Clues for the word "SWAMP"
We've had 74 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 128 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 29, 2025.
Definition of swamp
- n. - Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
- v. t. - To plunge or sink into a swamp.
- v. t. - To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
- v. t. - Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- v. i. - To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
- v. i. - To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
Referring Clues
- Will-o'-the-wisp locale
- Overwhelm
- Overload
- Place for a cypress
- Washington, D.C., once
- 59-Across relative
- Home for alligators
- Home for a round-tailed muskrat
- Mire
- Will-o'-the-wisp whereabouts
- Pogo Possum's home
- Wet, spongy land
- Overwhelm, as with work
- Overwhelm with work
- A different synonym of it is hidden in 25-, 32-, 41- and 46-Across
- Overload with work
- Burden with work
- Bog down
- Marshy region
- Boggy area
- Muddy, murky place
- Bayou
- Marshy tract
- Muskrat's home
- Marsh
- Morass
- Overwhelm, or a relative of the first syllable of 20-, 36-, or 53-Across
- Marshland
- Place for alligators
- Okefenokee, e.g.
- Bog
- Home for Pogo
- Washington, once, so they say
- "___ thing"
- Airboat area
- Muskeg
- Mangrove habitat
- Alligator's home
- Overburden
- Inundate
- Home to some cypresses
- Washington establishment, so to speak
- Alligator's abode
- Wetland
- Frog's home
- Very wet area with many plants and animals
- Wetland area
- Place for crocodiles
- Lynyrd Skynyrd "___ Music"
- Paddled over soft morass
- Proceeded quietly through waterlogged area?
- Flood: did the butterfly start to panic?
- Airboat captain's habitat
- John Fogerty "Blue Moon ___"
- Gator's home
- Was confused by politician in Slough
- Bog, marsh
- Morass was sorted out by legislator
- Washington establishment, so it's said
- What Trump promised to drain?
- Muddy place with crocodiles
- Overwhelmingly wet area?
- Draining target?
- Cypress setting
- Really wet spot
- Habitat for some alligators
- Wetland such as the Okefenokee
- Shrek's home is one
- Wet, marshy area
- Shrek's habitat
- Home for Shrek
- Alligator abode
- Shrek's home
- Where Shrek lives
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 29, 2025
- LA Times - October 07, 2025
- LA Times - May 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 26, 2025
- New York Times - January 14, 2025
- USA Today - November 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 04, 2024
- USA Today - April 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 12, 2024
- USA Today - September 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 05, 2023
- USA Today - August 30, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 06, 2023
- Family Time - April 23, 2023
- USA Today - April 19, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 20, 2023
- USA Today - February 12, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 25, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 03, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - June 08, 2022
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 28, 2018
- Rock n Roll Crossword - January 14, 2018
- Family Time - December 18, 2017
- USA Today - October 30, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - September 23, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2017
- And in 98 more crossword puzzles...