Clues for the word "ANCIENT"
We've had 59 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 103 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on November 06, 2025.
Definition of ancient
- a. - Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
- a. - Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
- a. - Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.
- a. - Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.
- a. - Experienced; versed.
- a. - Former; sometime.
- n. - Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.
- n. - An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence.
- n. - A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
- n. - One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
- n. - An ensign or flag.
- n. - The bearer of a flag; an ensign.
Referring Clues
- Of interest to archaeologists
- As old as the hills
- With 31-Across, literary character "whose beard with age is hoar"
- Socrates or Pythagoras, e.g.
- Age-old
- Antique
- With 37-Across, prehistoric orange liqueur?
- Person of olden times
- Really old
- "The Rime of the ___ Mariner"
- Long-ago
- Old as the hills
- Venerable one
- Like Stonehenge
- Prehistoric
- Antiquated
- Like the Parthenon
- Like Coleridge's mariner
- Like dinosaurs
- Very old
- With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across
- Like Phoenicia
- Like the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Antediluvian
- Very, very old
- Like the Mesopotamian people
- Like the Sphinx
- Like the Aramaic language
- ___ history
- A terribly nice part of the bible - very old
- Very old African party that is not without love
- Of the far past
- Like 34-Across
- Bygone
- Old salt in Coleridge's poem
- Extremely old
- Old and new Conservative regularly likes wearing fake tan
- Old
- Article on foreign currency includes one that's out of date
- Old rotten tin can contains cigarette end
- Old tin can found damaged round back of theatre
- A nice version - New Testament and Old
- Aged Cain treated by hospital department
- "Old" is about ... about a hundred and one
- Very old description, in part, of some hymns
- Article on foreign currency - about one no longer current
- Old cat with nine fractures
- A new customer left out, being very old
- Iago was Othello's, being very old
- A new customer left out from the ark
- Very old worker drinking nice bubbly
- Old emmet's nice mess absorbed
- Dating from very long ago
- Old-fashioned
- Can I mend the torn net? It is old
- Like the Zhou dynasty
- Mega-old
- Long gone
- Primeval
Last Seen In
- Daily American - November 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 13, 2025
- Daily American - April 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 07, 2025
- Daily American - November 17, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 31, 2023
- Daily American - November 06, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 25, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 24, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 13, 2023
- Daily American - April 02, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 07, 2023
- New York Times - February 01, 2023
- Daily American - November 17, 2022
- New York Times - June 11, 2022
- Mirror Classic - January 24, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - January 05, 2018
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 03, 2018
- Daily American - November 06, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 25, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 24, 2017
- Mirror Quick - August 21, 2017
- LA Times - June 08, 2017
- LA Times - May 15, 2017
- And in 73 more crossword puzzles...