Clues for the word "SLEEP"
We've had 221 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 494 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 12, 2026.
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
- InsomniacÂ’s 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
- Go undercover?
- With 13-Down, laptop setting
- Half a mile in a month? ~n and the rest!
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 12, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 21, 2026
- LA Times - December 25, 2025
- Daily American - December 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 13, 2025
- LA Times - September 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 16, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 05, 2025
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