Clues for the word "LIFE"
We've had 240 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 423 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on January 30, 2026.
Definition of life
- n. - The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.
- n. - Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life.
- n. - The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual.
- n. - Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.
- n. - A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.
- n. - Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.
- n. - That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise.
- n. - The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life.
- n. - A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.
- n. - The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively.
- n. - An essential constituent of life, esp. the blood.
- n. - A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
- n. - Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.
- n. - Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.
Referring Clues
- Never-ending sentence?
- It's often toasted
- Luce publication
- Biography
- Time Inc. magazine
- Severe sentence
- It's insurable
- Long sentence
- Bowl of cherries, so to speak
- Vitality
- "That's ___"
- Game with car tokens
- Bygone picture weekly
- Lengthy sentence
- ___ arrow (maritime rescue device)
- Bio
- Popular cereal or magazine
- Prison sentence that may be "without parole"
- Energy
- Long, long sentence
- Kind of jacket or insurance
- "Look" competitor, once
- Sprightliness
- Classic board game
- Long sentence?
- Certain prison term
- Limb's partner
- Board game or cereal
- Cereal or game name
- Biographical focus
- Bowl of cherries, in song
- Mikey's favorite cereal
- Large photo-filled magazine
- Game played with cars
- Dr. Frankenstein's goal
- Birth to death
- Biography's story
- Breakfast cereal endorsed by Mikey
- It's "too short for chess": Henry J. Byron
- "My ___" (Clinton autobiography)
- See 35-Down
- Popular cereal
- Weekly magazine in some newspapers
- #9
- Family board game
- Cereal with a Honey Graham variety
- The "it" in "He likes it! Hey Mikey!"
- Magazine that first published "The Old Man and the Sea"
- Board game whose earliest version came out in 1860
- "Hey Mikey!" cereal
- Period of effectiveness
- Game with Lucky Day spaces
- Boy Scout rank
- "Look" rival
- ___ story (biography)
- Existence
- Word before belt or boat
- The longest sentence
- You can eat it, play it or live it
- An "unalienable right"
- Kind of insurance
- Longest sentence
- Animation
- Jacket opener?
- Word with jacket or boat
- Mikey liked it
- Frankenstein's objective
- Tevye's toast subject
- Vivacity
- Total rival
- ___ belt
- Vital spark
- Cereal Mikey liked, in ads
- Type of insurance
- Magazine known for photojournalism
- Unending sentence?
- "A jest" per John Gay
- "Look" rival
- ___ story (biography)
- Board game whose goal is Retirement
- Boy Scout rank just below Eagle
- It isn't fair, it's said
- Longest possible sentence
- Still ___ (type of painting)
- Vibrancy
- Board game, cereal or magazine
- Biography subject
- A bowl of cherries?
- Mikey's cereal
- Biographer's topic
- Biogra-pher's subject
- Biographer's writeup
- Biology topic
- Bio title word, often
- Biographer's subject
- Biographical span
- Hang on for dear ___
- Flora and fauna
- ___ of the party
- It begins at 40
- Cereal or board game
- Maximum sentence
- Biography topic
- Quaker cereal
- "That's ___!"
- Biographer's write-up
- Biographer's story
- "... a tale / Told by an idiot": Macbeth
- Dictator's term, perhaps
- Long term?
- Term for some judges
- "That it will never come again is what makes ___ so sweet" (Emily Dickinson)
- Get a _____
- Get a ____
- "Get a ____ !"
- Get a
- It's not fair, it's said
- Subject of a search on Mars
- Game with marriage and kids
- Carbon-based forms
- Cereal brand contained in the answer at 25-Across
- Excitement
- Subject of a memorable chocolate simile
- Very long sentence
- "Get a ___!"
- This puzzle's theme word
- Popular board game
- Spirit
- Very long sentence?
- The "vie" in "c'est la vie"
- "A Day in the ___": Beatles
- Magazine that published Harry Truman's memoirs
- Longest sentence possible
- Period of existence
- Prison sentence
- It's preferred over death
- It may be charmed
- "a year in the ___"
- Magazine founded 11/23/36
- ___ preserver
- "I have but one ___ to give for my country"
- Opposite of death
- ___-or-death situation
- Bob Seger "Tryin' to Live My ___ Without You"
- Beatles: "A Day in the ___"
- Our Lady Peace song
- '83 Thin Lizzy live album
- Elvis song for the living?
- Living Colour "This is the ___"
- Talk Talk "It's My ___"
- Actuarial estimate of our remaining years
- Skid Row "18 and ___"
- "___ in a Northern Town"
- Baffin oiler (anag) - 7 film
- "But an empty dream" (Longfellow) - "As tedious as a twice-told tale" (Shakespeare)
- A lot of porridge or just a bowl of cherries?
- See 12
- Term of usefulness of a file?
- Years of being in pain, self-destructive
- Two elements essential to our existence (and to 16 across?)
- Sentence, one foot in length, cut by two thirds
- See 16 across
- Weekly magazine from 1883 to 1972
- Maximum stretch?
- We all have one to live
- ___ force
- Magazine or cereal
- ___ of Riley (ease)
- See 11
- Sentence from a biography
- 23's interpretation of self or Iman?
- Long sentence somewhat ungrammatical, if effortless
- Biography contains untruth about female
- Long sentence in novel, I fear
- This from MP, having provided upstanding rival with barrister, gutted during arrest, hauled up
- Vitality prevalent before 9
- Sinatra's "That's ___"
- Person's romantic relationships, taken together
- Long sentence in biography
- ___ story (autobiography)
- Longest sentence?
- Provided the central of this sentence
- Mouth-to-mouth, kiss of ___
- Harsh sentence
- ___ of Riley
- Board game with car tokens
- "Where there's ___, there's hope"
- Long prison term
- Falsehood about fine biography
- Severe prison sentence
- Death penalty alternative
- ___ hack
- Run-on sentence?
- "___ of Pi" (Yann Martel novel)
- Board game with a lawsuit card
- It's a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy in the long shot, per Charlie Chaplin
- Board game with pink pegs
- Cereal Mikey liked in a ’70s ad
- ___ insurance
- Expertise of some coaches
- "To ___!" ("L'chaim!")
- True to ___ (realistic)
- Game with people pegs
- Supreme Court term
- See 7
- Board game with little car tokens
- Term for a dictator
- With 5-Across, means of survival
- With 41-Across, generational sequence
- Word after "still" or "shelf"
- "He likes it!" cereal
- The ___ of the party
- Popular cereal or board game
- Meaning of the prefix "bio"
- What happens while you're busy making other plans, it's said
- One of three at the start of a Pac-Man game
- "Story of my ___!"
- Kind of coach or jacket
- Bio subject
- A long sentence that may not mean what it says
- Video game turn
- Word before "jacket" or "saver"
- "Variety is the spice of ___"
- "This is the ___!"
- Board game with car-shaped tokens
- Word before "coach" or "hack"
- You live it, have a great one
- Term of usefulness of a file?
- Classic photo magazine
- Name of a cereal, a magazine and a board game
- Board game with plastic cars and people
- Word with hack or coach
- Word before "cycle" or "lesson"
- SETI search subject
- What happens to you while you're busy making other plans, per "Beautiful Boy"
- ___ lesson
- Being in prison?
- Word with partner or lesson
- Word with still or shelf
- Board game that begins with players choosing college versus career
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - January 30, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 25, 2025
- New York Times - November 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 12, 2025
- New York Times - October 29, 2025
- Daily American - October 27, 2025
- Daily American - September 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 06, 2025
- LA Times - July 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2025
- New York Times - June 13, 2025
- Daily American - June 04, 2025
- Daily American - May 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 10, 2025
- Family Time - March 16, 2025
- Daily American - March 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 30, 2024
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