Clues for the word "TENNIS"
We've had 164 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 260 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 16, 2026.
Definition of tennis
- n. - A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
- v. t. - To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
Referring Clues
- Where to get fast service?
- With 44-Down, court query
- Open activity
- It has its faults
- With 16-Across, a sporting offer
- Court battle?
- Where to find aces and deuces
- Court contest
- With 47-Down, title for this puzzle
- See 57-Down
- Game unsuccessfully banned by Louis IV
- With 41-Across, question associated with the last words of 17-, 26-, 55- and 64-Across
- Court action
- Racketeer's pastime?
- Sport for anyone?
- Game for anyone?
- Andre Agassi's game
- Sport with a grand slam
- Court sport
- Sports Almanac chapter
- 29 Across' sport
- Lawn activity
- Graf's game
- Court activity
- Court proceedings?
- Game in which love is expressed frequently?
- It has its advantages
- Game that starts with love
- Roger Federer's sport
- Where love hardly conquers all
- Reason to make a racket?
- Game of love?
- Court game
- Venus Williams' sport
- Davis Cup game
- Wimbledon game
- Agassi's sport
- Kind of racket
- Racketeer's activity?
- 66-Across's sport
- Where one hears the starts of 18-, 23-, 34-, 49- and 54-Across
- Serena's game
- Wimbledon doings
- Williams sisters' realm
- Court proceedings
- 11-Across' sport
- Rafael Nadal's game
- Net game
- Sport that has its advantages?
- Our eighth most popular pastime
- Game that starts with love?
- Anyone's game?
- It has aces and deuces
- ___ elbow
- Sport enjoyed by Henry VIII
- Olympic sport
- With 36-Across, question for the court
- Williams sisters' sport
- Sport at Wimbledon
- Game with yellow balls
- Wimbledon sport
- Becker's game
- Sport with a net in the center
- Sport with a net on the court
- A game with nets in?
- Ball game
- Sport
- Cream asked "Anyone for" this
- Cream "Anyone for ___, wouldn't that be nice?"
- Sport with grand slams?
- Ball game with a net
- Set up games around pub - one game in particular
- Sport on a court
- A game anyone may be for
- See 23
- In which fast service can be advantageous
- Number for five-a-side? Any number is required for game
- Crowd outside pub turned up to see sport
- 17 7 is an exhibition of 5 acrosses or 17s but not 16s
- Game played on court
- Game
- In which we serve, preferably faultlessly
- Group outside pub coming back for game
- Hardly a faultless game
- Racket-and-ball game
- It's played with wrong score the wrong way!
- Racket sport
- First service and where not to put it when returned suggests this game
- Net sport
- Fall trap set up for game
- Anyone for this bouncing fault reaching the net?
- Anyone for having 24 down for nought?
- Game that's lost from the Naughty Nineties
- A real sport!
- Numbers seen around in backing game
- Game won by the overforties
- Game, or six of them, holding local up
- Return of first serve, inaccurately placed, gives one the game
- Local in crowd turned back from game
- Match game
- Federer's forte
- Steffi's racket
- Sent in unconvincing actor to star in court drama
- Game supervised by a high court judge?
- Do wrong and catch up with game
- Game played in nets
- Go wrong hitting net when making return in sport
- Game theory's first applied to town in Ireland
- Sport initially tried by Jessica?
- Court-based sport
- Raising bar in fixed game
- Racquet game
- Playing surfaces of one particular sport
- Medieval, originally French, sport, codified by the British
- At which one may have served before returning?
- Evil trap set up for game
- Second during final round in game
- Misbehave and catch up in game
- 1, perhaps, hence court?
- Nadal's game
- Davis Cup sport
- Billie Jean's sport
- See 25
- It can be bad for the elbow, sport
- Lendl's sport
- Racket game
- Lapse with catch turned the game
- Serena's sport
- Game, part of it inspiring local backs
- Ashe's game
- King vs. Riggs game
- Play with matches?
- Game for first of threes and nines st sixes and sevens
- Sent in to break up the game
- A game with nets in?
- Sport using bats and a ball
- Sent in to organise the game
- Court battle?
- Borg's sport
- In which good service is important
- Nadal's sport
- Game with sets and matches
- Something you'll have to go to court for?
- What 8-, 20-, 36- and 52-Across sound like they could be about
- A sport that has its rackets
- Game for two or four
- Sport played on a variety of surfaces
- Game in which you go astray, then catch up
- 90 Across' sport
- Game of love?
- In which we serve, gamely
- Game played at Wimbledon
- In which we serve starters
- Coco Gauff's sport
- As a return game, it's set up outside the pub
- You'd prefer to have service in it
- Pickleball relative
- It's a smashing game!
- Naomi Osaka's realm
- Love scene?
- Rafael Nadal's sport
- Sport for 4-Down
- Sport with a chair umpire
- Game featuring matches and love
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 16, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 18, 2025
- Daily American - November 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 30, 2025
- LA Times - September 21, 2025
- LA Times - September 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 02, 2025
- Daily American - April 24, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 30, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 30, 2024
- New York Times - December 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 16, 2024
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