Referring Clues

• Pierce
• Puncture
• Whack
• Attempt
• Wild guess
• Seize with a toothpick
• Pin, in a way
• Try
• Lance
• "Shank," in prison lingo
• Use a knife or fork
• Effort
• Skewer
• Knife
• Run through
• Poke holes in
• Uneducated guess
• Stick
• Bayonet
• See 47-Across
• Feeling of pain
• Pierce with a fork
• Harpoon, e.g.
• Shot
• Plunge in
• Knife wound
• Crack
• More than a twinge
• Go
• Stick with a knife
• Dagger wound
• Sharp pain
• Bayonet, e.g.
• Stick with a toothpick
• Stick a spear into
• Wild attempt
• Kind of thrust
• Sudden sensation
• Run a blade through
• Attack with a knife
• Reasonable try
• Use a dirk
• Use a bayonet on
• Shot in the dark
• Knife thrust
• Stick a fork in
• Rough guess
• Stick a knife into
• Thrusting blow
• Guesstimate
• Grab with a toothpick
• Get one's point across?
• Bayonet thrust
• It may be wild
• Poke with a pike
• Use a bayonet
• Wound with a dagger
• Injure with a bayonet
• Prick
• Pointed attack?
• Wound with a knife
• Pierce with a toothpick
• "True friends ___ you in the front": Wilde
• Guess
• One may be made before giving up
• Unconfident attempt
• Iffy attempt
• Impale
• Shank, in prison lingo
• Use a poniard
• Blind guess
• Quick thrust
• Get a point across?
• "I'll take a ___ at it"
• Jerky thrust
• Utilize a bayonet
• Shank
• Piercing thrust
• It's sometimes made in the dark
• Employ a dirk
• Wild try
• Pierce with a fork, e.g.
• Awkward try
• Thrust with a bayonet
• Pierce with a knife
• Dirk
• Quick thrust, in fencing
• Gore
• Emulate Brutus
• Acute onset
• Pierce with a point
• Seize with a skewer
• Injure with a pitchfork
• Use a dirk on
• Use a skewer
• Shiv shove
• Desperation guess
• Grab with a fork
• Rough estimate
• "I'll take a ___ at it"
• Stick with a stick
• Figurative try
• Run through with a saber
• "True friends ___ you in the front": Wilde
• Attack à la Brutus
• Random guess
• "True friends ___ you in the front" (Oscar Wilde)
• Brief try
• A way to wound
• Attack with a dagger
• Take a ___ at: try
• Casual try
• Attack a la Norman Bates
• Semi-educated guess
• Spear
• Quick guess
• Use a dagger
• Wild, desperate guess
• Attack, as Caesar
• Wound for Cassio
• Poke with a sharp thing
• Put a fork in it
• Unfocused attempt
• Sudden piercing pain
• Random try
• Attack like Norman Bates
• Desperate guess
• Use a knife, say
• Put a fork in
• Slangy attempt
• Thrust tines into
• Wild shot
• Attack with a shiv
• Not-so-educated guess
• Stick with something
• You might take one before giving up
• Pang, as of conscience
• Drive the point home
• Baffled "Jeopardy!" contestant's effort
• Stick wth
• Assault with a knife
• Emulate a picador
• Force a fork into
• Piercing wound
• Swordsman's injury
• Attempt, slangily
• Transfix
• Uninformed guess
• A sudden sharp feeling
• Push a prong through
• Dagger thrust
• Attempt, informally
• Near-random guess
• Jab with a knife
• One may be taken in desperation
• Bayonet verbally?
• Conjecture, so to speak
• Blind effort
• Shot-in-the-dark guess
• Uncertain effort
• Pierce with a harpoon
• Random attempt
• Attempt, in slang
• Use the working end of a bayonet
• Stick with a blade
• Anguished sensation
• Attack with a sword
• Grab with a cocktail fork
• Thrust a bayonet
• Attack from Casca or Brutus
• ___ in the back: betray
• Wound on a dueler
• Halfhearted guess
• Brief attempt
• Jab
• Pierce with a pointed weapon
• Stick a toothpick in
• Try to use a bayonet?
• Attempt - to use a dagger
• Attack your peas with a fork, say
• Use a shiv
• Stick a fork into
• Harpoon, essentially
• Attack a la Brutus
• Attain peas?
• Get to the end of Julius Caesar, in a way?
• Sudden sharp feeling
• Attempt at crazy return
• Be cruel to bats, possibly
• Try - skewer
• Try like mad to make a comeback
• Raised clubs in attempt to wound
• Shot back, mad
• Thrust at and pierce
• Crazy going back for knife
• Reversed crazy attempt to 25
• Injure with a knife
• Wound with pointed weapon
• Go mad backwards
• Pierce with pointed weapon
• Shot wound
• Mad to reverse, try going forward
• Cut by sharp weapon, or shot?
• Attempt crazy rising
• Pierce with something pointed
• Attempt (with dagger?)
• Attempt to raise fliers
• Attempt of cricketers making comeback
• Go off the wall falling backwards
• Go for knife
• Total guess
• Sharp thrust
• Go through, in a way
• Gladiator wound
• Pierce with knife
• Sharp twinge
• Plunge blade into
• Knife repelling fliers
• Go mad, doing a flip
• Try to escape from constabulary
• Try to use a knife
• Pierce is in reverse
• Adjustable part of knife
• Mad - on reflection - to have a try
• Go nuts after getting a rise
• Wound up crazy
• Attempt to wound with a knife
• Shot in chest, a bombardier
• Try to wound
• Try to turn crazy
• Work a bayonet
• Informal attempt
• Attack as Hamlet did Polonius
• Out-there guess
• Stick a toothpick in, as a snack
• Speculative attempt
• Emulate a good dueler
• Use a fork on
• Attempt a thrusting blow with a knife
• Figurative attempt
• Sudden sharp pain
• Bayonet through
• Make a pin prick
• Attempt to send fliers back
• Unconfident try
• Stick with a bayonet
• Sudden pain
• Poke, as a pea
• Metaphorical attempt
• Stick a toothpick through
• Attack like Brutus
• Try to use a bayonet?
• Haphazard attempt
• Casual attempt
• *Motionless sculptures
• Stick with a point
• Perforate, in a way
• Attack pointedly
• Brutal act of Brutus
• Attempt, metaphorically
• Spear with a fork
• Pierce with a pointed stick
• Dueler's type of wound
• Try, informally
• Poke with a pitchfork
• It can mean a shot, oddly enough
• Crack, so to speak
• Take a ___ at it (try)
• Sudden feeling, as of remorse
• Take a ___ at (attempt)
• Dueler's injury
• Poke with a toothpick
• Take a ___
• Plunge a toothpick into an olive
• Something to take when you're in the dark
• Poke
• Wild guess at trivia night
• Pick up with a fork
• Place to hitch a ride?
• Sign abbr. meaning "founded in"