Clues for the word "DEPARTMENT"
We've had 16 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 17 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on November 14, 2025.
Definition of department
- v. i. - Act of departing; departure.
- v. i. - A part, portion, or subdivision.
- v. i. - A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
- v. i. - Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
- v. i. - A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
- v. i. - A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Referring Clues
- Cabinet division
- Secretary's charge
- Secretary's charge
- Type of store
- Section
- Division of a large organisation
- Section of organisation
- What may be in store in French region
- Division intended to report after leave
- Section D: what centaurs were in film
- Leave soldiers to start division in France
- Office would leave me in depression
- Carriage ring replaced by one division in France
- Ten tramped around section of large shop
- Go with fellows and start to toil in field
- One gets a head in school
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - November 14, 2025
- New York Times - March 25, 2025
- Mirror Quick - August 22, 2017
- LA Times - March 19, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - October 18, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 22, 2013
- USA Today - August 23, 2011
- Washington Post - July 10, 2011
- Netword - April 27, 2011
- Guardian Quiptic - February 21, 2011
- Guardian Quick - January 08, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - September 23, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - September 08, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - October 07, 2003
- Guardian Cryptic - July 07, 2003
- Guardian Cryptic - April 10, 2002
- Guardian Cryptic - September 14, 1999