Clues for the word "BAY"
We've had 212 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 387 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on April 17, 2026.
Definition of bay
- a. - Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
- n. - An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
- n. - A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
- n. - A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
- n. - A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
- n. - A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
- n. - A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
- n. - A berry, particularly of the laurel.
- n. - The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
- n. - A tract covered with bay trees.
- v. i. - To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
- v. t. - To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
- v. i. - Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
- v. i. - A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
- v. t. - To bathe.
- n. - A bank or dam to keep back water.
- v. t. - To dam, as water; -- with up or back.
Referring Clues
- Airplane compartment
- Kind of scallop
- Dark horse
- Raise a howl
- Glacier ___ (Alaska)
- San Francisco/Oakland separator
- Manila ___
- Cargo area
- Cargo compartment
- Plane part
- Scotland's "___ City Rollers"
- Gulf's smaller relative
- ___ City Rollers ("Saturday Night" group)
- Howl like a hound
- Howl in the moonlight
- Word before window
- "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the ___" (1968 Otis Redding chart-topper)
- Cove
- Reddish-brown
- Biscayne in Florida
- Howl at the moon
- Moan at the moon
- Aircraft compartment
- Howl
- San Francisco ___
- Reddish brown
- Hound sound
- BART part
- Cuba's ___ of Pigs
- Compartment
- Kennel sound
- Hudson or Biscayne
- Miami's Biscayne ___
- Cove's big brother
- Hound howl
- At ___ (no longer a threat)
- A Camptown racer
- Chesapeake, for one
- Chesapeake, e.g.
- Reddish-brown horse
- San Francisco, e.g.
- Montego or Hudson
- Bark at the moon, perhaps
- Cove kin
- ___ of Biscay
- Hudson or Chesapeake
- Sight from the Golden Gate Bridge
- Inlet of the sea
- Chestnut's stablemate, perhaps
- Miami's Biscayne ___
- San Francisco ___
- Tampa has one
- At ___ (no longer a threat)
- Inlet
- With Hudson, Saskatchewan community
- Newfoundland's Red ______
- Bark
- San Francisco feature
- Cove cousin
- Chesapeake ___
- Chesapeake, eg.
- Serenade the moon
- Biscay or Biscayne
- Port spot
- Chesapeake or Hudson
- Chesapeake or Coos
- Hudson, for one
- San Francisco, for one
- Window type
- With 32-Down, San Francisco's region
- Gulf relative
- Where your ship may come in
- Biscayne, for one
- Loading dock slot
- Seabiscuit, for one
- Gulf's smaller cousin
- Body under the Golden Gate Bridge
- Triple Crown winner Citation or Gallant Fox
- Shoreline indentation
- Fundy, for one
- Chesapeake, for example
- San Francisco's water
- A bridge may span it
- Newfoundland's Red ____
- Aromatic seasoning
- Wolf's howl
- Sea inlet
- Arm with many vessels, maybe
- Cornered (with at)
- Seabiscuit, notably
- Baffin, for one
- Green ___, Wisc.
- Laurel tree
- Baffin or Biscayne
- Sound relative
- See 7-Across
- Pound sound
- ___ leaf
- Tampa, for one
- Chesapeake in Maryland
- Water under some bridges
- Large inlet
- Imitate a wolf
- The ___ state (nickname of Massachusetts)
- Colt coat color
- Moonlight, for one
- See 41-Down
- Trail's Jason ______
- ___ of Fundy
- Coastal feature
- Horse with a reddish-brown body
- Cargo hold
- Darker than chestnut
- Harbor
- Green ___ Packers
- Bark at the moon
- Body of water
- Montego ___
- Small body of water
- Maryland's Chesapeake
- Certain body of water
- San Francisco has one
- "Transformers" director Michael
- San Francisco water
- Green or Tampa, e.g.
- A certain type of body of water
- Bight
- Always chasing black horse
- Tree bark of sorts
- What a hound may do for a horse
- Barry, having lost his Rolls, still has a horse
- What hounds may do for a horse?
- Window leaves producer on the coast
- Wide inlet
- Mediterranean laurel
- Wide inlet of sea
- Cardigan, e.g.
- Shrub with aromatic leaves
- Windsurfing spot
- Broad cove
- Word before watch or window
- "Camptown Races" horse
- Wide inlet of the sea
- Inlet, cove
- Tree in alcove
- Sea-horse?
- ___ window
- Tampa ___ Buccaneers
- Small gulf
- "Shallow ___: The Best of Breaking Benjamin"
- What the Norse call a "fjord"
- Football's Green ___ Packers
- "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the ___"
- Word with window or rum
- Guantanamo ___
- Utterance of a hound or a horse
- San Francisco or Tampa
- Place for parking one's horse?
- Saltwater body
- "Thunder ___"
- Feature of Cajun Country
- What a bridge often spans
- Hudson ___
- Place for cargo
- Upper New York ___
- American Pharoah or Citation
- Alcatraz surrounder
- Biscayne or Montego
- ___ Area (Oakland's locale)
- Sound like a hound or a horse
- From such a window, is there a sea view?
- Plane compartment
- Alcove
- Las Vegas' Mandalay ___
- Shoreline feature
- Broad inlet
- Spot for windsurfing
- Some cove with a horse
- Boston's Back ___
- San Francisco area, with "the"
- Cook's leaf
- Cove relative
- Massachusetts' Buzzards ___
- Chesapeake in Maryland, for one
- Badly short of numbers at the seaside
- Only parts of Biscay?
- What a hound might do for a horse
- Horse possibly watched on TV
- Relative of a gulf
- ___ leaf (stew additive)
- What wolves do at the moon
- ___ State, nickname for Massachusetts
- Chesapeake or Biscayne, e.g.
- Cooking leaf
- The Chesapeake, for one
- Maryland's Chesapeake, for one
- What hounds may do for a horse?
- Tampa ___ Rays
- ___ leaf (stew seasoning)
- San Francisco or Chesapeake
- Chesapeake ___ Bridge-Tunnel
- A horse to watch in a TV programme
- Receiving area
- ___ leaf: stew herb
- Green ___, Wisconsin
- Truck-loading area
- Tampa or Chesapeake
- San Francisco's ___ Area
- Biscayne is one, Chesapeake another
- Gulf's kin
- California's Monterey ___ Aquarium
- Deep howl
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - April 17, 2026
- Your Life Choices - April 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 16, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 16, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 17, 2025
- New York Times - December 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2025
- New York Times - September 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 06, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 14, 2025
- New York Times - March 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 04, 2025
- LA Times - December 31, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 10, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 15, 2024
- Mirror Mini - November 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 28, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 27, 2024
- New York Times - August 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 04, 2024
- Family Time - July 28, 2024
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