Clues for the word "SPIKE"
We've had 75 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 110 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on September 10, 2025.
Definition of spike
- n. - A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
- n. - Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- n. - An ear of corn or grain.
- n. - A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- v. t. - To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
- v. t. - To set or furnish with spikes.
- v. t. - To fix on a spike.
- v. t. - To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
- n. - Spike lavender. See Lavender.
Referring Clues
- Net feat
- Sudden upturn, as in sales
- Shoot up
- Volleyball kill
- Sudden increase
- Add liquor to, as punch
- Sudden increase on a graph
- Abrupt increase on a graph
- Unusually high 17-Across
- Railroad track fastener
- Court smash
- Sports-shoe feature
- Volleyball smash
- Anomalous rise
- Volleyball maneuver
- Sudden, brief increase
- Lace
- Really high heel
- Peak on a graph
- Berton's The Last ______
- Volleyball coup
- Orthodox image
- Abrupt rise
- Temporary increase
- Director Lee
- Railroading nail
- 'Manswers' network
- Volleyball tactic
- Type of heel
- Piton, for one
- Rail nail
- With 17-Across, 'Do the Right Thing' director
- Increase sharply
- Volleyball manoeuvre
- A very high narrow heel on women's shoe
- Huge nail
- Extremely high heel
- Electric surge
- Track fastener
- Feature of a punk hairdo
- Add alcohol to, as punch
- Electrical surge
- Powerful volleyball shot
- Sudden variation in voltage
- Piton, e.g.
- Railroad nail
- Sharp increase
- Large nail
- Increase considerably
- Railroad track 'nail'
- Pierce an ear
- Turning over, she finally sleeps in lace
- Prong
- Impale small fish
- The point is, you render the gun harmless
- Add alcohol to (drink)
- An ear for future agenda?
- See 21 down
- Spear sunfish
- Harpoon small fish
- Man whose lemonade you'll put the whisky in?
- Climber's piton, e.g.
- Nail
- "BlacKkKlansman" director Lee
- Maestro Jones of car-horn, pot-lid fame
- Ground intentionally, as a football
- Abrupt increase
- Sharp point
- Volleyball shot
- Exciting volleyball play
- Powerful pickleball shot
- Volleyball putaway
- 53-Across feature, as seen three times in this puzzle
- Sudden surge
- Certain volleyball hit
Last Seen In
- New York Times - September 10, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 25, 2025
- LA Times - January 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 11, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2024
- New York Times - October 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 15, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 09, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 24, 2023
- New York Times - December 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 19, 2023
- LA Times - August 31, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 24, 2023
- USA Today - July 21, 2023
- USA Today - May 29, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 16, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 13, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 06, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 01, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 17, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - July 10, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - January 26, 2018
- New Zealand Herald - November 25, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - November 15, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - September 22, 2017
- And in 80 more crossword puzzles...