Clues for the word "DOWN"
We've had 193 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 283 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 13, 2026.
Definition of down
- n. - Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
- n. - The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.
- n. - The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
- n. - The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- n. - That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down
- v. t. - To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- prep. - A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.
- prep. - A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural.
- prep. - A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
- prep. - A state of depression; low state; abasement.
- adv. - In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up.
- adv. - From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion.
- adv. - In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.
- adv. - From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- adv. - From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions.
- adv. - In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well.
- adv. - Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.
- v. t. - To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down.
- v. i. - To go down; to descend.
- a. - Downcast; as, a down look.
- a. - Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial.
- a. - Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
Referring Clues
- On toast, in diner slang
- Pillow filler
- Quote, part 3
- On toast, at a diner
- Swallow
- Depressed
- Gridiron scoreboard info
- Blue
- Dejected
- Knock out of the sky
- Sad
- Like the answer to this clue
- Low in spirits
- Pat ___ (frisk)
- Put away
- *Quilt filling
- Temporarily not working
- Elevator button
- Out of order
- Elevator direction half the time
- Like this answer
- Goose feathers
- Unlike this clue's answer
- Crossword column heading
- Break, shake or take follower
- Pillow fill
- Not the way to look if you need help with this puzzle's theme
- Inoperative
- Loan lure, maybe
- *Rejected
- See 57-Across
- Not across
- Eat
- Sinking
- Lower
- Fluffy stuff
- Discouraged
- Pillow filling
- Fine feathers
- Feeling blue
- Lower than here
- Elevator direction
- Pillow stuffing
- Pillow material
- Up partner
- Puzzle direction
- Blue feathers (4)
- Disheartened
- Crossword clue direction
- Gosling fuzz
- "The moon is ___; I have not heard the clock": "Macbeth"
- Consume
- Like this clue's answer
- Comforter stuff
- In the dumps
- County of Ireland
- Depressed, perhaps
- Opposite of up
- Quilt fill
- Not this way?
- This direction
- This way
- Elevator option
- Like this clue
- Low
- Quilt filling
- From top to bottom
- Football scoreboard info
- Defeat, in a way
- Heading for half of crossword clues
- In agreement (with)
- Not this way!
- Chug
- Crossword answer direction
- -
- Flat on the mat
- See 21-Across
- With 40-Down, how rain falls ... or a literal description of the answers to the four themed clues
- With 67-Across, coastal Maine
- Part 9 of our quote
- Toward the floor
- Crossword puzzle direction
- Not operating
- Glum
- One in a football quartet
- "Don't let me ___"
- Finish a drink quickly
- Soft plumage
- On toast, in diners
- Your current clue direction
- Up (for), paradoxically
- In a blue funk
- Pillow stuff
- With 3-down, words that should go at the end of the stepquote
- Soft fine feathers
- Crossword direction
- New Orleans metal supergroup
- Where this clue is going
- Pillow filler - dejected
- See "38 Across".
- Blue feathers
- Blue part of the Emerald Isle
- Winter sports event of which Spooner's dog sick?
- Blue wing's unpunctuated surrender
- Spanish gentleman out West in Northern Ireland
- Drink lots of stuff got from the Internet
- See 1
- Depressed - feathers
- Depressed, as many have to confess
- See 23 across
- On paper, it's less than before
- Not up
- Blue Western concealed by university teacher
- The fuzz appear in blue
- Blue drink
- See 9
- Crossword clues heading
- See 18
- See 3
- Low hill
- ... blue sort of clue
- See 22
- Where 7 fall softly?
- 13 as this clue?
- Direction of Jones's partner before end of depression?
- Route for jog modern women lay out?
- Sister, half deaf, entering wrong word for Australia
- Total blue, Conservative
- Many have soft feathers
- Fluff - sorrowful
- Melancholy
- Soft quilt feathers
- Up & ___
- Duck feathers
- Party women disheartened and depressed
- Blue swallow feathers fell from above
- Blue dye on white nylon tops
- Word from above is it's not working
- Professor holds wife on the ground
- Drink on the floor
- Daughter, about now, becoming dejected
- See 27
- Blue clues?
- Fellow capturing wickets for county
- See 25
- * Have pet dog outside
- Depressed county actors
- 9 20 23 by 5, comprehensively losing a couple of capital boxing bouts?
- One direction for an elevator
- With 62-Across, Australia
- Direction of this crossword answer
- Fine soft feathers
- Behind one's rival in points, is depressed
- Blue mattress filler?
- Blue swallow
- 9 shed overlooked by hill
- ___ and out
- Escalator option
- This answer's direction
- Feeling sad
- Many possess what the eider contributed
- Not getting across, being low
- An elevator direction
- Ulster county
- Bottomward
- Many admit to being depressed
- See 18 Across
- In Ireland, suffering from depression?
- See 54-Across
- See the answer above
- Not working
- Comforter stuffing
- With 39-Down, minimize
- Up plus 180 degrees
- This entry's direction
- Direction for this answer
- The "first" in "first and ten"
- Up (for)
- Blue fluff
- Drink, which is sad
- To cheat two ways is low!
- Direction of this answer
- Work west and north to get towards the south
- Comforter fluff
- Hundreds confess to being depressed!
- A trip ___ memory lane
- On paper, is lower in price
- Eat quickly
- U-turn from up
- "Turtles All the Way ___" (YA novel)
- Unhappy
- Soft feathers
- Word with payment or pillow
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 13, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 11, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 20, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 04, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 21, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 27, 2025
- Daily American - February 19, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 31, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 16, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 14, 2024
- LA Times - October 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 02, 2024
- LA Times - August 22, 2024
- USA Today - August 18, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 14, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 01, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 24, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 10, 2024
- And in 253 more crossword puzzles...