Clues for the word "DROOP"
We've had 68 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 247 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on June 04, 2026.
Definition of droop
- v. i. - To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.
- v. i. - To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
- v. i. - To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- v. t. - To let droop or sink.
- n. - A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
Referring Clues
- Sag
- Start to wilt
- Yield to gravity
- Give in to gravity
- Lose tautness
- Hang like a walrus mustache
- Hang like basset hound ears
- Show exhaustion, perhaps
- Flop
- Hang down
- Slump
- Flag
- SST nose feature
- React to heat, perhaps
- Go limp
- Become limp
- Hang downward
- Hang loosely
- Wilt
- Lose energy
- Feel the weight of the day
- React to humidity, in a way
- Languish
- Sink slowly
- Dangle limply
- Hang like a spaniel's ears
- Slouch
- Bend down
- Succumb to gravity
- Sag down
- Sink down
- Walrus mustache feature
- Show exhaustion
- Lose rigidity
- Emulate a basset hound's ears
- Get saggy
- Look lifeless, as flowers
- Get tired
- Hang low
- Duke gets inadequate return for flag
- Don't hold up surgeon, say, over one's work
- Look weary when you fall out of love
- Fall out of love and languish
- Hang limply
- Look weary and fall out of the ring
- A number with inadequate backing slump
- Flag day gets scanty return
- Poor deputy leader's rise and decline
- Decline for which doctor finds nothing to work
- Fall out of love and decline
- Seem sad that the doctor has nothing but work
- Drop shoulders
- Emulate flowers on a hot day
- Impoverished duke raised flag
- Hang like a Fu Manchu
- Be saggy
- Duke gets poor return for flag
- Bend downward
- Sag, wilt
- Look exhausted and fall out of the ring
- Look weary as you fall out, having started off
- Betray weariness
- What thirsty plants do
- Look exhausted as you fall out of the ring!
- What plants that need watering do
- Turn down?
- Show listlessness
- Look sad, like a doctor getting nothing for an operation
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 06, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - April 14, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 30, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 20, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 29, 2025
- LA Times - May 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 09, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 30, 2025
- New York Times - January 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 30, 2024
- LA Times - October 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 18, 2024
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