Clues for the word "RESERVE"
We've had 84 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 132 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on January 25, 2026.
Definition of reserve
- v. t. - To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
- v. t. - Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
- v. t. - To make an exception of; to except.
- n. - The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
- n. - That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
- n. - That which is excepted; exception.
- n. - Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- n. - A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
- n. - A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- n. - Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
Referring Clues
- Benchwarmer
- There may be money in it
- Bank amount
- ___ clause (baseball rule challenged by Curt Flood in 1970)
- Special portion of a vintner's output
- High-quality wine
- Avoidance of intimacy
- Save for future use
- Emergency money
- Book in advance
- What things may be held in
- Call dibs on
- Call dibs on
- Bench warmer
- Set aside
- Lay away
- Put a hold on
- Stock
- Federal ___ Bank
- Keep for later
- What one can do to the last parts of 17- and 58-Across and 11- and 28-Down
- Spare book
- Put on ice
- Emergency fund
- Set aside - shyness
- Shyness
- Page missing from bottle book?
- Reticence
- Book
- Keep for future use
- Book store
- Book not one's first choice
- Keep back - book
- The lowest acceptable price is a pound
- Second-choice book?
- Husband shows reticence
- It's extra if you book
- Book is in stock
- Join up again in detachment
- Troops do as back up
- Book the player on the bench?
- Put by
- Stock book
- See 23-Down
- Savings book
- Keep for someone - spare bod
- A further time, deliver book
- Substitute
- Book place where game may be held
- Withhold
- Book put by for a rainy day?
- A substitute book
- Book - something to fall back on
- Hold on to propriety
- Book on the bench?
- Ickle book?
- Book a possible substitute
- Book set aside
- Lack of openness in book
- Book put to one side
- Reticence must be shown in jam, when there's 11
- Booklet: What to do next
- Keep back
- Book you save for a rainy day
- Book (table)
- Hold, as a hotel suite
- Book (table at restaurant)
- Member of the B-team
- Book (restaurant table)
- Book, though it's a formality
- Book you don't deliver judgement on as yet
- Bookstore?
- Reticence? Keep it for future use
- Keep demonstrating reticence
- Lack of loquacity
- About to present book
- Book-keep
- Keep your distance
- Put aside
- Wildlife sanctuary
- Aloofness
- Book to keep?
- Second-choice book?
- Stockpile
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - January 25, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 30, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 27, 2025
- Daily American - February 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 19, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 26, 2024
- Daily American - November 07, 2024
- Family Time - August 26, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 30, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 05, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 28, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 24, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 13, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 30, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 03, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 01, 2023
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