Clues for the word "REST"
We've had 538 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1868 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on January 20, 2026.
Definition of rest
- v. t. - To arrest.
- n. - A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
- n. - Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
- n. - Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
- n. - That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
- n. - A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
- n. - A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- n. - A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
- n. - The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
- n. - A set or game at tennis.
- n. - Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
- n. - To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
- n. - To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
- n. - To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
- n. - To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
- n. - To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
- n. - To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
- n. - To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- v. t. - To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
- v. t. - To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
- n. - That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
- n. - Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- n. - A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- v. i. - To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
Referring Clues
- Day of ___
- Sabbath activity
- Quietus
- Peace of mind
- Crash, so to speak
- Unwind
- Take five
- Word with cure or room
- Break
- Leftovers
- Scorer's mark
- Kind of home or room
- Relax
- Others
- Staff break?
- Observe the Sabbath
- Cessation
- With 113-Down, a roadside sight
- Sit a spell
- Balance
- Take it easy
- Musical symbol
- Lull
- Silence of the staff
- Take 3, clue 2
- Musical interval
- Medical advice, often
- Software installation requirement, often
- Downtime
- Catch one's breath
- Be quiet
- Siesta
- Doctor's advice, perhaps
- Staff symbol
- Recess
- Take a breather
- Take a load off
- Put one's legs up
- What's left
- No longer work
- Musical mark
- Lie
- With 16-Across, places to pull over
- Part of R & R
- Everything else
- Breather
- Take a break
- Pause
- What the defense may do
- Take a few minutes
- Take ten
- Holiday
- Remainder
- Not play
- What is left
- Musical sign
- Cease pleading
- Take a siesta
- Recharge one's batteries
- Move to first class, e.g.
- What remains
- Conclude one's argument
- Lie down on the job?
- Dormancy
- Kick back
- Put one's feet up
- Repose
- Sheet music symbol
- Symphonic silence symbol
- Caesura
- Stop for a bit
- Part of R and R
- Silence of the music staff
- Kind of period or stop
- Silence in the choir room
- Score symbol
- Unused portion
- Musical pause
- Seventh-day activity
- What's left over
- Finish, as a case
- Take a time-out
- ___ assured
- Pause that refreshes
- Word with head or foot
- Break time
- Vacation benefit
- Stop introducing evidence
- State of inactivity
- Symbol on a staff
- With 66-Across, roadside stop
- Remaining part
- Doctor's advice
- Quietude
- Take a nap
- Word with home or cure
- Partner of relaxation
- Finish off the defense
- Period of inactivity
- It might last a measure
- Staff filler
- Conclude one's case
- "Don't play" symbol
- Symbol of silence
- Do-nothing staff member?
- Word with home and room
- Vacation goal
- Doctor's prescription
- Musical break
- Seventh day activity
- Keep out of the lineup
- Time off
- Tranquillity
- Lie down for a bit
- Doctor's order
- Word after bed or head
- Catchall category, with "the"
- Staff marking
- Score marking
- Additional ones not itemized
- Inaction
- Musical marking
- Musical interlude?
- Part of R&R
- Musical silence
- Chill out
- Stop arguing
- Reason for a stop
- Stand still
- Sheet-music symbol
- Vacation purpose
- Knock off
- Relaxation partner
- With 100 Across, Interstate stop
- That left over
- There's none for the weary
- "A body at ___ tends to ..."
- Break in a score
- Freedom from activity
- "And now, the ___ of the story"
- Additional ones not itemized (with "the")
- Word with "chin" or "head"
- You may take it lying down
- Pause in the music
- Break between notes
- Be tranquil
- Kind of period or home
- You may get it lying down
- Vacation goal, often
- Indication to stop playing
- Vacation purpose, often
- "Take it easy!"
- Silence between notes
- Word with chin or head
- Residuum
- Doctor's advice, often
- Word with bed or head
- Vacation purpose, perhaps
- Some medical advice
- Doctor's prescription, sometimes
- Medical advice, sometimes
- The others
- Respite
- Remain idle
- Stop introducing evidence, perhaps
- Staff pause
- Doctor's advice, sometimes
- Word with bed or chin
- "And now, the ___ of the story"
- Doctor's recommendation, often
- It's left
- Doctor's prescription, maybe
- Musician's pause
- Sleep
- Hit the hammock
- Word with stop or room
- Sit down
- What's still there
- Something to take lying down
- Musician's "Don't play" symbol
- "A body at ___ tends to ..."
- Silence in music
- Period of silence
- See 127-Down
- You might take it lying down
- Take a nap, say
- Doctor's directive
- Time out in music
- Sign of a musical break
- Breathing spell
- Hammock break
- Doctor's prescription, perhaps
- Doctor's suggestion
- Seventh-day activity, in the Bible
- See 41-Across
- Doctor's suggestion, sometimes
- Additional ones not itemized (with "the")
- Use a hammock
- Word with "chin" or "head"
- What the defense might do
- Staff entry?
- Depend
- Take 10
- Leftover part
- Musical notation
- Relaxation's partner
- Staff sign
- Grab some water, maybe
- Whatever's left over
- Whatever remains
- Whatever's left
- Whatever's still there
- ... and part of its cure
- With 40-Down, highway snooze site
- Take 115-Down
- Catnap, e.g.
- Snooze, say
- Relaxation
- R.I.P. part
- Down time
- Sign for a musician not to play
- Do some recharging
- "Do what you can and leave the ___ to me"
- Doctor's order, perhaps
- Seventh day commandment
- "I ___ my case"
- Get some downtime
- See 44-Down
- ___ stop
- Breathing spell, e.g.
- Take a snooze
- Break in the music
- Be quiet?
- Sack out
- Finish in court
- Stop
- Sit for a spell
- No ___ for the weary
- Musical interlude
- Bit of musical silence
- A musical pause
- With 6 Down, an interstate pull-off
- One of the R's of R&R
- Something to take lying down?
- Kind of day for a competitive cyclist
- Take a relaxing break
- Measure marking
- Coffee break
- Grab forty winks
- Silent interval
- Break at the office
- Period of relaxation
- Lie down for a while
- Conserve energy
- Remains
- Break in the rhythM
- Ubiquitous prescription
- Vacation plan
- Brief break
- Recharge, say
- Catch some Z's
- Peaceful relaxation
- Nap
- Conclude, as one's case
- Pause, on a music staff
- Interval of inactivity
- "Parade ___!"
- Quiet relaxation
- "The ___ is history"
- Ones remaining
- Seventh day "activity"
- It is what's left
- Parade ___!
- Take ten 36. See 37-Down
- One with a staff position?
- The part that is left
- A little shuteye
- Others, with 'the'
- Staff notation
- It's left (with "the")
- Word before home and room
- Hinge (upon)
- Need for the weary
- Conclude in court
- Peace group
- Stop what you're doing
- Place for a chin on a violin
- What's leftover, with "the"
- Siesta, e.g.
- Do couch duty?
- See the 67-Across clue
- Cease activity
- Veg out, say
- One "R" in R&R
- Intermission
- Doctor's prescription, often
- The first "R" in R&R
- Take a timeout
- Get some shuteye
- Close your case
- Break from activity
- Sign not to play
- Note's counterpart
- Sit still
- Sit for a bit
- Place for a chin on a 54 Down
- Musical time-out
- See 63-Across
- The first "R" of R&R
- Wicked one's lack?
- Veg out
- Slumber
- Perform john cage's "4'33", e.g.
- Chill, so to speak
- Shady ___ hotel
- Come to a halt
- Chill
- Word with bed or day of
- Portion that's left
- Sospiro, in music
- Unwind from work
- Gather strength
- Catch one's breath and then some
- Last ones to deal with
- You might take one lying down
- Those not listed
- One thing to get while on vacation
- Be at leisure
- Be still
- Ones not itemized
- One thing a bed provides
- Me time
- Staycation activity, often
- Score silence
- Pause for a pianist
- Time out?
- Conclude a case
- Hang in a hammock
- There's none for the weary, it's said
- With 23-Across, picnic table locale
- Exercise break
- Common medical advice
- Silence in the symphony
- Relaxation go-with
- Loll
- Lay down
- Sit down and relax
- Take a break from work or play
- Lie in bed without sleeping
- Opposite of work or play
- Residue
- Support for others
- Others take it easy
- Doctor's order for the overly active, perhaps
- Lamb of God: "Laid to ___"
- Cage the Elephant: "Ain't No ___ for the Wicked"
- Relax between gigs
- Ozzy "No ___ for the Wicked"
- What Ozzy's "Wicked" didn't get, on '88 album
- Boss "Tougher Than the ___"
- Happens in between tours
- What Bruce is "Tougher Than"
- Post-tour peace of mind
- Nirvana "Take a ___, as a friend, as an old memory"
- Skillet song for a break?
- "Leave Out All the ___" Linkin Park
- Gets you peace of mind after tour
- Lemonheads "___ Assured"
- Springsteen "Tougher Than the ___"
- Unwritten Law "___ of My Life"
- You get some after grueling tour
- Lie down
- Recline
- The break a snooker player may need
- To be out of work upsets some actresses
- The balance negotiated in sterling, partly
- Take a breather - (the) others
- Lean against for balance
- The remainder don't work
- One's holiday may be in the balance!
- King established support
- What is left of the spider?
- Break fall with control
- Silence in music, or in Hamlet's last words?
- "Convalescence is something useful to snooker players", snooker player said
- Motionlessness
- "God ___ ye merry, gentlemen..."
- The unused portion?
- Musical hiatus
- Choir's breath marking
- Composer's symbol
- Stop calling witnesses, maybe
- Purpose of a vacation, often
- The R of RIP
- It can be used in billiards break
- Sleeping spider on the table
- Home shortly, with time to relax
- John Moor gets up after the others
- Remains quiet
- Touching way you could thus link 1 and 8
- Sleep for a little while
- "Today is the first day of the ___ of your life"
- Relax after a jog
- Interval of silence, in music
- Leftover portion
- Enjoy a timeout
- One's leisure is in the balance
- Take a day off, say
- Pause, on a score
- The "R" in "R.I.P."
- Snooze
- Others take part in fire station
- ___ and relaxation
- Enjoy a staycation
- Others appear in Empire State
- Put your feet up
- Vacationer's goal
- Score break
- The uncleared part of the forest?
- Sit out a game
- R&R part
- Don't play
- Advice for the overworked
- Orchestra silence
- Take five or ten
- Break partly cures this
- Chin ___
- Those left to take a break
- Obey the Sabbath
- Doc's advice
- "Give it a ___"
- Arm or chin follower
- Preventer of exhaustion
- Doze
- Vacationer's goal, often
- Enjoy a recliner
- Hiatus
- Depend (on)
- Sit and say "whew!"
- One's holiday in the balance?
- Inactivity
- Stop presenting evidence
- Musical intermission?
- Mark not to play
- Take a hammock break
- "Don't play," in music
- Enjoy an easy chair
- Stretch out in a recliner
- Laze in the hammock
- Pause for a bit
- Have a little sit-down
- Part that's left
- Shut-eye
- With 5 Down, welcome turnoffs
- Word of medical advice
- At ___ (stationary)
- Musical sign of silence
- Take a little break
- Enjoy a day off
- An "R" in R&R
- What's left of one's holiday?
- Recharge, perhaps
- One's time off is in the balance
- "Don't play" music staff symbol
- Do nothing
- Repay a sleep debt, say
- Recharge one’s batteries
- Put one’s feet up
- Squiggle on a musical score
- 11-Down and such
- Plop down for awhile
- What’s left
- What to do on the Sabbath, per the Bible
- Take a needed break
- Day break
- Stop working
- Stop work for a while
- Remaining amount
- "Don't play" music symbol
- Basic medical advice
- Musical "don't play" symbol
- Recharge your batteries
- See 51 Across
- Music break
- Lie again, by the way
- Stop exercising for a while
- Time in an easy chair, say
- Have a nap, e.g.
- Take a nice break
- No ___ for the wicked
- "Don't play" symbol, in music
- Enjoy time off
- Indicator to be quiet
- The Nap Ministry focus
- Ease
- Time out?
- Take time off
- One of the R's in R&R
- Unwind for a bit
- "The ___ is silence": Hamlet's last words
- Take a cat nap
- "Don't play" music notation
- Spider on the snooker table?
- Doctor's generic recommendation
- What remains, with "the"
- Musician's break
- "The ___ is silence": Hamlet
- Pause, on sheet music
- What many do on the Sabbath
- Staff break?
- Take time to unwind
- Pause, in music
- "My Year of ___ and Relaxation" (Ottessa Moshfegh novel)
- Stop playing so much
- Take some downtime
- "... and the ___ is history!"
- Chill on a curb
- Musical symbol that might look like a top hat
- Musical symbol for silence
- Take a long break
- Take it easy for a bit
- Plop down and go "Whew!"
- Have a nap
- Kick your shoes off and relax
- Squiggle on a music score
- What some do on vacation
- Workout break
- Pause between notes
- Stop playing so much?
- Catch your breath
- Word following "arm" or "head"
- With 53-Down, spot for picnic tables
- Stop exercising for a bit
- Chillax
- This is not working!
- Sit, say
- Sleep on the snooker table?
- Music score squiggle
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - January 20, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 07, 2026
- LA Times - January 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 05, 2026
- New York Times - January 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 08, 2025
- New York Times - December 06, 2025
- Daily American - December 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 17, 2025
- LA Times - November 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 10, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 01, 2025
- Daily American - November 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 27, 2025
- New York Times - October 27, 2025
- LA Times - October 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 12, 2025
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