Clues for the word "TENABLE"
We've had 58 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 74 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on November 27, 2025.
Definition of tenable
- a. - Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
Referring Clues
- Having some merit
- Easily defended
- Like a well-grounded argument
- Like a good debater's arguments
- Like good arguments
- Like a sound argument
- Not bad, as an argument
- Not easily debunked
- Well-founded
- Sound
- Like a solid argument
- Having a solid premise
- Possible to defend
- Hard to dispute, as a theory
- Easily argued
- Capable of being held
- Defensible
- Like a well-armed fort
- Fit for defending
- Fit to be defended
- Having support
- Having a defense
- Well-based
- Having merit, as a theory
- Readily defended
- Reasonable
- Like some positions
- Sound, as an argument
- Plausible woman in a twisted belt
- Not quite having a fit eleven is justifiable
- Defensible with not quite eleven fit men
- It's justifiable for a girl to appear in a twisted belt
- With justification, figure to get fit
- A number fit to be considered acceptable
- For a girl to be in a new belt is quite justifiable
- Able to be believed
- You mean two jurors are incompetent? That's with defence potential
- Board admits points can be kept
- Well-founded arrangement of numbers includes small space
- List without directions that can be believed
- "X" has powerful following that can be maintained
- Reasonable space found in Mensa for classicists
- Credible chart about space
- Sound, fancy belt encircling Ena
- Figure fit to be possibly justified
- Suitable for holding
- Less than presentable as an anagram, but sound
- Acceptable new belt for a woman to appear in
- Sustainable
- Resistant to attack
- Several fit to be held on to
- Not ridiculous, as an argument
- It's rational for a girl to be in a fancy belt
- Points a piece of furniture out as being reasonable
- Figure to get fit and sound
- Figure fit to be defensible
- Like a solid theory
- Based on sound reasoning
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 18, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 30, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 13, 2023
- New York Times - January 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 06, 2022
- New York Times - May 06, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - January 19, 2018
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - September 11, 2016
- Universal - July 28, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 25, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 03, 2016
- Guardian Quiptic - May 09, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 12, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 03, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 24, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 14, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 05, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 19, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 06, 2015
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