Clues for the word "SLEEP"
We've had 218 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 458 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on February 06, 2025.
Definition of sleep
- - imp. of Sleep. Slept.
- v. i. - To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
- v. i. - To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- v. i. - To be dead; to lie in the grave.
- v. i. - To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
- v. t. - To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
- v. t. - To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
- v. i. - A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.
Referring Clues
- It was azure-lidded, to Keats
- Sore labour's bath, to Shakespeare
- Catch some Z's
- Result of counting sheep
- Visit the land of Nod
- Kind of cycle
- Chronotherapy aids it
- WETS
- Hypnotist's word
- What a new parent craves
- Subject of the old proverb "Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool"
- "The sweetest gift of heaven": Virgil
- Siesta
- Insomniac's need
- Sheep counter's quest
- Shuteye
- Sack out
- Hibernation
- Time out?
- Get some shuteye
- "To ___-perchance to dream": Hamlet
- Insomniac's lack
- Hit the hay
- See 24-Across
- Fall into the arms of Morpheus
- Drop off
- Catch a break?
- Insomniac's wish
- Take a nap
- Catch forty winks
- Enjoy a bed
- The arms of Morpheus
- Hypnotist's command
- Ambien user's goal
- Insomniac's need
- "To ___: perchance to dream": Hamlet
- Z's
- Be in dreamland
- Go undercover?
- Button on some clock radios
- "___-Tite" (song from "The Pajama Game")
- Crash, so to speak
- "Nature's soft nurse," to Shakespeare
- New parent's lack?
- Rest period
- Hypnotist's order
- Sack time
- What an alarm may end
- Hypnotist's directive
- Be dormant
- Insomniac's desire
- What a new parent may lack
- Slumber
- Stop counting sheep?
- Alarm's disruption
- Yield to exhaustion
- Peels backward?
- What new parents lose
- What Macbeth shall do no more
- It may come after setting an alarm
- What a new parent may crave
- Virgil called it a gift of heaven
- New parents might lack it
- What the sandman causes
- Skins
- A buzzer may end it
- Insomnia cure?
- Hypnotist's encouragement
- Somniphobe's fear
- See 28-Down
- Insomniacs need
- "To ___perchance to dream": Hamlet
- Be out
- A bed habit
- Lie dormant
- Make like Rip Van Winkle
- "The best meditation," per the Dalai Lama
- Get some shut-eye
- Doze
- Catch 40 winks
- Conk out
- Go under cover?
- 'A gentle thing,' said Coleridge
- Do a Van Winkle
- Coleridge called it 'a gentle thing'
- Pull a Van Winkle
- Forty winks
- Snooze
- Nocturnal ambition
- "Go the Fuck to ___"
- Power-saving mode
- Hypnos's realm
- Shut-eye
- Be in the arms of Morpheus
- Nighttime refresher
- Fail to stay awake
- Result of counting sheep, perhaps
- Hamlet's word before "perchance to dream"
- Spend some time out?
- Undercover activity?
- "No ___ Till Brooklyn": Beastie Boys song
- An alarm stops it
- Sheep-counter's quest
- Opposite of "stay awake"
- Dream on?
- Take a 47 Across
- Take a siesta
- Nap
- "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of ___" (W.C. Fields quote)
- Stephen King's "Doctor ___"
- Dream time
- Computer mode
- Experience REM
- "A hint of lovely oblivion," per D. H. Lawrence
- Doze off
- Berth rite?
- Visit dreamland
- Nod off
- Be dozing
- Midnight activity, often
- Be snoozing
- "Call it ___" (Henry Roth novel)
- Energy-saving mode
- Dormancy
- "Silence is the ___ that nourishes wisdom": Bacon
- Nighttime activity
- Insomniacs want it
- What tryptophan is said to induce
- Energy-saving computer mode
- Nighttime acquisition
- Minimal-power computer mode
- Desire for an insomniac
- Get some Zs
- It "knits up the ravell'd sleave of care," per Macbeth
- Daily ritual
- Perform a nightly ritual
- Saw logs
- Hit the sack
- Enter dreamland
- What one does every night
- Rest, in a way
- Shuteye (5)
- Nightly state of unconsciousness
- "Talking in Your ___" (The Romantics)
- Romantics "Talking in Your ___"
- Keith Richards-sung Stones jam "___ Tonight"
- Bon Jovi "I'll ___ When I'm Dead"
- Look over 50? To begin with, please rest
- During September, the French lie quiet
- Best thing to do for the rest of the night
- Rest
- The rest may be due to Wayne
- What you'll do in the arms of Morpheus
- "___ that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care": Macbeth
- Be out for the rest of the night
- Student's about to dribble in repose
- Natural state of unconscious rest
- See 1
- Stay down, as a yo-yo
- All night refreshment ?
- Undercover activity?
- Time out?
- You could fall into a deep one
- Have a dream, say
- Laptop's dormant setting
- Take a snooze
- Rest a little while in early September
- Ovid's "rest of nature"
- Get some sack time
- The rest of the night
- Morpheus' milieu
- Be out till morning, perhaps
- Nightly activity
- Natural state of unconsciousness
- Wayne needs it, as do we all
- Catch a few winks
- Sentry's no-no
- Sane people worried by a snoring problem
- Inactive computer mode
- What some sloths do for 20 hours a day
- Stay awake? No.
- It puts you out, naturally
- What you might do like a baby or a log
- Something you might want to catch up on
- Many new parents could use it
- Peels back to reveal the rest
- A natural restorative
- One goes to it head down
- Take a nap, say
- Result of eating the poisoned apple in "Snow White"
- What Hypnos is the Greek god of
- Usually, the rest of the night
- Give extra consideration, with "on"
- Nightly need
- One is conscious of going without it
- In September, the French take a rest
- "Soft embalmer of the still midnight": Keats
- Go out at night?
- Something you do within 24 hours
- Somnology study
- Go off to dreamland
- A chance to dream
- At bedtime, go to it!
- Rest for the night
- Computer's low-power mode
- "___ is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it": Gillian Flynn
- Head off to dreamland
- Goal of a bedtime story reading
- Low-power mode
- Dream state
- Bad thing to do in class
- Go nighty-night
- What Santa doesn't get much of on Christmas Eve
- Koalas do this for up to 20 hours a day
- What melatonin can help people do
- "Don't give up on your dreams. ___ longer" (quip)
- Do more than just rest
- What a new parent often craves
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2024
- LA Times - December 25, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 06, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2024
- USA Today - September 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 29, 2024
- Family Time - August 18, 2024
- New York Times - August 08, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 12, 2024
- Mirror Mini - June 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 27, 2024
- USA Today - April 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 28, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 15, 2024
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