Tempt - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 27/12/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Tempt.

4 letter answer(s) to tempt

BAIT
  1. anything that serves as an enticement
  2. attack with dogs or set dogs upon
  3. enticement
  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. lure, entice, or entrap with bait
  6. something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
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

6 letter answer(s) to tempt

BECKON
  1. appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned"
  2. signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"
  3. summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture
ENTICE
  1. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"
SEDUCE
  1. induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"
  2. lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct; "She was seduced by the temptation of easy money and started to work in a massage parlor"

5 letter answer(s) to tempt

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

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Tempt'

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'Card' as someone who might pull your leg?
A bit that gets cast?
Allurement
Angler's lure
Angler's purchase
Appear inviting
Artificial bait
Attract
Attract tourists, principally, in eastern Mediterranean resort
Attract trainee
Attract, tempt
Attraction
Badger trapper
Bait
Bait, say
Bait, sometimes
Be Circe-like
Beguile
Bishop first to admit sex is a temptation
Bit of fishing gear
Break down and then draw
Burn old note to make a gesture
Can of worms, maybe
Carrot
Chaff
Chas and Dave's ultimate wind up
Cheese in a mousetrap
Chum, at sea
Chum, e.g.
Comb or card (wool)
Come-on
Coquette
Corrupt French noble appears in court
Corrupt French nobleman in Canterbury, perhaps
Declared purpose sounds corrupt
Decoy
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!
Entice
Entice - bait
Entice tailless water fowl within grasp
Enticement
Fisher's plug
Fisherman's bucketful
Fishing bait left next to river
Fishing item
Fishing need
Flies and such
Flies, maybe
Flirt
Flirt with
Fluff up
Fluff up, as hair
Fluff, in a way
Fly, perhaps, one swallowed by nocturnal insectivore
Gesture to approach
Gesture to follow
Get on
Grub, e.g.
Guy drinks last of wine
Guy more than once needing to make a dash for it, reportedly
Guy providing drinks for the audience?
Hardly the prim sort
Hook
Hook attachment
I must go in club that offers inducement
Imagine arresting French nobleman in bed!
Inducement
Inveigle
Invite
Invite someone over?
It's a bit fishy, but anglers buy it
It's at the end of the li
Josh
Kid
Kid brewed drinks and coffee, finally
Lead astray
Lead into temptation
Lolita, e.g.
Lure
Lure company of fliers with hanky-panky
Lure of extremely statesmanlike fascist
Lure with some succulent ices
Lure; deliberately taunt
Make frizzy
Make fun of
Make one's hair stand on
Mock exam occasionally set that’s tricky
Mock pronunciation of river
Mock ultimately decadent leisure
Needle
Neon sign, e.g.
Notice short fascist's allure
One gets caught after taking it
One likely to get men's a
Online ad perhaps lacking nothing to be inviting
Persuade escort to entertain foreign nobleman
Pester
Pick on
Play the siren
Playfully make fun of
Poke fun at
Portion including a carrot
Posh partner mostly working, making gesture
Prepare, as a hook
Provide temptation for one coming in to play cricket
Provoke
Provoke playfully
Pull broken down used car at the front, with minimum of energy
Pull one's leg
Razz
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
Roughly ten diamonds to draw
Script's opening extract: "Get into bed"
See 13 Across
Set a trap with food
Setup for a switch
Show just a little bit of
Siren
Spinning bait in lake and river in Yorkshire
Stream with no ebbing wave
Summon Bishop and judge to depose King
Summon by gesture
Summon with a gesture
Switch's partner
Tackle box item
Tantalise
Tantalize
Taunt
Tempt French duke into a bishop's domain
Tempt government to swap sides
Tempt to enter apprenticeship
Tempt with place to treat bad throat and chill
Tempt; bait
Temptation
Tempting food I introduced to club
The lassie is not even a flirt
This might be at the end
Torment me on the radio?
Twit
Twit - flirt
Unerring Latin for 'small decoy'
Used teeth to eat a tempting morsel
Used teeth to swallow a tempting item
Vex playfully
What catnip is to a cat
Win over
Worms and such, to a fish
Worms in a can, e.g.
Worms, e.g.
Worms, for a fisherman
Worms, in fishing
Worms, to a fisherman
Wrigglers, to a fisherman

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