Clues for the word "SCOUT"
We've had 90 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 144 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on May 26, 2026.
Definition of scout
- n. - A swift sailing boat.
- n. - A projecting rock.
- v. t. - To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
- n. - A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.
- n. - A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
- n. - A fielder in a game for practice.
- n. - The act of scouting or reconnoitering.
- v. t. - To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
- v. t. - To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.
- v. i. - To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.
Referring Clues
- Reconnoiterer
- 13-Down's horse
- Recon, perhaps
- Jamboree participant
- Check out the opposition
- Search, as for talent
- Person looking for new talent
- Talent follower
- Draft pick finder
- One doing recon
- Checker of a sort
- Provide recon, and another hint to this puzzle's long answers
- Merit-badge wearer
- Troop member
- Reconnoiter
- Den mother's charge
- Talent seeker
- Talent finder
- Talent hound
- Troop's information gatherer
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" protagonist
- Tonto's mount
- Sports team employee looking for new talent
- Pack member
- Person on the prowl for new talent
- Paid sports spectator
- Do reconnaissance
- Tonto's horse
- Badge earner
- Game piece on a Stratego board
- Jamboree attendee
- Reconnaissance person
- Kit Carson, professionally
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" girl
- Check out a future opponent
- Ball club position
- Gather information on the opposition
- Seek (out)
- Baseball team employee
- One promising "to help other people at all times"
- One collecting merit badges
- Enemy lines infiltrator
- One getting ahead?
- Leader of the pack?
- One attempting to earn badges
- Talent hunter
- Sports team employee
- Member of youth movement
- Merit badge recipient
- Observer
- Reconnoitre
- Talent seeker - boy on a jamboree
- Start scrubbing away, there's a good chap
- Look around for a boy of good character
- One who ventures to look around?
- Look around for what's uniform in cost, perhaps
- Member of organisation for boys
- He'll be prepared to do a good deed
- A good boy it's possible to scorn?
- Outrider
- He will be prepared for a venture
- Person sent out to gain information
- See 24
- Old rover who can still venture
- See 19
- See 3
- Camporee participant
- Pack content cut, so destabilised
- Merit badge earner
- Advance observer
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" narrator
- He may venture to look around
- Thin Mints seller
- “To Kill a Mockingbird” girl
- Do a recce, there's a good chap
- Look around, boy!
- Have a look round, there's a good chap
- Recon pro
- His honour can be reassuring
- Tammy's out of turn, but may do a good deed
- Mock a doer of good deeds
- Hunt for talent
- Athletic talent finder
- Child in a tent overnight
- Search for talent
- One who ventures to look around?
- Girl ___ Cookies
- A good boy it's possible to scorn?
- Hockey team employee
- Sneer at a good fellow
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 26, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 27, 2025
- New York Times - October 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 14, 2025
- USA Today - November 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 07, 2024
- USA Today - June 03, 2024
- LA Times - May 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 04, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 12, 2023
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