Clues for the word "WHIST"
We've had 47 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 78 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on November 25, 2025.
Definition of whist
- interj. - Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
- n. - A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.
- v. t. - To hush or silence.
- v. i. - To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.
- a. - Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
Referring Clues
- Bridge precursor
- Early form of bridge
- Trick-taking game
- Tricks are played in it
- Predecessor of bridge
- Bridge without bidding
- Card game with tricks
- Successor to the game Ruff and Honours
- Bridge forerunner
- Four-handed card game
- Bridge ancestor
- Bridge kin
- Old card game like bridge
- Tricky card game?
- Bridge kin played by Phileas Fogg
- Card game similar to bridge
- Tricky game?
- Card game
- Card game for four players
- Card game similar to écarté
- Specialty of Edmond Hoyle
- Game played by Phileas Fogg
- Bridge predecessor
- Subject of a Hoyle treatise
- Trick-taking card game
- Game played by Hoyle
- Shh!
- A few historians taking part in a game
- Card game, often played at a "drive"
- Old card game
- A quiet game
- A game with mum
- Quiet game
- Not a word game
- Its players may have drive
- Say nothing in card game
- Silence, please, for the game
- Small amount required to secure second 24
- A little bit needed to secure second game
- Head of school breaks up scrap in card game
- Silence
- Small amount to take in singular game
- Game first introduced by married couple?
- Card game played by Phileas Fogg
- Trick-y card game
- It's a handy game
- Card game in Austen novels
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - November 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 26, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 16, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 26, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 25, 2023
- LA Times - February 16, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 15, 2023
- New York Times - May 31, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 18, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - September 12, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 10, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - June 17, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 30, 2017
- LA Times - May 28, 2017
- Guardian Quick - May 10, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 09, 2016
- Universal - December 05, 2016
- And in 48 more crossword puzzles...