Clues for the word "SCORE"
We've had 237 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 423 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on May 25, 2026.
Definition of score
- n. - A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- n. - An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
- n. - Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
- n. - The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.
- n. - A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
- n. - A weight of twenty pounds.
- n. - The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.
- n. - A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
- n. - The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.
- v. t. - To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash.
- v. t. - Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.
- v. t. - To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
- v. t. - To engrave, as upon a shield.
- v. t. - To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.
- v. t. - To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.
- n. - To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
Referring Clues
- Accompanying music
- Noted script?
- XX
- 7-6 or love-15
- Cross the plate
- Musical arranger's work
- Come home
- Harshly criticize
- One of four in 80
- It might need to be settled
- Conductor's aid
- Make it home safely
- Get the point?
- Note book?
- Beat the goalie
- Earn points
- Attain a goal
- Get home safely
- Conductor's reference
- Movie music
- Orchestrate
- Twenty, to Lincoln
- Cross the goal line
- Win a point
- Twenty
- See 20- and 58-Across and 11- and 29-Down
- Bit of SportsCenter news
- Arrive home safely?
- It might be raw
- Pinball machine display
- Make a point
- Baseball tally
- It may be tallied or settled
- Get home?
- Sports page item
- 20, in the Gettysburg Address
- Sports-report info
- Something to settle
- Avoid being shut out
- Conductor's pages
- Cross home plate
- 1 2/3 dozen
- Break the plane of the goal line
- Twenty, in a famous address
- Status of the game
- Put up points
- Group of 20
- Sportscast datum
- Attain a goal?
- Put points on the board
- "Gettysburg Address" word
- What players keep
- Noted composition?
- Step on the plate, e.g.
- One of 80's four
- Reach home, e.g.
- Arrange for the orchestra
- Tally
- Movie's music
- "Four ___ and seven years ago ..."
- Make a touchdown
- Set of twenty
- Make a basket, e.g.
- Twenty years
- Make a run
- Ballpark figure
- Get the point
- Make points
- Go home, maybe
- Hit a home run
- Taws and Aggies
- Golfers sometimes fib about it
- Second address word
- Goal or touchdown
- Point count
- Sports-page datum
- Composer's creation
- Get a run
- Get a touchdown
- Reach home
- Sports figure
- Point total
- Sports-page stat
- Get a goal
- Earn a point
- Film music
- Movie component
- Get lucky
- Make notches in
- It may be tied
- Gain points
- Arena posting
- Note book
- Sports ticker datum
- Music for a film
- One in a Lincoln quartet?
- Music for a movie
- Fifth of a century
- Soccer player's goal
- ESPN datum
- Mark with a notch
- Make a point, perhaps
- Best Original ___ (award for the film with [circled letters])
- Tie, perhaps
- Make it home?
- Set of 20
- Oscar category
- Two decades
- Conductor's music
- Something to keep
- Make a touchdown, e.g.
- Twenty something
- Job for Danny Elfman
- Manage to get, informally
- Make a run?
- Gig for John Williams
- 20
- Make it home safely?
- Something to be settled
- Get a touchdown, e.g.
- Film's orchestral music
- Something a composer composes
- Win points
- Accompanying music for a film
- Word on some Oscars
- Make a basket
- Be brought home?
- Get a groove on?
- Make a goal
- Hit pay dirt
- 20 years, e.g.
- Twenty years, e. g.
- Maestro's reference
- Loewe output
- Best Original ___
- Brahms creation
- Achieve
- Go home
- Total points
- Make a home run
- Make a run or touchdown, for instance
- Golfers write this on this card
- Arrange for orchestra
- Get past third base
- Twenty known by those in the know?
- Make it all the way?
- Group of twenty
- What Eric Bachmann did for "Ball of Wax"
- Music in movie
- Kick a field goal, say
- Gain a point (20 of them?)
- Scratch
- Hit five fours?
- Get the double ten
- Angry about Tory account
- Make runs with the cut stroke?
- Hit five boundaries
- One can do so with the cut stroke
- Hit number
- 20 film music in a lot of bars
- Leader of stout heart to achieve goal
- Chalk up - twenty
- Painful to grasp a hundred and twenty
- Musical number
- Mark the way things are
- Music in the movie
- Some players make it, others read it
- Soprano taking central part in musical arrangement
- Record music for a film
- Vexed about contralto's first record
- XX rating
- Total cut
- 9-5, e.g.
- Steal home
- Match result
- 20 years
- Game result
- Steal home, say
- With a delicate cut?
- Hit a three-pointer, say
- Make a good point?
- Film's music
- Gettysburg Address unit
- Get a goal in football
- Sportscast offering
- Painful setting for a hundred and twenty
- Please, with "with"
- Get points
- Hockey announcer's shout
- Notch
- Goal or basket
- Hit twenty
- Come home safely
- One-fifth of a ton?
- Hit ten again?
- Make deep grooves in
- Success at twenty?
- Angry about Tory result
- Game tally
- Stadium posting
- Ballpark figures
- Reach home safely?
- Twenty known by those in the know?
- Hit a boundary, perhaps, with a cut
- Quite a few are scratch
- "Jackpot!"
- Achieve one’s goal?
- Make runs with a cut?
- Create film music from scratch
- "Success!"
- A numbered account?
- "Booyah!"
- What two X's make
- Get runs with a cut?
- Get a touchdown, for example
- Put numbers on the board
- Get one past the goalie
- Get the ball past the goalie
- Get the ball in the net
- Make a basket or a goal
- Points total
- Hit five fours?
- See 11-Down
- Get a goal or a touchdown
- Make runs with the cut stroke?
- "The Body Keeps the ___"
- Number in the Gettysburg Address
- Get a three-pointer, e.g.
- Get a run or a goal
- Williams work
- Scrabble calculation
- Make a basket, in the NBA
- Acquire, informally
- Make a basket, maybe
- Make a point, say
- Get on the board
- Eight more than a dozen
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - May 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 05, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 27, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 11, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 09, 2026
- Daily American - January 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 30, 2025
- New York Times - June 29, 2025
- Mirror Mini - June 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 18, 2025
- New York Times - April 12, 2025
- New York Times - March 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 21, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 05, 2025
- New York Times - February 27, 2025
- Daily American - January 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2024
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