Clues for the word "HAIKU"
We've had 104 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 203 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Mini crossword on December 12, 2025.
Referring Clues
- 17-syllable poem
- Eastern verse
- Japanese verse
- Poem with 17 syllables
- Epigrammatic verse
- Three-line work
- Three-line poem
- Evocative three-line verse
- One-stanza poem
- 17-syllable verse
- Japanese poem
- Three-line Japanese verse
- Japanese verse form
- Three lines, perhaps
- Terse verse
- Brief poetry
- 3-line poem
- Short poem
- Senryu's cousin
- Short poem about nature
- Narrowly defined poem
- Three-line verse
- Japanese poetry
- Short verse
- Poetic form inspired by nature
- Seventeen-syllable poem
- Basho's forte
- A poem like this / Of 17 syllables / Split 5-7-5
- Narrowly defined verse
- Seventeen-syllable creation
- Japanese three-line verse
- Zen master's poem
- Bit of terse verse
- Poem with exactly 17 syllables
- Poem of 17 syllables
- Verse often about nature
- 17-syllable work
- Three-line Japanese poem
- One may be written / Just like this clue is written / But a lot better
- Poem read in a Zen garden, perhaps
- 17-syllable form of poetry
- Type of poem
- 17-syllable verse form
- Poem traditionally having 20-/53-Across
- "An old silent pond / A frog jumps into the pond / Splash! Silence again," e.g.
- Exercise in brevity
- Traditional three-liner
- Japanese poem with 17 syllables
- Basho specialty
- Tanka's shorter relative
- Poem like "The swallow flies up / Into a blue evening sky, / Summer's small herald"
- 5-7-5 verse
- Japanese 17-syllable poem
- Specifically designed poem
- Writing form even more constrained than a tweet
- Epigrammatic Japanese verse
- Poem patterned like / the one featured in this clue / [padding out the rest]
- Stylised Japanese poem of 17 syllables
- 17-syllable Japanese verse form
- Type of Japanese poem
- Short Japanese verse
- Verse form starts to harvest accolades in Kyoto University
- Poem from WWI leader almost upset country
- Japanese form of poem
- Exalted line of people recited poem
- Japanese product reversed into a Suzuki? A Honda!
- Japanese poem of seventeen syllables
- Poem elevated characters one after another read aloud
- Basho work
- A poetry form/With seventeen syllables/And only three lines
- Verse often inspired by nature
- Basho composition
- Three-phrase poem
- Japanese poem of 17 syllables
- Japanese verse form with 17 syllables in three short phrases
- Dove's top notes recited poem
- Poem name whose singular and plural forms are the same
- Japanese terse verse
- Seventeen-syllable verse
- Seventeen-syllable work
- Very short poem
- "The west wind whispered, / And touched the eyelids of spring: / Her eyes, Primroses," for a classic example
- 17-syllable Japanese poem
- Poem with 17 morae
- Short Japanese poem
- Bit of poetry with the same syllable count as this very clue
- A poem like this clue / Although perhaps not quite as / Abominable
- Japanese poetry form
- Poetic form similar to tanka
- Poetic form with kireji
- Poetic form used by Basho
- 5/7/5 poem
- Japanese poetic form
- "What Richard Wright wrote" could be the first line of one
- Kobayashi Issa poem
- Sort of poem not usually pluralized by adding an -s
- Seventeen-syllable Japanese poetry form
- Work of Matsuo Basho or Masaoka Shiki
- Matsuo Basho poem
- Poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern
- Seventeen-syllable poetry form
- Three-line poem from Japan
- Brief verse from Japan / With seventeen syllables / Illustrated here
- Eastern lines
Last Seen In
- Mirror Mini - December 12, 2025
- New York Times - November 04, 2025
- New York Times - October 25, 2025
- New York Times - August 20, 2025
- LA Times - August 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - June 29, 2025
- New York Times - April 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - March 30, 2025
- LA Times - March 07, 2025
- USA Today - January 25, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 14, 2024
- LA Times - August 01, 2024
- New York Times - June 13, 2024
- Family Time - April 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 18, 2024
- New York Times - April 08, 2024
- New York Times - January 03, 2024
- New York Times - December 19, 2023
- USA Today - December 15, 2023
- USA Today - November 29, 2023
- LA Times - November 09, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 29, 2023
- New York Times - July 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 15, 2023
- USA Today - May 08, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 23, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 17, 2023
- USA Today - March 27, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 16, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 01, 2023
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