Answer: AFOOT
AFOOT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 83 times.
Referring Clues:
- "The game is ___": Holmes
- What the game may be
- Stirring
- Under way
- Happening
- Underway
- In progress
- "The game is ___"
- Going on
- Brewing
- Like the game, to Sherlock Holmes
- Walking
- What Sherlock said the game was
- On the move
- "You must have grown ___!"
- In motion
- In the works
- What the game is, to Holmes
- Under way, to Sherlock Holmes
- In the offing
- "The game is ___!" (Sherlock Holmes line)
- What the game was to Sherlock
- Currently in progress
- "The game is ____!"
- Not on horseback
- Underway, to Sherlock Holmes
- Under way, as a game
- Like Sherlock Holmes' game?
- "The game is ___" (Holmes quote)
- "The game is ___" (Holmes)
- Like the game, to Holmes
- In progress, to Holmes
- Happening now
- What the game is, to Sherlock
- Like skullduggery, perhaps
- "The game's ___!"
- "The game is ___": Sherlock Holmes
- Like Holmes' game
- Underway, to Holmes
- In operation
- Going on, to Sherlock
- Taking place now
- Like the game, to Sherlock
- In progress, to Sherlock
- Just begun
- Going on, to Holmes
- Underway, to Sherlock
- "The game is ___" (Sherlock Holmes)
- "... Watson, come! The game is ___"
- Like Sherlock's game
- Impending
- Taking place
- Like a pedestrian
- Under way, to Sherlock
- Happening now, à la Sherlock
- Progressing
- Underway, as a game
- Happening, as "the game"
- Happening, to Dr. Watson
- In the process of happening
- Happening, as Sherlock's game
- In the wind
- Happening now, as the game
- What the game is, old-style
- Currently going on
- Active, per Holmes
- Active, as "the game"
- Unfolding
- In progress, as Sherlock's "game"
- Looming, to Holmes
- "The game is ___" (Sherlock Holmes declaration)
- "The game is ___!"
- Get ___ in the door
- Sherlock's "in progress"
- Taking place right now
- On, as Sherlock's game
- Happening, to Holmes
- Astir
- Beginning to happen
- In progress, quaintly
- Currently happening
- Like Sherlock Holmes's "game"
- Currently taking place
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 30, 2025
- LA Times - August 24, 2025
- USA Today - June 12, 2025
- New York Times - January 05, 2025
- USA Today - November 29, 2024
- New York Times - October 15, 2024
- New York Times - July 19, 2024
- LA Times - June 23, 2024
- New York Times - May 22, 2024
- New York Times - April 22, 2024
- USA Today - March 11, 2024
- New York Times - February 22, 2024
- USA Today - January 01, 2024
- LA Times - December 07, 2023
- USA Today - October 17, 2023
- USA Today - August 23, 2023
- LA Times - May 19, 2023
- LA Times - May 04, 2023
- New York Times - May 03, 2023
- USA Today - February 15, 2023
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