Clues for the word "IDIOT"
We've had 223 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 647 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on December 03, 2025.
Definition of idiot
- n. - A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
- n. - An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
- n. - A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.
- n. - A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.
Referring Clues
- Dostoyevsky novel, with "The"
- Numbskull
- Blithering sort
- Pinhead
- Dunderpate
- Fool
- Dimwit
- Dummkopf
- No exemplar of erudition
- No-brainer?
- Bonehead
- Blockhead
- Birdbrain
- Dunderhead
- Word said with a head slap
- Kind of box
- Real dope
- A genius, no
- Dull type
- Dip
- Half-wit
- Chucklehead
- Doofus
- Moron
- Yo-yo
- Not exactly a brainiac
- Jerk
- "You ___!" (cry while hitting oneself on the head)
- Chowderhead
- Dumb cluck
- No Mensan, he
- Knucklehead
- Numskull
- Dostoevsky novel, with "The"
- Dumbbell
- ___ box (television)
- Preceder of box or light, in slang
- Word before box or savant
- Born fool
- Foolish person
- Word before box or proof
- Nincompoop
- Teller of a tale "full of sound and fury," per Macbeth
- Goober
- ___-proof (easy to operate)
- Mental midget
- Imbecile
- Word with light or box
- Village figure?
- Boob
- Nitwit
- One may be complete
- Mensa reject
- ___ box (TV)
- Dostoevsky title character
- Dostoyevsky title character
- Dostoyevsky subject
- "Dumbbell!"
- Ding-dong
- Word with "savant" or "box"
- Lamebrain
- Featherbrain
- Hardly an Einstein
- Vilified villager
- Senseless person
- Blithering fool
- No genius, he
- One who is hardly an Einstein
- Dostoyevsky masterpiece (with "The")
- Dostoevsky novel (with "The")
- Simpleton
- Dodo
- Dostoevsky subject
- Dostoevsky work (with "The")
- Dostoyevsky's "The ___"
- Type of box that's often watched
- Definite Mensa reject
- Bozo
- Box or proof preceder
- Certainly no Einstein
- Dum-dum
- Word with "savant" or "box"
- "Dumbbell!"
- Dostoevsky's Myshkin, e.g.
- ___ box (TV)
- Dostoevsky work (with "The")
- Every driver but you?
- Easily-manipulated type
- Utterly senseless person
- "It is a tale told by an ___ ..."
- Bubblehead
- Village celebrity?
- Block-head
- Dunce
- Hardly a brainiac
- Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin, e.g.
- 'A tale told by an ___ ...'
- Ninny
- Crackbrain
- ___ box
- Tool
- Dingbat
- Dope
- Ignoramus
- Thickhead
- Target of a series of guides
- One for whom many guides have been written?
- ____ box
- Mensa member's opposite
- Dolt
- Clueless sort
- Napoleon Dynamite exclamation
- Dostoyevsky title hero
- One beyond foolish
- Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- "The ___" (Dostoyevsky novel)
- Opposite of an Einstein
- Dumb ox
- Simple guy
- ___ box
- Brainless sort
- Dostoevsky title word
- Utterly senseless one
- Word before box or card
- Fathead
- Cohort of 27-Across
- ___ light (dashboard item)
- Far from a Mensa candidate
- Green Day's "American ___"
- Word with box or light
- ___ light (dash item)
- ___ light (dash indicator)
- Buffoon
- Brainiac's antithesis
- Meathead
- Dostoevsky's "The ___"
- Every other driver, to the road-enraged
- ___ savant
- I spot one inside supplying dope
- Dostoevski title word
- Green Day's "American"
- Green Day "American ___"
- Lisa Marie Presley song about a stupid person?
- Green Day "Don't want to be an American ___"
- Hives "Walk ___ Walk"
- Incubus "___ Box"
- '77 Iggy Pop album (with "The")
- Witless couturier briefly invested in new technology
- Charlie returned to south of France with no money
- Rejected princess: "I have returned to Charlie!"
- I do it when playing the fool
- Old dictator, Pol's partner, executed the divvy
- Crazy source of loud and furious, but meaningless, story
- The fool takes it round the back of the studio!
- Christian dropping right in it? What a plonker!
- State one returns to as a fool
- Twit
- One girl to upset, being a fool
- Sap
- Airhead, I would take Greek letter unfinished
- Feodor's work: it takes half the studio
- Stupid person
- Someone intellectually challenged to dot Is, perhaps
- Oaf
- What I'm called when I do it all wrong
- Dot what should be dotted, silly fool
- Not the cleverest? Find him out, regularly lacking
- Dictator books fellow to 2 6
- One did almost nothing with time, being a fool
- Peabrain
- Self-deprecating exclamation
- Genius opposite
- Epithet uttered by Napoleon Dynamite
- Typical Lewis character
- Dostoyevsky title character named Lev Myshkin
- Halfwit
- Twerp
- Artist dropped radio in it, the fool!
- One to do it wrongly
- Papers one has to return for dope
- Imbecile Amin, heartless outcast
- In beginning I'd to play the fool
- 'The ___--'. novel by Dostoyevsky (1868)
- Fool turning to dot a couple of i's
- Wally and I do it all over the place
- See 58-Across
- Dostoievsky's tale told the life of Macbeth
- I spot one inside with dope
- Fool, one gatecrashing party wearing it
- I do it foolishly, being a fool!
- Identification with Greek character, not a fool
- Vowel: what's over it surrounding it? 13 20 ___?
- One needing computer technology to comprehend 500 10?
- Total fool
- Dumbbell you can't curl
- Target reader of a series of guides, facetiously
- Dimwitted sort
- U-turn from brainiac
- Genius? Not even close
- Senseless sort
- "American ___" (Green Day album)
- Number one detective books clown
- One of the village people?
- Genius's opposite
- Sharp-as-a-marble sort
- One who tells a tale full of sound and fury, per Macbeth
- Dunce misread addition and subtracted
- On board, we have Autocue
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel, with "The"
- ___ light
- Facetious target of a series of guides
- Village ___
- "Einstein," sarcastically
- "... a tale told by an ___ ... ": Macbeth
- "Canadian ___": "Weird Al" parody of a Green Day song
- Dostoyevsky's Prince Myshkin, so the book title declares
- "It is a tale told by an ___, full of sound and fury": Shak.
- The novel Russian fathead
- Turkey
- Dostoyevsky novel about a "positively beautiful man," with "The"
- "American ___": rock musical based on a Green Day album
- "I'm so dumb!"
- "D'oh! Why did I do that!?"
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - December 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 13, 2025
- Daily American - August 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 11, 2025
- New York Times - June 10, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 26, 2025
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