Clues for the word "COLD"
We've had 170 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 274 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 08, 2026.
Definition of cold
- n. - Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
- n. - Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
- n. - Not pungent or acrid.
- n. - Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
- n. - Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
- n. - Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
- n. - Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
- n. - Not sensitive; not acute.
- n. - Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
- n. - Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
- n. - The relative absence of heat or warmth.
- n. - The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
- n. - A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
- v. i. - To become cold.
Referring Clues
- Like many a detective's trail
- Common ailment
- Like gazpacho
- Like a very rare day in hell
- One way to be out
- Winter woe
- Icy
- Chilled
- In the 20's, say
- Distant
- How you may know something
- Siberian
- Wintry
- At a dead end, as a case
- Chilly
- How pizza is often eaten for breakfast
- Not even close
- Like Antarctica
- Like the North Pole
- Unwelcome winter bug
- Not hot
- Heartless
- Sniffling and sneezing cause
- More than chilly
- Refrigerated
- How gazpacho is served
- Far from a searched-for object
- Word with feet or shoulder
- Hard of heart
- Under 20, to most
- Unfeeling
- Emotionless
- Reason for sneezing
- Unfriendly
- It can precede the starts of 20- and 58-Across and 11- and 29-Down
- Faucet word
- Right out of the fridge
- Not at all friendly
- Lacking compassion
- Absence of heat
- War or cuts leader
- Word with duck or cash
- Word with cuts or War
- Like the Arctic
- Far from friendly
- "Common" ailment
- Like vichyssoise
- With 44-Down, conflict between 7-Down and the 34-Down
- Shivery
- Incurable disease
- C, in bathrooms
- Freezing
- Frigid
- ______ Turkey
- Hardhearted
- Hardhearted
- It may be common
- Hard-hearted
- Piercing
- Shivering
- Case of the sniffles
- Unemotional
- Hardly friendly
- Bitter, say
- See 1-Across
- 45-Down, perhaps
- He said ______ Lake, Alberta
- Reason to say "Brr!"
- Lacking emotion
- Tap option
- With 54-Across, "Viva La Vida" rock group, and what 17-, 28-/30- and 40-Across each is?
- Having no active leads
- Dispassionate
- Frosty
- Common complaint
- Without rehearsal
- ___ cuts (deli offerings)
- Word with "War" or "cuts"
- Lacking in affection
- More than cool
- Common malady
- Like 14-Across
- The water was too ___ (another guess from peter grosz)
- Word with duck or turkey
- Like pizza for breakfast, typically
- Far from warm
- Lacking warmth
- It may include the sniffles
- ___ shoulder
- Reason for the sniffles
- Like pizza for breakfast, often
- Hot's opposite
- Like some cereal
- Like January
- Like some shoulders or showers
- Sniffles may be part of it
- Not hot or warm
- Without heat
- Freezing post-grunge band?
- Rainbow "Stone ___"
- See 12
- Viral infection
- Unsympathetic
- Frozen fish left inside
- Heartless rabble's sensational shocker?
- See 8
- With a dunderhead, an officer is not friendly
- Unfriendly, shifty clod
- Common complaint caught by the elderly
- Nippy
- Poor relief with 1 book
- Common complaint of many of advanced years
- Might dispose of you when said to be unfriendly
- Undemonstrative Conservative getting on with it
- Stand-offish
- Lacking active leads
- Kind of snap
- Ailment without a cure
- Capital of Czechoslovakia (not new or very fresh)
- See 2
- Unfriendly Conservative, advanced in years
- Visit from Jack Frost with unsolicited double glazing offer?
- Lack of bottle, but not hot dogs
- Lacking heat
- How revenge is best served, in a saying
- Unemotional fish going round lake
- *Sparkling wine
- Apt to cause a brain freeze
- Needing a parka
- How vichyssoise is usually served
- Wintry, as weather
- Icy mountain pass at the back of beyond
- Like liquid nitrogen
- Complaint caught by the aged?
- Fish out a letter that's unfriendly
- Far from congenial
- Nowhere near the target, in a children's guessing game
- How vichyssoise is typically served
- Below freezing
- Faucet handle on the right
- Cooler than cool
- Shivering, say
- Unaffectionate
- Like February 22nd
- Blue, on many faucets
- Arctic
- Not making any baskets, say
- Faucet handle word
- Give the ___ shoulder
- Like Anchorage, often
- Unemotional when an officer comes to a sad end
- Like American winters
- Down ___
- –
- How revenge (or pizza for breakfast) is best served
- How gazpacho soup is served
- Like many burns, paradoxically
- *On a losing streak
- One way to have something down
- Reason for sneezin'
- How jungguk-naengmyeon soup is served
- Needing a heavy winter coat
- In a slump
- Like gazpacho and ajoblanco
- How some people enjoy leftover pizza
- Emotionally distant
- Like dumping someone via text
- Low in temperature
- Stony
- Small bug?
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 08, 2026
- Daily American - January 24, 2026
- New York Times - December 14, 2025
- New York Times - November 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 17, 2025
- Daily American - June 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 12, 2025
- LA Times - May 10, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 22, 2025
- USA Today - March 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 17, 2025
- Daily American - January 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 28, 2025
- USA Today - January 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 26, 2024
- New York Times - October 09, 2024
- LA Times - August 23, 2024
- Daily American - August 06, 2024
- New York Times - June 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 30, 2024
- Mirror Mini - April 17, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 11, 2024
- USA Today - March 28, 2024
- Daily American - March 15, 2024
- USA Today - February 24, 2024
- LA Times - January 27, 2024
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