Clues for the word "WICKET"
We've had 17 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 19 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on June 18, 2025.
Definition of wicket
- n. - A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman.
- n. - A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated.
- n. - A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.
- n. - The ground on which the wickets are set.
- n. - A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.
- n. - The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.
Referring Clues
- Small gate
- Sticky thing
- A British batsman protects it
- Croquet hoop
- Croquet arch
- Croquet target
- Stumps and bails
- When there's rain about, one can have a bit of luck with the pitch
- Small gate - dismissal at cricket
- Stumps and bails construction - success for a bowler
- Bowler's target in cricket
- Target in cricket
- Gate catch, perhaps
- Three stumps and two bails
- Twice drunk outside the King's Head, but a success at cricket
- Pitch, of course, can be sticky
- Cricket term
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 01, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 21, 2023
- Universal - February 18, 2017
- Guardian Quick - August 20, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 08, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 09, 2013
- Guardian Quick - December 24, 2012
- Wall Street Journal - June 17, 2011
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 19, 2010
- Guardian Quick - May 22, 2009
- Guardian Quick - May 08, 2008
- USA Today - November 19, 2007
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 18, 2006
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 17, 2006
- Guardian Quick - May 25, 2006
- Guardian Quick - May 03, 2005
- New York Times - January 05, 2002
- Guardian Cryptic - February 08, 2001