Clues for the word "DEADLY"
We've had 19 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 58 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 15, 2025.
Definition of deadly
- a. - Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.
- a. - Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
- a. - Subject to death; mortal.
- adv. - In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.
- adv. - In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
- adv. - In an implacable manner; destructively.
- adv. - Extremely.
Referring Clues
- Mortal
- Excruciatingly boring
- Lethal
- Not just dangerous
- Fatal
- Really boring
- Like a cobra
- Testament: "First Strike Still ___"
- Belladonna
- Is committing murder such a sin?
- Fatal delay, perhaps, involves a number
- Devotee starts to find Lady Gaga unbearably boring
- Like seven sins
- Fatal attribute of French lady, perhaps
- Lethal tablet swallowed by father only half dissolved
- Deathly
- Fatally uninteresting
- Is committing murder such a sin?
- Silent partner?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 29, 2025
- LA Times - June 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 26, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 01, 2024
- New York Times - February 20, 2024
- LA Times - December 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 06, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 21, 2023
- USA Today - October 13, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 26, 2022
- New York Times - February 05, 2022
- Daily Quick - November 21, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - November 14, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 11, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 29, 2017
- Mirror Classic - August 25, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - July 27, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 09, 2017
- Universal - January 16, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - November 28, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 25, 2015
- Guardian Quick - March 17, 2015
- Washington Post - May 28, 2014
- And in 28 more crossword puzzles...