Clues for the word "SPIN"
We've had 310 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 714 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 04, 2025.
Definition of spin
- v. t. - To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
- v. t. - To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
- v. t. - To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
- v. t. - To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
- v. t. - To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- v. t. - To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- v. i. - To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
- v. i. - To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
- v. i. - To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
- v. i. - To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
- n. - The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
- n. - Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
Referring Clues
- Quick drive
- Public relations effort
- Interpretation
- Wash cycle
- "Wheel of Fortune" choice
- Fabricate
- Specialty of some doctors
- It may be on a tennis ball
- Twirl
- Quick trip
- English
- Turn in many a children's game
- Try at roulette
- Test drive
- Fast eddy
- Kind of doctor
- Whirl
- Showcase lead-in on "The Price Is Right"
- Popular music magazine
- Wash or dry cycle
- Washer cycle
- Board game turn
- Self-serving slant
- Political slant
- Drive to nowhere in particular
- "Wheel of Fortune" turn
- D.J.'s offering, informally
- Something to take in a car
- Turn at roulette
- Short ride
- Pirouette
- "Wheel of Fortune" action
- Washer or dryer action
- With 22-Across, prepares to put on the line
- Twirl ... or a cryptic hint to 20-, 36- and 51-Across?
- Alternative to "roll the dice"
- Turn in many a children's board game
- Go around
- Go around in circles
- Brief pleasure ride
- Play the D.J.
- Gyrate
- Biased viewpoint
- Job for a doctor?
- Short drive
- Tail tail
- Pop music magazine
- Develop a web site?
- Create yarn
- Rotate rapidly
- Joy ride
- What makes a curveball curve
- Figure skater's camel, e.g.
- Madonna was on its first cover in May 1985
- Rival of Blender
- "The No ___ Zone" (Bill O'Reilly book)
- Forte of a certain "doctor"
- Pol's forte
- Biased interpretation
- Turn in a game of dreidel
- Slanted type in the paper?
- Casual car ride
- Make positive, in a way
- Media slant
- Reinterpret for political gain
- Board-game turn
- Publicist's concern
- "Wheel of Fortune" turn
- Rotate
- Quick ride
- Joyride
- Revolve
- Pleasure drive
- Board-game turn, sometimes
- Promotional activity
- Quick car ride
- Brief drive
- Recreational drive
- PR man's tactic
- "Wheel of Fortune" option
- Change negatives to positives
- Politician's forte
- It may be applied to a tennis ball
- Pundit's interpretation
- ___ the bottle
- Kind of doctor?
- Spokesman's specialty
- Go round and round
- Reinterpret, in a way
- Media viewpoint
- Quick car trip
- Move like a top
- Turn in a kissing game
- Electron property
- Turn in many a kids' game
- Pleasant car trip
- Go a few rounds?
- Board-game turn, often
- Suffer vertigo
- Roulette action
- A pitcher may put it on the ball
- Laundry cycle
- Play the DJ
- Pop music magazine founded by Bob Guccione, Jr.
- Rolling Stone rival
- Euphemism for political distortion
- Press agent's specialty
- Some talk on political talk shows
- Ride
- Make thread
- Make thread
- Make thread
- Revolve rapidly
- Brief car ride
- Do some political damage control
- Short trip
- Certain cycle
- Take turns
- Turn
- 'Wheel of Fortune' option
- 'Wheel of Fortune' decision
- 'Wheel of Fortune' action
- Go in circles
- Twirl around
- Prepare, as cotton candy
- DJ
- Ride in new wheels, say
- Political damage control
- Make a web site?
- Politicized slant
- Media bias
- Part of a publicity agent's job
- Doctor's specialty?
- Option on "Wheel of Fortune"
- Music magazine founded by Bob Guccione Jr.
- ___ doctor
- Work on the web
- Type of doctor?
- Conceptual "adjustment"
- Play, as a record, slangily
- Game show turn
- Make cobwebs
- Make cobwebbs
- Political party's interpretation
- What dreidels do
- What deidels do
- P.R. firm's job
- Rotate like a top
- Skating maneuver
- Make a web
- Whirl around
- Turn around quickly
- Top quality?
- Give it a whirl
- Turn rapidly
- Remedy from a doctor?
- Doctor's rotation?
- Tail follower
- Favorable slant
- Roulette turn
- ___ room (site of postdebate political commentary)
- Washroom cycle
- Doctor's opinion?
- ____ orama ( A Savardian deke)
- Bit of public relations deception
- "___ & Marty"
- Twirl or whirl
- Bias
- Deceptive distortion
- Assemble, as yarn
- Drive to nowhere
- Top motion
- Travel around
- Reinterpret
- Public relations or board game effort
- Go 'round and 'round
- Favorable slant, media-wise
- P.R. task
- Board game turn, perhaps
- Pivot
- Prepare to pin the tail on the donkey, say
- Washing machine cycle
- "Doctor" specialty
- Public relations distortion
- What a top does
- Go around and around
- Give something a whirl
- Music magazine
- Rolling Stone mag foe
- Not Rolling Stone
- Popular music mag
- Rolling Stones' thorn
- "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" ___ Doctors
- Dead or Alive "You ___ Me Round"
- What Dead or Alive will do to a record?
- "You ___ me right round"
- Lifehouse song for merry-go-round music?
- Rolling Stone magazine alternative
- Twist - creative media relations
- Make up a story
- Turn around second leg
- Ride maybe involving a sharp turn
- What a doctor does with pins
- Go round to the doctor, perhaps?
- Can such doctors give treatment for vertigo?
- It'll give the bowler a break
- Go round to the doctor?
- Muon momentum
- Massaging of news
- English, e.g.
- Doctoring of news etc
- Turn in a Twister game
- What's wrong about party leader?
- PR person's forte
- Jaunt
- Slant put on news etc
- New Labour's turn to seek power in corruption
- Odds on batting side
- Second leg of the jaunt
- Twist shorts around
- Rotation is constant between poles
- 1 for photons and 2 for gravitons
- Work on a web site?
- Post-debate punditry
- Play Wheel of Fortune
- Skater's finale, often
- Offer a charitable interpretation of, say
- Rotate repeatedly
- Sort of doctor's drive
- Run out from square leg
- Revolution bites back
- Rubbish swimmer rushes up to see PR man
- ___ room (postdebate area)
- Pedal in place
- Go round to the doctor?
- What the earth and many political analysts do
- Slant
- Drive home after Scarlet Pimpernel starts
- Play with, as a dreidel
- Rapidly rotate
- PR firm's forte
- Play, as records
- Knuckler's lack
- Ping-pong tactic
- Board game turn, maybe
- Emulate electrons
- Spain overcomes popular revolution
- Sunday drive, maybe
- Leaders of Socialist Party instigate new revolution
- What a pool shark puts on a ball
- What many fidget toys do
- ___ Doctors
- What planets do on their axes
- Idle drive
- "Wheel of Fortune" motion
- Control damage, politically
- Just the trip if you want a break?
- Having knocked back drinks, drive
- Dreidel's movement
- Publicist's distortion
- Turn in the board game Life
- Swift rotating motion
- Rushes back to give it a whirl
- ___ class (cycling session)
- PR person's expertise
- Concoct some story of revolution?
- With the circled word in the grid's center, what each circled word is?
- Take a turn
- Trip as you turn round
- Public relations specialty
- “Wheel of Fortune” choice
- A dizzy ride?
- Pundit's take
- Property of a subatomic particle
- Nips back for the ride
- It keeps a top up
- Board-game turn, at times
- Turn in a popular game show
- Go in circles?
- Certain break-dancing move
- "Wheel of Fortune" play
- Move like a dreidel
- P.R. firm specialty
- Rotate like a dreidel
- Attempt to control the narrative, in a way
- Hit the turntable like Tiff McFierce
- Move like a child in a tutu
- Public relations staple
- Do a 360
- Go round to the doctor, perhaps?
- DJ a set
- Type of angular momentum, in physics
- Whirl or twirl
- Quick drive, informally
- Can such doctors give treatment for vertigo?
- Ping-Pong technique
- Move in a circle
- Final washer cycle
- "This is making my head ___!"
- Roulette wheel action
- Go for a ___ (take a casual drive)
- Pool player's technique
- Kind of workout class
- Quick drive around town
- Dreidel turn
- Music magazine since 1985
- Gym class with a stationary bike
- Present in a favorable light
- First step of a turn in The Game of Life
- Take a turn with the object illustrated by the central black squares in this puzzle (leading to one of the four circled results)
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 03, 2025
- Daily American - March 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 06, 2025
- USA Today - March 02, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 24, 2025
- Daily American - February 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 26, 2025
- LA Times - January 12, 2025
- Daily American - January 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 03, 2025
- New York Times - January 01, 2025
- New York Times - December 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 23, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 23, 2024
- Daily American - December 18, 2024
- Daily American - December 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 30, 2024
- USA Today - November 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 22, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 30, 2024
- New York Times - August 26, 2024
- Family Time - August 25, 2024
- Daily American - August 20, 2024
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