Word "ESCAPE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
Synonyms:
get away
Examples:
We escaped to our summer house for a few days

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
Synonyms:
escape cock, escape valve, relief valve, safety valve

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
Synonyms:
elude

Crossword Clues for ESCAPE

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Clue Source Date
Getaway The Times Concise 15 Aug 2025
Houdini feat Thomas Joseph 12 Aug 2025
Evade The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 10 Aug 2025
Free yourself: - from custody
Get free The Telegraph Quick 07 Jul 2025
Flee The Telegraph Quick 01 Jul 2025
Flee The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 26 Jun 2025
Skirt gets oddly removed with coat The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Jun 2025
"___ to Witch Mountain"
See! There's a cap on it but it will still leak out
Slip away LA Times Daily 19 Jun 2025
Run away from George's caper (6)
Avoidance of danger
Run off, like some splashes on a garment (6)
Our star's thriller: No -
Break free LA Times Daily 10 Jun 2025
English on new space flight (6)
Flight with a leak? (6)
Elastic black panels regularly checked for seepage (6)
Flee The Telegraph Quick 29 May 2025
Slip away when there's a breach of the peace around the south (6)
Get away Mirror Classic 16 May 2025
Get away from the daily grind
Key for Dodge? (6)
Take off from base on small coastal area
Avoid unpleasant space, up to Downa point (6)
Fire ___ (emergency outside steps) (6)
Get away The Telegraph Quick 14 Apr 2025
Slip or get away (6)
Make getaway
Flee (6) Puzzler 03 Apr 2025
Break free Commuter 28 Mar 2025
Key gym encapsulating a distraction (6)
____ room, location of a game in which participants find clues in order to leave (6)
Avoid capture Newsday 09 Mar 2025
Run away! Police is finally approaching headland (6)
Get away Mirror Classic 28 Feb 2025
The Great -. movie In box C (6)
Flee easternmost part of remote southern headland The Times Quick Cryptic 20 Feb 2025
Certain daring performer, or a hint to this puzzle's theme
1980 Rupert Holmes US number one single later known as "The Pina Colada Song" (6)
Key to prisoners' breakout (6)
Break out of jail Commuter 08 Feb 2025
Angus Lennie starred in The Great ______ (6)
Upset aces with exercise but go unpunished (6)
Flee The Telegraph Quick 29 Jan 2025
[aria-label] Circled letter + Superman feature
Circled letter + Superman feature New York Times 26 Jan 2025
Break free Mirror Tea Time 26 Jan 2025
Get away to the south in peace for a change (6)
___ from Alcatraz, 1979 Clint Eastwood film Puzzler Backwords 21 Jan 2025
Break free Commuter 20 Jan 2025
Under directions, Head will flee (6)
Vacation, for many Newsday 10 Jan 2025
Break free from confinement or prison (6)
The Great ___, World War II drama starring Steve Mcqueen (6)
Diversion in two points overlooking headland (6)
Word before room or key New York Times 24 Dec 2024
Long-running BBC show, ______ to the Country (6)
Flight provides distraction (6)
Avoid unpleasant space, up to a point (6)
Son in peace mad to break free (6) Puzzler Cryptic 03 Dec 2024
Getaway The Telegraph Quick 23 Nov 2024
Flee from a breach of the peace round the south (6)
Get away The Telegraph Quick 22 Nov 2024
Take off two heads, the first being uncovered The Telegraph Toughie 20 Nov 2024
Make a getaway Newsday 18 Nov 2024
Avoid eastern scenery (6) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Nov 2024
____ room, puzzle-solving activity The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 04 Nov 2024
Bolt and key to copy (6)
Steve McQueen's "The Great ___" (1963)
Flee from captors: make your -
See wrong limit included leak (6)
"The Great -"
Half the does on the headland get away (6)
See! Wear a cap! Now you can go out!
Flight in space circulating Earth (6)
Peace' s disturbed in home-search show going to the country (6)
Get away The Telegraph Quick 16 Oct 2024
See cap break out and get away (6)
Flee Newsday 09 Oct 2024
A way to avoid peace's outcome (6)
Leak peace moves involving Sweden (6)
Getaway The Telegraph Quick 28 Sep 2024
Run away (6) Puzzler 28 Sep 2024
Free yourself from captivity
See! Wear a cap and you'll get away with it!
Avoid difficult case with exercise (6)
Key centre of west headland
Flight case broke with exercise
Jailbreak exploit not given publicity?
Break free from confinement or control (6)
Made a getaway from duncescap effectively (6)
Get away LA Times Daily 07 Sep 2024
Peace's way out (6)
Fly the coop Wall Street Journal 29 Aug 2024
Scheming jailbird's aim, maybe
Two bridge players use cloak to slip away unnoticed (6)
"___ to the Country" (Brits search for rural homes on this show on the CBC)
Ford S.U.V. New York Times Mini 24 Aug 2024
Make a getaway New York Times Mini 16 Aug 2024
Fire ___ (emergency exit)
Get away from two points on headland (6)
Get loose Commuter 03 Aug 2024
Getaway The Telegraph Quick 03 Aug 2024
Con's dream Wall Street Journal 01 Aug 2024
Break free New York Times 29 Jul 2024
____ to Victory, wartime football film The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 26 Jul 2024
Run away in dunce's cap, embarrassed The Times Quick Cryptic 23 Jul 2024
___ room, puzzle-solving group game
Flee LA Times Daily 17 Jul 2024
Break free The Times Concise 16 Jul 2024
Break free Universal 16 Jul 2024
Get away The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 15 Jul 2024
Get away from captors
Kind of room puzzle
Gain freedom (6)
Get free top from emporium with small cloak The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Jul 2024
A breach of the peace round the south - get away (6)
Bolt or lock the cell door to prevent it
Flee Mirror Quick 24 Jun 2024
He paces about trying to get away from it all (6)
Run off to see about getting limit (6) Mirror Cryptic 24 Jun 2024
key promising freedom, say
Get out a piece of firefighting equipment (6)
Fire ___ (exit stairway during emergencies)
____ to the Country, BBC property show The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 15 Jun 2024
In BBC show, get away to the country using key (6)
The scapegoat trapped getaway (6)
Flee The Telegraph Quick 06 Jun 2024
Break free from prison (6)
Welcome break for prisoner? (6)
Take flight from Scottish capital in peace, maybe (6)
Get free of danger (6)
How to get away from PC with ease (6)
BBC daytime show, ___-- to the Country (6)
Break free from captivity (6)
Get free ties with 50 per cent off cloak The Telegraph Cryptic 21 May 2024
___ to the Country, property series (6) Puzzler 15 May 2024
Get away Thomas Joseph 10 May 2024
Perfume created in 1991 by Calvin Klein (6)
Flee from quarters by headland (6)
Get away, case packed, to have a little peace (6)
Flee from holiday (6) Puzzler Cryptic 01 May 2024
Find a way out
"The Great ___" Steve McQueen movie
Get away with two hands, up to a point (6)
See the cap is changed or it will leak out
"____ from Alcatraz"
Sally, outside in elements, put on this? (6)
Undesired leak
Actual title of "The Piña Colada Song" New York Times 24 Mar 2024
Break free Mirror Tea Time 21 Mar 2024
Avoid dunce's cap, excelling (though only somewhat) (6)
Interjection used upon making a mistake (6)
Houdini feat Thomas Joseph 13 Mar 2024
Some of Quixote's capers involved flight from danger (6)
Steve McQueen starred in the movie based on a true story about a POW breakout in WWII, The Great ...
See 12 Across Mirror Quiz 26 Feb 2024
Break free Puzzler Backwords 22 Feb 2024
Head of Exploration rescheduled space flight (6)
Get away Mirror Classic 10 Feb 2024
Fire ___ (emergency exit during a fire)
Avoid, flee (6)
Flee The Telegraph Quick 26 Jan 2024
Distraction from unpleasant realities
Houdini feat Thomas Joseph 17 Jan 2024
"The Great ___" (1963 ensemble cast war movie)
The Great ___, Steve McQueen film (6)
Break loose USA Today 05 Jan 2024
Break loose Puzzler Backwords 01 Jan 2024
Beat relegation
Getaway car? (Ford) Universal 21 Dec 2023
Flee, get away The Times Concise 21 Dec 2023
Get away USA Today 17 Dec 2023
Get free from the Huesca penitentiary (6)
Get free from the Huesca penitentiary(6)
BBC daytime show, ----- to the Country (6)
Flight (from reality) (6)
Partly removes cap easily with bolt (6) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Dec 2023
Get away from captivity (6)
Enables extremists to reach headland and elude them
Prisoner's welcome break? (6)
"___ to Margaritaville" (jukebox musical) Universal 27 Nov 2023
Avoid encountering Simon Case at public enquiry initially (6)
Flee Commuter 27 Nov 2023
Get away Wall Street Journal 27 Nov 2023
Get away from it all LA Times Daily 26 Nov 2023
Get away from it all
Avoid men such as Prem regularly (6)
___ from Alcatraz, 1979 Clint Eastwood film Puzzler Backwords 07 Nov 2023
The Great ___, film set in a POW camp (6) Puzzler 06 Nov 2023
Leak out Newsday 02 Nov 2023
Get away The Guardian Quick 31 Oct 2023
Wriggle out of LA Times Daily 26 Oct 2023
Make one's getaway Family Time 23 Oct 2023
Houdini act Wall Street Journal 21 Oct 2023
Miss flight The Guardian Cryptic 07 Sep 2023
Slip away Universal 05 Jun 2023
Get free ale finally with small head The Telegraph Cryptic 09 May 2023
Make a getaway Newsday 09 May 2023
2001 single by Enrique Iglesias that peaked at No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100
Scarper with key copy The Guardian Cryptic 25 Apr 2023
Fire ___ (exit for a fire)
Get away Newsday 09 Feb 2023
Fire ___ (emergency exit)
Way out The Guardian Quick 20 Dec 2022
Copy key to open bolt The Guardian Cryptic 09 Dec 2022
Take off enormous unlined cloak The Guardian Cryptic 29 Nov 2022
Flee The Guardian Speedy 20 Nov 2022
European associated with tricky space flight The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Sep 2022
Elude The Guardian Quick 06 Sep 2022
Holiday in Spain on southern peninsula The Telegraph Toughie 03 Aug 2022
__ room LA Times Daily 16 Jul 2022
"__ at Dannemora": Arquette miniseries LA Times Daily 02 Jul 2022
"___ Room" (2019 horror film)
Houdini feat Thomas Joseph 16 Jun 2022
Break free, get away Irish Times Simplex 30 Apr 2022
Key component of puttanesca, perhaps
Flight showing off space age at the foundation Irish Times Crosaire 20 Apr 2022
Break out of confinement Irish Times Simplex 19 Apr 2022
“None among us is superman enough to ____ kitsch completely” (Milan Kundera) The Times Specialist Sunday 17 Apr 2022
Break free or get away from Irish Times Simplex 11 Apr 2022
Break free USA Today 13 Feb 2022
Break free or get away from Irish Times Simplex 09 Feb 2022
Break free, get away Irish Times Simplex 01 Feb 2022
Get away with key?
Get away with key? The Guardian Cryptic 07 Dec 2021
"___ Room: Tournament of Champions," 2021 psychological thriller movie starring Taylor Russell
Get away from it all USA Today 28 Nov 2021
Flee from Spanish promontory
The key to get out of prison? The Times Cryptic 17 Nov 2021
Break free Universal 15 Nov 2021
Get out New York Times 22 Sep 2021
Daydreaming, for some Universal 21 Sep 2021
Break out LA Times Daily 31 Aug 2021
Get away from Spain's promontory
Break out The Washington Post 31 Aug 2021
Get away The Times Concise 25 Aug 2021
Flee Eugene Sheffer 20 Aug 2021
It's an adventure, missing commercial flight
Flight showing off space age at the foundation Irish Times Crosaire 11 Aug 2021
Eruption from Earth's mantle
Break free, get away Irish Times Simplex 02 Jul 2021
Go over a prison wall
Get free The Times Concise 22 Jun 2021
Get away with case to East Indies headland Irish Times Crosaire 05 Jun 2021
Avoid capture Newsday 24 May 2021
Flee The Telegraph Quick 13 May 2021
Getaway The Sun Two Speed 10 Apr 2021
Son in peace mad to get out The Sun Two Speed 10 Apr 2021
Break free, get away Irish Times Simplex 06 Apr 2021
East European possesses Sulphur and little explosive device... Flee!
European associated with staggering space flight The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Mar 2021
Run away from mischievous prank, avoiding publicity
Questionable space for sweetheart to get free Irish Times Crosaire 19 Mar 2021
Run away from confinement Irish Times Simplex 15 Mar 2021
Get out USA Today 13 Mar 2021
Get away to read Howards End in peace, perhaps
Break out of prison, say
Get out New York Times 06 Feb 2021
'___ (The Pina Colada Song)' USA Today 05 Feb 2021
Flee Eugene Sheffer 30 Jan 2021
Get away The Telegraph Quick 20 Jan 2021
Get out with this key The Sun Two Speed 09 Jan 2021
Bust out of Premier Sunday 03 Jan 2021
Get away from it all The Washington Post 18 Dec 2020
Get away from it all LA Times Daily 18 Dec 2020
Leak in skip The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Dec 2020
"___ from New York," 1981 sci-fi action film directed by John Carpenter starring Kurt Russell
Break out The Washington Post 18 Nov 2020
Break out LA Times Daily 18 Nov 2020
Avoid finishing sentence? The Sun Two Speed 15 Nov 2020
Break free finding key The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Nov 2020
Get out with this key The Telegraph Toughie 10 Nov 2020
Flight case damaged wings of plane
Son in peace restless to break free The Sun Two Speed 14 Oct 2020
Goal in some rooms USA Today 28 Sep 2020
Duck's rest, dropping wings and head The Telegraph Toughie 10 Sep 2020
Break free Universal 07 Sep 2020
Flee changing caps in Eastern Europe
Key flight
Way out Newsday 27 Jun 2020
Get away Thomas Joseph 28 May 2020
Son in peace mad to break free The Sun Two Speed 08 May 2020
Leave a game room? The Washington Post Sunday 01 Mar 2020
Avoid finishing sentence?
Son in unstable peace to break free The Sun Two Speed 19 Nov 2019
Initially easy to walk up over small flight
Find the secret code to get out, e.g Jonesin 22 Oct 2019
Run away from prison, say
Get away The Times Concise 10 Oct 2019
Get away Universal 09 Oct 2019
"Room" or "key" preceder Universal 07 Sep 2019
Bust out of jail New York Times 02 Sep 2019
. Avoid English, Science and Physical Education at the beginning
Houdini feat Thomas Joseph 26 Jun 2019
Break free Irish Times Simplex 14 May 2019
Key French art about keep fit The Telegraph Toughie 26 Mar 2019
Break loose Irish Times Simplex 07 Mar 2019
Break free New York Times 29 Jan 2019
Get away
Break free
"Room" or "key" preceder
Bust out of jail
Word before artist, clause, or room Jonesin 25 Dec 2018
Pen pals' plan? LA Times Daily 22 Dec 2018
Pen pals' plan? The Washington Post 22 Dec 2018
Break free from confinement Irish Times Simplex 21 Dec 2018
Copy key — primarily for bolt
Houdini feat New York Times 25 Nov 2018
Run away with duplicate key first
Way out The Washington Post 31 Oct 2018
Way out LA Times Daily 31 Oct 2018
The key to a jailbreak?
Slip of the pen? Wall Street Journal 08 Sep 2018
Get away from it all on England's southern headland
Way to get out of jail Universal 05 Sep 2018
Getaway The Times Concise 17 Aug 2018
Bolt at the end of race gets second point
Break free The Telegraph Quick 01 Apr 2018
Con quest Wall Street Journal 31 Mar 2018
Slip from Versace, ample, cut in regular style The Telegraph Toughie 30 Mar 2018
Key animal's get-away 
Slip out The Telegraph Quick 15 Mar 2018
This is two points, in one sense, followed by a third in a different sense? Getaway! Irish Times Crosaire 21 Feb 2018
Houdini specialty USA Today 11 Feb 2018
Outfox the prison guards Wall Street Journal 29 Jan 2018
Get out of jail free Universal 26 Jan 2018
Slip of the pen?
Way to get out of jail
Con quest
Get out of jail free
Houdini feat
Houdini specialty
Pen pals' plan?
Way out
Break free of Universal 27 Dec 2017
Flight highpoint between mid-West and East The Telegraph Toughie 14 Dec 2017
Get away from edge of fire grate, right away
See cuckoo welcoming better flight
Get away from edge of fire grate, right away
Flea New York Times 12 Oct 2017
Fire __ The Washington Post 27 Aug 2017
Fire __ LA Times Daily 27 Aug 2017
Strange peacemakers at foundation covered-up getaway? Irish Times Crosaire 14 Jul 2017
Avoid regularly tense head
Word with hatch or room New York Times 23 Jun 2017
Run off The Washington Post 18 Jun 2017
Run off LA Times Daily 18 Jun 2017
Slice of meat? Look out for 8! The Telegraph Toughie 26 Apr 2017
Welcome break from porridge? The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Apr 2017
Barely successful avoidance of calamity New York Times 23 Mar 2017
Leave jail prematurely Universal 13 Mar 2017
Flee from Spanish promontory
Get away – peace comes finally, surprisingly
Issue featuring oddly neglected Welsh headland
Tunnel out, maybe LA Times Daily 22 Feb 2017
Slip away New York Times 04 Feb 2017
Leak out Newsday 02 Feb 2017
Alcatraz rarity The Chronicle of Higher Education 20 Jan 2017
Run off
Alcatraz rarity
Flea
Fire __
Word with hatch or room
Tunnel out, maybe
Barely successful avoidance of calamity
Break free of
Slip away
Initially eluding staff, captive gorilla perhaps making getaway The Telegraph Toughie 30 Dec 2016
Get free of Premier Sunday 27 Nov 2016
Avoid key issue
Exodus – all inside leaving headland in this
Get away through the final shaft
Get away from sides of enormous promontory
Run away The Telegraph Quick 06 Jun 2016
Duck coming from headland following two directions The Telegraph Cryptic 19 May 2016
Make a getaway Newsday 02 May 2016
Once you've made it, you're out The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Apr 2016
Flight south, having been stuck in city -- take off The Telegraph Toughie 22 Apr 2016
Manage to avoid onset of snow in Eastern headland The Telegraph Toughie 25 Dec 2015
Southern capital included in Eastern European getaway The Telegraph Toughie 18 Dec 2015
One way to get out of prison USA Today 11 Dec 2015
Get away from ultimately remote southern headland
One way to get out of prison Universal 20 Aug 2015
Pleasant distraction USA Today 12 Aug 2015
Volatile peace around South is issue The Telegraph Toughie 06 Aug 2015
Paul leaves apple sauce? Get out of here! Irish Times Crosaire 22 Jul 2015
Take off button on computer for one of the swingers Irish Times Crosaire 20 Jul 2015
European on tricky space flight
Better see alternative tours agency for flight The Telegraph Toughie 04 Jun 2015
Welcome break for a prisoner?
Break out of Premier Sunday 24 May 2015
Break out of jail Universal 01 May 2015
Roughly see, take headgear and get away
Avoid adventure without, say a condition
Flee from Premier Sunday 22 Feb 2015
Caribbean vacation, e.g New York Times 29 Jan 2015
Magic act segment Universal 27 Jan 2015
Make a jailbreak Universal 26 Jan 2015
Houdini feat Wall Street Journal 23 Jan 2015
Rarity at Alcatraz New York Times 20 Jan 2015
Copy key shortly before breakout
Avoid, as the [circled letters] New York Times 07 Jan 2015
Caribbean vacation, e.g.
Break out of jail
Get away from it all
Avoid, as the [circled letters]
Rarity at Alcatraz
Break out of
Flee from
Magic act segment
Make a jailbreak
One way to get out of prison
One way to get out of prison
Pleasant distraction
Houdini feat
Freedom for engineering prospect
Avoid leakage
Key to flight
Flee
Break out of jail
Make a getaway
"Stalag 17" highlight
Parole alternative
Criss Angel feat
Smash '81 Journey album
Free oneself
Prisoner's dream
… and manage to avoid a leakage
Retreat from reality
Can plan
Houdini feat
Break
Journey album with the hit "Don't Stop Believin'"
Pen pals' preoccupation, perhaps?
Con's preoccupation
Can plan
Go over the wall, maybe
Copy key before making getaway
Flight
Feat by Houdini
Con's plan
Houdini's specialty
Breakout
Avoid finishing a sentence?
Houdini feat
Type of clause or hatch
Getaway
Actual title of the 1979 #1 hit known as "The Piña Colada Song"
Leak
Get away from
Get away
Feat of magic
Getaway
Avoid finishing a sentence?
Beach book genre
"Stalag 17" event
Prison breakout
Type of clause or hatch
Break out of jail
Break out of jail
Houdini-style demonstration
Fly the coop
Houdini feat
Beach book genre
Romance fiction or horror films, e.g.
Prison break
Break out
Run off
Break out of captivity
Houdini forte
Leak
Break loose
Prisoner's plot
Leak
Break loose
Houdini's expertise
Can opener's goal?
Prison break, e.g.
Prison break, e.g.
Make a getaway
Break free
Get away
Prison breakout
Jailbreak
Avoid capture
Houdini specialty
Romance novel, usually
"The Great _____"
Divertissement
Fly the coop
Certain artist's forte
Break out
Certain artist's forte
Romance novel, usually
Break out
Break out
Way out
Con's preoccupation
Con's preoccupation, perhaps
Fire chaser?
Break out
Make like Houdini
Pleasant distraction
Make a break
Don't finish a sentence?
Break loose
Make a break
Break out
Get away from it all
Getaway
Get away
Bust out
Break out
Exciting movie scene, perhaps
Houdini feat
Hobby, e.g.
Get away
Prisoner's dream
Get out of Alcatraz, perhaps
Fly the coop
Hatch type
Joint resolution?
Con's contrivance
Joint resolution?
Cool Hand Luke's goal
Houdini forte
Break loose
Make a jailbreak
Houdini feat
It may be narrow
Fly the coop
"The Great _____" (1963 film)
Get away
Go over the hill
Make like Houdini
Houdini routine
A tunnel, maybe
"The Great _____" (McQueen film)
Skip town
Computer resource
Make one's getaway
Turn tail
Con's plan
Soap operas or movie thrillers, say
Go over the wall
The key to get out of prison?
Way out
Bust out
Avoid finishing a sentence
Alternate title for this puzzle
Steal away
Way out
Calvin Klein scent
With 34-Across, 1996 action film sequel
Break
Pleasant distraction
Get away
Con's preoccupation
Magic act
Pastime
Flee
Getaway
Fire ___
Reading pulp fiction, e.g.
Distraction
Houdini et al., with 40 Down
Way out
Emulate Harriet Tubman
Abscond
Sutton's forte
Houdini's forte
Type of clause
Kind of hatch
"Stalag 17" event
Emulate Houdini
Galsworthy play
Flee
Get away from it all
Kind of artist
Vamoose from a calaboose
Theme of "Papillon"
Break out
Fire or narrow
___ hatch
___ hatch (way out)
Houdini specialty
Leak out
Occasional prison event
War prisoner's hope.
Avoidance of reality.
Slip the collar.
Common daydream.
Regain liberty.
One kind of reading.
A play by John Galsworthy.
Literary genre.
Flee.
Outwit one's captors.
Deliverance.
Shangri-La's raison d'etre.
Slip away.
Get away from it all.
Go over the wall.
Type of literature.
Relief from routine.
Thrilling episode.
Disappear.
Get away.
"The 39 Steps" event
Avoid.
"The Shawshank Redemption" climax
Go free.
Miss misfortune.
Shake pursuit.
Houdini feat.
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