm evidence in print
- In favour of really convincing evidence
- 13 two girls, one required by the Grauniad?
- Assured fact that may have to be corrected?
- Measure of the strength of alcohol
- Positive evidence
- Demonstration of strength of spirit
- First impression
- Render impervious (to)
- Demonstration of impenetrability?
- Evidence of spiritual strength
- Bit of geometry homework
- Demonstration of spiritual strength
- See 10
- Penny's covering evidence
- Poor misguided fellow needed evidence
- Convincing evidence of the strength of alcohol
- Demonstration in prison, initially on top of building
- Strength of spirit shown in demonstration
- *Demonstration in favour of___ of___
- In favour of conclusive evidence
- 86 to drink
- Trial copy of printed text
- Liquor potency
- Conclusive evidence of strength of liquor
- Alcohol strength
- Geometry exercise
- Object of a detective's quest
- Compelling evidence
- Check for mistakes
- Read for errors
- DA's burden
- Jury swayer
- Definite evidence of a professor having nothing to hide
- Convincing evidence
- Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play about a mathematical genius
- Conjecture's lack
- Word on a whiskey bottle
- Activate yeast
- Mathematician's creation
- Definitive evidence
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - September 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 14, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 23, 2024
- USA Today - October 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 21, 2024
- New York Times - May 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 15, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - October 29, 2023
- LA Times - October 22, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 06, 2023
- New York Times - July 12, 2023
- LA Times - July 08, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 05, 2023
- USA Today - April 19, 2023
- USA Today - March 21, 2023
- Your Life Choices - March 10, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 19, 2023
- And in 141 more crossword puzzles...