Clues for the word "SPAR"
We've had 404 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1365 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on December 04, 2025.
Definition of spar
- n. - An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.
- v. t. - A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
- v. t. - Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.
- v. t. - The bar of a gate or door.
- v. t. - To bolt; to bar.
- v. t. - To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
- v. i. - To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
- v. i. - To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.
- v. i. - To contest in words; to wrangle.
- n. - A contest at sparring or boxing.
- n. - A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
Referring Clues
- Box, but not seriously
- Do some punching
- Bicker
- Have words (with)
- Practice with Rocky
- Dispute
- Bandy words
- Argue (with)
- Jab back and forth
- Nautical pole
- Work out in a ring
- Fight, but not for real
- Verbally joust (with)
- Wrangle
- Quarrel
- Box
- Gaff or boom
- Practice in the ring
- Debate (with)
- Ready for a fight
- Joust verbally
- Box with headgear
- Go at each other
- Box a bit
- Practice like a pug
- It may be rigged
- Go back and forth (with)
- Go a round or two
- Work with a pug
- Practice punching
- Nautical yard
- Sail support
- Practice one's one-two
- Rigging support
- Sailboat feature
- Box without a prize
- Practice with a pug
- Trade jabs
- Trade punches
- Box lightly
- Boom
- Butt heads
- Practice, pugilistically
- Exchange blows
- Train
- Crack heads
- Practice boxing
- Clash (with)
- Duke it out
- Warm up in the ring
- Exchange ripostes
- Quarrel (with)
- Work out in the ring
- Fight, but not all-out
- Exchange jabs
- One who knows what's suitable?
- Airplane wing supporter
- Train in a ring
- Work to help one get 57-Down
- Tangle (with)
- Box without a ref
- Practice pugilism
- Practice with a pugilist
- Fight verbally
- Practice à la Ali
- Rehearse in the ring
- Shadowbox
- Make like a boxer
- Duke it out, in practice
- Train in the ring
- Go a few rounds
- Train for a fight
- Practice with gloves
- Go a few practice rounds
- Train for a title shot
- Train for a title fight
- Practice fisticuffs
- Boom or box
- Rigging supporter
- Train for a bout
- Practice mixed martial arts
- Train for a boxing bout
- Train in a square ring
- Box for training purposes
- Practice on canvas
- Have heated words
- Lock horns (with)
- Box gently
- Work to get better rights, maybe
- Practice one's one-two, maybe
- Rigging pole
- Tussle
- Take some practice swings
- Pull punches, perhaps
- Train with gloves
- Yard, e.g.
- Pole used in rigging
- Practice for a prizefight
- Practice for the main event
- Trade barbs
- Support at sea
- Trade punches in training
- Box for practice
- Exchange zingers
- Boom, e.g.
- Exchange barbs
- Pole at sea
- Mast
- Practice for a bout
- Practice punches
- Ship's mast
- Shadow box
- Mix it up
- Practice for a boxing match
- Train for a match
- Ship pole
- Plane-wing part
- Practice one's punches
- Prepare for a fight
- Prepare for a 32 Down
- Exchange verbal jabs
- Rigging holder
- Box with a partner
- Practice one's blows
- Boom or bowsprit
- Argue
- Skull and crossbones holder
- Boom or gaff
- Practice with a palooka
- Box without harmful intentions
- Prepare for the ring
- Exchange verbal blows
- Fight verbally, perhaps
- Engage in repartee
- Trade jabs back and forth
- Canvas support
- Practice fighting
- Practice for the fight
- Mix it up, in a way
- Exchange jabs or gibes
- Prepare for a boxing match
- Prepare for a bout
- Mast, boom or gaff
- Engage in debate
- Trade easy punches
- Trade barbs or blows
- Have a verbal dispute
- Yard, boom or gaff
- Warm up with gloves
- Practice for 3-Down
- Not really fight
- Practice jabs and hooks
- Translucent mineral
- Practice jabs and crosses
- Trade jabs or barbs
- Go a round (with)
- Practice for a boxer
- Strut
- Fight, but not seriously
- Lightly box
- Train for a boxing match
- Ship's pole
- Ship part
- Do some practice punching
- Box or boom
- Tall ship item
- Go at it
- Sprit, e.g.
- Trade blows
- Shadowbox, e.g.
- Practice for a bout
- Participate in a debate, as it were
- Practice with gloves on
- Train for a title boxing match
- Box with headgear, maybe
- Train between ropes
- Train for the ring
- Exchange practice punches
- Yardarm
- Box for a drill
- Yard or boom, e.g.
- Boom, for example
- Get ready for a bout
- Train with dukes?
- Practice for a fight
- Train for a UFC fight
- Gaff, for example
- Jib, boom or gaff
- Pole on a ship
- Work out, in the ring
- Trade verbal jabs
- *Part of a ship
- Part of a ship
- Train for a UFC bout
- Train for a title bout
- Work out with a pug
- Box at less than 100 percent
- Argue back and forth
- Practice prizefighting
- Marina sight
- Mast support
- Flght a shadow?
- Mast, yard, boom or gaff
- Ship's boom
- Work on a canvas?
- Box for fun
- Work with a fighter
- Stout pole
- Get ready for a fight
- Practice hitting?
- Not fight all-out
- Go through the motions for practice
- Trade rights, say
- Go toe-to-toe
- Trade zingers
- Vigorously debate (with)
- Box for fitness
- Sloop feature
- Do a few practice rounds
- Prep for a bout
- It's often rigged
- Trade jabs (with)
- Exchange quips
- Yard or boom
- Be a partner to Rocky, say
- Prep for a match
- Have a debate
- Practice for a prize fight
- Practice duking it out
- Practice for a 61 Across
- Prep for fight night
- Warm up for a bout, say
- Fight
- Boxers do it
- Sail pole
- Mast on a sail boat
- Practice in a boxing ring
- Rig support
- Practice one's jabs
- Train with a boxer
- Train for boxing
- Pole not entirely free
- Practice outside the ring
- Practice box
- Exchange light boxing blows
- Practise boxing
- Nautical pole at sea
- Practise boxing blows
- Bowsprit
- Nautical support
- Girder
- Knocks up a pole to support the rigging
- Box of spares?
- Fight in the yard
- Pole - box
- Pole of boxwood?
- The spare-part boom?
- Fight (in training) - pole (on boat)
- Fight as in training
- Snaps back "Fight"
- Hits back in fight
- Box, in training
- Pole used in boat etc - box
- Box in training - nautical pole
- Box returning sharp blows
- Box in training - mineral
- Dispute is only half on an equal basis
- Wooden pole -- box
- Box - mineral - rod
- Bottom's fallen out of thin box
- Practice in a boxing gym
- Knocks over box
- Pole used in rigging - fight
- Box with a trainer
- Box - pole
- Mast - boom - gaff
- Pole-shaped part of the rigging
- Box (lightly) - fight (verbally)
- Box of ship's timber?
- Plain, though not brown, box
- Fight taking one second on average
- Knocks up box
- Flash briefly revealing pole
- Fight blows up
- Squabble
- Trade barbs or jabs
- Practice with Foreman
- 40 Down on a ship
- Mast pole
- Beats up a Pole
- Fight possibly rigged
- Fight in bar
- Mineral box
- Pole hits back
- Pole rebukes revolutionary
- Mostly abstain from using bar
- Box blows over
- Box, almost free
- wBox blows up(4)
- Box in last of fights on equal footing
- Dispute bringing strikes about
- Practise boxing in yard?
- Box blows up
- Small, standard box
- Swap easy punches
- Practice fight
- Sprit
- Prepare for a match
- Bicker (with)
- Exchange verbal zingers
- Bicker or banter
- Work on hooks
- Combat playfully
- Train for a martial arts match
- Practice jabs and uppercuts, perhaps
- Fight in Greek city-state? No thanks!
- Trade blows with another boxer before a match
- Trade a few blows
- Exercise one's rights?
- Train with Rocky, say
- 23-Across with a partner
- Not fight seriously
- Prep for the ring
- Hip-hop performances inspired by a flash?
- Help Rocky prepare
- Yard
- Exchange points (with)
- Contend there's a boom
- Practice jabs and hooks, say
- Work on jabs and hooks
- Ready for a bout
- Plank of wood
- Box with a hired partner
- Prepare for a boxing day?
- Work with a pugilistic partner
- Pole used as a mast or boom
- Box the cuffs go back in
- Piece of nautical gear as a spare part
- Cross swords
- Plank
- Do some practice rounds
- Practice jabs, say
- Train for a bout, in a way
- Fight, but not for keeps
- Train like Laila Ali
- Box with headgear, perhaps
- Mean to add to the quarter yard
- Backing strikes you fight
- Practice uppercuts
- Box a small piece of apparatus
- Box before the big fight
- Go for a few rounds
- Engage in verbal jousting
- Punch, bob and weave a bit
- A beam of boxwood?
- Practice jabbing
- Do some boxing training
- Practice bobbing and weaving
- Lock horns
- Go a round, say
- Train like a boxer
- Practice like 25-Across
- Practice like Claressa Shields
- Box nonseriously
- Work on punches
- Practice in a ring
- Box for a spare part
- Mast on a boat
- Train for a prizefight
- Feud (with)
- Pole for canvas
- Box of spares?
- Train by trading blows
- Pole of boxwood?
- Trade insults
- Mast or boom
- Do some boxing before the boxing match
- The spare-part boom?
- Spare part boom?
- Throw some jabs
- Mix it in the yard
- Practice some jabs
- Get a round of punch?
- Box before the match
- Practice before a boxing match
- Mast on a sailboat
- Face off in the ring
- Exchange words, in a way
- K) Box waiting for a match
- Train in a boxing ring
- Yard, nautically
- Contend it's something you see on a ship
- Play-fight
- Practice trading blows
- Fight pretence!
- Practice like Laila Ali
- Practice in a dojang, maybe
- Trade practice jabs
- Train like Claressa Shields
- Go a couple of rounds
- Practice taekwondo, say
- Fight for the point to get even with
- Exchange words
- Practice in the boxing ring
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - December 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 18, 2025
- New York Times - October 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 15, 2025
- LA Times - October 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 05, 2025
- New York Times - September 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 26, 2025
- New York Times - September 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 07, 2025
- Daily American - August 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 17, 2025
- LA Times - August 16, 2025
- Daily American - August 02, 2025
- LA Times - July 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 20, 2025
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