Clues for the word "CLOUD"
We've had 84 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 108 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on June 22, 2026.
Definition of cloud
- n. - A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
- n. - A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
- n. - A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
- n. - That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
- n. - A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
- n. - A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
- v. t. - To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
- v. t. - To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
- v. t. - To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
- v. t. - To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
- v. i. - To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.
Referring Clues
- Symbol of a lingering scandal
- Sun block?
- Red ___ (Oglala chief)
- Cirrus or cumulus
- Rain source
- Sleet source
- Fluffy floater
- Sun screen
- Sun block
- Sun screen?
- Symbol of gloom
- Add mystery to
- Sky sighting
- Puffy sky sight
- Cirrus, for one
- Thunderhead
- Cirrus, e.g.
- Shower source
- Cumulus, e.g.
- Kind of computing using remote servers
- Sun blocker
- Befog
- Mushroom ___ (atom bomb's wake)
- It may be seeded for rain
- Metaphorical obscurer
- Obscure
- It's dark when raining
- Rain holder
- Modern storage area, with "the"
- Kind of computing
- Symbol of gloom, in comics
- Sun blocker, perhaps
- ___ 60-Across (state of euphoria)
- If this is dark, it may rain
- Cumulus, for example
- Something for a cuckoo to land on?
- Nimbus, e.g,
- Nimbus
- Provider of the shade of grey?
- Mass of airborne water vapour
- Mass of water droplets
- Nimbus, say
- Covering of 100 decibels?
- C-cacophonous cautionary condition
- See special instructions
- Lonely Lakeland water-bearer
- Data storage medium
- See 9-Across
- Modern data backup service
- Source of rain
- Almost hit daughter coming out of one's shower?
- Heavenly sight that's cold and garish?
- It can put you in the shade
- Weather map symbol
- Metaphor for suspicion
- Modern data storage option
- Why we had such a dull day?
- Sun block?
- Bringer of rain
- Darken or make obscure
- Rain provider
- May bring rain when it's terribly cold around mid-January
- Storage area
- Metaphor for gloom
- Puffy sight in the sky
- Nimbus, for example
- It may precipitate a drenching
- On ___ nine (very happy)
- Nine is the one to be on!
- Cumulus, say, could be dispersed
- Whence the rain can be cold around mid-January
- Fluffy sight in the sky
- Make murky
- With this puzzle's central black squares, ecstasy
- Bringing rain, it envelops half of us in shivering cold
- Something for a cuckoo to land on?
- See '17'
- Possible threat of rain that could put some of us in the cold
- It puts you in the shade
- Billowy mass
- Provider of the shade of grey?
- One of the overheads, like cotton wool
- On ___ nine: elated
- Easy part of a sky in a jigsaw puzzle, maybe
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 22, 2026
- LA Times - May 14, 2026
- LA Times - March 23, 2026
- LA Times - February 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 26, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 30, 2025
- New York Times - June 29, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 01, 2025
- Daily American - December 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 29, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 21, 2023
- LA Times - November 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - June 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 01, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 13, 2023
- LA Times - March 09, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 03, 2023
- Daily American - December 30, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - November 10, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - October 04, 2022
- And in 78 more crossword puzzles...