Clues for the word "CRY"
We've had 207 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 646 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on January 09, 2026.
Definition of cry
- v. i. - To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
- v. i. - To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
- v. i. - To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
- v. t. - To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
- v. t. - To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
- v. t. - To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
- v. t. - to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
- v. i. - A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
- v. i. - Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
- v. i. - Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
- v. i. - Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
- v. i. - Importunate supplication.
- v. i. - Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
- v. i. - Common report; fame.
- v. i. - A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
- v. i. - A pack of hounds.
- v. i. - A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
- v. i. - The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
Referring Clues
- Weep
- Johnnie Ray hit of the 50's
- "All for one and one for all," e.g.
- Have a bawl
- Boo-hoo
- Yip or yelp
- Call out
- Hue's partner
- Make a plea for sympathy, maybe
- Bawl
- Blubber
- Tally-ho, e.g.
- 1951 #1 hit for Johnny Ray
- Get all misty
- Not just tear up
- Ejaculate
- Squall
- Word with war or far
- Yowl
- "I won! I won!," e.g.
- "Geronimo!," e.g.
- Shed tears
- "Hey!" or "Ouch!"
- Wail
- Break down, in a way
- Tear up
- Turn on the waterworks
- Holler
- What big girls don't do, according to the Four Seasons
- Overreact to spilt milk
- "___ Like a Baby" (1968 Box Tops hit)
- What Evita asked Argentina not to do for her
- Alan Paton's "___, the Beloved Country"
- "___, the Beloved Country" (Alan Paton novel)
- "Big Girls Don't ___"
- Sob
- Call (out)
- Shout
- Word before foul or wolf
- Break down
- Call
- Get way down?
- "___ Me a River"
- Outburst
- Hue partner
- Shout out
- Get blubbery
- Vociferate
- Make a scene
- Be moved to tears
- Rend the air
- 1951 Johnnie Ray hit
- "Eureka!" is one
- Megahit by Johnnie Ray
- "Eureka!" for one
- Bellow
- Go "waaaah"
- Be lachrymose
- Let it all out
- "Curiouser and curiouser!," e.g.
- "___, the Beloved Country"
- React to spilled milk
- Baby-monitor noise, perhaps
- Get misty-eyed
- Pain reaction
- Yell
- "___ Me a River"
- "Fore!" for one
- One way to summon mommy
- What big girls don't do, in a '60s hit
- Exclamation
- Yell out
- React, as most children to 29-Down's meme
- Battle ___
- Battle ___
- Battle___
- See 43-Across
- 5-Down's partner
- React to an onion
- Clamorous partner of 13-Across
- Scream
- Show you're 18-Across
- Loud call
- Shed a tear
- Act like a baby?
- It may be rallying
- Whoop
- "You make a grown man ___" (Rolling Stones lyric)
- Shed a few tears
- Exclaim
- You might have a good one after a breakup
- What you can't do in baseball?
- Show sorrow
- Bawl, and word that's found within 20-, 27-, 48-, and 56-Across
- Show sadness
- Word after "rallying" or "battle"
- Howl or bark
- Had a good ___
- Opposite of laugh
- "One for all and all for one," e.g.
- "Eureka!" or "Ouch!"
- Overreact to spilt milk?
- Fail at stoicism, say
- React to a tearjerker
- Let it out
- Shriek
- Mowat's Never ____ Wolf
- 15 Down, for one
- "Extra! Extra!," e.g.
- What you cannot do in baseball?
- Express sorrow
- Break into tears
- War ___
- React to a kitchen bulb, maybe
- Utter loudly
- Word oft repeated in "96 Tears"
- Sound from a crib
- Show sorrow or joy
- Boohoo
- Start of an Alan Paton title
- "hey!", e.g.
- Loud outburst
- Display sadness
- Show happiness or sadness, say
- Sob audibly
- Let it all out, in a way
- Second half of a hoo-ha
- Get all blubbery
- ___ wolf
- Word with "war" or "battle"
- Sound of woe
- Cackle or caterwaul
- Mew
- Snivel
- Babies do it
- Get more than misty-eyed
- React to a very sad movie
- React to a sad movie, perhaps
- React to a very sad story
- It may be piercing
- React to sadness
- Big girls don't do this
- Sad Veronicas song?
- Justin Timberlake "___ Me a River"
- Ray Charles "Baby, Don't You ___"
- Those ending tragic affair may
- Greet, Scottish style, in the outskirts of Coventry
- Babyish piece of mimicry
- Shout out before the uproar
- Shout to a pal on coming in
- Show woe
- React to tear gas
- Lament, if only about 43% like this crossword
- Go "boo-hoo"
- ___ wolf (raise a false alarm)
- React to extreme sadness
- React to a sad movie
- Whoop or weep
- Sob aloud
- Caterwaul
- Don't hold back tears
- "Big Girls Don't ___" (Fergie song)
- Show emotion, in a way
- Spell of weeping
- Wail in mimicry
- Get weepy
- "___ 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war": Mark Antony
- Burst into tears
- Without her, "20 Across" does seem unhappy
- Call loudly
- Show lamentation
- "Yay!" or "Hey!"
- React to sliced onions
- Call round on a pal
- Go "WAAAAAH"
- Emulate Niobe
- Show joy or sorrow
- Get more than just weepy
- Show grief, crossly ignoring a terrible loss
- "Heads up!" or "Hey!"
- Exclamation, for instance
- Weep when there are chips out of the crockery
- Hue’s partner
- Betray unhappiness
- Produce tears
- Express sadness
- "Kill the ump!," e.g.
- Unapt rhyme for "dry"
- "___-Baby"
- Sad babies do this
- Go beyond tearing up
- Laugh? No, the opposite
- Shed some tears
- Laugh? No, do a flip
- React to onion fumes
- React to a book's ending, perhaps
- Laugh? Oh, no, no, no.
- "Goooooooooool!," e.g.
- Let it out, in a way
- Sob or bawl
- An idiom about regret: Don't ...
- Laugh so hard you do the opposite
- Noise on a baby monitor
- Complete opposite of laugh
- Shed tears of joy
- React to something moving, maybe
- Get teary
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - January 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 31, 2025
- LA Times - December 14, 2025
- LA Times - December 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 15, 2025
- LA Times - November 13, 2025
- LA Times - November 02, 2025
- New York Times - October 11, 2025
- LA Times - October 10, 2025
- LA Times - October 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 25, 2025
- LA Times - September 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 20, 2025
- Daily American - August 10, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 07, 2025
- LA Times - July 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 12, 2025
- New York Times - May 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 22, 2025
- Family Time - March 17, 2025
- USA Today - February 17, 2025
- Family Time - February 09, 2025
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