Clues for the word "RIVER"
We've had 145 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 220 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on January 28, 2026.
Definition of river
- n. - One who rives or splits.
- n. - A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
- n. - Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
- v. i. - To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
Referring Clues
- Missouri or Delaware
- Hudson, e.g.
- Missouri, e.g.
- Its mouth is nowhere near its head
- Fork's place, maybe
- Banks hold it
- Snake, e.g.
- "Moon ___" (Mancini composition)
- "___ of Dreams" (1993 Billy Joel album)
- Bank depositor?
- Natural boundary
- Colorado or Missouri
- Connecticut or Delaware
- Don or Lena
- Potomac, for one
- Wisconsin or Mississippi
- Colorado or Mississippi
- Arkansas or Missouri
- Iowa or Ohio
- It has a bed and banks
- Colorado, for one
- Colorado or Arkansas
- Fish habitat
- The Po, for one
- Tennessee or Ohio, e.g.
- Ohio or Missouri
- The Arkansas, e.g.
- Ohio or Arkansas, e.g.
- Savannah or Columbia, among many
- Colorado or Missouri, e.g.
- It has banks and a mouth
- Steamboat site
- It has banks and flows
- Manitoba's Red ______
- Jordan, for one
- Potomac or Danube
- Manitoba's Red ______
- Styx, for one
- "Moon ___"
- 46-Across, e.g.
- Ochre ______ , Manitoba
- Harlem or Bronx
- Harlem or Bronx
- Rafting spot
- See 32-Across
- Trout's place
- Rafter's place
- Mississippi, e.g.
- Snake, for one
- Watercourse
- Hippo's hangout
- Mississippi or Ohio, e.g.
- Missouri, Arkansas or Ohio, e.g.
- Inland waterway
- See 73 Across
- It has a bed and runs
- Its mouth is its end
- Item with features that begin this puzzle's four longest answers
- Delta maker
- Nova Scotia's Little ______
- Barge's place
- "Cry me a ___"
- *Actor Phoenix
- Missouri, Arkansas or Connecticut
- The Tygart, e.g.
- Ohio or Illinois, but not Indiana
- Common state border
- Missouri or Mississippi
- 1948 John Wayne film
- Outpouring
- The mighty Mississippi, for one
- Bear ____ Prince Edward Island waterway
- It has a very wet mouth
- Word that can precede the first parts of 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 35-Down
- Amazon, e.g.
- Hippo's milieu
- Nile______-
- Ol' man, e.g.
- Amazon ___
- Large stream
- Don, for example – lead-free motorist
- Axe or Exe, for example
- Stream
- Styx, e.g.
- What the Boss went down to
- "And into the ___ we'd dive" Bruce
- The Steve Miller Band "Wide ___"
- What The Alarm got "Sold" down
- Dee, Exe or Wye, say
- I have invested in a car, where a boat is needed
- Runner taking a letter from "10 Across"
- Sort of bed you'll get in the Thames valley
- Shannon Tweed has more than one
- Waterway
- Clyde, say
- Tay, say
- It flows
- ... flower splitter
- Tees, say, first stolen from golf club
- Mississippi or Missouri
- It runs off at the mouth
- Brook
- The Stour, for instance, some would call a flower
- Gospel music's Jordan, e.g.
- Moisturizer brand
- Nile or Amazon
- See 13
- Plate or Main course?
- Eurovision hit Verdi composed in state of ecstasy? Not initially
- Banker with a bank in Paris, right?
- Goose ___ ( PEI place )
- Amazon or Danube
- Don is one motorist missing start
- Columbia, for one
- Flower that's split, right?
- Nile, e.g.
- Ob or Po
- Ouse or Oise
- Yangtze or Mekong
- See 27-Down
- Its mouth may be full of fish
- Missouri or Ohio
- Water with a mouth
- Amazon or Nile
- Clyde, for example
- Great ___ (translation of the Anishinaabe name Misi-ziibi)
- Rafting destination
- Many a state border
- Nile or Salween, e.g.
- Hippo's spa
- Changjiang or Mekong
- Home to many fish
- Whitewater rafting site
- The Brahmaputra is one
- Delta connection?
- The Yangtze, for example
- 35-Across, for one
- Water under the bridge
- Amazon, for instance
- Many a state boundary
- Congo or Amazon
- The Loire, for one
- Mekong or Ganges
- Amazon, for one
- Ohio or Delaware
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - January 28, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 06, 2026
- Daily American - November 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 18, 2025
- Daily American - June 14, 2025
- Mirror Mini - May 10, 2025
- Daily American - April 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 20, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 12, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 18, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 13, 2024
- USA Today - September 28, 2024
- Daily American - September 09, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 24, 2024
- USA Today - August 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 25, 2024
- USA Today - July 04, 2024
- New York Times - June 16, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 09, 2024
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