Clues for the word "ANIMAL"
We've had 210 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 471 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on January 14, 2026.
Definition of animal
- n. - An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
- n. - One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
- a. - Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
- a. - Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
- a. - Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
Referring Clues
- "___ House"
- Twenty questions category
- Member of a very old kingdom
- "20 Questions" category / Layer
- Zoo inhabitant
- Like some instincts
- Primitive
- Kind of magnetism
- Brute
- Ox or fox
- Creature
- Mole or mule
- Kind of instinct
- Sloth, e.g.
- Moose or mouse
- Brutish sort
- 20 Questions category
- "The Muppet Show" drummer
- One with absolutely no manners
- Zooid
- ___ instincts
- The Marx Brothers' "___ Crackers"
- It's not vegetable or mineral
- Skink or skunk
- "___ Farm"
- "The Crocodile Hunter" network, with 47-Across
- Zoo denizen
- Beast
- With 51-Across, network that airs 40-Across
- Muppet on drums
- Zoo creature
- Mink or sable
- Uncouth sort
- Muppet drummer
- Orwell's "___ Farm"
- Orwellian farmer
- "20 Questions" category
- Mammal or bird
- Certain kingdom
- Wild
- Kind of husbandry
- "20 Questions" category
- "Twenty Questions" category
- Member of a kingdom
- Kind of cracker
- Member of a certain kingdom
- Big-time party person
- Varmint
- Cracker shape
- Zoo occupant
- Cracker critter
- Wolfman, some nights
- Party person?
- Zoo resident
- "Twenty Questions" category
- Orwell's "___ Farm"
- ___ magnetism
- Type of cracker or magnetism
- Aesop character, usually
- '20 Questions' category
- Critter
- '20 Ques-tions category'
- Zoo resident
- Twisted balloon shape, often
- Zebra or zebu
- Jaguar or impala
- Wrangler's charge
- Rabbit
- Dog, frog, or hog
- Member of a large kingdom
- 20 question category
- Crazed Muppet drummer
- Kid's cracker shape
- Muppet drummer in Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
- Neither vegetable nor mineral
- Muppets drummer
- Sponge, e.g.
- Savage
- Part of a large kingdom
- "___, vegetable or mineral?"
- See 48-Across
- Alternative to vegetable and mineral
- ___ cracker
- Kingdom member
- Cracker shape of a sort
- Sponge, for one
- 1978 comedy classic
- Meaning of the Greek root of "zodiac"
- Menagerie member
- Kid's cookie shape
- Brutish people
- Sponge or sea anemone
- Not vegetable or mineral
- With 56-Across, lunchbox snacks ... or a hint to the black squares before 18-, 29-, 35- and 45-Across?
- Category in a guessing game
- Leopard, e.g.
- Bear or donkey
- Thin layer, round, neither vegetable nor mineral
- Red-headed drummer on "The Muppets"
- Komodo dragon or Tasmanian devil
- Dog, lion or giraffe
- Cat, moose or bear
- Growling Kesha album?
- Pearl Jam "I'd rather be with an ___"
- Pearl Jam "Vs." single
- Part of hoof upset horse?
- Edges away from manic small creature
- Looking up word for "layer": a hen, perhaps
- A game, a lake, a creature
- Moulting wings panic small creature
- Living organism
- Brute - one of the Muppets
- Mounted plate displaying a horse, say
- Brute having a bit of fun sorting the mail
- Sensual Lana Turner embracing single male
- Brute when the sheet's turned back?
- Plate served up for the beast
- Form of life at large in Manila?
- Horse, for example, backed for plate
- Creature that turns up in laminated wood
- Creature having voluntary movement
- Mammal, say
- Armadillo, for example, has plate all round
- Brutish person
- Living creature with voluntary motion
- Blair's fabulous place in the country?
- Living creature
- Brutal for a short time? Thats up to Capone
- Overlooking American hostility to Capone, the brute
- Beast with bony plate to rear
- Organism having life
- Creature found when sheets are turned over
- Plate brought up, liver?
- Backing the French bird or beast
- Beast wants plate flipped over
- Zebu or zebra
- Many a "Rio" character
- Mule or deer ... or mule deer
- Inhuman human
- Cracker shape, maybe
- Creature turned layer
- Uncivilised person turns plate upside down
- Brutish article on one pointless man
- Article Mail's reprinted on a living organism
- Piece of bone rejected by a dog, say
- Plate brought over for creature
- Beast causing bedlam in abattoir? Some taken aback
- Pakistani male keeps swine
- Beast kept by Pakistani male
- Plate turned up depicting beast
- Dictator in Los Angeles brought up to be a brute
- Backplate for armadillo, perhaps?
- Insect or bird
- Fan mail distributed by branch for 7's 23 across
- Many an Aesopian character
- Any mammal
- Many an Aesop character
- There's nothing about mother following a beast
- Matilda's outwardly obsessive beast ...
- Drumming muppet
- Barbarian lifting a thin plate of bone
- Neither vegetable nor mineral, in a guessing game
- Fable staple
- Jaguar, e.g.
- Dog or dogie
- "___ Crackers"
- ___ husbandry
- A man or a mouse
- Orwell's allegory of Stalinism from 1945
- Sponge or coral
- Type of "magnetism"
- Bird or insect
- Jungle inhabitant
- 26-Across passenger
- Brutal person
- 4-Down, e.g.
- ___ shelter
- Kangaroo or kinkajou
- Fauna component
- Elephant or giraffe
- Koala or bear
- Bird or mammal
- ___ kingdom
- Rat or rooster
- Word after "party" or "stuffed"
- Party or wild follower
- Hen or rabbit
- Dog or frog
- Word with party or balloon
- Hog or groundhog, for example
- Bear or boar
- Cat or rat
- Form of life at large in Manila?
- Member of a kingdom that spans the globe
- "___ Crackers," 1930 film
- Cat or sloth, e.g.
- Aye-aye or dik-dik
- One of many seen in the board games Ark Nova and New York Zoo
- Fiend
- Bat, cat or rat
- Bear, for one
- Kangaroo or koala
- "Till one has loved an ___ a part of one's soul remains unawakened": Anatole France
- Goldfish or oyster
- Member of the fauna
- Fox or ox
- Lion or tiger
- Cat or mouse
- Bear or hare
- Creature from Manila
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - January 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 06, 2025
- LA Times - October 05, 2025
- LA Times - September 28, 2025
- LA Times - August 24, 2025
- LA Times - August 06, 2025
- LA Times - July 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 03, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 13, 2025
- LA Times - February 02, 2025
- New York Times - February 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 16, 2025
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