Clues for the word "STALL"
We've had 148 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 339 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 21, 2026.
Definition of stall
- v. i. - A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.
- v. i. - A stable; a place for cattle.
- v. i. - A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
- v. i. - A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- v. i. - A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.
- v. i. - In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- v. i. - The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.
- v. t. - To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
- v. t. - To fatten; as, to stall cattle.
- v. t. - To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- v. t. - To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.
- v. t. - To forestall; to anticipitate. Having
- v. t. - To keep close; to keep secret.
- v. i. - To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.
- v. i. - To kennel, as dogs.
- v. i. - To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
- v. i. - To be tired of eating, as cattle.
Referring Clues
- Play for time
- Drag one's feet
- Hold off
- Big problem for a pilot
- Engine problem
- Jet engine problem
- Dilly-dally
- Stop running
- Stable spot
- Stable enclosure
- Stable place
- Suddenly cut out, as an engine
- Silver quarters?
- Carnival booth
- Bathroom division
- Use delay tactics
- Stable segment
- Kiosk
- Come to a standstill
- Compartment in a stable
- Foot-drag
- Go "pfffft"
- Buy some time
- Engine malfunction
- Public bathroom division
- Slot in a stable
- Conk out, as a car
- Stable compartment
- Delay on purpose
- Need reignition
- Driver's inconvenience
- Stable part
- Avoid the inevitable
- Stonewall
- Evasive tactic
- Flea market booth
- Suddenly stop, as an engine
- Try to delay
- Delay
- Stable environment?
- Come to a halt
- Mr. Ed's abode
- Place with pithy, anonymous scribblings
- Flea-market unit
- Flea market unit
- Barn section
- Stable section
- Seize up
- Shower area
- Conk out
- Use delaying tactics
- Merchant's booth
- Stable site
- Procrastinate
- One way to buy time
- Booth
- Shower unit
- Delay by deception
- Buy time
- Horse's digs
- Stable division
- Tactically delay
- Horse's chamber
- Gain time
- Horse habitat
- Conk out, as an engine
- Cut out suddenly
- Hem and haw
- Barn compartment
- Place for a race horse
- Evasive trick
- Place for a racehorse
- Have car trouble
- Antonym of "expedite"
- Delay strategically
- Stable unit
- Horse's room
- Compartment for a horse
- Place for a horse
- Horse's place
- Restroom zone
- Stop in booth
- Drag one's feet in a cubicle?
- Animal compartment
- Bathroom unit
- What a song might do on the charts
- Postpone what one should be doing
- See 16
- Be evasive
- To prevaricate is the last chance for a learner
- Where the horse can stop running!
- Last opportunity, before starting lunch, to get a seat
- Stop running, thus waste time
- A stand seat
- A seat, possibly the last left
- A seat in the market?
- Delay - booth for selling goods
- Market share?
- Stop sideshow
- See giant hedge
- School head requiring high hedge
- Old Bob's lofty hedge
- Bob's lofty hedge
- Good man meets everyone in market booth
- Cut out delay
- Box hedge
- Box squadron's leader, of more than average height
- Stand in market and play for time
- Compartment
- Evade the issue of accommodation for the animal
- Horse enclosure
- Kill the engine
- Try to buy time
- Stop everyone following saint
- Fair booth
- Public bathroom compartment
- Stand or booth
- Point to a high seat
- Cubicle
- Drag one's feet in a cubicle?
- Stop running a small business
- Saint gets everything to come to a standstill
- Stop unexpectedly
- Street market booth
- Stable environment?
- Everybody on the street will stop working
- Hold up
- Dillydally
- Stop running some installation
- Be a procrastinator
- Maybe sat on the corner again to waste time
- Delay deliberately
- Put off
- Restroom division
- Bazaar unit
- Keep saying "ummm" to buy time
- Stable area
- Seat on which one may have sat for lb50
- Stop turning, as an engine
- Where the horse can stop running?
- Tell jokes until PowerPoint unfreezes, e.g.
- *Male zebras
- Farmers market booth
- A seat in the market?
- Place for a stable horse?
- Repeat an interviewer's question, perhaps
- Stable feature
- Horse stable unit
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 21, 2026
- LA Times - January 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 20, 2025
- LA Times - November 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 30, 2025
- New York Times - October 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 03, 2025
- USA Today - March 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 16, 2025
- Family Time - February 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 27, 2025
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