Crossword-Solution: CLERK 5 letters, 161 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Clerk	n.	A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
Clerk	n.	A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
Clerk	n.	A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
Clerk	n.	One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
Clerk	n.	An assistant in a shop or store.

We have 161 clues for the answer “CLERK”

Clue	Answers
"May I help you?" asker	1 answer
7-11 worker	1 answer
A Canterbury pilgrim	1 answer
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, e.g.	1 answer
Assist a judge	1 answer
Attorney general's intern	1 answer
Bob Cratchit was one	1 answer
Bob Cratchit's job	1 answer
Bob Cratchit's job in "A Christmas Carol"	1 answer
Bob Cratchit's occupation	1 answer
Bob Cratchit's position	1 answer
Bob Cratchit, e.g.	1 answer
Bob Cratchit, in "A Christmas Carol"	1 answer
Checkout staffer	1 answer
Convenience-store employee	1 answer
Counter agent?	1 answer
Counter tender	1 answer
Court assistant	1 answer
Court staff member	1 answer
Cratchit or Heep	1 answer
Cratchit's job.	1 answer
Cratchit's occupation	1 answer
Cratchit's position	1 answer
Cratchit, for one	1 answer
Dante or Randal, in a 1994 Kevin Smith comedy	1 answer
Document processor	1 answer
Early job of Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B.	1 answer
File filer	1 answer
File handler	1 answer
Filing worker	1 answer
Ghostwrite for Sotomayor or Kagan, maybe	1 answer
Grocery worker	1 answer
Heep, for one	1 answer
Judge's assistant	1 answer
Judge's helper	1 answer
Judicial assistant	1 answer
Judicial worker	1 answer
Kind of employe.	1 answer
Mac's job on "Night Court"	1 answer
Office filer	1 answer
Office menial	1 answer
Office record keeper	1 answer
One of the sales staff	1 answer
One replaced by self-checkout machines	1 answer
One who'll check you out	1 answer
One will ring you up	1 answer
Paper processor	1 answer
Paper shuffler	1 answer
Pencil-pushing employee	1 answer
Pepys' calling.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AERA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with CLERK (5)

How many of the names on the county clerk’s plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother’s children.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Unfortunately for her boy, his best friends died; and he got then a situation as second clerk at a lawyer’s in Casterbridge.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Here, likewise—the germ of the wrinkle-browed, grizzly-bearded, careworn merchant—we have the smart young clerk, who gets the taste of traffic as a wolf-cub does of blood, and already sends adventures in his master’s ships, when he had better be sailing mimic boats upon a mill-pond.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Typical droid positions include supermarket checkout assistant and bank clerk; the syndrome is also endemic in low-level government employees.

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

Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

Quotes with CLERK (3)

Happiness There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigalwho comes back to the dust at your feethaving squandered a fortune far away. And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of whatwas lost, and take from its place the finestgarment, which you saved for an occasionyou could not imagine, and you weep night and dayto know that you were not abandoned, that happiness saved its most extreme formfor you alone. No, happiness is the unc…

Jane Kenyon

He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor. Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from …

Joe Abercrombie The Heroes

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

Joe Abercrombie The Heroes

Where this answer appears

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

Used 181 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).