Clues for the word "SHAPE"
We've had 126 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 279 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 19, 2026.
Definition of shape
- n. - To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
- n. - To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
- n. - To image; to conceive; to body forth.
- n. - To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
- v. i. - To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- n. - Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
- n. - That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
- n. - A model; a pattern; a mold.
- n. - Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
- n. - Dress for disguise; guise.
- n. - A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- n. - A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
Referring Clues
- Octagon or oval
- Mold
- Condition
- Physical condition
- Diamond, e.g.
- Silhouette
- Circle or square
- Physique
- Straighten (up)
- In ___ (fit)
- Couch, as a statement
- Imaginary form
- Square, for one
- Ess or ell
- Figure
- Circle or square, say
- Women's health and fitness magazine
- "___ up or ship out"
- Aptly named fitness magazine
- Triangle or circle
- Outline
- Trapezoid or circle
- Something to get in
- Mold or fashion
- Contour
- Ess or ell, e.g.
- Configuration
- Octagon, e.g.
- For one square
- Pentagon, for one
- Direct, as one's future
- Some run to get in it
- Ogler's study
- Octagon or oval, e.g.
- Plastic surgery may change it
- Square or circle
- State of repair
- State of repair
- In good ___ (fit)
- It's not always easy to get into
- What a cookie cutter cuts
- Women's fitness magazine
- Give form to
- Outward appearance
- Form
- Use a lathe
- Square, e.g.
- Fashion
- ___ of things to come
- Circle, square, or triangle, e.g.
- Fashion focus
- Women's Health competitor
- Most athletes are in it
- Blob, e.g.
- Many are out of it
- Square or circle, e.g.
- Mold, as clay
- Body condition
- Configure
- Circle or hexagon
- The animal of an animal cracker, e.g.
- Octagon or square, e.g.
- Trapezoid or circle, e.g.
- Triangle or square
- Square, triangle or circle
- In good ___ (physically fit)
- Hourglass, e.g.
- Good thing to get into
- Pentagon, e.g.
- Triangle, e.g.
- Hourglass or diamond, e.g.
- Oval or octagon
- You might run to get in it
- Hexahedron or cylinder
- Sculpt
- Triangle or circle, e.g.
- Circle or square, for example
- Dodecagon, e.g.
- Rainbow "Bent Out of ___"
- Has to knot a piece of rope in a certain form
- Figure there's no war in Peshawar, possibly
- Mould
- Triangle or trapezoid
- Rectangle or rhombus
- Use a hammer and tongs on
- Be quiet and copy form
- Form of fish, a perch
- Squircle, e.g.
- Many a word ending in -gon
- Polygon, for one
- Work with 27-Down
- What most athletes are in
- Have much influence on
- Definite form
- Hexagon or pentagon
- Good thing to be in
- You may train to get in it
- Trapezoid or rhombus
- Style to copy on the quiet?
- Rhombus, e.g.
- Many a New Year's resolution prescribes getting into it
- Dodecagon, for one
- Mould or pattern
- "The ___ of Water"
- What gym members try to get in
- Hexagon, for one
- Popular fitness magazine
- Geometric figure
- Ship follower
- Form irregular heaps
- Trapezoid, e.g.
- Circle or polygon
- Fitness magazine
- Square, usually, for a crossword grid
- Distinctive part of a cookie cutter
- Hexagon or square, for example
- Rhombus or triangle, for example
- Oval or square
- Diamond or oval, e.g.
- Diamond or square, for example
- Circle or triangle
- Pentagon or oval
- Rhombus, for one
- "It's never just a ___ alone, love is a kaleidoscope"
- Circle or heptagon
- Circle or diamond
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 21, 2026
- Daily American - November 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 30, 2025
- LA Times - October 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 28, 2025
- LA Times - July 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 28, 2025
- LA Times - July 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 03, 2025
- Daily American - April 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 18, 2025
- LA Times - April 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 11, 2025
- USA Today - January 29, 2025
- USA Today - January 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 09, 2025
- New York Times - November 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 05, 2024
- USA Today - September 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 12, 2024
- Daily American - July 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 22, 2024
- And in 249 more crossword puzzles...