Clues for the word "FLAG"
We've had 188 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 342 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on November 27, 2025.
Definition of flag
- v. i. - To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- v. i. - To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
- v. t. - To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
- v. t. - To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
- n. - That which flags or hangs down loosely.
- n. - A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
- n. - A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- n. - A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- n. - The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
- v. t. - To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
- v. t. - To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
- n. - An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
- v. t. - To furnish or deck out with flags.
- n. - A flat stone used for paving.
- n. - Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- v. t. - To lay with flags of flat stones.
Referring Clues
- Lose strength
- Fort McHenry sight
- United Nations sight
- Piece in the game Stratego
- Olympic ceremony sight
- Weary
- Stars and Stripes, e.g.
- Sixth word in the Pledge of Allegiance
- Marker on a golf green
- Jolly Roger, for one
- Switzerland's is square
- Mailbox attachment
- Patriotic symbol
- Item used in semaphore signaling
- Something to stand for
- Stars and Stripes, notably
- Checkered item at the race track
- One with a support staff?
- A checkered one indicates victory
- Jasper Johns work in the MoMA
- Immobile Stratego piece
- Vexillology subject
- *Billower on a pole
- National symbol
- Hail, with "down"
- Ref's throw
- Colorful symbol, often
- A ref may drop one
- Ship's ensign
- Get tired
- Something to salute
- June 14 honoree
- The Stars and Stripes
- Lose energy
- Stars and Stripes
- Fourth of July sight
- Lose strength, e.g.
- Football foul indicator
- Tire out
- Nepal's has five sides
- Run out of steam
- 1814 Fort McHenry sight
- Mark for attention
- Old Glory, for one
- Referee's signal
- It waves patriotically
- Standard
- *Union, e.g.
- Tire
- Hail a cab
- Banderole
- Colors
- Mark for review, as an offensive comment
- Checkered race-ender
- Pennant
- Old Glory
- Billower on a pole
- Banner
- Old Glory, e.g.
- Golf hole marker
- Star-spangled banner
- Driving-range target
- National emblem
- Flier on a pole, and at the ends of 18-, 25-, 45- and 57-Across
- Mark as pornographic, say
- Penalty ___
- Grow tired
- It can be raised or folded
- Stop a train
- Wane
- *Jolly Roger, e.g.
- Union Jack, for one
- Marker on a green
- Mark, in a way
- Union Jack, e.g.
- Golf course sight
- A ref may throw one
- United Nations headquarters decoration
- It waves
- Signal to stop, with "down"
- Patriotic lapel pin
- Fall off
- Penalty indicator
- Coach's challenge indicator
- The Stars and Stripes, e.g.
- Fourth of July parade sight
- Stars and Stripes, for one
- Pin markeer
- It represents a country
- Banner or pennant
- Jolly Roger, e.g.
- Thing to salute
- Mark as important
- Dwindle
- Natural standard
- Key inspiration?
- Symbol of patriotism
- Gridiron penalty indicator
- Ross national product
- Fourth of July centerpiece
- It's red, white and blue
- ___ Day (June 14th)
- The American one has stripes and stars
- Paving slab
- Item with a pole position?
- Ensign
- Henry Rollins' band Black ___
- Greg Ginn's band Black ___
- King's X "Black ___"
- Jack's weary
- Droop with tiredness
- Iris - banner
- Weaken a standard?
- Weaken the standard?
- Colours fade
- Yellow iris
- See 26
- Emblem - iris - wilt
- Colours - become tired
- Grow languid
- Item of bunting
- Colours seen to fade
- Languish beside Old Glory?
- Sort of stone sink
- Stone sink
- See 9
- See 24
- Flying colors?
- Saluted symbol
- Something to wave
- Become weary
- Mark as significant
- Embassy identifier
- Surrender signal, white ___
- National banner
- Union Jack or Tricolor
- Flower to wilt
- Standard sink?
- Give a signal and slow down
- Jack wants female to keep from getting too cold
- Weary signal
- Iris - paving slab
- Languish, decline
- Mark stone used for paving
- Jack Ruby, say, on the slab
- Colours of spectral phenomena fading, each one's ending
- Checkered Indy item
- Standard sort of paving stone
- LGBTQ symbol celebrating its 40th anniversary hinted at by the starts of the starred answers
- Gridiron referee's toss
- Flying colors?
- One can weaken and still wave it
- Something planted when claiming territory
- Moving part on some mailboxes
- Lose oomph
- It has a support staff
- Billower on a tall pole
- Politician's lapel pin
- Key theme
- California's features a bear
- Emblem raised on a pole
- Call attention to, as a potential problem
- A light blue, pink and white one represents the trans commun
- With 22-Across, common lapel attachments for presidents
- Every country has one
- Symbol of a country
- Item on a president's lapel
- Symbol on a pole
- The agender one has seven stripes
- Good thing to wave
- Flier on a pole
- Tire and tell the driver to stop
- "Flying" national symbol
- Weaken a standard?
- Weaken the standard?
- Guam's features a sailboat and palm tree
- The Swiss fly a square one
- See 57-Across
- Stars & Stripes or Union Jack
- Pride ___
- Lose steam
- Rainbow ___ (item waved at a pride parade)
- Pan-African ___ (three-colored symbol)
- Identify as a potential problem
- Signal
- Color guard's charge
- Football penalty indicator
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" topic
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - November 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 11, 2025
- LA Times - September 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 05, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 30, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 17, 2025
- LA Times - March 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 04, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 17, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 12, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 22, 2024
- LA Times - August 25, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 12, 2024
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