Clues for the word "PRY"
We've had 134 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 544 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 15, 2026.
Definition of pry
- n. - A lever; also, leverage.
- v. t. - To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
- v. i. - To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.
- n. - Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
Referring Clues
- Use a crowbar
- Get nosy
- Meddle
- Lever
- "I don't mean to ___..."
- Jimmy
- Try to open a jar, say
- Not get off easily?
- Crowbar
- Ask too many questions
- Be a snoop
- Be nosy
- Peep
- Act the snoop
- Snoop around
- Snoop
- Sniff around
- Be inquisitive
- Butt in
- Show unseemly curiosity
- Force (open)
- Delve (into)
- Open someone else's e-mails, maybe
- Use leverage on
- Be a Nosey Parker
- Exhibit nosiness
- Seek intimate information
- Get too personal
- Nose about
- Ask overpersonally
- Obtain with difficulty
- Be a Nosy Parker
- Ask too much?
- Be a busybody
- Be overly inquisitive
- Inquire nosily
- Act like a yenta
- Force, in a way
- Be too curious
- Get leverage, in a way
- Nose into
- Ask a few too many questions?
- Nose around
- More than inquire
- Use leverage
- Don't mind your own business
- Stick one's nose into
- Use a lever
- Be a buttinsky
- Rubberneck
- Inquire about private matters
- Crow bar
- Snoop, in a way
- Wield a crowbar
- Eavesdrop, maybe
- Be snoopy
- Look too closely
- Use 23-Across
- Be a yenta
- Apply a jimmy
- Use a jimmy
- "I don't mean to ___ ..."
- Get snoopy
- Pull with effort
- Apply leverage to
- Listen through a door, say
- Get too nosy
- Ask too much
- Ferret out
- Poke one's nose (into)
- Jimmy, e.g.
- Ask over-personally
- Be too nosy
- Wrest open
- Ask too many questions, say
- Mind someone else's business
- Wield a lever
- Work a jimmy
- Crowbar, e.g.
- Dig too deeply
- Try to open, in a way
- Not mind one's own business
- Ask too-personal questions
- Intrude
- Look inquisitively
- Interfere
- Move with leverage
- Jimmy (open)
- Open, as with a crowbar
- Curious thing to do?
- Ask personal questions
- Stick one's nose in
- Paul's name takes lines on a page
- Inquire impertinently
- Poke one's nose in
- Inquire too much
- Mind another's business
- Ask nosy questions
- Ask too much of somebody
- Be too interested
- Be way too inquisitive
- Be too personal
- Ask for sensitive info
- Extract with effort
- Explore where you shouldn't
- Use muscle to open a jar
- Stick your nose where it doesn’t belong
- Be too inquisitive
- Move a crowbar up and down
- Ask invasively
- Use leverage to satisfy curiosity?
- Wrench with power
- Ignore a request to MYOB
- Use leverage to obtain information
- Poke one's nose into others' business
- Prompt an "M.Y.O.B.," say
- Ask uncomfortable questions
- Seek to discover where to apply leverage?
- Use a crowbar on
- At leaving the party, ask questions
- Use an oyster knife, say
- Get excessively nosy
- Ask "What are you trying to hide?"
- Type of bar to wedge
- Ask intimate questions, say
- What investigators might do
- Go where one shouldn't
- Ask invasive questions
- Curious thing to do?
- Ask some inappropriate questions
- Press for gossip
- *Expensive
- Ask for details about a breakup, say
- Ask too much, say
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 13, 2026
- LA Times - December 31, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 26, 2025
- LA Times - December 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 02, 2025
- LA Times - December 01, 2025
- LA Times - November 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 23, 2025
- New York Times - October 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 23, 2025
- New York Times - September 14, 2025
- New York Times - September 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 09, 2025
- New York Times - May 01, 2025
- LA Times - April 25, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 15, 2025
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