Clues for the word "TAKE"
We've had 202 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 472 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 16, 2026.
Definition of take
- p. p. - Taken.
- v. t. - In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.
- v. t. - To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
- v. t. - To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
- v. t. - To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
- v. t. - To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
- v. t. - To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.
- v. t. - To draw; to deduce; to derive.
- v. t. - To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
- v. t. - To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
- v. t. - To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
- v. t. - To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
- v. t. - In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.
- v. t. - To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.
- v. t. - To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
- v. t. - Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
- v. t. - To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
- v. t. - To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.
- v. t. - To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.
- v. i. - To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.
- v. i. - To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
- v. i. - To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.
- v. i. - To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.
- n. - That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.
- n. - The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
Referring Clues
- Money brought in
- Profits
- Grab hold of
- Give's partner
- Bit of filming
- ___ a giant step ("May I?" game)
- Receipts
- Capture
- "I'll ___ You There" (Joyce Carol Oates novel)
- With 25-Down, be prudent
- Proceeds
- Thieves' accumulation
- Appropriate
- See 8-Down
- Crib
- Plunder
- Seize
- Tolerate
- Opinion
- Get hold of
- Try at filming a scene
- Resemble, with "after"
- "___ Five" (Dave Brubeck Quartet classic)
- Walk off with
- Utilize, as "The A Train"
- Steal
- Motion picture unit
- Attempt at filming a scene
- Accept uncomplainingly
- Scene-filming attempt
- Casino receipts
- Leave the ground, with "off"
- Give's opposite
- Movie shot
- Gate
- Partner of give
- Put up with
- Cut
- Third base coach's sign when the count is 3-0, typically
- Movie director's unit
- Carry off
- Grab
- Make off with
- Confiscate
- Subtract, with "away"
- Box-office receipts
- Gate profits
- Help oneself to
- Profits, informally
- ___ apart (dismantle)
- Point of view
- Comical reaction
- Winnings
- Lay off, to a batter
- Give partner
- Net earnings
- Third-base coach's sign, sometimes
- Have an effect
- Director's shoot
- Double-___ (surprised reaction)
- Thief's accumulation
- "Give" partner
- Usurp
- Coach's sign
- Receipts, collectively
- Booty
- Netted amount
- Money in the till
- Pilfer
- Partner of "give"
- Cut of the profits
- Chews
- Scene attempt
- Obtain
- Sound-stage try
- Heist haul
- ___ apart (dismantle)
- Subtract, with "away"
- Expropriate
- Remove
- Box office earnings
- Assume
- Accept
- Accept
- Snatch
- Purloin
- Grasp
- Receive
- With 110-Down, become established
- Remove, with "off"
- Select
- "___ me out to the ..."
- Haul
- Require
- Heist amount
- Occupy
- Withstand
- ___effect
- Earnings
- *Opt in
- With "in" and 55-Down, use without proper respect, as a name
- Commandeer
- Swipe
- Word before five or ten
- Shot on a set
- ___ for granted
- Film director's unit
- Reaction of surprise
- Filming unit
- Gate receipts
- Movie scene
- Decide not to swing
- ______ heart
- Filmmaking unit
- Point of view, so to speak
- Viewpoint
- Enroll in, as a class
- Box office receipts
- Number on a clapperboard
- Capture, in chess
- Leave, with "off"
- Capture on a board
- Snatch or grab
- George of "Star Trek"
- Stomach
- Opposite of give
- Have
- "___ Five" (Brubeck classic)
- McCartney "___ It Away"
- The Used "___ It Away"
- Queen "You ___ My Breath Away"
- Lifehouse "___ Me Away"
- Seether "___ Me Away"
- "___ my whole life too, for I can't help falling in love with you"
- See 13 across
- Accept the proceeds
- Be hopeful Nick is on the organ
- Buy Escort
- Lay hold of
- Capture a scene on film
- Appropriate amount recorded
- Accept English recipe
- Box office total
- With 25-Down, office request
- Stand, say
- Potentially hostile business maneuver
- Old musical advice to the fallen: provide the parakeet with a bed ...
- Adopt the company policy and defend it strongly?
- Capture bear
- Steal receipts
- Put off work on the Met Office roof?
- 5 6's confused Kylie with Kali - outrage!
- Unit on the set
- Accept wager but not initially
- See 106 Across
- With 14-Across, become ignited
- "___ it or leave it!"
- Interpretation, so to speak
- Director's unit
- With 1-Down, "Let's try this again!"
- The ___, 2016 film starring Idris Elba, released in the UK as Bastille Day
- With 45-Across, focus directly on hitting someone
- Box office income
- ___-home final
- Swallow, as pills
- Word before heart or heed
- Give? No way.
- Leave or deduct, with "off"
- Receive handily?
- Film scene shot without interruption
- Capture Kate craftily
- Opinion, informally
- Word before part or heart
- Bring along
- Get the picture that's abstract
- Personal point of view
- Deal with
- Heist yield
- With 47-Across, 1959 Dave Brubeck hit
- One may be hot on the internet
- Scene-shooting attempt
- Word with hot or spit
- Require and appropriate
- Profit
- ___ it easy
- "___ a tip from me ..."
- "___ my word for it"
- A "hot" one is controversial
- "I'll ___ You There"
- Film shot
- Require that you accept
- Thief's haul
- It follows the clap of a clapperboard
- With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue
- Word after "hot" or "double"
- Obtain with your hands
- "___ Me or Leave Me"
- Give and ___
- Money received
- Share from an illicit endeavor
- Word with hot or double
- Somebody fluffed? Out with it!
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 16, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 27, 2025
- Daily American - October 16, 2025
- Daily American - September 25, 2025
- Daily American - August 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 30, 2025
- New York Times - July 26, 2025
- Daily American - July 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 24, 2025
- Daily American - May 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 10, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 07, 2025
- LA Times - April 02, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 08, 2025
- Daily American - March 05, 2025
- Daily American - February 10, 2025
- Daily American - February 04, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 03, 2025
- New York Times - January 26, 2025
- Daily American - December 31, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 01, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 14, 2024
- USA Today - November 12, 2024
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