Crossword-Solution: DIRECT 6 letters, 311 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Direct	a.	Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
Direct	a.	Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
Direct	a.	Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
Direct	a.	In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
Direct	a.	In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
Direct	v. t.	To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
Direct	v. t.	To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
Direct	v. t.	To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
Direct	v. t.	To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
Direct	v. t.	To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
Direct	v. i.	To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
Direct	n.	A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DIRECT	anagram	CREDIT, DECRIT, DIETRC, TRICED

We have 311 clues for the answer “DIRECT”

Clue	Answers
"But what I really want to do is __"	1 answer
ADDRESS letter to	1 answer
ASSIGN to a particular industry or employment	1 answer
BE director of film	1 answer
Be at the helm of	1 answer
CONVEY to	1 answer
Control the operations of	1 answer
Emulate Chloe Zhao	1 answer
Emulate Delbert Mann	1 answer
Emulate Elliott Nugent.	1 answer
Emulate Kazan	1 answer
Emulate Lumet	1 answer
Emulate Mike Nichols	1 answer
Emulate Otto Preminger	1 answer
Emulate Scorsese	1 answer
Emulate Spielberg	1 answer
Emulate Woody Allen	1 answer
FATHER to son, in an unbroken line from (of succession)	1 answer
Follow in Fellini's footsteps	1 answer
Frank; unambiguous	1 answer
Guide with advice	1 answer
Helm a movie	1 answer
IN form in which it was uttered, not reported in third person	1 answer
Issue orders	1 answer
Kazan and Mankiewicz do.	1 answer
Kind of current or evidence	1 answer
Lacking a stopover, as a flight	1 answer
Lead in a movie?	1 answer
Lead the orchestra	1 answer
Like a nonstop flight	1 answer
Like the fastest route	1 answer
Like the shortest route	1 answer
MOVING at right angles to given surface etc.	1 answer
Not beating around the bush	1 answer
Not circuitous.	1 answer
Not meandering	1 answer
ORDER person to do	1 answer
ORDER to do	1 answer
PROCEEDING at right angles to given surface etc.	1 answer
Point the way	1 answer
Proceeding by the shortest way	1 answer
Run the show, literally	1 answer
SITUATED at right angles to given surface etc.	1 answer
SOURCE, coming straight from the (of light etc.)	1 answer
Sans stopovers	1 answer
Set the scene?	1 answer
Straight from the source	1 answer
Supervise and control a film/play	1 answer
TELL person the way to	1 answer
Taking no detours	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEARE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with DIRECT (5)

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

The United States' Constitution Founding Fathers 1975

Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary.

Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln 1979

YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Glad was the Spirit impure as now in hope To find who might direct his wandring flight To Paradise the happie seat of Man, His journies end and our beginning woe.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

His collection is interesting and important, not only as the parent source or foundation of the earlier printed versions of Aesop, but as the direct channel of attracting to these fables the attention of the learned.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Quotes with DIRECT (3)

When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches t…

Kahlil Gibran Le Prophete

I choose to believe God had a more direct involvement in the creation of my heart and consciousness than in the creation of any book, no matter how thick or old it may be.

P.S. Baber Cassie Draws the Universe

Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are proper in their own place, but they are mere options for the one infused with devotion. To such a one, God is direct and spontaneous, providing him with an immediate source of guidance and direction. His relationship with God is not mediated through anyone or anything. (104)

Prem Prakash The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

Where this answer appears

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

Used 95 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).