Clues for the word "ADRIFT"
We've had 74 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 119 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 27, 2026.
Definition of adrift
- adv. & a. - Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Referring Clues
- Wandering
- Aimless
- Floating aimlessly
- Becalmed
- Not moored
- Carried along by the currents
- Without purpose
- Unanchored
- Not anchored
- Unmoored
- Floating freely
- Lacking aim
- Without a compass, say
- Lost at sea
- Directionless
- Lacking guidance
- Directionless at sea
- Lacking direction
- Aimlessly
- Lacking purpose
- Floating with no control
- In need of wind, perhaps
- Out of control, at sea
- Free-floating
- Going with the flow
- Loose
- With 63-Across, floating freely on the ocean
- At the current's mercy
- Untethered
- Floating at sea
- "Set ___ On Memory Bliss" P.M. Dawn
- Loose from moorings
- Commercial break lacking purpose
- One large display of snowdrops without roots?
- A doctor provided time off course
- Rudderless
- Floating around, being AWOL
- Austria and Germany feud? That's aimless!
- Undirected commercial break
- Off course
- A tenor is currently helpless
- Commercial break cut off
- Notice the narrow opening at sea
- Afloat without steerage
- Cut off commercial break
- How one may be cast as Captain Bligh?
- See 16 across
- Why Saatchi left Saatchi alone?
- What caused Saatchi & Saatchi to split, so apart?
- Notice split is loose
- Publicity for split has gone wrong
- Powerless to control one import
- Plug falling out and floating
- A pile of snow cut loose
- Commercial break has no clear purpose
- Rudderless, astray
- Plug opening at sea
- Insecure at publicity given to break-up
- Insecure at introducing top of designer range
- Take commercial break, having no anchor?
- Powerless to choose one's course?
- Disagreement following publicity that's aimless
- Floating aimlessly at sea
- Going nowhere in commercial break
- Raft I'd set loose might be this
- Astray
- A pile of snow moving aimlessly
- Without aim
- Floating
- Floating around getting a doctor properly fit
- A tenor absent without leave
- Purposeless
- Just one tenor, unattached
- If this, you need a push in the right direction
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 27, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 06, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 13, 2026
- Mirror Mini - November 05, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 25, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 29, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 05, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 24, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 19, 2023
- Family Time - August 20, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 18, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 29, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 25, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - August 24, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - August 05, 2022
- New York Times - July 26, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 23, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 20, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 10, 2022
- New York Times - November 12, 2021
- Penny Dell Daily - December 10, 2017
- Mirror Mini - November 05, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 20, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - October 15, 2017
- And in 89 more crossword puzzles...