Clues for the word "PULL"
We've had 66 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 163 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 19, 2026.
Definition of pull
- v. t. - To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
- v. t. - To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- v. t. - To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
- v. t. - To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
- v. t. - To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
- v. t. - To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
- v. t. - To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
- v. i. - To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
- n. - The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
- n. - A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
- n. - A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
- n. - A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
- n. - The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
- n. - The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
- n. - Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
- n. - A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
Referring Clues
- Influence
- Sign on a door
- SWAY, SO TO SPEAK
- Clout
- Door sign
- Word above a handle
- Tug of war cry
- Yank
- Skeet shooter's call
- Word on one side of a door
- Skeet shout
- Tug
- Skeet-shooter's shout
- Haul
- Door-handle sign
- Word by a door handle, often
- Word on a door handle
- Play tug-of-war
- Make taffy
- Tug-of-war cry
- Powerful influence
- Drag from behind
- Opposite of "push"
- Perform successfully, with "off"
- Door word
- Influence, so to speak
- What an influential person has
- Special influence
- Opposite of push
- Push's opposite
- Tow
- Handle word
- Tug at
- Influence with higher-ups
- Word by a door handle
- Drag
- Woolly
- Fire alarm verb
- Influence rather than 1 down
- Tug - influence
- Tell that to the marines
- See 6
- Yank, as a tooth
- Advice to self-pitying curtains?
- 4, so speeding 7 might be asked to?
- Cancel
- Leave one floored, forlorn, unheld, up gum tree - devastated!
- Tug (on)
- Sway
- Political influence, e.g.
- Respond to demand of traffic cop in jumper
- Draw back well-uphostered part
- Accomplish, with "off"
- Having this, you'll never get the push
- Play tug-of-war, say
- Word on a handle
- Propel, as a rickshaw
- Extract, pluck
- & 27. Close with a handle
- Extract
- Push's counterpart
- Word near a door handle, maybe
- Instruction on some doors
- Word on some doors
- Word over some door handles
- Word on a door
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 01, 2026
- Daily American - November 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 27, 2025
- Daily American - July 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 16, 2025
- Daily American - April 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 07, 2025
- USA Today - December 22, 2024
- New York Times - December 08, 2024
- LA Times - November 11, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 26, 2024
- Daily American - September 27, 2024
- LA Times - July 02, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 11, 2024
- Daily American - April 10, 2024
- Family Time - March 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 21, 2024
- USA Today - December 26, 2023
- Daily American - November 15, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 30, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 29, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 08, 2023
- Daily American - July 27, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 14, 2023
- And in 133 more crossword puzzles...