Clues for the word "BRAIN"
We've had 101 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 144 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on September 21, 2026.
Definition of brain
- n. - The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.
- n. - The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other invertebrates.
- n. - The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.
- n. - The affections; fancy; imagination.
- v. t. - To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.
- v. t. - To conceive; to understand.
Referring Clues
- Genius
- Egghead
- Einstein
- Control center
- Word that can precede the starts of 17-, 35- and 54-Across and 16-Down
- Scarecrow's wish in "The Wizard of Oz"
- Computer's center, informally
- Cranium contents
- Major processing center
- Scarecrow's lack
- Smart guy
- Source of many memories
- With 3-Down, loss of intellectual jobs
- Sponge's lack
- Smarty
- Gray matter
- Mensa member
- Mental giant
- High-IQ sort
- Whiz kid
- With 25-Across, a puzzle
- Bird ______
- Organ
- Oz Scarecrow's lack
- Scarecrow reward
- Wizard
- Hippocampus setting
- It's all in your head
- Intellect
- Data processor?
- Cranium's contents
- Scarecrow's need
- Very intelligent person
- Intellectual
- Hit on the head
- Jellyfish's lack
- Very smart person
- Oz clue
- 34-Across member
- Thinking organ
- Cerebrum setting
- Intellectual person
- Scarecrow's wish
- 1 Across member
- Head piece?
- Organ with ideas
- You can't join Mensa without one
- Know-it-all
- Smart one
- What you think with
- It's in your skull
- Cypress Hill: "Insane in the ___"
- One thinks of a non-metric measure for a bra
- One having thoughts of wet weather at Beachy Head
- One thinks it's a bad start when the weather's wet
- One can think it a clever line in chaff
- You can get water at the Boar's Head, one thinks
- Organ of the intellect
- Intellectual capacity
- Control centre of nervous system
- Haemorrhaging of talent
- Mastermind put iodine in cereal
- See 22
- It has two hemispheres
- "The chief function of the body is to carry the ___ around": Thomas Edison
- Support given to fashionable intellectual
- Bishop Bucket sought by 12 in 3
- Changing Blair to Brown needed central intelligence
- See 15
- Thinker needs this in middle of Cumbria beside waterfall
- Smart person
- Skull contents
- Mischievous bairn, but with intellect
- Really smart person
- Think tank member
- Scarecrow's wish, in Oz
- A feminine garment in mind
- One thinks there's wet weather at Birkenhead
- Bop on the bean
- Cerebrum
- MB's East ___ tree
- Scarecrow's desire in "The Wizard of Oz"
- Hard drive, essentially
- Brian's demented, one thinks
- Scarecrow’s desire
- Lobe locale
- Refuse to let one in, which shows intelligence
- It has something feminine in, one thinks
- Organ with lobes
- The thought is there
- "The ___ -- is wider than the Sky" (start of an Emily Dickinson poem)
- I think I've got it working!
- One thinks of a line in chaff!
- One thinking to start back when the weather's wet?
- Body part with billions of neurons
- Organ with two hemispheres
- Thought spot
- Its box is of bone
- A lingerie item in mind
- Cranium organ
- Scarecrow's desire
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 07, 2026
- Your Life Choices - September 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - August 13, 2026
- LA Times - June 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 22, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - March 16, 2026
- Mirror Mini - March 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 27, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 24, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 04, 2026
- LA Times - November 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 28, 2025
- Mirror Mini - March 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 24, 2025
- Mirror Mini - January 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 22, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - April 14, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 15, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 10, 2023
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