Clues for the word "SPARE"
We've had 204 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 449 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on January 16, 2026.
Definition of spare
- a. - To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
- a. - To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
- a. - To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
- a. - To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- a. - To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- v. i. - To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- v. i. - To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- v. i. - To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- v. t. - Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.
- v. t. - Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
- v. t. - Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no spare time.
- v. t. - Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.
- v. t. - Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- v. t. - Slow.
- n. - The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- n. - Parsimony; frugal use.
- n. - An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- n. - That which has not been used or expended.
- n. - The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
Referring Clues
- Two-for-one?
- Room to ___
- Fifth wheel
- Afford without a problem
- Bowler's feat
- Alley score
- Flat replacement
- Lacking froufrou
- Ten pins on two tries
- The fifth tire
- Lean
- It may follow a split
- Extra
- ___ tire (flabby middle)
- Have mercy on
- Bowler's save
- Trunk item
- BACKUP
- Extra, as a bedroom
- Bowler's pickup
- Pass over
- Reserve
- Like a fifth wheel
- Slash on a scorepad
- Deal gently with
- Alley pickup
- Score with two balls
- Show clemency
- Diagonal line, on some score sheets
- Lane accomplishment
- Extend clemency to
- Extra tire
- It's marked with a slash
- It's not as good as a strike
- Bowling score
- Flat substitute
- Alley mark
- Fifth tire
- It can be worth up to 20 points
- Diagonal line, on a bowling score sheet
- Ten pins with two balls
- Result of converting a split
- Strike's counterpart, in bowling
- In reserve
- Slash on a bowling score sheet
- A bowler may pick it up
- Do without
- Tire in the trunk
- It may be in the trunk
- Bowling feat
- Trunk contents
- What "/" indicates
- Alley feat
- /, to a kegler
- It's represented by a slash, to a kegler
- It's picked up in an alley
- Kegler's goal, at times
- Let off the hook
- Bowler's consolation
- Result of converting the 7-10 split
- Allow to live
- Save
- It's picked up in the alley
- Emergency tire
- Doughnut for the road
- Bowler's conversion
- ___ tire (flabby middle)
- Part with
- Success on a second attempt, of a sort
- / in bowling
- What "/" indicates
- Ten down on two tries
- It may come after a split
- Flat answer?
- It's second to a strike
- Converted split
- Thin
- /, to a bowler
- Donut in a trunk
- Left over
- Trunk tire
- Kept in reserve
- To ___ (in abundance)
- Car neccessity
- Tire in a trunk
- *Extra
- Something extra
- What a slash may mean in some scores
- Bowling achievement
- Ten pins in two balls
- Alley pickup?
- Scanty
- Thing in your trunk
- Meager
- Bowler's next best thing
- Show mercy toward
- *Consolation for one who doesn't strike
- Pickup in an alley
- Alley accomplishment
- Thing in a trunk
- Be merciful
- Like a fifth tire
- Bowling term
- Item in a trunk
- Let off
- It's scored with a slash
- Bowler's accomplishment
- Knockdown of all the pins in two bowls
- Just-in-case item
- Next best thing to a strike
- Diagonal line, to a bowler
- It's good if you don't strike
- "___ me!"
- Get 10 from two?
- ___ me
- Have mercy on, in a way
- Part in reserve
- Tire for emergencies
- "Donut" in a car trunk
- Extra, and a word that can precede the last parts of 17- and 59-Across and 11- and 34-Down
- Show leniency toward
- Be merciful to
- Happy event after a split?
- Make do without
- /, on some score sheets
- Success on the second roll
- Pardon
- Additional
- Good, not great feat for a bowler
- Pretty good bowling score
- Cooked pears left over
- Replacement in the trunk
- Surplus
- It's scored on a second roll
- Bruce Springsteen "___ Parts"
- That extra spring again!
- What to reach for when a spear breaks?
- More lean than is immediately necessary?
- Additional - for use when needed
- Are such ribs extra?
- Extra lean?
- Pears played extra version of 3
- Elegantly simple
- Not a fat part
- Not required to give up time to an afterthought
- Don't kill when angry
- 13 across hard to shift past forty?
- It's often in the trunk
- Alley conversion
- Trunk ring?
- Small, trim and slim
- Give relief to one that's redundant
- Extra thin
- Second prune not wanted
- No Clue
- Thing in a Brit's boot?
- Converted split, e.g.
- ___ tire (extra belly flab)
- Extra, in reserve
- Extra lean?
- Frugal
- ___ tire
- Converted split, to a bowler
- Last of citrus peel left over
- Word before ribs or room
- Cool bowling feat
- Extra auto tire
- Not quite a strike
- Superfluous
- Slash on a score sheet
- Extra part
- Fifth tire, e.g.
- Just-in-case replacement
- Small, trim and thin
- Kind of tire
- Slash, on a bowling sheet
- Refrain from killing
- Next-best bowling frame to a strike
- Certain second attempt success
- Minimalist
- Word before "ribs" or "tire"
- With 43-Across, the two components of a certain bowling score?
- "Not a moment to ___!"
- /
- Unused, as a bedroom
- Bowling feat represented by /
- What to reach for when a spear breaks?
- /, in a bowling alley
- Extra item
- Ten pins in two bowls
- More lean than is immediately necessary?
- What a diagonal line represents on a bowling scoresheet
- Leftover
- 2023 memoir by Prince Harry
- Word before "time" or "change"
- Are such ribs extra?
- Word before time or tire
- *Place to be pampered
- What "/" can mean
- Prince Harry's bestselling memoir
- Memoir by Prince Harry
- Memoir whose second part takes its title from the poem "Invictus"
- Tire on the back of a jeep
- Slash on a scoresheet
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - January 16, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 10, 2026
- Daily American - December 07, 2025
- LA Times - December 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2025
- New York Times - October 05, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 23, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 10, 2025
- Daily American - August 04, 2025
- New York Times - July 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 22, 2025
- New York Times - July 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 12, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 19, 2025
- USA Today - March 13, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 22, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 18, 2025
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