Clues for the word "SETTLE"
We've had 134 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 277 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 20, 2026.
Definition of settle
- n. - A seat of any kind.
- n. - A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
- n. - A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
- n. - To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
- n. - To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
- n. - To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
- n. - To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.
- n. - To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
- n. - To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
- n. - To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.
- n. - To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
- n. - To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
- n. - Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
- n. - To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
- v. i. - To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
- v. i. - To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
- v. i. - To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
- v. i. - To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
- v. i. - To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.
- v. i. - To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
- v. i. - To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
- v. i. - To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
- v. i. - To become calm; to cease from agitation.
- v. i. - To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
- v. i. - To make a jointure for a wife.
Referring Clues
- Finish a suit?
- Not demand everything one wants
- Avoid a trial
- Avoid a trial, say
- Agree out of court
- Quiet
- Sink to the bottom, as sediment
- Resolve
- Come to rest
- End a suit
- Some houses do it
- Avoid a strike
- Drift down to the bottom
- Avoid litigation
- Come to terms
- Reach an agreement out of court
- Agree to less than you really want
- Square up
- Reach an accord
- Accept second-best
- Be sedimental
- One way to finish a suit
- Legal advice, sometimes
- Resolve, as a dispute
- Put down roots
- Avoid trials
- Reach an agreement
- Resolve e.g. an argument
- End a lawsuit
- Make a compromise
- Colonize
- Start a town
- Work out an agreement
- Pay up
- Land
- Alight
- Make a home
- Colonise
- Stop all one's running around
- Pay up, as a bill
- Come to land
- Not marry Mr. Right, say
- Wrap up
- Clear up
- Drop one's lawsuit, say
- Decide
- Sink to the bottom
- Calm
- Not wait for Mr. Right, say
- Make do with a lesser option
- Situate
- Reach a compromise in court
- Lay down roots
- Take up residence with a wooden bench
- Resolve to get a long wooden bench
- Resolve out of court
- No Doubt "___ Down"
- Kimbra "___ Down"
- Reach agreement
- Subside
- Pay for a seat
- Light seat for two or more
- Calm North Yorkshire town
- Clear land
- Land you make your home in
- Fix
- Establish
- Come to rest on the seat
- The bench is alight
- Decide - stop moving
- Decide - colonise
- Make one's home in Cumbrian town
- ... however, please don't get so agitated!
- Light bench
- Pay up: that's the form!
- Decide not to go on?
- North Yorkshire town
- Pay account for a seat
- Come to terms
- Resolve to pay one's debts
- Come to rest somewhere in Yorkshire
- Take up residence in a Yorkshire town
- Go to live in Ribblesdale
- Forgo a trial
- Fix a piece of furniture
- Come to an agreement
- Square sink
- Agree to form a colony
- Quiet resolve
- Make firm pay up
- Pay to stay
- Colonise piece of furniture
- Pay to take up residence
- Fix a wooden bench
- Pay to stay for a while
- Take up residence
- Agree to stop moving
- Take up residence in N Yorks town
- Make one's home in a small market town
- Bench alight
- Calm people agree
- Calm or conclude
- Pay for bench
- Pay off
- Calm down and pay
- Accept, with "for"
- Pay for a piece of furniture
- Start to inhabit
- Determine to find a bed
- Not get everything you want
- Felt testicle, a bit round and complete
- A piece of furniture from a town in Yorkshire
- End a lawsuit, say
- Decide you'll go to live in
- End a dispute
- Stop arguing and pay the bill
- The seat's alight!
- Pay
- Go with your third choice, say
- Agree to less
- To satisfy, get a permanent home
- Pay for when you fix
- Alight on the bench
- Go with something less than the best
- Agree to a suboptimal choice
- ___ down
- Pay for the furniture
- Accept a lesser option
- Find a resolution for
- Calm down and pay up
- Close out
- Finalize
- Come to rest, as sediment
- Come to terms, in a way
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 20, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2025
- LA Times - November 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 06, 2025
- Daily American - September 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 16, 2025
- Daily American - May 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 25, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 06, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 25, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 20, 2025
- New York Times - January 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 30, 2024
- LA Times - December 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 20, 2024
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