Clues for the word "WIRE"
We've had 204 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 408 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on August 19, 2026.
Definition of wire
- n. - A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
- n. - A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
- v. t. - To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
- v. t. - To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
- v. t. - To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- v. t. - To send (a message) by telegraph.
- v. i. - To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
- v. i. - To send a telegraphic message.
Referring Clues
- Current line
- Hook up electronically
- Kind of service
- Telegram
- Race's end
- Tapping target
- Certain money transfer
- Hide a mike on
- End of a footrace
- A.P. or Reuters, informally
- 25-Across's perch, perhaps
- Send via Western Union
- Hidden mike
- Telegraph
- Conductor
- News source
- Put a traveling mike on
- Booby trap component
- Finish line, maybe
- Undercover device
- Send a telegram to
- Bug, in a way
- Secrete a mike on
- Bale binder
- Karl Wallenda's "path"
- It may be barbed
- Slinky, essentially
- E-mail forerunner
- Bug part
- Lamp-to-plug link
- Prestressed concrete reinforcer
- Horse race finish line
- Race terminus
- Finish line
- Send, in a way
- Barbed ___
- Infiltrator's device
- Western Union message
- Current conduit
- Bug
- Metal thread
- Hidden mike, slangily
- Electricity carrier
- Current carrier
- Electricity conductor, often
- Perform an electrician's job
- Bird's perch, perhaps
- Word with hay or live
- Clothes hanger option
- Electricity conductor
- Word with puller or service
- Do an electrician's job
- Bra insert
- Informant's accessory
- Cable
- Electrician's hookup
- Something an undercover agent might wear
- Double agent's recording
- Finish line marker
- Hidden microphone
- Barbed ___
- Hay, hot or high ender
- End opposite the starting gate
- One may be used in a sting
- Unlike Joan's hangers
- A rat might wear one
- Use Western Union
- Marionette mover
- Informant's wear
- Put a mike on, secretly
- Electrician's supply
- Good conductor
- Good conductor
- Piano part
- Electrician's concern
- Undercover cop's microphone
- Marionette part
- UPI bulletin
- AP bulletin
- Cablegram
- Tightrope
- Spy's device
- Something a police informant might wear
- Telephone line
- One way to transfer money
- Hanger material
- Transmit electronically
- Covert transmitting device
- Spy wear, maybe
- Speaker-to-stereo link
- Undercover agent's wear
- Electrical cable
- Send money
- Undercover apparatus
- Word with live or hot
- Metal in a piano
- Electrical line
- Eavesdropping device
- Energize, in a way
- Nik Wallenda walks on one
- Earring part
- Send electronically, as funds
- Charging cable, e.g.
- Fence material, maybe
- Toaster-to-plug link
- Hidden transmitter
- Circus walkway
- Nik Wallenda need
- Support for many a 29-Down
- Aerialist's walkway
- Lamp-to-plug line
- Send money, in a way
- Sculpture medium for Calder
- Concealed mike
- Steinway string material
- Electrical cord
- Listening device
- Finish line in a horse race
- Power conduit
- Piano string
- Bridge cable, essentially
- Listening device on a narc
- Urgent message
- Electronic money transfer
- Litz, e.g.
- Police informant's wear
- Copper thread
- Send by Western Union
- High ___ (circus prop)
- Send a telegram
- It can be barbed
- What an electrician may handle
- Western Union transmission
- Cord
- Electrical conductor
- Motley Crue "Live ___"
- See 20
- Flex
- Communication of some length
- Strand of metal
- Horse race finish
- Message tense finishes go to
- Flexible strands of metal
- See 12
- One might be worn in a sting
- One might be worn in a sting operation
- Electrical connection
- Something cut by a bomb defuser
- Signal carrier
- Send, as money
- See 3
- Barbed ___ fence
- Coat hanger material
- "Barbed" fencing material
- Thin cable
- Debut Motley Crue single "Live ___"
- Metal strand
- Electrical thing
- Concealed microphone
- Undercover agent's mike
- Mob turncoat's wear
- "Barbed" fence topper
- High ___
- The message we get out of the tax people
- It's hidden while undercover
- Metallic strand
- Something an electrician handles
- Reinforce, as a broken jaw
- Kind of transfer
- Computer cable
- Electrify
- Down to the ___
- Current travels through one
- Live ___
- Something an informant might wear
- Something for an electrician to handle
- A daredevil might walk on one
- A spy might wear one
- Line with a plug
- Bank-to-bank transfer
- Bra part that might be removed
- Line held by a telephone pole
- Stylet
- Type of coat hanger
- Listening device for an undercover officer
- Secret recording device
- What a tightrope walker walks on
- What a bralette lacks
- Hidden mic
- Hidden listening device
- ___ transfer
- Certain money transaction
- Transfer, as money
- Undercover agent's device
- Something an electrician touches
- Medium of many a Calder mobile
- Electrical current carrier
- One might be tapped or cut
- "Bird on a ___"
- Send from bank to bank
- Hookup for an undercover agent
- Pipe cleaner center
- Bluetooth device's lack, often
- Tool for a sting
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - August 19, 2026
- Daily American - August 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - August 06, 2026
- New York Times - July 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 13, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 12, 2026
- LA Times - June 28, 2026
- Your Life Choices - May 20, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 22, 2026
- LA Times - April 12, 2026
- Daily American - March 23, 2026
- LA Times - March 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 28, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 18, 2026
- Daily American - December 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 11, 2025
- LA Times - October 08, 2025
- LA Times - September 28, 2025
- Daily American - September 11, 2025
- New York Times - September 09, 2025
- LA Times - August 01, 2025
- New York Times - July 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 24, 2025
- Daily American - May 29, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 17, 2025
- USA Today - March 16, 2025
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