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Crossword-Solution: AFOOT 5 letters, 137 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Afoot adv. On foot.
Afoot adv. Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.

We have 137 clues for the answer “AFOOT”

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"... Watson, come! The game is ___" 1 answer
"Come Watson, the game is ___" 1 answer
"The game is __": Sherlock Holmes 1 answer
"The game is ___!" 1 answer
"The game is ___!" (Sherlock Holmes line) 1 answer
"The game is ___" (Holmes quote) 1 answer
"The game is ___" (Holmes) 1 answer
"The game is ___" (Sherlock Holmes declaration) 1 answer
"The game is ___" (in progress) 1 answer
"The game's ___" (Sherlock Holmes) 1 answer
"There's evil ___!" (SpongeBob declaration that makes Mermaid Man scamper away in fear) 1 answer
"You must have grown ___!" 1 answer
Active, as "the game" 1 answer
Active, as a game 1 answer
Active, per Holmes 1 answer
Astir; in progress. 1 answer
Beginning to happen 1 answer
Currently going on 1 answer
Currently in progress 1 answer
Currently taking place 1 answer
Get ___ in the door 1 answer
Going on in the vicinity 1 answer
Going on, to Holmes 1 answer
Going on, to Sherlock 1 answer
Happening now, as the game 1 answer
Happening now, à la Sherlock 1 answer
Happening, as "the game" 1 answer
Happening, as Sherlock's game 1 answer
Happening, to Dr. Watson 1 answer
Happening, to Holmes 1 answer
In preparation. 1 answer
In process 1 answer
In progress, as Sherlock's "game" 1 answer
In progress, to Holmes 1 answer
In progress, to Sherlock 1 answer
In the process of happening 1 answer
Like Holmes' game 1 answer
Like Holmes's game 1 answer
Like Sherlock Holmes' game? 1 answer
Like Sherlock's "game" 1 answer
Like a pedestrian 1 answer
Like skullduggery, perhaps 1 answer
Like the game, to Holmes 1 answer
Like the game, to Sherlock 1 answer
Like the game, to Sherlock Holmes 1 answer
Looming, to Holmes 1 answer
Moving along 1 answer
Not on horseback 1 answer
Not riding. 1 answer
On shank's mare 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AFOOT (5)

There is now (early 1991) a move afoot to deprecate the term {MUD} itself, as newer designs exhibit an exploding variety of names corresponding to the different simulation styles being explored.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
You see, ef I kep’ on tryin’ to git away afoot, de dogs ’ud track me; ef I stole a skift to cross over, dey’d miss dat skift, you see, en dey’d know ’bout whah I’d lan’ on de yuther side, en whah to pick up my track.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Werper, sitting upon the veranda, could hear their voices in earnest discussion, and having realized that something of unusual moment was afoot, he quietly rose from his chair, and keeping well in the shadow of the shrubbery growing profusely about the bungalow, made his silent way to a point beneath the window of the room in which his host and hostess slept.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
And I says: “Well, me and Tom allowed we would come along afoot and take a smell of the woods, and we run across Lem Beebe and Jim Lane, and they asked us to go with them blackberrying to-night, and said they could borrow Jubiter Dunlap’s dog, because he had told them just that minute—” “Where did they see him?” says the old man; and when I looked up to see how _he_ come to take an intrust in a little thing like that, his eyes was just burning into me, he was that eager.
Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
When he awoke and was afoot again, he lingered there yet a little longer, watching an eddy that turned and turned purposeless, until the stream absorbed it, and carried it on to the sea.--“Like me.” A trading-boat, with a sail of the softened colour of a dead leaf, then glided into his view, floated by him, and died away.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994

Quotes with AFOOT (3)

There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?""Evil's afoot.""Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.
Jim Butcher White Night
Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is no denying that these activities contributed to the economy of farm households, but a further fact is that they were pleasures; they were wilderness pleasures, not greatly different from the pleasures pursued by conservationists and wilderness lovers. As I was always aware, my friends the coon hunters were not motivated just by the wish to tree coons and…
Wendell Berry Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.
Walt Whitman Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 288 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).