Clues for the word "ACCIDENTAL"
We've had 17 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 33 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on August 25, 2025.
Definition of accidental
- a. - Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
- a. - Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.
- n. - A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- n. - Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
- n. - A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
Referring Clues
- Unplanned
- Sign that changes the pitch of a note
- Chance
- Unintentional
- Happening by chance
- Fortuitous
- Random
- Fortuitous bit of scoring?
- By chance, a maverick on the staff
- Unintentional change of key
- Cacti lend a different look to a flat, perhaps
- It could be a sharp chance
- Unexpected eruption at Iceland obscures heart of glacier
- By chance confused client with a cad
- Note I'd stress without a line
- *Liberal arts college on the West Coast
- Unintended
Last Seen In
- Daily American - August 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 20, 2025
- Daily American - January 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 16, 2024
- Daily American - January 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 02, 2023
- Daily American - August 25, 2023
- Daily American - January 29, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 16, 2022
- Mirror Daily - August 22, 2022
- Washington Post Sunday - February 04, 2018
- Daily American - January 24, 2018
- Mirror Quick - December 05, 2017
- Daily American - August 25, 2017
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - May 09, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - April 30, 2017
- Daily American - January 29, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - January 04, 2017
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - March 13, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - April 16, 2014
- New York Times - December 24, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - November 05, 2008
- Thinks Daily - January 02, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - February 21, 2006
- Washington Post - November 14, 2005
- Guardian Quiptic - August 09, 2004
- Guardian Prize - August 02, 2003
- And in 3 more crossword puzzles...