Clues for the word "DEAD"
We've had 268 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 582 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of dead
- a. - Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
- a. - Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
- a. - Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
- a. - Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
- a. - So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
- a. - Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
- a. - Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
- a. - Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
- a. - Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
- a. - Bringing death; deadly.
- a. - Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
- a. - Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
- a. - Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
- a. - Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
- a. - Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
- adv. - To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
- n. - The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
- n. - One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
- v. t. - To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
- v. i. - To die; to lose life or force.
Referring Clues
- Conked out
- Pooped
- Lacking oomph
- Like some phones
- Not working, as a battery
- Like Latin, today
- Not working
- Extinguished
- Bo-o-o-o-ring
- Grateful ___ (59-Down's band)
- Without bounce
- Done for
- Without juice, as an electrical wire
- Wanted-poster option
- No longer under consideration
- Practically devoid of customers
- Obsolete
- Word with heat or meat
- Kaput
- Lifeless
- Conked out for good
- Like some batteries
- ___ as a doornail
- Absolutely
- Defunct
- Very, very tired
- Kind of heat?
- In need of recharging
- Type of ringer
- Like Latin, as languages go
- Very slow, in the retail biz
- Lifeless, as a party
- More than slow, in retail
- Grateful ___
- Like a battery in need of a boost
- Not working, like a battery
- In need of jumper cables
- Out of juice
- Gone to glory
- No more
- Gone
- Out of play
- Giveaway description?
- Six feet under, so to speak
- Toes up, so to speak
- In need of charging, as a cell phone
- Pooped out
- "In the Dark" band's nickname, with "the"
- Word with beat or heat
- Disconnected, as a phone line
- Kind of ringer
- Worse than slow, in retail
- More than tired
- Like a spent battery
- Word with "duck" or "end"
- Beyond recharging
- Word with "even" or "heat"
- Kind of duck or letter
- Like some weights
- Devoid of customers
- Word with "even" or "heat"
- Like some phones or weights
- Doornail's state
- Type of giveaway
- Kind of duck
- Word with tired or heat
- Word with duck or heat
- "Wanted" poster option
- Tired adjective?
- No longer alive
- "Fifteen men on the ___ man's chest"
- ___ in the water
- Word before right or wrong
- Needing a charge
- No longer carrying current
- Totally not happening
- The Grateful ___
- Kaput, as a battery
- Bereft of sensation
- ___ in the water
- Like one who actually did 58-Across
- Like a zero-charged battery
- Utterly exhausted
- Useless, as a battery
- ___ as the dodo
- Inanimate
- Inoperative
- Out of bounds
- Out of power
- Like a doornail?
- With 111-Down cul-de-sacs,
- Like a battery needing a charge
- Lacking activity, as a business
- "15 men on a ___ man's chest ..."
- What the circled letters can also spell
- Old wanted poster word
- In dire need of recharging
- The Evil ____ (2006 horror movie)
- Grateful follower?
- Needing a battery charge
- Extinct
- Out of electricity
- Deceased
- Unusable, as a cellphone
- ______ as a door-nail
- ___ Sea Scrolls
- Completely exhausted
- Six feet under, metaphorically
- Free of charge?
- Underattended, say
- Grateful group?
- Like a useless battery
- Wiped out
- Without vitality
- No longer working
- Kind of beat or heat
- See 22-Across
- Word before tired or heat
- "___ Poets Society"
- With no juice, as a battery
- Like a dull party
- Part 6 of our Lightfoot lyric
- No longer quick
- Expired
- *Out of juice, as a battery
- Opposite of hopping, as a party
- Out of play, as a ball
- Pushing up daisies
- Word before ringer or heat
- Needing a full recharge
- With 112-Across, blind alley
- No fun, as a party
- "over my ___ body"
- At 0% battery
- Temporarily unplayable, as a ball
- Numb
- ___ Sea
- Rock's Grateful ___
- "___ Again"
- "Dawn of the ___"
- ___ Sea (lowest water surface on earth)
- Opposite of live
- Opposite of alive
- Exhausted, as a battery
- Without feeling
- "5 men on a ___ man's chest ...22
- Not alive
- Unusable, as a battery
- "You are ___ to me"
- No longer alive, as a battery
- No longer living
- Without charge, like a battery
- Beyond reinflation
- Spent, like a battery
- Drained down to 0%
- Jerry Garcia band, for short
- My Chemical Romance song that went kaput?
- They "Can Dance"
- ___ Kennedys
- Punk band ___ Kennedys
- They were "Grateful" for their hippie following (with "The")
- PUSA lyric from 1-Across "She might be ___"
- Lookalike
- Sixx:A.M. "___ Man's Ballet"
- Word with Grateful or Kennedys
- Stiff - bereft of life
- Six feet under
- Pushing up the daisies
- Completely gone
- See 25
- Gone to meet one's Maker
- Useless people in the Black Hills
- Lifeless? Precisely!
- Not quick
- By some reckoning, great as a loss can be
- Unresponsive
- Challenged right away, turning up late
- Newshound's epitaph?
- Late, but if on time, not late
- Exhausted - layabout
- Majority 13 2 22?
- Wanting life to be exact
- Easy clue - "Free meat?"
- No longer functioning
- Possibly 1 so late
- "The Quick and the ___"
- "___ Calm"
- "The ___ Pool" (Eastwood flick)
- "___ Man's Curve"
- Lacking a charge
- No longer with us
- See 32 Across
- Playing ___
- Cul-de-sac, ___ end
- The D of DOA
- See 13
- See 6
- Daffy duck waddles at a funeral pace
- One of 16 useless people
- Having lately joined a certain choir? Absolutely
- Late award finally given to executed leader
- See 19
- See 24 down
- Sketch of 28, say?
- Having run out of power
- Useless, battery-wise
- Like an unresponsive battery
- *Goner
- In need of a full recharge
- Having a battery that's out of juice
- Lifeless? Very!
- Slower than slow, in retail
- In need of a recharge
- Very late
- Like an out-of-play baseball
- Without charge
- Spent, as a battery
- Like a boring party
- Juiceless, as a battery
- Needing a recharge
- See 108 Down
- Unresponsive? Absolutely
- The state of Swinburne's love, slain by treason?
- "The Walking ___": zombie show
- Completely insensitive
- Utterly exhausted, informally
- Like a phone that won't turn on
- Like mummies
- Needing charging
- Really, really tired
- "___ to Me" (Christina Applegate show)
- Out of batteries
- Out of charge
- Word before "end" or "ringer"
- Like a battery that will never work again
- Day of the ___
- With 71-Across, traveling music fan of old
- The Walking ___
- Like some batteries and parties
- Like an inoperative battery
- ___ center: exact middle
- Like a sparsely attended party
- Extremely amused, in millennial slang
- Like some ancient languages
- All out of battery power
- Unexciting, as a bar scene
- Beat or bolt opener
- Like a phone at 0%
- The Grateful ___: rock group
- Like a trash-worthy battery
- Needing to be charged
- With 23-Down, very much out of date
- Useless, batterywise
- "I'm ___!" ("That's hilarious!")
- Like a battery at 0%
- Like a doornail, it's said
- Out of battery power
- All out of juice
- Out of juice, say
- Like a battery with no juice
- Opposite of hopping
- Bricked
- Overwhelmed by hilarity, hyperbolically speaking
- Like a battery with no spark
- Exhausted, metaphorically
- Completely used up, as a battery
- Like a phone in need of a charge
- Out of battery juice
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - January 22, 2026
- Daily American - December 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 12, 2025
- LA Times - November 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 18, 2025
- Daily American - October 25, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 22, 2025
- New York Times - September 15, 2025
- Daily American - September 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 28, 2025
- Daily American - August 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 01, 2025
- New York Times - July 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 02, 2025
- Daily American - June 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 15, 2025
- Daily American - May 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 05, 2025
- LA Times - April 13, 2025
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