Crossword-Solution: AFOUL 5 letters, 64 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Afoul	adv. & a.	In collision; entangled.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
AFOUL	anagram	FOULA

We have 64 clues for the answer “AFOUL”

Clue	Answers
Run __ of (hit a snag with)	1 answer
In a state of entanglement	1 answer
Run ___ (get into trouble)	1 answer
In an entangled state	1 answer
Run __ of: get into trouble	1 answer
Run __ of the law: get in trouble	1 answer
In conflict with, with "of"	1 answer
In opposition to, with "of"	1 answer
Run __ of (offend)	1 answer
In trouble with, with "of"	1 answer
In violation (of)	1 answer
Run ___ of (be in conflict with)	1 answer
On the bad side (of)	1 answer
On the wrong side (of)	1 answer
Run __ of (conflict with)	1 answer
Opposing, with 'of'	1 answer
Ran ___ of	1 answer
Run __ of (clash with)	1 answer
Run -- of (get into trouble with)	1 answer
Run -- of the law	1 answer
Run __ of	1 answer
Run ___ of (come into conflict with)	1 answer
in or into a state of difficulty, confusion, or conflict (with)	1 answer
__ of (in trouble with)	1 answer
__ of (in conflict with)	1 answer
Tangled, as ship's lines	1 answer
Run ___ of the law (commit crimes)	1 answer
Run ___ of the law (commit a crime)	1 answer
Run ___ of (violate)	1 answer
Run ___ of (hit a snag)	1 answer
Run ___ of (go against)	1 answer
Run ___ of (get in trouble with)	1 answer
Run ___ of (collide with)	1 answer
Clashing with, with "of"	1 answer
Conflicting with, with "of"	1 answer
Conflicting, with 'of'	1 answer
Run ___ of (become entangled with)	1 answer
How a felon runs?	1 answer
In a collision or a tangle.	1 answer
In a situation of entanglement	1 answer
In a state of collision	1 answer
Into conflict with	2 answers
Ran ___ of the law	2 answers
In a state of conflict	2 answers
Fall ____ of	2 answers
Totally wrong	3 answers
Bad way to fall	3 answers
In conflict with	4 answers
In a tangle	4 answers
Bad way to run	6 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EARET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with AFOUL (5)

The name permits {marketroid}s to say "Yes, and you can program our computers in English!" to ignorant {suit}s without quite running afoul of the truth-in-advertising laws.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

The Millses dilated on his worthlessness, and Vashti, grown to be a slender slip of a girl with very bright eyes and a little nose, was loudest against him in public; though rumor said she had fallen afoul of her youngest brother and boxed his jaws for seconding something she had said of him.

The Burial of the Guns Thomas Nelson Page 2008

Stumbling over flower beds, running afoul of a sun-dial, groping our way savagely along hedges and thorny banks, we reached the steps finally and climbed the terrace.

The Man in Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart 1999

Hawksley, with all that money and a forged English passport, would have a good deal of trouble explaining if he ran afoul the police.

The Drums Of Jeopardy Harold MacGrath 1999

Call the captain, and heave the ship aback? Just at this moment, in crossing the forecastle, one of the men saw a light below, and looking down the scuttle, saw the watch all out of their berths, and afoul of one poor fellow, dragging him out of his berth, and shaking him, to wake him out of a nightmare.

Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 2000

Quotes with AFOUL (3)

As he watched Joe stand, blazing, on the fire escape, Sammy felt an ache in his chest that turned out to be, as so often occurs when memory and desire conjoin with a transient effect of weather, the pang of creation. The desire he felt, watching Joe, was unquestionably physical, but in the sense that Sammy wanted to inhabit the body of his cousin, not possess it. It was, in part, a longing--common enough among the inventors of heroes--to be someone else; to be more than the r…

Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

... when it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all that we endured. Look at all we managed to light along our path through the long shadow of adversity. Look at the seemingly indestructible affiliation that was once us. And look at us now.

Jonathan Evison The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 126 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).