Clues for the word "SPEED"
We've had 241 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 526 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on May 21, 2026.
Definition of speed
- n. - Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
- n. - The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
- n. - One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
- n. - To go; to fare.
- n. - To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
- n. - To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
- n. - To make haste; to move with celerity.
- n. - To be expedient.
- v. t. - To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
- v. t. - To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
- v. t. - To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
- v. t. - To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
- v. t. - To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
Referring Clues
- The "tacho" in tachometer
- The going rate?
- Drive too fast
- With 2-Down, 65 miles per hour, say
- Hurry
- See 17-Across
- Photographer's choice
- Going rate
- Radar reading
- Floor it
- Go 60, say, on city streets
- Go a mile a minute, say
- Go over the limit?
- Quickness
- Amphetamines, slangily
- 1994 film with the tagline "Get ready for rush hour"
- Words per minute, e.g.
- 1994 Sandra Bullock film
- Gear
- Velocity
- Methamphetamine
- Go 50 in a 30-m.p.h. zone, e.g.
- Track asset
- Reeves/Bullock thriller of 1994
- Violate a traffic law
- Risk a ticket
- Keanu Reeves/Dennis Hopper thriller
- Ignore the limit
- What some people do when they're over 65
- Hie
- It may be measured in knots
- Radar cop's concern
- Do 90, perhaps
- Blender selection
- Pace
- Indy asset
- Nickname of Felix and Oscar's poker buddy Homer Deegan
- Celerity
- Runaway bus film
- Go over the limit
- Radar datum
- *Going rate
- Zoom
- Exceed the limit
- Zip
- Traffic ticket datum
- Up to ___
- Dispatch
- Running back's asset
- Photo-film datum
- Ability to move fast
- It kills, it's said
- A driving concern?
- Make it harder to stop?
- Kind of trap
- A radar measurement
- What leadfoots do
- Radar measurement
- 1994 Keanu Reeves thriller
- It's what you're driving at?
- What some people do when they're over 55
- Radar gun reading
- Go 80 m.p.h., say
- Swiftness
- 1994 Keanu Reeves movie
- Make haste
- Going rate?
- Put the pedal to the metal
- 1994 action flick with the tagline "Get ready for rush hour"
- Up to ___
- Blender variable
- The going rate
- Risk tickets
- ___ trap (radar runner's set-up)
- Clip
- Tempt a trooper
- "The primary factor in a successful attack," per Lord Mountbatten
- Accelerate, with "up"
- Alacrity
- Haste
- Keanu Reeves film
- Bullock-Reeves movie
- Reeves thriller
- Rate
- Cheetah's forte
- Radar-gun reading
- Cockpit reading
- See 44-Down
- 1994 Keanu Reeves film
- Race car driver's concern
- Puma's attribute
- Drive over 100
- What are you driving at?
- What some people do when they're over 55?
- Go quickly
- Leadoff hitter's asset
- Distance divided by time
- Sprinter's asset
- Ticket number?
- Daytona measurement
- Keanu Reeves classic about a bus
- Race
- Runaway-bus movie
- Rapidness
- Reeves/Bullock movie
- Violate the law, in a way
- Break the law, in a way
- Drive recklessly, maybe
- Burn up the road
- Bullock-Reeves film
- It may have its limits
- Rate of motion
- Be snared in a radar trap
- Go fast
- Highway hazard
- Go faster than 65, say
- It can kill on the road
- It helps you get ahead
- One way to attract a trooper
- Camera setting
- Miles per hour, e.g.
- 1994 film set on a bus
- Rate of movement
- 186,000 miles/second, for light
- Put your foot down, in a way
- Four-___ (shifter spec)
- Dash datum
- Barrel along
- Really go
- Radar gun display
- Word before skating or dating
- Do over 60 in Hawaii, say
- What a bump may affect
- Facilitate
- Race along the highway
- Baserunner's asset
- Rate of progress
- Film specification
- Kind of reading
- Wide receiver's asset
- Measure of the rate of motion
- Obey the ___ limit
- Sprinter's have it
- Drive much too fast
- Race car's have it
- One form of meth
- Rapidity
- Lead-foot it
- What you are driving at?
- Kind of bump?
- Do 70 instead of 55?
- Michael Jackson "___ Demon"
- Bonnie Tyler "Faster Than the ___ of Night"
- A devilish quick driver?
- Green Day "I went down like the ___ of sound"
- Dispatch drug
- Son backing intense expedition
- Dispersed pieces with celerity!
- Result of putting one's foot down?
- Something broadcast about parking in haste
- Tempo of the piano in something often broadcast
- Misbehave in a car
- Expedition from way down South, heading West
- Designated partners primarily desperate for a quickie potential romance?
- Move quickly (and illegally?)
- Put your foot down?
- Hasten
- Career sees children pocketing penny
- The going rate for amphetamine?
- With children around, coppers get a move on!
- Small fruit containing soft drug
- Put your foot down, perhaps
- Tempo - drug
- Typist's asset
- Career that has limits
- Rush around Deep South
- Going rate for amphetamine?
- 1994 film starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves
- Clip top from sargasso weed
- Risk a citation
- Physics calculation
- Running pace
- Move in a way suggested by this puzzle's 10 longest answers
- Raciness giving a girl a bit of oomph?
- They might catch drivers heading for pit as a Mercedes goes out
- Track strength
- Scoring factor at a crossword tournament
- MPH
- Word with dating or skating
- Rush in rising river banks in Powys
- Move quickly
- Ticket number you don't want to see
- Scanning text quickly, Twitter covering fear of urinals?
- Miles per hour, say
- Fastball figure
- ___ demon
- Expedition
- Go 50 in a school zone, say
- Put your foot down?
- Base runner's asset
- That which is hastily diminished?
- Base stealer's asset
- Fast-paced Sandra Bullock film
- [bus] [construction sign] [bomb]
- One hastens with it
- It has its limitations on the road
- Ignore the posted limit
- What a radar gun measures
- Sandra Bullock movie set on a bus
- Moving measurement
- Sprinter's forte
- Be an agent for
- It's apt to be hastily diminished
- 1994 Sandra Bullock thriller
- What a hiree should be brought up to
- Need for ___
- Keanu Reeves movie
- Result of putting one's foot down?
- What mph measures
- Rate of travel
- Drive over the limit
- Tempo
- Arrival time factor
- Allyson Felix's forte
- Tear
- Go too fast
- Treadmill setting
- Word with bump or trap
- Rush
- Drive faster than posted limits allow
- Word before dating or skating
- Dashboard display
- Setting on a treadmill
- Cheetah's asset
- Track athlete's asset
- Drive crazy?
- Go really fast
- Distance ÷ time
- Bullock film
- "There is more to life than increasing its ___": Gandhi
- Acceleration in racing, by the way
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 06, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - April 29, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - April 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 29, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 29, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 29, 2026
- LA Times - March 03, 2026
- LA Times - February 23, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 19, 2026
- Daily American - December 21, 2025
- New York Times - December 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 15, 2025
- New York Times - December 10, 2025
- LA Times - December 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 02, 2025
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