Clues for the word "SPARE"
We've had 201 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 417 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on November 24, 2024.
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
Last Seen In
- Daily American - November 24, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 18, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 11, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 16, 2024
- USA Today - September 14, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 13, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 28, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 23, 2024
- New York Times - August 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 30, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 15, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 05, 2024
- USA Today - June 27, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 13, 2024
- Mirror Mini - June 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 13, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 10, 2024
- New York Times - May 31, 2024
- Daily American - May 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 28, 2024
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