Clues for the word "PRINCIPAL"
We've had 22 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 45 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on November 09, 2025.
Definition of principal
- a. - Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.
- a. - Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.
- n. - A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.
- n. - The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory.
- n. - A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety.
- n. - One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent.
- n. - A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
- n. - A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.
- n. - The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- n. - In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.
- n. - A heirloom; a mortuary.
- n. - The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- n. - One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
- n. - A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.
Referring Clues
- With 53-Across, where Victoria lives?
- With 65A, shooting with the stars
- Main
- High school VIP
- High-school boss
- School employee with an office
- School leader
- School VIP
- 5 across moral, say?
- Head teacher
- General rule, so to speak, for one fighting duel
- The money is most important
- Head's essential nature comes through in speech
- The first moral we're told
- Chief
- First thing that sparks interest
- Head teacher announced rule
- A sum of money is essential, we hear
- Main, leading
- Chief, main
- Royal Harry, eh? Abdicating for excessively good return from capital
- Leading law report
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - November 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 22, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 29, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 12, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - January 04, 2018
- Guardian Quiptic - December 18, 2017
- Mirror Quick - November 08, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 01, 2017
- Universal - July 24, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - April 06, 2017
- Mirror Daily - April 02, 2017
- Mirror Daily - March 15, 2017
- Mirror Daily - March 06, 2017
- Mirror Daily - April 02, 2016
- Mirror Daily - March 15, 2016
- Mirror Daily - March 06, 2016
- Netword - July 13, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - December 26, 2014
- Guardian Quick - November 11, 2014
- Guardian Speedy - May 26, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - June 26, 2012
- Guardian Quick - March 28, 2012
- Guardian Speedy - November 06, 2011
- And in 15 more crossword puzzles...