Clues for the word "HATCH"
We've had 83 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 168 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on November 05, 2025.
Definition of hatch
- v. t. - To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
- v. t. - To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
- v. t. - To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.
- v. t. - To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
- v. i. - To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
- n. - The act of hatching.
- n. - Development; disclosure; discovery.
- n. - The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
- n. - A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
- n. - A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- n. - A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
- n. - A bedstead.
- n. - An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
- n. - An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- v. t. - To close with a hatch or hatches.
Referring Clues
- Break out, in a way
- "Down the ___!" (drinker's toast)
- Get cracking, in a way
- Devise, as a plot
- Deck opening
- Come out of one's shell?
- Way belowdecks
- Down the ___
- Come out of one's shell
- Submarine egress
- Concoct, as a plot
- Concoct
- Contrive, as a scheme
- "Survivor" Richard
- Come up with a scheme
- Sub opening
- Concoct, as a plan
- "Down the ___!" (drinker's toast)
- Opening in the Navy?
- Trapdoor opening
- Floor door
- Emerge from an egg
- Door in a plane
- Door in a plane
- Cook up, as a plot
- Sub entry
- Ship door
- First 'Survivor' winner Richard
- Exit an egg
- Crack an egg?
- Dream up
- Emerge, as from an egg
- Devise
- Floodgate
- Incubate
- Contrive
- Break out of one's shell?
- Apollo portrayer on "Battlestar Galactica"
- Originate
- Emerge from the egg
- Escape mechanism
- Be egged no longer?
- Sub access
- Deck door
- Come from the egg
- "Batten Down the ___" Snow Patrol
- Thatcherite hole in the wall?
- 17's track opening
- Hole in the wall used by the hat check girl
- It has a way of being covered at sea
- Come out of your shell, ducky!
- Sit on that chair to eat
- Come out of your shell
- Incubate - opening
- Plan in shade of doorway
- Opening with removable door
- Incubate - plan
- Brood in straw etc beginning to fly off
- see 19 across
- Something to batten down?
- Break out of an egg
- Anita Hill inquisitor
- Emerge (of new chick)
- Trapdoor
- Reproduce a doorway
- Dream up headgear to go on child
- Come out from opening in shade
- Emerge from an eggshell
- Going to church, headgear provides a certain cover
- Something to do with an incubator
- Emerge
- One thing to do with eggs in the kitchen?
- Something to batten down?
- Devise (a plan)
- Come out of one's shell?
- Keep the eggs warm (as in the kitchen?)
- Hole in the wall where you check your titfer
- Thatcherite hole in the wall?
- Way into a sub
- The hat check girl's little hole in the wall
- "Down the ___!" ("Bottoms up!")
- Dream up, as a plan
- Tank top?
Last Seen In
- New York Times - November 05, 2025
- Daily American - October 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 16, 2025
- New York Times - August 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 22, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 19, 2025
- Daily American - March 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 22, 2024
- Daily American - November 08, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 06, 2024
- Family Time - October 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 21, 2024
- USA Today - August 20, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 09, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 18, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 11, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 31, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 16, 2024
- New York Times - January 15, 2024
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