Clues for the word "BROOD"
We've had 82 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 102 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on October 15, 2025.
Definition of brood
- v. t. - The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
- v. t. - The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
- v. t. - That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- v. t. - Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- a. - Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
- a. - Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
- v. i. - To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
- v. i. - To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
- v. t. - To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
- v. t. - To cherish with care.
- v. t. - To think anxiously or moodily upon.
Referring Clues
- The Brady kids, e.g.
- Little ones
- Litter
- Nesters
- Nestful
- Ones a mother hen mothers
- Bunch of baby birds
- Hen's hatchlings
- Keep the eggs warm
- Hatchlings
- Ponder
- Hatchling group
- Group of nestlings
- Worry
- Act moody
- Sulk
- Group of chicks
- Family of offspring
- Farm family
- Be moody
- Fret repeatedly (over)
- Be in an adolescent mood
- Worry persistently
- ___ about; mull over
- Stew
- Meditate gloomily
- Mope
- Children
- Ponder gloomily
- Meditate morbidly
- Hen's litter
- Sit on eggs
- Chicks together
- Coop offspring
- Flock
- Pout
- Hen's group
- The ______ ,1979 Cronenberg movie
- Gloomy
- Ponder, with "on"
- Mother hen's charges
- Phoebe's family
- Family of young animals
- Bird's family
- Dwell gloomily on a subject
- Coop group
- Group of hatchlings
- Sit on
- Children meditate moodily
- Offspring
- Meditate unhappily
- Think anxiously
- Think seriously about the chicks
- It's said to be brewed for the young
- Youngsters getting in the Boar's Head by the back door!
- Be in a funk
- Ponder - family
- Think anxiously for some time
- Worry over
- Anxiously consider the children
- Think of the kids!
- Issue that makes bishop cross
- Bishop opening up to children
- Meditate, fret
- Issue causing worry
- Sit pensively
- Nest of chicks
- Agonize (over)
- Meditate moodily upon children
- Clutch
- Young family
- Meditate
- Mother hen's offspring
- Bunch of chicks
- Group of baby chicks
- Fret
- Mother hen's responsibility
- ___ X (makeup of the 2021 cicada swarm)
- Chicks, say
- Hatchlings for a 43-Down
- Ponder, with "over"
- Mother hen's "entourage"
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 27, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 19, 2023
- New York Times - August 08, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - June 05, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 05, 2023
- New York Times - March 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 07, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - July 30, 2022
- New York Times - June 29, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 22, 2022
- New York Times - March 28, 2022
- New York Times - January 13, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 10, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - September 08, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - July 31, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 25, 2017
- Guardian Quick - July 01, 2017
- Daily Quick - June 05, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - June 05, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 10, 2017
- New York Times - March 12, 2017
- And in 72 more crossword puzzles...