Crossword abbreviations

• Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as:
• * "current": AC ; less commonly, DC ; or even I
• Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI
• The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., tungsten for W
• Country codes: "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH
• ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and Romeo R
• Conventional abbreviations for US cities and states: for example, New York can indicate NY and "California" CA or CAL.

• "Knight" for N

• "About" for C or CA, or.
• "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example".

• "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
• "Beginner" or synonyms such as "novice" or "student" for L, as in L-plate.
• "Bend" for S or U
• "Books" for OT or NT, as in Old Testament or New Testament.
• "Sailor" for AB, abbreviation of able-bodied.
• "Take" for R, abbreviation of the Latin word recipe, meaning "take".

  Clues beginning with A

• About – C or CA or RE
• Academic – DD or PROF
• Acceleration – G
• Account – AC
• Accountant – CA
• Ace – A
• Advert – AD
• Afternoon – PM
• Against – V or VS
• Agent – REP
• Agricultural – AG
• Air conditioning – AC
• Airman – AC
• Alien – ET
• Also known as – AKA
• Aluminium – AL
• Alumnus – OB or OG
• Ambassador – HE
• America – A, AM, US or USA
• American ship – USS
• Amnesty – AI
• Anglican – CE
• Answer – A
• Arbiter – REF
• Archdeacon – VEN
• Area – A
• Army cop – MP
• Army corps – REME
• Arsenic – AS
• Artificial intelligence – AI
• Artillery – RA
• Artists – RA
• Atmosphere – AT
• Attorney – DA or PA
• Australia – AUS or OZ
• Avenue – AVE
• Award – OM

  Clues beginning with B

• Bachelor of Arts – BA
• Bachelor of Medicine – BM, MB
• Base – E
• Basque nationalists – ETA
• Bearing – N, E, S, W, NE, NW, etc.
• Beginner – L
• Bend – S or U
• Bible – AV
• Bill – AC or IOU
• Bishop – B or RR or DD
• Bob – S
• Book – NT, OT, MS, GEN
• Bowled – B
• Boy – B
• Bridge player – N, E, S, W
• Byte – B

  Clues beginning with C

• Calcium – CA
• California – CA
• Cape – C
• Car – T, RR
• Cardinal – N, E, S, W
• Care of – CO
• Caught – C or CT
• Celsius – C
• Cent – C
• Centigrade – C
• Century – C
• Certificate – X, U, PG, R, G
• Charged – ION
• Charlie – C
• Chartered accountant – CA
• Chief – CH
• Chlorine – CL
• Chromosome – X or Y
• Church – CH or CE or RC
• Circa – C
• Circle – O
• City – NY, LA, or EC
• Club – Y
• Coin – P, D or C – D or C would usually have "old" or "American" as well as "coin".
• Cold – C
• Colonel – COL
• Colt – C
• Commercial – AD
• Communist – RED
• Companion – CH
• Company – CO
• Compare – CF
• Compass point – N, E, S, W
• Computer – PC
• Concerning – RE
• Conservationists – NT
• Conservative – C, CON
• Constable – PC
• Constant – E or PI
• Copper – P, D, CU, PC
• Corner –.SE, NW, NE, SW
• Councillor – CL, CLR, CLLR
• Court – CT
• Credit – CR
• Criminal – CON
• Cross – X
• Current – AC, DC, AD or AMP
• Current account – CA
• Cystic fibrosis – CF

  Clues beginning with D

• Date – D
• Daughter – D
• Dead or Died – D, DEC, EX, OB
• Debts – IOUS
• Deceased – D, DEC, EX
• Decoration – VC, GC, MM
• Degree – DEG, C, F, BA, MA.
• Detective – DS
• Detective inspector – DI
• Detectives – CID
• Deutschmark – DM
• Dinner jacket – DJ
• Direction – N, E, S, W
• Disc – O, EP, LP, CD
• Disease – TB, ME
• Doctor – DOC, BM, MB, MD, MO, GP, DR
• Doctor of Divinity – DD
• Drama – NOH
• Drama Company – REP
• Drip – IV
• Drug – C, E, X or H
• Dry – TT or AA
• Duck – O
• Ducks – OO

  Clues beginning with E

• Each – EA
• Earl – E
• East – E
• East Germany – GDR
• Ecstasy – E or X
• Editor – ED
• Egg – O
• Elected – IN
• Electricity – AC, DC
• Eleven – II, or XI
• Energy – E, J
• Engineer – CE or RE or ME
• English – E
• Escape – ESC
• Established – EST
• Estimated time of arrival – ETA
• Europe – EU, EC
• Exercise – PE, PT, TRAIN
• Extra – W
• Extra large – XL
• Extra terrestrial – ET

  Clues beginning with F

• Fahrenheit – F
• Father – DA, DAD, FR, PA
• Female – F
• Fifty – L
• Fighter plane – MIG
• Firm – CO
• Five – V
• Fleet – RN
• Flying bomb – VI
• Following – F
• Football association – FA
• Football club – FC
• For example – EG
• Former – EX
• Four – IV
• France – F
• Frenchman – M

  Clues beginning with G

• Game – RU
• Gas – H, O, N, CS
• German submarine – U
• Germany – GER, D
• Glasses – OO
• Gold – AU, OR
• Good – PI
• Good Man – ST
• Graduate – BA, MA
• Gram – G
• Grand – G, M, K
• Grand prix – GP
• Group – GP
• Gunners/Gunmen – RA
• Gym – PE or PT

  Clues beginning with H

• Hand – N, E, S, W
• Hear – T
• Hectare – HA
• Helium – HE
• Henry – H
• Heroin – H
• Hire purchase – HP
• Hole – O
• Holy man – ST
• Home counties – SE
• Honours – BA or MA
• Horse – G, GG
• Hospital – H
• Hospital Department – AE, ENT
• Hour – H
• Houses of Parliament – HP
• Hug - O
• Hundred – C, TON
• Husband – H
• Hydrogen – H

  Clues beginning with I

• Iceland – IS
• Image – PIC
• Inch – IN
• Independent – I or IND
• Information technology – IT
• Initials – inits.
• Inspector – DI
• Intelligence – IQ
• Internet/internet provider – ISP
• Iodine – I
• Ireland – IRE
• Irish Republican Army – IRA
• Iron – FE
• Island – IS

  Clues beginning with J

• Jack – J, TAR, AB
• Jet – MIG
• Jolly – RM
• Journalist – ED
• Judge – J, REF
• Junction – T
• Junior – JR

  Clues beginning with K

• Kelvin – K
• Kentucky – KY
• Key – A, B, C, D, E, F or G
• Kick off – KO
• Kilo – K
• King – K, R, HM, or HRH, or GR, or CR )
• Kiss – X
• Knave – J
• Knight – K, KT, KBE or KG or N
• Knock out – KO
• Knot – KT

  Clues beginning with L

• Labour – LAB
• Lake – L or LA
• Large number – C, D, M or K
• Last – Z
• Last month – ULT
• Lawrence – DH or TE
• Lawyer – DA
• Lead – PB
• Learner – L
• Left – L
• Liberal – L or LIB
• Lieutenant – LT
• Lines – RY BR
• Litre – L
• Local area network – LAN
• Long playing record – LP
• Long wave – LW
• Look – LO
• Los Angeles – LA
• Loud – F, or FF
• Love – O

  Clues beginning with M

• Madame – MME
• Maiden – M
• Male – M, HE or PA
• Manager – MIC
• Many – CL, XD
• Map-makers – OS
• Marines – RM
• Married – M
• Master of Arts – MA
• Master of ceremonies – MC
• Master's – MA
• Medal – VC, GC, OBE, OM
• Medic – DOC, BM, MB, MD, MO, GP, DR
• Megabyte – MB
• Member – MP, ARM, LEG, words for male genitals
• Member of Parliament – MP
• Messerschmitt – ME
• Middle East – ME
• Midfielder – L
• Military Police – MP
• Minister - MP, Rev
• Ministry of Defence – MOD
• Minute – M
• Model – T
• Monarch – ER, GR, Q, K or R
• Monsieur – M
• Morning or Half Day – AM
• Mother – MA
• Motor racing – FI
• Motorway – M or MI

  Clues beginning with N

• Namely – SC, alternative to IE
• National Trust – NT
• Navy – RN, ABS or TARS
• Nazis – SS
• Neon – NE
• Never-never – HP
• New – N
• New Testament – NT
• Newspaper – RAG
• Nitrogen – N
• No ball – NB
• North – N
• Not applicable – NA
• Note – NB, PS or A, B, C, D, E, F, G or DO, RE, MI, FA, SO/SOH, LA, TE/TI. LA is most commonly referenced.
• Nothing – O
• Notice – D
• Now – AD
• Number – NO; V, X, C, D, M, L
• Nurse – EN or RN

  Clues beginning with O

• Odds – SP
• Officer – OC or CO
• Old – O
• Old man – PA
• Old person – OAP
• Old Testament – OT
• One – I or rarely A, AN, ACE
• Operating system – OS
• Operation – OP
• Order – OM
• Ordinary Seaman – OS, Rating
• Oriental – E
• Other Ranks – OR
• Ounce – OZ
• Outsized – OS
• Over the top – OTT
• Overdose – OD
• Oxygen – O

  Clues beginning with P

• Page – P
• Painters – RA
• Pair – PR
• Paramilitaries – ETA, IRA, UFF, UDA
• Parking – P
• Party – LAB, LIB or LD, CON or C or TORY, DO
• Peacekeepers – UN
• Pencil – HB
• Penny – P, D, CU
• Phone company – BT
• Physical education – PE
• Physical training – PT
• Piano – PT
• Pint – PT
• place – PL, SET, SITE, SPOT
• Plane – MIG
• Plate – L or P
• Poem – IF
• Poet – TS
• Point – N, E, S, W
• Pole – N or S
• Policeman/men – PC, DI, MET, CID
• Politician – MP
• Posh – U
• Post office – PO
• Potassium – K
• Pound – LB, L
• Priest – PR, REV, RR, DD, FR, ELI
• Prime Minister – PM
• Prisoner of war – POW
• Promises – IOUS
• Province – NI
• Pub – PH

  Clues beginning with Q

• Quarter – N, S, E, W
• Quartet – IV
• Queen – Q, ER, HM
• Quiet/quietly – P SH

  Clues beginning with R

• Railway – R, RY or BR
• Rated – X
• Rechabite – TT
• Record – EP, LP
• Ref – UMP
• Regina – R
• Resistance – R
• Retired – RET
• Reverend – RR, DD, REV
• Rex – R
• Right – R
• Right Reverend – RR
• Ring – O
• River – R, MA
• Road – RD or AI
• Rolls Royce – RR
• Roman Catholic – RC
• Rook – R
• Royal Academy – RA
• Royal Artillery – RA
• Royal Engineers – RE
• Royal Marines – RM
• Royal Navy – RN
• Rugby – RU
• Run – R
• Rural Dean – RD

  Clues beginning with S

• Sailor – AB, TAR, RN, SALT, JACK, HAND, OS
• Saint – ST or S
• Same – DO
• Sappers – RE
• Satisfactory – S
• Say – EG
• Seaman – AB
• Second – S or MO
• Secret service – SS
• Secretary – PA
• Senior Service – RN
• Setter – I or ME
• Sex appeal – IT or SA
• Shilling – S
• Ship – SS
• Ship's officer – PO
• Shirt – T
• Short wave – SW
• Significant other – SO
• Silk – QC or KC
• Silver – AG
• Small – S
• Socially acceptable – U
• Sodium – NA
• Softly – P
• Soldier – RM, RE, GI, ANT, VET
• Soldiers – MEN, OR
• Son – S
• South – S
• Spain – E
• Spectacles – OO
• State – any abbreviation of an American State
• Steam Ship – SS
• Stone – ST
• Street – ST
• Student – L or NUS
• Study – CON
• Stumped – ST
• Submarine – U or SUB
• Sweat – BO

  Clues beginning with T

• Tabloid – SUN, RAG
• Take — R
• Tar – AB
• Tax – VAT
• Teacher – DON
• Teachers – NUT
• Team – XI
• Teetotal – TT or AA
• Ten – X or IO
• Territorial Army – TA
• Terrorists – ETA, IRA, UFF, UDA
• Thanks – TA
• That is – IE or SC
• Theologian – DD
• This month – INST
• Thousand – G, M, or K
• Thus – IE, SO, SIC
• Time – T, S, M, AGE
• Times – X
• Toilet – WC
• Tory – CON
• Trendy – IN
• Tripod – Y
• Troop – RM
• Tungsten – W
• Tyro – L

  Clues beginning with U

• Ulster – NI
• Ulster Defence Association – UDA
• Ulster Freedom Fighters – UFF
• Ultimate – Z
• United Nations – UN
• University – U or OU or UP
• Unknown – X, Y or Z

  Clues beginning with V

• Value added tax – VAT
• Variable – X, Y or Z
• Versus – V or VS
• Very – V
• Vessel – SS
• Viscount – VIS
• Volunteers – TA
• Vote – X

  Clues beginning with W

• Way – RD, ST, AVE
• Weight – G, LB
• Wheel – O
• Whistle-blower – REF
• Wide – W
• Wife – W
• Wine – ASTI, RED, CAVA, DOC, HOCK
• With – W
• Without – WO
• Work – W, OP, OPUS
• Worker – ANT, BEE, ARM

  Clues beginning with X

• X – IO

  Clues beginning with Y

• Yard – YD or Y
• Year – Y or YR
• Yours truly – ID or I

  Clues beginning with Z

• Zero – O