Clues for the word "AZTEC"
We've had 135 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 328 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on November 18, 2025.
Definition of aztec
- a. - Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519.
- n. - One of the Aztec race or people.
Referring Clues
- Tenochtitlan resident
- ___ Ruins National Monument, N.M.
- Opposer of Cortés
- Like some ruins
- Foe of Cortés
- Nahuatl speaker
- Ancient Mexican
- Early Mexican
- Montezuma, for one
- Dweller at Tenochtitlán
- Montezuma, e.g.
- Worshiper of Tlaloc
- Montezuma, for instance
- Montezuma II, for one
- Cortez's victim
- Cortés victim
- San Diego State University athlete
- Pre-Columbus Mexican
- Old empire member
- Indian conquered by the conquistadors
- Tenochtitlán dweller
- San Diego State player
- ___ Empire, conquered by Cortés
- Like some pyramids
- Empire conquered by Cortés
- Subject of Montezuma
- Quetzalcoatl worshiper
- Montezuma, for example
- Pre-Columbian Mexican
- Mesoamerican culture
- Tlaloc worshiper
- Cortés foe
- Former Mexican empire
- 14th-16th century empire
- Tenochtitlan inhabitant
- One of Montezuma's men
- Ancient Valley of Mexico native
- Enemy of the Tlaxcala
- Worshiper of Coyolxauhqui
- Tezcatlipoca worshiper
- Huitzilopochtli worshiper
- Coyolxauhqui worshiper
- Worshiper of the rain god Tlaloc
- Tenochtitlán native
- Cortés subject
- Worshiper of Huitzilopochtli
- Quetzalcoatl worshipper
- 15th-century Mexican
- Montezuma, notably
- Central Mexican civilization, once
- San Diego State athlete
- Mexican forebears
- Old pyramid builder
- Stone-calendar builder
- Montezumas empire
- Ancient Mexican pyramid builder
- Old mexican
- Cuitlahuac's people
- Mexican aboriginal
- Tenayuca resident
- Civilization conquered by Cortez
- Montezuma subject
- Templo Mayor worshiper
- Victim of Cortes
- Mexican's ancestor, maybe
- Victim of Corts
- New Mexico's ___ Ruins National Monument
- Nahuati
- Nahuatl
- Valley of Mexico figure
- One of Montezuma's people
- Onetime Lake Texcoco dweller
- Order of the ___ Eagle (Mexican medal)
- Texcoco denizen
- Mexican pyramid builder
- Member of an empire ruled by the Mexica
- Like the army that "eagle warriors" fought in
- Subject of Montezuma II
- "Apocalypto" person
- Templo Mayor builder
- Nahua
- Montezuma was one
- Empire conquered by Hernando Cortés
- Ancient pyramid builder
- ___Club (Mexican War veterans' group)
- Language source of "chocolate"
- Ancient indian
- Ancient Texcoco native
- The Mexica people ruled over them
- Mexican empire of old
- Hot-chocolate drinker of yore
- Language related to Hopi
- Ancient worshiper of Huitzilopochtli
- Nahuatl indian
- Old Mexican, first and last detective
- Empire conquered by Cortes
- Type of "Camera," to Roddy Frame
- Member of ancient Mexican tribe
- Great Mexican civilisation
- From the halls of Montezuma
- Relating to old civilisation in Mexico
- Piper with Montezuma's air force?
- Person of earlier civilisation in South Africa upset Dick
- Tlacopan people
- Ancient Mexican Empire
- Moctezuma, for one
- Xochiquetzal worshiper
- Pre-Columbian tribe
- Old American sleuth pursuing extremes
- Ace investigator pens last letter for old American
- Ancient chocolate consumer
- Type of old warrior
- Subject of Emperor Chimalpopoca
- Former Valley of Mexico native
- Worshiper of the war god Huitzilopochtli
- Mexican of yore
- 15th-century ruler Axayácatl, e.g.
- Tenochtitlan resident of old
- Ancient worshipper of Tezcatlipoca and Tlaloc
- Like the 16th-century ruler Cuauhtémoc
- Itzcoatl, for one
- Montezuma follower
- Culture that introduced popcorn to the world
- Tenochtitlan native
- Xipe Totec worshipper
- Ancient Nahuatl speaker
- Tenochtitlan, ___ Empire
- Native Mexican
- Like the emblem on Mexico's flag
- Onetime pyramid builder
- Empire whose capital city was Tenochtitlán
- Follower of the 32-Across
- Ancient speakers of Nahuatl
- Worshipper of Tláloc and Xolotl
- Native led by Montezuma
Last Seen In
- New York Times - November 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 16, 2025
- Mirror Mini - September 22, 2025
- LA Times - August 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 23, 2025
- New York Times - April 10, 2025
- New York Times - February 20, 2025
- Family Time - January 27, 2025
- Daily American - December 22, 2024
- New York Times - November 11, 2024
- New York Times - September 30, 2024
- Daily American - August 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 01, 2024
- New York Times - July 21, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 19, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 14, 2024
- New York Times - April 07, 2024
- Daily American - March 06, 2024
- USA Today - February 08, 2024
- USA Today - January 17, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - September 12, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 05, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - June 23, 2023
- LA Times - June 11, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 23, 2023
- USA Today - April 17, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 11, 2023
- New York Times - March 25, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 17, 2023
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