Clues for the word "REEL"
We've had 462 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1500 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on June 04, 2026.
Definition of reel
- n. - A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
- n. - A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.
- n. - A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
- n. - A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
- v. t. - To roll.
- v. t. - To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
- v. i. - To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
- v. i. - To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
- n. - The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
Referring Clues
- Fishing item
- Movie segment
- Lively old dance
- Stagger
- Rod's companion
- It holds the line
- It might wind up on a boat
- Fishing device
- Film unit
- Not walk straight
- Projector load
- Lively dance
- Microfilm unit
- Fishing rod attachment
- Casting requirement?
- Spin
- Quaint dance
- Spinner
- Tape recorder part
- It might give you a line
- Fast Irish dance
- Country dance
- Tape measure part
- Film segment
- Movie unit
- Equipment for catching a 2-Down
- Dance at a barn dance
- Fall back
- Fishing equipment
- Angler's need
- Walk like a sot
- Item of 5-Down
- Fishing line holder
- Whirl
- Dance that's done to "Drowsy Maggie"
- Cousin of a hornpipe
- Rod's partner
- Old-fashioned dance
- Rod attachment
- Film part
- A line winds in and out of it
- Virginia dance
- Movie roll
- Part of a Hollywood archive
- Casting need
- Fishing partner of 62-Down
- Film vault holding
- Pull (in)
- Draw (in)
- Contents of a large, round, flat can
- Line holder
- Projector unit
- Fishing line winder
- Walk drunkenly
- Fiddler's tune
- What you might wind up with
- Predigital film part
- Lurch
- Irish dance
- Film winds up on it
- Film projector need
- Walk like a tosspot
- Cinema can content
- Projection room spool
- Lively country dance
- Motion-picture spool
- Part of an angler's gear
- Bobbin
- Projector part
- Audiotape holder
- Rock after a shock
- Tape spool
- Part of a fly fisherman's gear
- Projection booth spool
- Be giddy
- Dance with Virginia?
- The hero usually triumphs in the final one
- Old tape recorder part
- Walk unsteadily
- Film spool
- Windlass
- Cannes can content
- Barn dance dance
- Virginia ___ (dance with two lines)
- Film holder
- Highland dance
- Rock after a sock
- Spirited dance
- React to a one-two
- Rock from a sock or a shock
- Go for a spin?
- React to a haymaker
- Barn dance
- Walk like a drunk
- Casting requirement
- React to being punched
- Sway
- Virginia ___ (country dance)
- Projectionist's spool
- React to getting a sock
- Betray drunkenness
- Angling need
- Rattle (off)
- React in shock
- Bit of angling gear
- Walk woozily
- Angler's purchase
- Totter
- Virginia ___
- Film site
- Wobble
- Movie holder
- Rod's mate
- Fishing need
- Spin-fishing need
- Fishing-line holder
- Feel dizzy
- Fishing-rod attachment
- Movie-film holder
- Polka cousin
- Film-length measure
- Projector attachment
- Canister filler
- It might wind up on a lake?
- React to getting socked
- Bit of fishing gear
- Angler's device
- Walk dizzily
- Fisherman's need
- Virginia's dance?
- Roll of film
- React to an uppercut, perhaps
- Rod companion
- Virginia's dance
- Become dizzy
- Betray drunkenness, in a way
- Be unsteady
- React to an uppercut
- Move dizzily
- Spool
- Part of a fisherman's gear
- Fail the sobriety test, in a way
- A line winds out of it
- Lively Scottish dance
- Rod partner
- Display dizziness
- It can hold the line
- It might wind up on a dock?
- Good spot for an editor to wind up a film
- Fishing gear
- Film projectionist's unit
- Cassette spool
- Be knocked for a loop
- Recite rapidly, with "off"
- Hornpipe cousin
- Suffer the effects of a haymaker
- Cinema can contents
- Angler's requirement
- Spin around
- Virginia ___
- React to a punch, maybe
- Rod's associate
- Fishing rod adjunct
- Rod's fishing partner
- Angler's buy
- Projection booth item
- Colonial Dance
- It may have a trailer
- Film roll
- Readily recite, with "off"
- Barn-dance dance
- Creel item
- Scottish dance
- Show shock, in a way
- Wind-up fishing equipment
- Get dizzy
- Line winder
- Sportfishing need
- Tackle-box item
- It might wind up on a pier
- Lively folk dance
- Fishing rod accessory
- Movie holder, once
- Rod and ___
- Tape-recorder part
- Tackle box item
- Fishing-pole attachment
- Highlanders' dance
- Angler's item
- Tacklebox item
- Audio-cassette part
- Angling equipment
- Rotatory device
- Fisherman's equipment
- Cassette winder
- Projectionist's unit
- Rod adjunct
- Garden-hose holder
- Winder
- Not walk a straight line
- Fishing partner of 60-Down
- Angler's favorite dance?
- Cousin of a jig
- Casting need?
- Take a spin?
- Microfilm holder
- Walk while dizzy
- Lively Irish dance
- React to a punch
- Film segment, once upon a time
- Hose holder
- Piece of fly-casting equipment
- Revolving spool with a handle
- Appear stunned
- Wind on a line
- Bass Pro Shops purchase
- Angler's equipment
- React with shock
- It might wind up on shore
- Recite quickly, with "off"
- Projection room item
- Film storage unit
- Dance that cost Rhett 150 gold pieces to dance with Scarlett
- An early Disney cartoon had one
- Rod's fishing partner?
- React to terrible news, say
- Barn-dance number
- Teeter
- Highland fling
- Casting aid
- Recite (with "off")
- Film library unit
- Careen
- Knocked for a loop
- Angler's accessory
- Movie spool
- React to a shock
- Projector's load
- Rural dance
- Betray unsteadiness
- Fishing-line spool
- 64 Down attachment
- Kite adjunct
- Angler's gear
- Relative of a hornpipe
- Line holder for a cast
- Fishing pole attachment
- Move unsteadily
- Angler's spool
- Virgina's dance?
- Movie projectionist's unit
- Projection room item, once
- React to a shock like an angler?
- Angler's gadget
- Rod go-with
- Line-winding gadget
- Betray that you are inebriated
- Tackle shop buy
- Be stunned
- One of two in a cassette
- Circular film unit
- Collection of highlights or bloopers
- An angler winds up using it?
- React to dizziness
- Projectionist's need
- Garden hose holder
- Projector's burden
- Fisherman's gadget
- Fishing rod partner
- Angler's tool
- Folk dance
- Spool of film
- Fisherman's rod and ___
- Rod and ___ (fisherman's gear)
- Rod and ___ (fisherman's gadgets)
- Rod and ___ (fishing equipment)
- It holds film
- Angler's gear, rod and ___
- Medium for those old Driver's Ed safety films
- It holds a movie
- Part of a fishing rod
- Fisherman's winding gadget
- Fisherman's winder
- Gadget for fishermen
- Film geek's spool
- Teeter or totter
- It holds movie film
- Slot machine spinner
- Feature of a fishing rod
- Part of a fishing pole
- ___ off, recite
- React to a blow
- "Sell Out" band ___ Big Fish
- ___ Big Fish
- Cylinder of tape
- "Sell Out" ___ Big Fish
- What Steely Dan will do to "The Years"
- Kind of "Big Fish"?
- Dance group ___ 2 Real
- '03 J. Lo EP "The ___ Me"
- Ska punkers ___ Big Fish
- '03 J. Lo album "The ___ Me"
- Dance - stagger
- Sound coming from concrete drum
- Turn round and smile slyly back
- One holding the line?
- Fisherman's dance?
- Dance in three lines
- Swim round and round?
- At the river, fish and swim
- Go round to get the music
- Lewdly look up 1?
- Maverick has lost his heart in a dance
- It's used to catch small river fish
- Dance
- Wind up with a dance
- In the film, play the drunk
- Dance - sway - cotton holder
- Move besottedly
- Dance - bobbin - stagger
- Angler's equipment is authentic, we hear
- Dance - bobbin
- Wind makes one stagger about
- Cotton holder
- Drive away - no parking for the dance
- Stagger - dance
- Stagger to the dance
- Dance (with cotton on it?)
- Look slyly back to dance
- Dance that's authentic, so it's said
- Totter in turn with 3
- Spool for fishing line
- Proceed besottedly
- React to a hit
- Cassette part
- People wind it up when fishing
- It will hold the line
- Bit of film memorabilia
- There's film all over it
- It's covered with film
- Rod and ___ (fishing gear)
- Fishing rod winder
- Dance to cast a lustful eye over
- You do it in to catch a fish
- Vigorous dance
- Reportedly authentic Scottish dance
- Lively dance in part of film
- Part of film is serious, according to report ___
- Feel dizzy and look unpleasantly upset
- 'Swim' used by an angler?
- Step dancer's song
- Spool holding fishing line
- Dance that's authentic, by the sound of it
- Irish fiddler's tune
- Look suggestively back in the dance
- Be haymakered
- Part of a film archive
- It winds up on lakes
- 35mm film unit
- Walk in zig-zags
- Movie archive unit
- Go round to get something for the fishing trip
- Holder of fishing line
- Victor snubbed in party dance
- Fishing gadget
- The fisherman's dance?
- River fish's swim
- Walk as if drunk
- Lively fiddle tune
- About 10 minutes of silents
- Stumble around in a daze
- Revolving-spool device
- Something used by angler for river fish?
- 29-Down storage device
- Thread spool, essentially
- Fisherman's paraphernalia
- Pre-digital film unit
- Projector spool of old
- What a leader gets attached to
- Play the drunk in the film
- List quickly, with "off"
- Kite flier's accessory
- Show shock
- Movie unit, once
- Film projector spool
- React to stunning news, say
- Film winds around it
- Fishing rod spool
- Hose storage gadget
- Fishing spool
- Gadget on a fishing pier
- Walk lurchingly
- Wind that makes you lose your footing
- Traditional dance
- Blooper ___
- Word after "gag" or "highlight"
- It winds up on a lake?
- Classic film holder
- Film holder in a canister
- Hose storage device
- Fishing pole spool
- Whirl wind
- Pull in and seem to be under the influence
- Something spinning in a slot machine
- Be shocked
- Tool for a fisherman
- 19-Across attachment
- Short video compilation
- Fisherman's dance?
- Dance done to fiddle music
- Show evidence of shock
- Attachment to a fishing rod
- Actor's demo video
- Spool for old films
- Turner of old movies
- Holder in a film archive
- Spool on a fishing rod
- Actor's video
- Demo ___
- Scottish folk dance
- See stars
- One holding the line?
- Be taken aback
- Country dance wound up on a 44-Down?
- Could it bear staggering news?
- Swim round and round?
- Spool for film
- Bit of freelance movie making?
- Bit of fishing equipment
- Highlight ___ (sports compilation)
- Attachment to your fishing rod
- Stagger about
- It winds up on a fishing boat
- Old movie unit
- Highlight ___
- Tackle part
- Something you might use just for the halibut?
- Obsolescent film format
- Fishing rod part
- Instagram highlight
- Word after "demo" or "outtake"
- Actor's audition tape
- Instagram video
- Spool on a fishing pole
- Type of Instagram video
- Word after "blooper" or "demo"
- Windy part of a kite?
- Old movie film holder
- Highlight compilation
- Old movie spool
- Instagram video clip
- Short video on Instagram
- Actor's compilation
- Video that an actor might send to an agent
- An old movie may be on it
- Walk dizzily, or a lively dance
- Piece of old movie equipment
- Go for a spin?
- Stumble or lurch
- Traditional folk dance
- Instagram feed feature
- Swim in three lanes
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - June 04, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 26, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 25, 2026
- New York Times - May 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2026
- LA Times - May 13, 2026
- Daily American - May 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 08, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 07, 2026
- LA Times - May 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 30, 2026
- Daily American - April 24, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - April 19, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 17, 2026
- LA Times - April 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 31, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 31, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 26, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 17, 2026
- Daily American - March 07, 2026
- New York Times - February 27, 2026
- Daily American - February 15, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 30, 2026
- Daily American - January 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 30, 2025
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