Clues for the word "STEAL"
We've had 263 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 718 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 12, 2026.
Definition of steal
- n. - A handle; a stale, or stele.
- v. t. - To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
- v. t. - To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
- v. t. - To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
- v. t. - To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
- v. t. - To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
- v. i. - To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
- v. i. - To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
Referring Clues
- Incredible bargain
- Go quietly
- Take the wrong way?
- Pilfer
- Plagiarize
- Crib
- Creep
- Exceptional deal
- Quite a bargain
- Base runner's achievement
- Lift
- Great bargain
- Diamond datum
- Pocket
- Great buy
- Super bargain
- Rustle, as cattle
- One of Rickey Henderson's thousand-plus
- Shopper's delight
- Excellent buy
- Hoops turnover
- Appropriate
- Pinch
- Baseball datum
- Take a five-finger discount
- Great buy, slangily
- Take second, e.g.
- Palm, say
- Rustle, as livestock
- Bargain
- At least it's a real bargain
- Tiptoe
- Be light-fingered
- One way to get to second base
- Make away with
- Real bargain
- Walk off with
- Good buy
- Cop
- Make off with
- One way to take a base
- Baseball or basketball coup
- Take second, perhaps
- Rip off
- Swipe
- Terrific bargain
- Yield to kleptomania
- Purloin
- Filch
- Appropriate inappropriately
- Act like a dip
- Boost, so to speak
- Take home?
- Take badly?
- Pick pockets, say
- Diamond theft?
- Diamond strategy
- Specialty for Jose Reyes of the Mets
- Lou Brock specialty
- 17-, 22-, 47- and 56-Across contain a form of it
- Be a burglar
- Super buy
- Take feloniously
- Sneak off, with "away"
- Hoop coup
- Fantastic buy
- Commit larceny
- Commit theft
- Diamond ploy
- Terrific buy
- Surprisingly low price
- Shoplift
- Basketball coup
- Bargain for a burglar?
- Diamond theft
- Advantageous purchase
- Inappropriately appropriate
- It's better than a bargain
- Baseball theft?
- Ignore a Commandment
- Take an extra base
- Take without permission
- Incredible buy
- Signal from the third base coach, maybe
- Take inappropriately
- Unbelievable bargain
- Move quietly
- Unbelievable buy
- Take
- Sneak
- Take inventory?
- Exceptional bargain
- Sneak off, with "away"
- Break a Commandment
- Commandment verb
- Move furtively
- Speedy base runner's strategy
- Big bargain
- Pick pockets, perhaps
- Appropriate innappropriately
- Item at a 95% markdown, say
- Act the thief
- Runner's feat
- Boost
- Thieve
- Do a five-finger discount
- Fantastic bargain
- Violate a Commandment
- Take unlawfully
- One way to get home?
- One way to get a base
- Take illegally
- Be a theif
- Unvelievable buy
- Take third, maybe
- Comparison shopper's find
- It's marked way down
- Signal to a runner
- Base runner's attempt
- It rarely happens at home
- Pirate
- What one can do, figuratively, to the last words of the four longest Across answers
- Pick pockets, e.g.
- More than just a good buy
- Take second, in a way
- Creep (in)
- Run on a pitcher
- Baserunning strategy
- Sneak (in)
- Burglarize
- Run to second while the pitcher isn't looking, say
- Unbelievable deal
- Bargain hunter's find
- Take home ... in more ways than one?
- Snitch
- Rickey Henderson specialty
- One of Rickey Henderson's record 1,406
- Sign from a third base coach, say
- Take home, perhaps?
- Use a five-finger discount
- Emulate a thief
- Signal from a third base coach, sometimes
- Commit a theft
- Rob
- Take a "five-finger discount"
- Base runner's act
- Embezzle
- Get to second base, in a way
- Peculate
- Be a thief
- Snag hubcaps, e.g.
- Nick dislodged slate
- Pinch small duck
- Great value
- Ben Harper: "___ My Kisses"
- Ozzy "___ Away (the Night)"
- Grateful Dead "___ Your Face"
- What the Dead will do to your face
- Len "___ My Sunshine"
- The Who "Did You ___ My Money"
- How Ben Harper will get "Kisses"
- "Why don't we ___ away into the night"
- What non-crediting samplers do
- Len hit "___ My Sunshine"
- Ben Harper "Always have to ___ my kisses from you"
- Nick
- Contribute to crime in West Ealing
- Take tales amiss
- Plagiarise tales?
- Lift - pocket
- Plagiarise various tales
- Get free
- Take a seat anew, at length
- Quietly take tea in central Bisley
- Burgle
- Wrongly to take the seat on the corner?
- Burglars do so and go quietly
- Quietly take the least chance
- Take something the wrong way
- Pinch a sound knife sharpener
- Go quietly, as a burglar may do
- Quietly take tea in outer Southall
- Bargain hunter's delight
- Engage in larceny
- Settle who has write-up in review?
- Nick a second duck
- Tales about Nick
- Rob firstly scores a duck
- Three for the price of one, say
- Rob, ___ from
- Take wickets finally with a duck
- Walk off with pirate
- Plagiarise newly-written tales
- Take a little, waste a lot
- Plagiarise tales?
- Nick takes tea in South Leatherhead
- Bargain for least outlay
- Exhibit kleptomania
- Basketball or baseball coup
- Sweet bargain
- Wrongly take to be a form of slate
- Take the wrong way?
- Rob Stella of a pound, maybe
- Least awkward bargain
- Any of 1,406 for Rickey Henderson
- Appropriate small duck
- Surreptitiously move bag
- Amazing bargain
- Practice theft
- Take the wrong seat on the left
- Total bargain
- Exciting baseball tactic
- At a pinch, go quietly
- Take things quietly
- Quietly take the available seat on the left
- Deprive of the least chance?
- Super bargain, slangily
- Base runner's ploy
- Daring base runner's goal
- Be a shoplifter
- Pinch the least possible
- Do the least possible wrong?
- A bargain obtained for the least possible!
- Take wrong?
- Be larcenous
- Sweet buy
- Swipe illegally
- If you want to knock off, go quietly
- Great deal
- Abscond with
- Get free and go quietly
- Take badly even the least upset!
- Get free, albeit in a bad way
- Huge bargain
- *Elite Navy member
- In West Ealing, you have to go carefully
- Mistake?
- Get by theft
- Major bargain
- Really good deal
- Swipe second base
- Take tales amiss?
- Snatch
- Apt rhyme for "deal"
- To adapt tales is to plagiarise!
- It's a huge deal
- Shoplifters do it
- Quite the bargain
- Improperly take a seat, perhaps, before finishing toil
- Incredible deal
- Embezzle, e.g.
- Great garage sale find
- Wrongly to take the seat on the corner?
- Rhyme and synonym for "deal"
- "What a ___!" ("It's a bargain!")
- Theft in baseball
- Take without asking
- Absolute bargain
- Take in a very wrong way
- Outrageously good deal
- Swipe without swiping a card
- One of 1,406 for Rickey Henderson
- Take second, say
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 25, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 28, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 22, 2025
- LA Times - December 19, 2025
- Daily American - December 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 13, 2025
- Daily American - November 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 18, 2025
- LA Times - November 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 28, 2025
- LA Times - October 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 03, 2025
- LA Times - August 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 19, 2025
- Daily American - August 10, 2025
- New York Times - August 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2025
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