Clues for the word "SQUARE"
We've had 79 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 115 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on May 28, 2026.
Definition of square
- n. - The corner, or angle, of a figure.
- n. - A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
- n. - Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so
- n. - A square piece or fragment.
- n. - A pane of glass.
- n. - A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- n. - One hundred superficial feet.
- n. - An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
- n. - An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
- n. - Hence, a pattern or rule.
- n. - The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.
- n. - Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
- n. - A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
- n. - Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- n. - The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- n. - The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.
- n. - The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- a. - Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
- a. - Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
- a. - Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
- a. - Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
- a. - Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.
- a. - Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
- a. - Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
- a. - At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- n. - To form with four sides and four right angles.
- n. - To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
- n. - To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- n. - To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
- n. - To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
- n. - To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
- n. - To hold a quartile position respecting.
- n. - To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
- v. i. - To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
- v. i. - To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
- v. i. - To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.
Referring Clues
- Plaza
- Unhip
- Equiangular rhombus
- Equilateral quadrilateral
- Meal type
- Type of root or meal
- On the level
- With 43-Across, what the circled letters in the grid form
- Cube side
- Town center
- Uncool
- On the up-and-up
- Far from hip
- Like most crossword puzzle grids
- Bingo card section
- With 55-Across, what the circled letters, reading clockwise, form
- Saltine shape
- Unhip type
- Non-hipster
- Raise to the second power
- Nerdy sort
- Shape learned in preschool
- London's Wellington ____
- Cube face
- Even
- Like most crossword diagrams
- Shape with four equal sides
- Chess board unit
- See 19
- See 11
- Conservative type seen on the board?
- Number such as 4 or 64
- Geometric figure
- See 21
- Regular shape
- Adjust place where 2, say, sits on board
- Old-fashioned, but having all the angles
- See 9
- Four-sided figure
- Rectangle with equal sides
- Rectangular 8
- Place in Paris for 4 or 25?
- Level - shape - piazza - stuffy
- Old-fashioned
- Series of steps with four couples
- See 2
- Old school quadrangle
- Assault on crossword grid carried out with military precision?(6-7)
- See 6
- Conservative figure
- Wickets are prepared here, eg four
- 15 11 for the honest bourgeois
- See 50 Down
- 4-sided figure
- Moscow's Red ___
- Old-fashioned place in France
- Fair in the marketplace
- Old-fashioned sort of 16 across, feature of 10 or 6
- Kind of dance for a stick-in-the-mud?
- Four, for example, is even
- See clues page
- 17 behind the times?
- Make it all right to be old-fashioned
- See 24
- Conventional wood treatment that's reasonable
- Conservative's "question and answer" tour's ending in the Home Counties
- Old-fashioned quadrangle
- <span>A number </span><i>r</i><span> in relation to </span><i>p </i><span>such that </span><i>r</i><span> multiplied by itself equals </span><i>p</i><span>?
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- ___ dance
- Cat's opposite
- Pay off
- With 31-Down, hoedown activities, and a hint to the circled letters
- Shape with four right angles
- On TV, there's one named Albert
- Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer
- With 31 Across, acre fraction
- Low power?
- Geometric shape
- Shape on a bingo card
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - May 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 21, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 10, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 17, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 09, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 06, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 06, 2024
- LA Times - June 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 15, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 28, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 06, 2023
- Your Life Choices - September 10, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 11, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 25, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 01, 2023
- Your Life Choices - February 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 14, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 01, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - January 25, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 02, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - October 17, 2022
- New York Times - September 08, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - August 08, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 20, 2022
- Your Life Choices - February 04, 2018
- Evening Standard Easy - January 31, 2018
- And in 85 more crossword puzzles...