Clues for the word "STAFF"
We've had 142 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 272 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 10, 2025.
Definition of staff
- n. - A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
- n. - A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
- n. - A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
- n. - A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
- n. - The round of a ladder.
- n. - A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
- n. - The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
- n. - An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
- n. - The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
- n. - An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
- n. - Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Referring Clues
- Office folk
- Lines of music?
- Workers on duty
- Shepherd's handful
- Office crew
- Sheet music lines
- Wizard's prop
- Hiking aid
- Employees
- Body of military officers
- Moses carried one
- Personnel
- Workers
- Lines on which to write notes
- Lines of music
- Workforce
- A flat place?
- Faculty
- Workers, collectively
- Flagpole
- Lines adjacent to a ledger line
- Sign in a reserved parking area
- Group of workers
- Lines for notes
- Office group
- Salaried group
- Work force
- Office workers
- Shepherd's stick
- Group of employees
- Office personnel
- Type of nurse or sergeant
- Type of car, nurse or sergeant
- Rod of Moses
- Type of car or nurse
- Lines for writing notes
- Support group?
- It doth comfort?
- Workers on hand
- Payroll people
- Hire
- Scepter
- Place for a rest
- Assistants and such
- Personnel
- Office complement
- Working group
- Crew
- Work group
- Company workers
- Work crew
- Walking stick
- Office workers, collectively
- Supporting crew
- Set of lines for notes
- Employee group
- Wizard's accessory
- Engage in hiring
- Sturdy walking stick
- Five lines on sheet music
- Martial-arts weapon
- Locale for this puzzle's shaded squares
- Walking aid
- Office team
- Sheet music quintet, and with 31-Down, what the first letters of 16-, 22-, 36-, 45- and 56-Across represent
- Immediate underlings
- Psalm 23 comforter
- Subordinates
- Payroll listing
- Where something can be flat or sharp
- Group on the payroll
- Everyone working in an office
- Find a crew for
- Those on the payroll
- Prop for Gandalf
- Rod of authority
- Chief of ___: Army leader
- Group of aides
- Rod
- Joint Chiefs of ___
- Summer camp's crew
- Supply with workers
- They're on the payroll
- Pole for the workforce
- Lines for music notes
- Employees held in the utmost affection
- Stick for the personnel
- See 11
- Rod - workforce
- Teachers' pole
- Pole's employees?
- Administrators etc - stick
- Employees - stick
- Stick - office employees
- Body of teachers
- Group employed in services etc
- Workers given stick
- Stick used to support a body of officers
- Man may be crook
- Retreat following old army girls and workers
- Support the employees
- Wizard's walking stick
- Business people
- Rod's beginning to suspect river personnel
- Personnel: rod
- Support schoolteachers
- Employees' greasy food sent back to France
- Jack may be on this workforce
- Stick with workforce
- Administration taking notes
- Stick with team
- Aid for Moses
- Company's personnel
- Rod alternative
- Employees, terribly fast and furious initially
- Number of employees possibly quartered
- Tall pole
- Club for the workers
- Kind of officer concerned with recruitment?
- Several lines of music?
- Work support group
- Fill positions in
- Rod's employees?
- Shepherd's tool
- Servers and such
- Holder of notes
- It takes notes
- The employees sat around being very noisy
- Polish workers, sturdy and straight!
- Group of office workers
- Those engaged in supporting the flag?
- The stick they'll get if they don't work?
- Aides, collectively
- Noted lines?
- Pole's employees?
- "Cats don't have owners, they have ___"
- Lines of notes
- Wizard's weapon
- Wizard's magical stick
- Office characters
- Collection of employees
- Wizard's weapon, maybe
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 06, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 31, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 29, 2025
- Daily American - October 07, 2025
- LA Times - October 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 30, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 28, 2025
- LA Times - June 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 23, 2025
- New York Times - April 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 29, 2025
- Daily American - March 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 22, 2025
- USA Today - January 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 02, 2024
- New York Times - September 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 09, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 08, 2024
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