Clues for the word "TURN"
We've had 214 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 424 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 22, 2025.
Definition of turn
- v. t. - To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
- v. t. - To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.
- v. t. - To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.
- v. t. - To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote.
- v. t. - To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.
- v. t. - To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
- v. t. - Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt.
- v. t. - To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.
- v. t. - To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.
- v. t. - To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.
- v. i. - To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
- v. i. - Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
- v. i. - To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.
- v. i. - To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.
- v. i. - To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
- v. i. - To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
- v. i. - To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
- v. i. - To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
- v. i. - To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
- v. i. - To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.
- v. i. - To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.
- v. i. - To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- v. i. - To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
- n. - The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
- n. - Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.
- n. - One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
- n. - A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.
- n. - Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
- n. - Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
- n. - Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
- n. - Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
- n. - A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
- n. - A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
- n. - A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
- n. - A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
- n. - A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
- n. - Monthly courses; menses.
- n. - An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.
Referring Clues
- Not go straight
- Rebel (against)
- Go bad
- Swirl
- Time to make a move
- Take a dogleg, e.g.
- Wrench
- Go sour
- Become a traitor
- Part of driving directions
- Spin
- Change colors
- Spoil
- NO U ___ (street sign)
- Go left or right
- Come about
- Curve
- Chance to play
- Roll of the dice, maybe
- *Right face, e.g.
- Twist
- Go right or left
- Go round the bend?
- Change color
- Move about an axis
- Go to the dark side
- Kind of signal
- Tripled, a Pete Seeger song
- Word that can come before the last word of this puzzle's longest entries
- One is taken at the plate
- Chance to play in a game
- Become sour
- Zig or zag
- See 10-Down
- "No U-___"
- Make a right, say
- Curdle
- Change directions
- Make a left, perhaps
- Become
- Lose freshness
- Use, as a key
- Make a left or right
- Go right, say
- Go right
- Rotate
- Spin around
- Reason for signaling
- Part of a driving test
- Change one's way?
- Change course
- Go sour, as milk
- U follower
- Deflect
- Emulate Vanna
- Hang a left or a right
- Defect or deflect
- Go time in a game
- Do an about-face
- Hang a right
- Change color, as leaves
- Change color, like leaves
- "No U ___"
- Pirouette
- It comes before the river
- Go left, say
- Opportunity to play
- Swerve
- Go around
- At bat, so to speak
- Veer
- Swivel
- Pivot
- Revolve
- Chance in a game
- With 103 Across, fade away
- Change direction
- Century threshold
- Appear, with "up"
- Make a uey
- Game round
- Go another way
- Time to go
- Time to play
- When tripled, 1965 Byrds hit
- GPS instruction
- Zig and zag
- Convert
- GPS directive
- Invert
- Change one's ways?
- Roll of the dice, say
- Reach the age of
- Bend in the road
- Spin of the dial or roll of the dice
- "The ___ of the Screw"
- Begin a retreat
- Right or left, while driving
- Revolve or rotate
- Sour
- Move
- Chance to spin, roll or draw
- Negotiate a corner
- Become stale
- Rotate - diverge - change (4)
- Metamorphose
- About-face
- Navigation system suggestion
- Act of revolution
- Respond to "gee" or "haw"
- Revolution
- Repeated word in The Byrds song title
- ELO "___ to Stone"
- Gloria Estefan "___ the Beat Around"
- Transform - revolution
- Go off - act
- Chance
- See 10
- Go bird catching
- Act as a trade union for sailors
- Getting a shock when you go round
- Go - go round in circles - go off
- Shot that gives you quite a shock
- Shock when bird is heard
- Change into, for the bend
- Shot in rotation
- Change one's act
- Go on the stage?
- Sprain when taking a walk?
- Rotate - go
- Shape on a lathe
- Revolve - go off
- Point to boring routine - "Return To Go"
- See 19
- Refuse
- Act in rotation
- Go for a short walk
- Distinctive expression
- Go off - performance
- Act - rotate
- Fit wheel
- Artist without hesitation gives performance on stage
- Go for a spin
- See 23
- See 24
- Go for change
- Change the course of a revolution
- Become rancid
- MapQuest instruction
- With 50 Down, blinker
- Change course in desert
- Recipe for upside down cake
- Crack shot ultimately remains in it
- Change one's mind
- Stage performance that you appear in, ultimately
- See 9
- Bird said to change direction
- Spell 'vase' after bit of tuition
- Start from 'Go'
- See 2
- Three-point ___
- Spell
- Move around
- Stop going in a straight path
- A surprise item on the bill
- Dice roll, say
- Dismiss spring and end happily
- Go round, or simply go
- Hairpin or U
- Surprise to arrive at a literary festival?
- Go and change
- Go and act
- Left at a crossroads, e.g.
- A walk, or a spin
- Steer
- Obey a Garmin command
- Chance at the spinner
- A shocking act?
- Spoil the walk
- An act to go for?
- Make a right or left
- Revolve: curdle
- Go off for a spin?
- Go on the rota
- Go and spoil
- Chance to go
- A nasty one could upset some countrymen
- Kate Atkinson's "One Good ___"
- ___ of phrase
- Make a left, say
- Hang a left, e.g.
- Chance to play in a board game
- Chance to roll the dice, say
- What many leaves do in autumn
- Ballroom basic
- GPS command
- ___ loose: free
- Take a left, say
- Word before "the tables" or "the tide"
- Community card between "flop" and "river" in hold'em
- One's opportunity to change?
- Go and deviate
- Do a 180, for example
- Game time?
- Act of revolution?
- Take for a spin?
- Go on the stage?
- Fright you got on a walk?
- Change one's act?
- Bend
- Chance to play, on game night
- Bad thing to try to do from the middle lane
- Game division
- Time to roll the dice, maybe
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 22, 2025
- LA Times - November 30, 2025
- New York Times - November 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 05, 2025
- Daily American - October 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 08, 2025
- Daily American - September 19, 2025
- New York Times - September 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 04, 2025
- Daily American - July 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 17, 2025
- Daily American - May 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 22, 2025
- Daily American - March 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 28, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 03, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 06, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 29, 2024
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