Clues for the word "SPRING"
We've had 88 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 128 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Mini crossword on December 10, 2025.
Definition of spring
- v. i. - To leap; to bound; to jump.
- v. i. - To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
- v. i. - To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
- v. i. - To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
- v. i. - To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
- v. i. - To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out.
- v. i. - To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
- v. i. - To grow; to prosper.
- v. t. - To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
- v. t. - To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.
- v. t. - To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
- v. t. - To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
- v. t. - To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
- v. t. - To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
- v. t. - To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
- v. i. - A leap; a bound; a jump.
- v. i. - A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
- v. i. - Elastic power or force.
- v. i. - An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force.
- v. i. - Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
- v. i. - Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
- v. i. - That which springs, or is originated, from a source;
- v. i. - A race; lineage.
- v. i. - A youth; a springal.
- v. i. - A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
- v. i. - That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
- v. i. - The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.
- v. i. - The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
- v. i. - A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
- v. i. - A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.
Referring Clues
- Time for a break
- Have ___ in one's step
- Pogo stick part
- With 39-Across, like some safety valves
- Leap
- Arrival celebrated in this puzzle
- Break time
- Water source
- Type of fever
- ______hill (Nova Scotia mine site)
- Ballpoint part
- Pogo-stick part
- With 102 Across, what a fan of Slinkies might have in his basement?
- Bound
- Natural well
- Oasis, often
- One of the four seasons
- Winter follower
- Seminal 1962 book on the environment
- Cleaning time?
- Spa, e.g.
- ___ water
- Leaving time?
- Warming season
- Coil
- Bed coil
- Season that brings showers and flowers
- Well before summer
- Source of water before summer
- It's bound to come before summer
- Season of growth
- Season
- Stravinsky's "The Rite of ___"
- Pounce
- Jump
- Season well
- See 9
- Suddenly reveal bounciness
- Does the house out thoroughly
- Time bound
- Taking a few months to get well
- Bound to tell you without beating about the bush
- Appear memorably as clue for "head-to-head"
- Water a water mattress won't have!
- Spa
- Three months free
- The jump season
- Time to clean up a quarter?
- 25 and three months roughly
- Vivaldi's work, in order(6;6;6;6)
- Time to show resilience
- Well - bound
- Keeping neutral, shoot well
- See 11
- See 27
- Free water
- Procure release of prisoner before summer
- Leap - part of year
- Bound over for three months
- Well set fashion house event
- May, perhaps - bound
- Schumanns 1st Symphony
- Make a confession about advertising some time before the summer
- Shoot Nationalist leader inside vault
- Free source of water
- Shoot forth
- Mechanical device
- There's tension here, but it's early days
- Bound stem
- Well bound?
- See 23
- Fountain
- The time to sing about a trouble-free April
- See 14
- See 13 Across
- See 45 Down
- Jack-in-the-box part
- A season
- Symbol of rebirth
- Jack-in-the box gizmo
- A major season
- Season the water
- It follows 35-Down
- It starts in March
- Time to clean up a quarter?
- Growing season
- The jump season?
- The water jump
Last Seen In
- Mirror Mini - December 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 27, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 08, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 19, 2024
- Daily American - November 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 05, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 19, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 14, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 28, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 27, 2023
- New York Times - July 23, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 31, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 23, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 08, 2023
- USA Today - March 31, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - February 19, 2023
- Family Time - January 29, 2023
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