Clues for the word "RETURN"
We've had 75 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 119 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 27, 2025.
Definition of return
- v. i. - To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
- v. i. - To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
- v. i. - To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
- v. i. - To revert; to pass back into possession.
- v. i. - To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- v. t. - To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
- v. t. - To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
- v. t. - To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- v. t. - To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
- v. t. - To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
- v. t. - To report, or bring back and make known.
- v. t. - To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
- v. t. - Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- v. t. - To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
- v. t. - To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
- v. t. - To bat (the ball) back over the net.
- v. t. - To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
- n. - The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
- n. - The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
- n. - That which is returned.
- n. - A payment; a remittance; a requital.
- n. - An answer; as, a return to one's question.
- n. - An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- n. - The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
- n. - The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
- n. - The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
- n. - The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.
- n. - The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
- n. - A day in bank. See Return day, below.
- n. - An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
- n. - The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
Referring Clues
- Half of a round trip
- Yield
- Investor's desire
- MacArthur quote ender
- Typewriter key
- Tax document
- Trip part
- Service response
- Taxpayer's mail-in
- Tax form
- Investor's goal
- Investor's concern
- Give back
- Profit made on an investment
- Round-trip word
- Part of a round trip
- Sequel-title word
- Pay a dividend
- To come back
- Come back
- Investor's hope
- Boomerang
- Homecoming
- Film sequel word
- "___ to Oz" (1985 film)
- April mailing
- Word in many sequel titles
- Elvis Presley's "___ to Sender"
- Send back
- E-filed document
- Key on a keyboard
- With 47-Down, means of getting home, maybe
- Library requirement
- Enter equivalent
- Apostrophe's neighbor
- Go back
- Take back
- Opposite of go away
- Come back home
- Two-way ticket
- Revert
- Profit on a ticket?
- Pay back something related to income tax?
- The answer is, don't stay away
- Interest in soldiers' act
- Tax statement
- Come back with a profit
- Official statement concerning volte-face
- Send/come back
- Soldiers go and come back
- Once more go and reciprocate
- King's son, utter freak wrapped in plaster
- Come back; profit
- Elect concerning change of course
- With 96 Across, a postal order? (1962)
- Investor's profit
- Investment yield
- Behave like a boomerang
- Interest in the homecoming
- Ticket for the second match
- Make a second visit
- Post-Christmas event
- About to act by immediate response
- About to go for a ticket
- A pass back may be just the ticket
- Not stay away
- Key hit with a pinkie
- Profit on a ticket?
- Pay back something related to income tax?
- What an investor hopes for
- Restore for profit
- Put back
- The answer you gave the tax inspector
- Point of no ___
- Get back and once more go
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 01, 2024
- USA Today - October 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 03, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 28, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 07, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 12, 2024
- New York Times - January 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 08, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 31, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 05, 2023
- New York Times - July 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 18, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 16, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 08, 2022
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