Clues for the word "RUNNER"
We've had 55 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 99 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on October 28, 2025.
Definition of runner
- n. - One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
- n. - A detective.
- n. - A messenger.
- n. - A smuggler.
- n. - One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
- n. - A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
- n. - The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
- n. - A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
- n. - One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
- n. - A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
- n. - A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
- n. - The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
- n. - A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
- n. - Any cursorial bird.
- n. - A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
- n. - A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Referring Clues
- Sled piece
- Hall floor cover
- Singlet wearer
- Where the sleigh meets the snow
- Baseballer on base
- Ball carrier, and clue for 20-, 40- and 59-Across
- Track athlete
- Track-meet participant
- 400-meter participant
- Marathon man
- Hall rug
- Kind of carpet
- Meet participant
- Badwater Ultramarathon participant
- 44-Across part
- Ski
- Narrow rug
- Marathon participant
- Sled blade
- Hallway rug
- Sled feature
- Long carpet
- Relay team member
- Miler or sprinter
- Feature of a sled
- Marathon entrant
- "Homestar ___" (popular Internet toon)
- Narrow length of carpet
- Sprinter
- Athlete
- Athlete or climber (bean-pole type)
- Athlete up the pole?
- Athlete and climber
- See 6
- Athlete or climber
- The manager is an athlete
- Athlete - bean
- One bound for home
- Green vegetable
- Landing strip
- Athlete - errand boy - strip of cloth
- Scout's idea that might be taken on?
- See 20
- A climbing plant, long, narrow and in the hall?
- Coe's nose, perhaps
- Riot starting, then nun broke royal nose?
- Game needing number but one missing, right?
- Footrace participant
- Track competitor
- One possibly scarlet, going up the pole?
- Foot race competitor
- Competitor in a race
- Staircase decoration
- Long narrow carpet
- Athlete up the pole?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - October 28, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 21, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 18, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 13, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 29, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 01, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 22, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 16, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - June 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 10, 2023
- Your Life Choices - February 06, 2023
- USA Today - February 01, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - January 06, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 08, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - August 04, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 22, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - July 06, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 24, 2018
- And in 69 more crossword puzzles...