Clues for the word "SCHEME"
We've had 89 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 252 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 12, 2026.
Definition of scheme
- n. - A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
- n. - A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
- n. - Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
- n. - A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- v. t. - To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
- v. i. - To form a scheme or schemes.
Referring Clues
- Connive
- Collude (with)
- Machination
- Plot
- Be up to something
- Intrigue
- Hatch a plot
- Hatch plots
- Project
- Plan
- Deal in trickery
- Con game, e.g.
- Nefarious plan
- One may be cooked up
- Connivance
- Collaborate sneakily
- Devious plot
- Devious plan
- Plan of action
- Sneaky plan
- Plot deviously
- Crook's plan, e.g.
- Crook's plan
- Conspire
- Carefully laid plan
- Grand plan
- Devilish design
- Tricky plan
- Underhanded plan
- "Ponzi" or "rhyme" follower
- Ponzi ___ (illegal investment)
- Gimmick
- Work on a plot
- Pyramid, for instance
- Crafty plan
- See 69 Down
- Systematic plan
- Plot craftily
- Plot craftily
- Plot craftily
- Sinister plan
- Design
- Deceitful plan
- Secret plan
- Conspiracy
- Word with color or rhyme
- Strategy
- Villain's plan
- Intriguing creation
- Plotter's plot
- Plan that's "hatched"
- Plot against
- Big plan
- The Hives "Diabolic ___"
- Cunning plan
- Proposal of sex mostly without chemistry
- Wheel and deal
- Plan - plot
- Secret plot
- Things are said to have one, namely a male setter
- Plan (maybe best laid?)
- Cunning plan - stain at the front is to be
removed from shirt
- Stratagem
- Edges of space probed by science project
- Seem upset about central heating plan
- Caught in lady setter's stratagem
- Work out a course of action
- Elaborate and systematic plan of action
- Plan about border in south-east
- Plan to understand pronouns?
- Woman stealing Catholic writer's plot
- Be plotting
- Cabal's plan
- Devise a plot
- Crafty creation
- Plot dishonestly
- Cabal's creation
- Visionary project
- Cabal's concoction
- Word after "color" or "rhyme"
- Complex plan
- Conniving plot
- Develop a plot?
- Ploy
- Sly plan
- Word after "rhyme" or "color"
- Hatch plans
- Sneaky plot
- Seem upset about a companion's course of action
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 29, 2026
- Daily American - January 24, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 05, 2025
- Daily American - July 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 27, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 12, 2025
- Daily American - February 04, 2025
- Daily American - January 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 30, 2024
- LA Times - September 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 25, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 22, 2024
- USA Today - June 18, 2024
- And in 222 more crossword puzzles...