Clues for the word "AMERICAN"
We've had 81 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 93 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on October 17, 2025.
Definition of american
- a. - Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
- a. - Of or pertaining to the United States.
- n. - A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
Referring Clues
- Red-white-and-blue
- Like some plans
- Cheese type
- League of the Indians
- "___ Idol"
- League of the Angels
- Word before cheese or eagle
- Like some cheese ... or apple pie?
- Statesman?
- Yank
- Made in the States
- "Something special in the air" sloganeer
- Not imported
- Cheese choice
- League of Angels
- Like apple pie, in a saying
- See 32-Across
- T.S. Eliot, by birth
- Kind of cheese
- With 21-Down, humanitarian organization
- With 14-Across, long-running TV show popularized by 63-Across
- "___ Pie"
- With 29-Down, TV debut of June 2002
- Word before Pie or Airlines
- "Be yourself, nonstop" sloganeer
- Apt adjective for today that's needed to make sense of eight puzzle answers
- John Q. Citizen
- Swiss sub?
- John Q.
- Original working title of "Citizen Kane"
- It comes after all?
- Fort Worth-based airline
- U.S. citizen
- Vermonter or Virginian
- "___ Gods" (Gaiman novel)
- US snap in camera?
- From the New World
- John Cougar "___ Fool"
- Game played on a gridiron
- A woman in Minnesota is likely to be this
- The quiet one is novel
- Film starring Kevin Spacey
- Gray as a part of 17 down, say, whose unfinished elegy criminal pans out
- A good one who's late is 13 across, wrote Wilde
- See 8
- From the US
- Little by little, a man takes over - he's over there
- Person in a state?
- See 11
- Maybe Donald Rumsfeld would allow one to torture in camera?
- US pastor's conclusion about religious instruction starts to come apart
- A national printed article about a crime wave
- Eric's entertained by a fellow from New York, perhaps
- Nationality of crazy main race
- A man in a man, like 20's Democrat
- Camera in operation 14 from where we are
- A fellow holds above boy over water
- US girl, amid mild expletive, dismissing 7
- Man crazy about a girl from Boston, say
- Boy in a big boy like Uncle Sam
- A quality detailed, and among the best, as a nation's aspiration for a better life
- Written about in almanac, I remain like 17, perhaps
- Generic term for one from the New World
- Cinerama was of such origin
- From Austin or Annapolis
- Cheese variety
- US snap in camera?
- Person from Athens, Moscow or Naples, say
- Western, possibly in Cinerama
- Transatlantic source of Cinerama
- A man hiding his forename (maybe Hiram or Elmer?)
- Like Cinerama, possibly?
- From Austin or Boston
- Word after "Arab" or "Latin"
- That quiet, bookish Yank?
- New Yorker, for example
- "___ Gothic"
- Dweller west of the North Atlantic
- Transatlantic
- Alternative to United or Delta
- With 65-Across, source of this puzzle's pictorial clues
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - October 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 05, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 12, 2024
- New York Times - July 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 08, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 18, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - June 16, 2023
- New York Times - May 03, 2023
- Mirror Daily - February 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 20, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 17, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - October 24, 2022
- New York Times - September 22, 2021
- Universal - December 26, 2017
- Netword - November 21, 2017
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 31, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - June 16, 2017
- Netword - June 04, 2017
- Mirror Daily - February 21, 2017
- Netword - August 06, 2016
- Guardian Prize - August 06, 2016
- Guardian Prize - May 14, 2016
- And in 63 more crossword puzzles...