Clues for the word "WRITE"
We've had 79 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 132 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on October 15, 2025.
Definition of write
- v. t. - To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
- v. t. - To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
- v. t. - Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
- v. t. - To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
- v. t. - To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
- v. i. - To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
- v. i. - To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
- v. i. - To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
- v. i. - To compose or send letters.
Referring Clues
- Pen
- Dash off
- Going-away request
- Correspond
- Produce plays, say
- Parting request
- Put on paper
- Work on a magazine article
- Correspond with
- Compose
- Keep in touch, in a way
- Keep in touch
- Create copy
- Correspondent's request
- Compose prose
- Take down
- Jot down
- Order to someone moving away
- Drop a line to
- Compose a letter
- Do lines?
- Use a pen
- Emulate Shakespeare
- Put down
- Compose, as a letter
- Jot (down)
- Draft
- Drop a line
- Prepare a letter
- Put to paper
- Communicate by letter
- Form letters
- Work on a script
- Work on a mystery, say
- Take pen in hand
- Take notes
- Fire off a letter
- Exhortation from home
- Stay in touch, perhaps
- Blog, say
- Author a novel
- Tell stories, in a way
- "Don't forget to ___"
- Compose, as prose
- Emulate 5-Down
- Work on a novel
- Be a scribe
- Departing command
- Be an author
- Compose, as music
- Produce chapter and verse?
- Put pen to paper
- ___ a letter
- Correspond after start of wedding ceremony
- Billy Williams "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and ___ Myself a Letter"
- Put down in black and white
- Put down what sounds right
- Correspond with the right sound
- Put down as a ceremony with point
- A reader can do so, literally
- Make a play?
- Communicate with office
- Said to be correct to send a letter
- Use cursive
- Begin another chapter, e.g.
- Compose tweets, say
- Mark on paper with a pen
- Jot some lines
- Act on a novel idea?
- Put down as a Western ceremony
- What I do right, you might say
- Work on a 106 Down
- Compose an email
- Do novel work
- Inscribe
- Set down
- Do some character-building?
- Form letters?
- Rave over, metaphorically
Last Seen In
- New York Times - October 15, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 04, 2025
- Mirror Mini - June 07, 2025
- LA Times - May 17, 2025
- New York Times - March 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 06, 2025
- New York Times - December 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 22, 2024
- LA Times - July 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 26, 2024
- Daily American - May 26, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 27, 2024
- New York Times - April 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - March 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 17, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 10, 2023
- LA Times - July 17, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - March 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 26, 2022
- New York Times - July 22, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 06, 2022
- Mirror Quick - February 02, 2018
- Mirror Quick - December 19, 2017
- LA Times - December 11, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - November 15, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 17, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - September 10, 2017
- And in 102 more crossword puzzles...