Bait - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Bait.

6 letter answer(s) to bait

ENTICE
  1. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"
ENTRAP
  1. catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes"
  2. take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
LEADON

4 letter answer(s) to bait

LURE
  1. anything that serves as an enticement
  2. Entice
  3. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"
  4. qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
  5. something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed

5 letter answer(s) to bait

TAUNT
  1. aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
  2. harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
  3. make fun of
TEASE
  1. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
  2. annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
  3. disentangle and raise the fibers of; "tease wool"
  4. harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
  5. mock or make fun of playfully; "the flirting man teased the young woman"
  6. mocks
  7. raise the nap of (fabrics)
  8. ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
  9. separate the fibers of; "tease wool"
  10. someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
  11. tear into pieces; "tease tissue for microscopic examinations"
  12. the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances; "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but
TEMPT
  1. dispose or incline or entice to; "We were tempted by the delicious-looking food"
  2. give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; "the window displays tempted the shoppers"
  3. induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money"
  4. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"
  5. try presumptuously; "St. Anthony was tempted in the desert"
  6. try to seduce

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Bait'

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A lot of rubbish about a French jibe
Agency worker got, finally, invite
Ally coming up short to catch
Angler's purchase
Appeal to dictator's worked on a short-term basis
Artificial bait
Attract
Attract tourists, principally, in eastern Mediterranean resort
Attract trainee
Attract, entice
Attract, tempt
Attraction
Bag
Bait, say
Bait, sometimes
Be Circe-like
Be persuasive
Bit of fishing gear
Catch
Catch (in a snare)
Catch business associate coming back after finishing early
Catch business associate mostly lying around
Catch in a snare
Catch lover, bound up, getting his end away
Catch mate briefly on the way up
Catch parent dancing
Catch parent out
Catch Parisian in revolutionary district
Catch partner briefly returning
Catch retired husband perhaps scratching rear
Catch slyly
Catch some violent rapscallions
Catch spouse getting up, leaving last part of newspaper
Chaff
Chas and Dave's ultimate wind up
Comb or card (wool)
Come-on
Coquette
Dangle a carrot in front
Deceive
Deceive - lead on
Deceive, in a way
Decoy
Doubles player, with back gone, retires, giving set up
Draw in
Draw in net at sea, getting chill
Draw ten sparkling diamonds
Draw, as rule, after switching sides
Drinks served to English guy
Drinks with English guy
Drug to be taken after meals - bother!
Ensnare
Entice
Entice - bait
Entice politician to visit street regularly
Entice short-term worker with contract finally
Entice, attract
Fisher's plug
Fishing bait left next to river
Fishing item
Flirt
Flirt with
Fluff up
Fluff up, as hair
Fluff, in a way
Frame - stitch up
Get on
Gin
Guy drinks last of wine
Guy in cricket side leaving Somerset's ground
Guy more than once needing to make a dash for it, reportedly
Guy providing drinks for the audience?
Hardly the prim sort
Hook
Hospital department facing rebuke for trick
Husband, perhaps, scratching bottom then looking up to seduce
Inducement
Inveigle
Invite agency worker to try, initially
Invite European MP in time after time
Invite right-winger to abandon disdain
It's at the end of the li
Jeer, mock
Jeering remark
Jibe
Josh
Kid
Kid brewed drinks and coffee, finally
Lead on runner announced
Lolita, e.g.
Lure
Lure agency worker to join top table
Lure into a crime
Lure into crime
Lure with some succulent ices
Make frizzy
Make fun of
Make one's hair stand on
Mock
Mock exam occasionally set that’s tricky
Mock pronunciation of river
Mock ultimately decadent leisure
Nab in a sting operation
Needle
Neon sign, e.g.
Net of hospital department charge
One likely to get men's a
Online ad perhaps lacking nothing to be inviting
Pester
Pick on
Play the siren
Playfully make fun of
Poke fun at
Politician enters Vietnamese holiday draw
Proffer bait
Provoke playfully
Pull one's leg
Razz
Reactionary occupant of No 10 in offensive sweet-talk
Returning American sorted his fare from Japan
Rib
Rib principally toughens the thorax, reportedly? Enter as per fill at 1 Across, with alternate letters filling white squares
Ride
Ridicule
Risk provoking (fate)
Roughly ten diamonds to draw
Seduce casual worker over time
Seduce mate almost entirely the wrong way
See 13 Across
Show just a little bit of
Siren
Snare
Spinning bait in lake and river in Yorkshire
Spouse detailed to return with catch
Spouse endlessly lying about allure
Tackle box item
Take the mickey out of tense relative
Tantalise
Tantalize
Taunt
Tease
Tempt
Tempt government to swap sides
Tempt one lad to stray
Tempt to enter apprenticeship
Tempt with place to treat bad throat and chill
Tempt; bait
Tense about new jeering remark
The lassie is not even a flirt
This might be at the end
Torment me on the radio?
Trick scatty parent
Try to persuade cheat out of lack of respect
Try to seduce
Twit
Twit - flirt
Unerring Latin for 'small decoy'
Vex playfully
What catnip is to a cat
Wounding remark finally hurt relative

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