Clues for the word "TOWER"
We've had 143 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 281 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 21, 2026.
Definition of tower
- n. - A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
- n. - A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
- n. - A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
- n. - A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
- n. - A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
- n. - High flight; elevation.
- v. i. - To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
- v. t. - To soar into.
Referring Clues
- Radio station need
- Broadcaster's need
- Illegal parker's worry
- Radio station facility
- Illegal parker's concern
- ___ of London
- Pisa landmark
- Skyscraper
- Word with fire or water
- Air controller's place
- Rapunzel's "prison"
- Place for a bell ringer
- Truck with a tailgater?
- Rise upward
- Eiffel ___
- Word that follows the first word of 17-, 28-, and 44-Across, and both words of 58-Across
- Quasimodo's home
- Quasimodo's hangout
- Airport fixture
- Loom
- Control ___
- Cell-phone service structure
- Castle part
- Eiffel ___
- Space Needle, for example
- Genesis structure
- Sky-high structure
- Radio station structure
- Princess Fiona's prison
- London or Pisa attraction
- Babel, for one
- Minaret, for one
- Controller's spot
- London landmark
- Babel construction
- Stand high
- Pisa's tall attraction
- Steeple supporter
- Pisa has a leaning one
- Control ___
- 14 Down attraction
- Babel structure
- Babel building
- Babel building
- Belfry or Minaret
- Belfry or Minaret
- Prominent landmark
- Pisa sight
- Minaret
- Airport structure
- Eiffel creation
- Eiffel's masterwork
- Eiffel built one
- Tall building
- Castle component
- Airport feature
- Broadcasting aid
- Rapunzel's prison
- Lookout spot
- See 8-Down
- Rapunzel's home
- Babel had one
- Tall, slender building
- Pisa attraction
- Cell company's structure
- Airport center
- The CN ______
- Cellphone transmitter
- Cellular system structure
- Building of Babel
- The Willis in Chicago, for one
- Mobile phone call transmitter
- Tall structure
- High spot
- High-rise
- Tall building - for a carthorse?
- Loom (over)
- Record store whose physical locations closed in 2006
- Turret
- Eiffel's edifice
- Soar
- Keep going in Felixtowe Road
- Stand tall
- See 11
- See 27
- We enter a high place or tall building
- We are ensconced in the Hill Building
- Wrote off loom
- Tall feature of Blackpool
- The building of a tug?
- Building to the west end of Westminster
- Adjustable borer and widget for adjustable spanner?
- Possibly keep barge horse?
- Drag queen in old prison
- Building quarters inside a hill
- Air traffic controller's place
- Tall building - loom (over)
- Stand very high (over)
- See 14
- Rescue vehicle sometimes of ivory?
- Building quarters within a rock
- Extend towards heaven as breakdown vehicle?
- 5's loom
- Wrote off for a tug
- Minaret, for example
- Rear of tractor, perhaps
- Proprietor losing heart after time in tall building
- The historic prison in which we rot, imaginably
- The Eiffel ___
- Wrote letters in a tall building
- Lookout position
- ___ of Babel
- Jenga construction
- Air traffic controller's workplace
- Drag queen where prisoners were held in London
- In height, we are way above
- Tall folks do it
- TV station structure
- Paris' Eiffel ___
- Belfry, e.g.
- Minaret, e.g.
- Pisa's leaner
- Jenga structure
- Cell network structure
- Stop twerp undressing in part of castle
- Steeple
- Spire
- It's noticeably tall we are, in height
- A tug near London Bridge?
- Iconic 19th century 7 crossing
- Drag a monarch to the place of incarceration
- See 29 Down
- Tall, powerful building
- High structure
- Cairo ___, Egypt's tallest structure
- Dwarf, with "over"
- Skyline feature
- The ___ of Babel
- Fortress
- The building of a tug?
- Structure climbed in the climactic scene of 58-Across
- Bell's site, often
- Word after bell or cell
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 24, 2025
- Daily American - July 16, 2025
- Daily American - June 15, 2025
- New York Times - May 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 08, 2024
- And in 251 more crossword puzzles...