Clues for the word "TICK"
We've had 88 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 172 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Sunday crossword on December 08, 2024.
Definition of tick
- n. - Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.
- v. i. - To go on trust, or credit.
- v. i. - To give tick; to trust.
- n. - Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.
- n. - Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep).
- n. - The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.
- n. - Ticking. See Ticking, n.
- v. i. - To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.
- v. i. - To strike gently; to pat.
- n. - A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.
- n. - Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.
- n. - The whinchat; -- so called from its note.
- v. t. - To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Referring Clues
- Watch word
- Clock sound
- Watch word?
- Pendulum accompaniment
- Watch's sound
- "60 Minutes" sound
- Second indicator?
- Second sound?
- Clock click
- Check mark
- One of the sounds of time
- Sound of time
- Pest seen in 44-Across
- Lyme disease transmitter
- With 70-Across, hint to what the ends of the answers to starred clues can go after
- Very little time?
- Time piece?
- Beat
- Watch sound
- Mark, as a correct answer
- Bloodsucking arachnid
- Sound of a time machine
- Clock action
- Peeve, with "off"
- Little sucker
- To-do list notation
- Eight-legged parasite
- Woods insect
- Mattress cover
- "60 Minutes" sound effect
- Sound of a clock
- Watch noise
- Stopwatch noise
- Mite's cousin
- Stock price movement
- OFF! target
- Bit of time
- Tiny bit of time
- To-do list marking
- Mite
- Auditor's mark
- Biting arachnid
- Bloodsucking bug
- Blood-sucking bug
- Clock's noise
- Bloodsucking insect
- Blood-sucking insect
- Sound of a second hand
- Mark as correct
- Vaughan Brothers "___ Tock"
- Moment - parasitic arachnid
- Little bloodsucker
- A marked sign of approval
- Make your mark in a very short time
- Credit
- Mark of work done (right)
- Credit - bloodsucker
- Mark off second account
- Instant credit
- Parasite - mark of approval
- Noise from a clock
- Second six balls run smoothly
- Flash - bloodsucker
- Cattle parasite
- Moment that can worry sheep and cattle
- Sign of the right moment
- Minute mark
- Moment for credit?
- Instant credit check
- The biter bit
- Second one sucks
- Check (off)
- Watch word?
- Checkmark
- ___-tock (clock sound)
- Once-per-second sound
- Sound of a watch
- Camping menace
- Parasite of deer
- Metronome sound
- Tiny arachnid
- See 6
- Check off for credit
- Sound effect during a bomb defusing, perhaps
- Target of a camper's scalp-to-toe inspection
- Clock's sound
- Tall hiking socks can protect against one
- There's one every second
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 08, 2024
- Daily American - November 07, 2024
- USA Today - October 31, 2024
- Daily American - August 31, 2024
- Daily American - June 29, 2024
- Daily American - May 29, 2024
- Daily American - May 14, 2024
- Daily American - March 05, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 07, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 12, 2023
- Mirror Daily - October 11, 2023
- Mirror Daily - October 10, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 15, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 01, 2023
- USA Today - January 15, 2023
- LA Times - December 26, 2022
- Daily American - November 07, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - September 28, 2022
- LA Times - September 11, 2022
- Daily American - August 31, 2022
- New York Times - August 25, 2022
- Your Life Choices - August 09, 2022
- Daily American - June 29, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 17, 2022
- LA Times - February 04, 2018
- Guardian Quick - January 18, 2018
- Your Life Choices - November 11, 2017
- Daily Quick - November 07, 2017
- Rock n Roll Crossword - July 30, 2017
- And in 142 more crossword puzzles...