Clues for the word "SPARES"
We've had 52 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 76 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 09, 2026.
Referring Clues
- Gets the 7-10 split
- They may be in trunks
- Hits the 5 and 10, say
- Fifth wheels
- Alley pickups
- Bowlers pick them up
- Shows mercy to
- Shows mercy
- Bowling scores
- Kegler's conversions
- Extra tires
- Bowling scores inferior to strikes
- What slashes indicate on bowling scoresheets
- Bowlers' pickups
- Flat substitutes that are round
- Shows mercy toward
- Refrains from harming
- Lets off the hook
- Shows clemency
- Doesn't punish
- Leaves untouched
- Some tires
- Not quite strikes
- Near-strikes
- Extras
- Fifth tires
- Replacements for flat tires
- Just-in-case items
- What "/ / /" may represent
- Some bowling feats
- Hassles in a bowling alley
- Bowlers' conversions
- Parts with
- They're symbolized by slashes
- Scoresheet slashes
- Doesn't shoot the extras
- Being in hand, half of us get extra
- Refrains from killing
- ///, in an alley
- Some bowling coups
- Doesn't kill, but merely brandishes spears
- Alley pickups?
- Alley pick-ups?
- Doesn't use
- Converted splits
- By making small cuts, economises
- Forbears to kill with spears
- / / /, in bowling
- Replacements for broken spears
- Key arrangements made for house sitters?
- Goes easy on
- Replacements may be sparse
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 02, 2025
- LA Times - September 11, 2025
- LA Times - August 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 04, 2024
- New York Times - August 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 27, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 19, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 17, 2022
- LA Times - June 12, 2022
- LA Times - January 18, 2018
- New York Times - December 03, 2017
- Family Time - November 06, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - September 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 26, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 10, 2017
- USA Today - May 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - January 26, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 11, 2016
- New York Times - September 15, 2016
- USA Today - January 26, 2016
- Netword - November 24, 2015
- New York Times - July 18, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 29, 2015
- LA Times - March 01, 2015
- And in 46 more crossword puzzles...