Crossword Clue: Held in check
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Matching Crossword Puzzle Answers for "Held in check"
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Possibly related crossword clues for "Held in check"
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- A way you wouldn't want to be held
- Backed into a corner
- Bad way to be held
- Hold ___ (control)
- Hold ____
- Delayed from acting
- How an angry dog should be kept
- How one may be held
- How you might hold a vicious animal
- Cornered, as a hunted animal
- Cornered, as a wild animal
- Cornered
- Having no escape
- In a position of no escape
- In check
- Held back
- Held in check
- Held off
- Forced to turn and face the attackers
- Hemmed in, perhaps
- Good spot to keep an enemy
- Good way to keep an enemy
- Like cornered prey
- Kept ___ (held off)
- Out of striking distance
- Trapped in a corner, say
- With one's back to the wall
- Without an out
- On the defensive
- Powerless
- One way to be held
- No longer a threat
- No longer dangerous
- Prevented from attacking
- Like a contained enemy
- Like a cornered wild animal
- Unable to attack
- Unable to flee
- Unable to retreat, as an animal
- Unable to retreat or escape
- Unable to retreat
- Up a tree, say
Recent Usage of Held in check in Crossword Puzzles
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Here are all of the places we know of that have used Held in check in their crossword puzzles recently:
- Newsday - Aug. 21, 2020
- New York Times - Jan. 27, 2020
- Washington Post Sunday Magazine - Nov. 17, 2019
- Universal Crossword - Nov. 5, 2017
- LA Times - July 20, 2017
- Washington Post - Jan. 31, 2015
- Newsday - March 31, 2014
- LA Times Sunday Calendar - Feb. 23, 2014
- LA Times - Feb. 23, 2014
- Newsday - Jan. 15, 2014
- LA Times - Oct. 8, 2013
- New York Times - June 27, 2013
- Newsday - March 31, 2013
- Wall Street Journal Friday - Jan. 11, 2013
- Newsday - May 27, 2012
- LA Times - Oct. 13, 2011
- Washington Post - Oct. 9, 2010
- Wall Street Journal Friday - June 18, 2010
- Washington Post - Nov. 30, 2009
- Washington Post - Nov. 20, 2009