Clues for the word "DUCK"
We've had 70 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 68 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on November 12, 2025.
Definition of duck
- n. - A pet; a darling.
- n. - A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
- n. - The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
- v. t. - To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- v. t. - To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.
- v. t. - To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
- v. i. - To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
- v. i. - To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
- v. t. - Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.
- v. t. - A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
Referring Clues
- Quacker
- Quacking flier
- With 46-Across, "It ain't hard!"
- Donald or Daisy
- ______ Lake, Saskatchewan
- Barnyard fowl
- Huey, Dewey or Louie
- Mallard
- Kind of tape
- "Watch your head!"
- Evade
- Aflac mascot
- Canvasback
- Put your head down
- 17-Across, e.g.
- Â"Watch your head!Â"
- Down source
- Pond paddler
- Canvas-back
- Saskatchewan's ______ Lake
- Avoid a beanball
- Look out!
- "Fore!"
- Get down
- Avoid a beanball, maybe
- Bird that can precede the starts of 20-, 30-, 36-, 46- and 52-Across
- A bird has to take evasive action
- See 16
- Shoveler, for example
- You can get down from it - get down!
- Use one's wits to get something
- See 22
- Web-footed bird
- Bird - lower your head!
- Try to avoid the lowest possible score
- Water bird - get out of the way
- Avoid such coarse stuff
- Evade - bird
- Bird has to take evasive action
- See 12
- Get down - from this?
- Farm bird
- Game of love
- See 1
- A failure at 15 to take evasive action
- Get down from here?
- See 26
- Dodge for nothing
- Fortune initially increased tenfold, dear
- Shout of warning
- Aquatic bird
- Avoid Peking, for example
- Batsman's score of zero
- Bird that quacks
- You can get down from it
- Love bird
- Canvaslike cloth
- Quacking bird
- Nothing but a bird
- Lower the head to avoid being hit
- Keep your head down for nothing
- Avoid an incoming projectile, perhaps
- Waterfowl
- Bird that yells "Aflac!"
- "Move your big head lower!"
- Zhangcha ___ (tea-smoked dish)
- ___, ___, goose (game)
- Pond denizen
- Word repeated in a children's game
- What some people think this puzzle's image represents
Last Seen In
- New York Times - November 12, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 10, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 25, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 10, 2025
- New York Times - January 23, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 12, 2024
- USA Today - March 13, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 05, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - October 10, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 04, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - March 10, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - December 30, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - September 13, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 04, 2022
- LA Times - June 06, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 20, 2017
- LA Times - December 05, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 13, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - October 10, 2017
- Your Life Choices - August 10, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 12, 2017
- New York Times - May 10, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 04, 2017
- LA Times - September 29, 2016
- Guardian Quick - July 07, 2016
- USA Today - July 07, 2016
- And in 38 more crossword puzzles...