Clues for the word "RANSOM"
We've had 91 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 195 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on February 15, 2026.
Definition of ransom
- n. - The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
- n. - The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
- n. - A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
- n. - To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
- n. - To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
Referring Clues
- Redeem, in a way
- Unfortunate price to pay
- With 41-Across, kidnapper's correspondence
- O. Henry's "The ___ of Red Chief"
- 1996 Ron Howard thriller
- Money left at a secret location, maybe
- Money in the bag, maybe
- Free, but not for free
- Kidnapper's demand
- 1996 Mel Gibson film
- Return payment?
- 1956 Glenn Ford crime drama
- Suitcase contents, in some thrillers
- King's ___ (large amount of money)
- Money of exchange
- 1996 movie with the tagline "Someone is going to pay"
- 1956 Glenn Ford film remade in 1996
- King's ___
- Pre-release demand
- Forced fee for freedom
- Price of redemption
- Kidnap demand
- Buy back
- Abductor's demand
- Contingency for release
- Payment for release
- King's ___ (much money)
- King's ___
- Release payment
- 1996 Gibson/Russo vigilante justice flick
- Release price
- Pirate's demand
- Kidnap cost
- Snatch money
- Snatch scratch
- Captor's cash
- Deliverance
- O. Henry's 'The of Red Chief'
- Kidnapper's request
- Payment for a return
- Illicit sum
- ___ note
- Duffel bag filler, in a thriller
- Return fare?
- Rescue price, maybe
- Return fee?
- Holding charge
- Managed to get some - but not all - money paid to kidnappers
- Money for a person
- 1996 Gibson/Sinise flick
- Kidnapper's payment
- Payment for someone's release
- Extorted money and smuggled a bit out of Spain
- Money demanded for the release of a captive
- High price of devious arson on the fifth of November
- A lot to pay for broken down manors
- The price of freedom
- Price demanded for release
- Kidnap money
- Romans required money to get free
- Payment demanded for release of captive
- It's paid to free memory (solution included)
- Payment demanded for someone's release
- Norma's redemption value?
- Money paid to a king's retainers
- Means of saving solution in memory
- A high price for king's 'umble carriage
- Free with money
- Way to get hostage back from Tehran, somehow
- Payment to kidnapper
- See 7
- Kidnapper's payoff
- New manor's an extortionate price?
- Took flight, thus, with miles to redeem
- Did a little jogging, almost free
- Coerced payment
- Kidnap price
- Payment for hijacked data
- Subject of hostage negotiation talks
- On Mars, perhaps, one could refuse to be held to it
- Money demanded for Swallows and Amazons author? Not quite!
- Paid to kidnappers so no arms get broken?
- $2 million, in a 1996 film (or the film's title)
- Gibson/Russo film
- Price of freedom
- Getty money in "All the Money in the World"
- Knives Out character
- Release money
- Kidnap payment
- A lot to pay for broken down manors
- Bad return policy?
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - February 15, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 03, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 11, 2025
- Daily American - July 07, 2025
- New York Times - June 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 16, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 03, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 09, 2025
- New York Times - January 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 03, 2024
- Daily American - November 21, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 12, 2024
- Daily American - July 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 11, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 03, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 04, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 09, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 03, 2023
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