Clues for the word "EAGER"
We've had 166 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 735 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on March 12, 2026.
Definition of eager
- a. - Sharp; sour; acid.
- a. - Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
- a. - Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.
- a. - Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
- n. - Same as Eagre.
Referring Clues
- Athirst
- Raring to go
- Gung-ho
- Breathless
- Enthusiastic
- Zealous
- Hot to trot
- More than willing
- Not merely ready
- All agog
- Itchy
- Rarin' to go
- Itching to go
- Like a beaver
- Beaverlike?
- Fired up
- Psyched up
- Champing at the bit
- Anticipatory
- All fired up
- Not just ready
- Chomping at the bit
- Keen
- Psyched
- Avid
- Ready to go
- Lacking patience
- Anxious
- Itching (to)
- Ready and willing
- Keenly desirous
- Like a beaver?
- Revved up
- Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- Thirsty
- Sharp-set
- Ready for action
- Ardent
- Itching to get started
- Itching
- Showing enthusiasm
- More than ready
- More than merely ready
- Ready to rock
- Impatient
- Yearning
- In the beaver state?
- Trigger-happy
- Anxious to begin
- All for it
- Ready, willing and able
- Like the proverbial beaver
- Geared up
- Not just willing
- Having ants in one's pants
- Excited
- Like some beavers
- Psyched-up
- Fired up
- Full of oomph
- Impatient (for)
- Panting, perhaps
- Not apathetic
- Displaying enthusiasm
- Passionate
- Ready and then some
- Breathless, say
- Beaverlike
- Like some new employees and beavers
- Far from indifferent
- Rah-rah
- Anxious to start
- Like beavers
- Like a beaver, perhaps
- Like beavers, it's said
- Bright-eyed
- Ready to rock and roll
- Hardly indifferent
- Desirous
- Can't wait
- Like the idiomatic beaver
- Like a beaver, it's said
- Beaver's adjective
- Agog
- Hard to restrain
- Impatient, maybe
- Longing
- Showing impatient expectancy
- Keen in desire
- All psyched up
- On pins and needles
- Like one who can't wait
- Pumped, so to speak
- Itchin' (to)
- Hot
- Full of life
- Like a beaver, proverbially
- Impatient to get started
- Strongly longing
- Itching, so to speak
- Earnest
- Willing
- Fervent
- Festival fans are this
- Like reunion tour fans
- Like crowd for reunion show
- Crowd before big show
- Like crowd before big show
- Alert and active type?
- Like backstage fans
- "Teenage Tears" singer Vince ___
- Keen (as a beaver?)
- Agree to differ, being passionate
- Quick to agree a change
- Wholehearted uplift for half-hearted music
- More than willing to agree, maybe
- Quick to fly into a rage after closing time
- Quick to tangle with –27"
- Being anxious, perhaps, spends much time in hesitation
- Waiting with bated breath
- Keen on Caribbean rock but rising with lack of gravity
- Keen to agree to differ
- Keen listener, for example, held back
- Like idiomatic beavers
- Dying (to)
- Keen ex-head has time to run
- Keen to agree for a change
- Keen to agree somehow
- Very willing listener welcomes good ending to tale
- Avid listener brought round good piece of Elgar
- Keen, agree changes
- Keen listener describing good ending to programme
- Anxious gamble, starting east instead of west
- Very ready to go
- Showing keen interest or desire
- Impatiently longing
- Quick to grow old in outer Ecuador
- ___ beaver
- Enthusiastic but not sure about time
- Quick to agree?
- Hankering
- Expectant
- Itching for action
- Beaver descriptor
- Amped
- Anxious to get going
- Breathless, so to speak
- Like someone who just can't wait
- Filled with zeal
- Quick to agree to change
- Like a beaver, you may agree
- Geeked, so to speak
- Thirsty, in a sense
- Very inclined (to)
- Beyond ready
- Very excited
- Impatiently enthusiastic
- Like a proverbial beaver
- Very enthusiastic
- Superexcited
- Excited to get started
- Psyched to get started
- Psyched to get going
- Very willing
- Itching to get going
- Ready to dive in, say
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 25, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 27, 2026
- LA Times - January 11, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 10, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 17, 2025
- New York Times - December 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 30, 2025
- Daily American - November 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 26, 2025
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