Clues for the word "COLOSSUS"
We've had 21 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 19 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on September 16, 2024.
Definition of colossus
- n. - A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
- n. - Any man or beast of gigantic size.
Referring Clues
- Rhodes sight
- Statue of Rhodes
- Person of exceptional importance and reputation
- Giant (of Rhodes?)
- Company with deficit states large figure
- Large statue (of Rhodes?)
- Giant firm states no profit is taken
- Very large figure (of Rhodes)
- Gigantic figure
- Company with deficit states huge figure
- Gigantic statue
- Towering statue
- Behemoth
- Goya's bereavement accommodated by homeless relative
- Phenomenal firm, one sadly missed by the States
- Company with deficit needs American for huge figure
- What Lazarus called Miss Liberty
- Massive statue
- Something very large
- Statue of the Greek sun-god Helios named for the island on which it was built
- The Statue of Liberty, for one
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - September 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 09, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 16, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - July 04, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - February 20, 2017
- USA Today - November 25, 2016
- Guardian Quick - November 09, 2016
- Chronicle of Higher Education - October 02, 2015
- Guardian Quick - May 16, 2015
- Guardian Quick - September 13, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - August 05, 2011
- Guardian Quick - April 10, 2010
- Guardian Speedy - January 31, 2010
- Guardian Quick - November 13, 2007
- Guardian Prize - November 11, 2006
- Guardian Quick - December 06, 2005
- Guardian Prize - September 13, 2003
- Guardian Cryptic - April 02, 2002