Clues for the word "SNIPE"
We've had 120 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 252 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on July 30, 2026.
Definition of snipe
- n. - Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
- n. - A fool; a blockhead.
Referring Clues
- Petty criticism
- Marsh bird
- Take potshots (at)
- Sandpiper's cousin
- Curlew's cousin
- Make cutting remarks
- Straight-billed game bird
- Attack anonymously
- Unexpected shot
- Take a shot (at)
- Take potshots
- Long-billed game bird
- Long-billed marsh bird
- Shoot using a scope, say
- Not attack head-on
- Long-billed wading bird
- Relative of the sandpiper
- Criticize sneakily
- Cousin of a woodcock
- Fire on from hiding
- Sandpiper cousin
- Carp (at)
- Shoot from hiding
- Long-billed bird
- Be deviously critical
- Make nasty comments
- Be uncharitable, in a way
- Make catty remarks
- Make malicious remarks
- Long-billed shore bird
- Prey in a mock hunt
- Straight-billed marsh bird
- Slender-billed game bird
- Outbid at the last second, as on eBay
- Shoot with great precision
- Criticize slyly
- Engage in petty criticism
- Shoot from above
- ____ Lake, Alberta
- Sandpiper relative
- Shore bird
- Take cheap shots
- Attack from concealment
- Attack from hiding
- Sandpiper's kin
- Take potshots
- Take a surprise shot at
- Fools hunt it
- Prey in a bogus hunt
- Stubbed cigar, or a migratory bird
- Shoot from cover
- Bird of the marshes
- Bid at the last second, as on eBay
- Long-billed shorebird
- Cast aspersions
- Long-billed sandpiper
- Take a potshot
- Make petty attacks
- Wetlands wader
- Slyly and persistently criticize
- Attack from a blind, say
- Attack from a concealed place
- Straight-billed wetlands bird
- Take verbal potshots
- Dig
- Criticize
- Attack
- Take pot shots
- Bird in a mock hunt
- From concealment, shoot a bird
- Take shots (at)
- Bird
- Can the Poles make pie with this bird?
- Bird used by the Poles to make pie?
- While hidden, shoot bird
- Possibly pines for a bird
- Have a go at bird
- Shoot a bird
- Shoot out of sight
- Pick off the bird
- Wading bird
- Prey in a bird hunt
- Shoot at from cover
- Attack in game
- Party without independence, English attack
- Bargain on English bird
- Complain about cutoff point
- To pick off soldiers, say, keep inside houses after revolution
- Clip tail of frigate bird(5)
- What knockers do, given pinch in tops of satiny elastic
- Shoot from a distance
- Slender-billed shorebird
- Shoot like Chris Kyle
- Cut verbally
- Shoot from a concealed spot
- Game bird
- Sandpiper
- Slender-billed marsh bird
- Bird disturbed in the pines
- Criticize slyly, with "at"
- Shoot for a bargain, sweetheart!
- Slender-billed wader
- Make catty remarks from the side
- Make a last-moment eBay bid
- Marsh bird whose bill is much longer than its head
- Toss insults (at)
- Wading bird with a long, slender bill
- Hurl insults (at)
- Criticize anonymously
- Can the Poles make pie with this bird?
- Bird used by the Poles to make pie?
- Wading bird with a long bill
- Bird with a bill much longer than its head
- Make a snarky remark
- Dig (at)
- Animal in a prank "hunt"
- Shoot from ambush
- Criticize pettily
- Bird with long bill
- Pines irrationally for a bird
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 12, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 01, 2026
- Daily American - November 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 26, 2025
- LA Times - August 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 17, 2025
- LA Times - August 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 14, 2025
- Daily American - April 20, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 01, 2024
- USA Today - September 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 14, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 26, 2024
- LA Times - April 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 08, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - January 29, 2024
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