Clues for the word "DEAF"
We've had 104 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 306 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on March 30, 2026.
Definition of deaf
- a. - Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
- a. - Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.
- a. - Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
- a. - Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
- a. - Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.
- v. t. - To deafen.
Referring Clues
- Not able to hear
- Kind of ears
- Refusing to listen
- Heedless
- Not hearing
- Ones who sign, with "the"
- Like Beethoven
- See 22-Down
- Unwilling to listen
- Like Tommy, of the Who's 1969 rock opera
- See 73-Across
- Unhearing
- Like most users of sign language
- "Are you ___?!"
- ___ as a post
- Word after stone or tone
- Intentionally inattentive
- Like some turned ears
- Hearing-deprived
- Like many who sign
- Tone-___
- Hard of hearing
- Like Helen Keller
- What Beethoven started to become in 1801
- Unable to hear
- Unmindful
- Unheeding
- Like many signers
- Like a turned ear
- Like most students at Gallaudet University
- Like Miss America of 1995
- "Are you ___?!"
- Hearing-impaired
- Unlistening
- Word with tone or stone
- Like The Who's Tommy
- Like a certain turned ear
- Sign users
- Not to be persuaded
- Spurning all advice
- Unwilling to listen, with "to"
- Like heedless ears
- Like Marlee Matlin
- Like many sign-language users
- Like the students at Gallaudet
- Lacking in hearing
- Lacking hearing
- Fall on ___ ears
- Turn a ___ ear to
- Needing sign language, say
- More than hearing-impaired
- Like some signers
- Like an ignorer's ear, idiomatically
- Unable or unwilling to hear
- Ignoring, with "to"
- Like many users of sign language
- Dependent on subtitles, say
- Turn a ___ ear
- Severely hearing-impaired
- Like many Gallaudet College students
- ___ ears
- Like Beethoven, late in life
- Like many Gallaudet U. students
- What you might go, if you rock too hard
- Queens of the Stone Age wrote "Songs for" them
- Queens of the Stone Age "Songs for the ___"
- Adult, on the outside mostly adroit, is handicapped in some way
- Unable to hear, some made a fuss
- Like the Who's Tommy, in part
- Like Quasimodo
- Like many dactylology experts
- Unable to attend?
- How Beethoven finished a set of four notes
- See 24
- Oblivious to four notes?
- Unaware of having somewhat made a fuss
- Fade out without hearing
- Unresponsive (to)
- Utterly unsympathetic
- Like Townshend's Tommy
- Closed-minded
- Like Tommy, in the rock opera
- Like most ASL signers
- Without hearing
- Like the daughter in 2018's "A Quiet Place"
- Like Beethoven, mostly, when he composed "Symphony No. 9"
- Like many sign language speakers
- ___ President Now (1988 Gallaudet University protest)
- What 49-Down became in later life
- ___ West Theatre (organization whose productions combine ASL and spoken English)
- Like many ASL speakers
- ___ Studies (Gallaudet University department)
- Like many Gallaudet students
- Like Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts
- Like most Gallaudet University students
- Like Beethoven, by his mid-40s
- Like many students at Gallaudet University
- The "D" in CODA
- The "D" of CODA
- Like one who might communicate in ASL or BSL
- Part of CODA
- Like some users of vibrating alarms
- Like Tommy in the Who's 1969 rock opera
- Like Oscar winner Troy Kotsur
Last Seen In
- New York Times - March 30, 2026
- LA Times - March 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 12, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 01, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 02, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - November 27, 2025
- Daily American - October 13, 2025
- Daily American - September 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 29, 2025
- LA Times - June 28, 2025
- Daily American - May 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 25, 2025
- New York Times - April 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 07, 2025
- USA Today - March 06, 2025
- Daily American - March 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 07, 2024
- LA Times - October 13, 2024
- LA Times - October 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 08, 2024
- LA Times - October 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 03, 2024
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