Clues for the word "ACROSS"
We've had 133 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 275 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 20, 2026.
Definition of across
- n. - From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
- adv. - From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
- adv. - Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.
Referring Clues
- It's at the top of some columns
- Straddling
- Over
- Transversely
- See above
- Unlike this answer
- Down's opposite
- On the opposite bank
- The direction of this answer
- From one side to the other
- Horizontally
- ___ the aisle (bipartisanly)
- ___ the board
- LIKE THIS CLUE
- Down's counterpart in puzzles
- Clue column heading
- How this answer is to be written
- Direction for a crossword solver
- Like this answer
- Like this clue's answer
- Direction of some puzzle words
- Like this answer, or a two-word description of this puzzle's theme
- Puzzle direction
- On the other side
- Beyond
- Into contact with
- Crossword column heading
- Crossword clue heading
- Spanning
- ___ the board (completely)
- How to write this answer
- Crossword heading
- Like many crossword clues
- What this clue isn't
- Unlike this clue
- Type of crossword clue
- Down counterpart
- First word in crosswords?
- Like some crossword clues
- Not like this clue
- Your current direction
- Puzzle heading
- To the other side
- Not this way
- Like this puzzle answer
- Facing
- From side to side
- Facing, with "from"
- Clue category
- ___ the board (completely)
- Clue heading
- Clue for half of these clues
- Not down
- Opposite (from)
- Opposite side
- Not this way!
- This way
- Solve every clue here and you won't go down
- Puzzling direction
- Perpendicular to this answer
- Like 36 of this puzzle's answers
- Crossword direction
- Down's opposite, sometimes
- Opposite
- Run ___: find
- Down's opposite, in puzzles
- This direction
- -
- Word puzzle direction
- Opposite of down
- On the other side of
- Clue direction
- Traversing
- Bridging
- What you see when you look up?
- Crossword-clue heading
- Like many of this puzzle's answers
- Oscar's wild for clues like this
- Unlike this entry
- To the opposite side
- Beatles "___ the Universe"
- Something to bear to the other side?
- A vote to the other side?
- 12's bearing makes one angry
- From side to side (of)
- Over to the other side
- A sign the other way
- A whale turning ocean-going craft over
- Clue with solution not going in the direction of this one!
- A rude-sounding sort of clue
- A vote having gone to the other side
- Crossword clue division
- A religious symbol in clues like this
- Met by chance, came ___
- Oscars distribution is over
- Game without ends is over
- A bad-tempered over
- Facing a junction
- A trial is over
- A mongrel on the other side
- On the other side of a bridge
- Game the French boycotted is over
- Distribution of Oscars is over
- A short type of clue
- Type of clue with answer X
- How the answer to this clue goes in the grid
- The way to go when solving this type of clue
- Opposite of down, in crosswords
- See 63-Across
- Athwart
- First word in a clue list
- An angry sort of clue
- A puzzling direction
- Clue list header
- Clues heading
- Throughout
- Word above this puzzle's first clue
- Over a kiss
- Counterpart of down
- Unlike this answer, directionally
- To the opposite side of
- Direction you started with?
- Something to bear to the other side?
- Direction of this clue
- Direction of a spreadsheet row
- See 80-Down
- Crossword header
- Puzzling start?
- "Spider-Man: ___ the Spider-Verse"
- Direction of about half the words in this puzzle
- Like this clue's answer, direction-wise
- Like the direction of this answer
- Opposite direction of this clue's answer
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 20, 2026
- Mirror Mini - February 10, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 31, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 21, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 12, 2025
- Daily American - June 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 28, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 31, 2025
- USA Today - March 11, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 24, 2025
- USA Today - January 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 06, 2025
- New York Times - December 16, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 07, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 30, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 23, 2024
- USA Today - August 15, 2024
- And in 245 more crossword puzzles...