Clues for the word "EVIL"
We've had 602 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1892 times in crosswords. It was last seen in USA Today crossword on April 17, 2024.
Definition of evil
- a. - Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
- a. - Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
- a. - Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
- n. - Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
- n. - Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
- n. - malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
- adv. - In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
Referring Clues
- Base
- Stephen King topic
- Nefariousness
- Wicked
- Rank and vile
- The dark side
- Satanic
- Dark forces
- More than devilish
- Like Satan
- What lurks in the hearts of men
- Satanicalness
- Like Lex Luthor
- Malicious
- Fiendish
- Good's partner
- Santana's "___ Ways"
- Ungodliness
- Like Darth Vader
- Full of turpitude
- Like some twins
- The wrong stuff
- Like Darth Maul
- The dark force
- Unholy
- Like Edmund in "King Lear"
- Devil's doing
- Good opponent?
- Satan's work
- Bad to the bone
- Unholiness
- Sermon topic
- Fiendishness
- Wickedness
- No good deed
- "Who knows what ___ lurks ..."
- Dark doings
- Malevolent
- Villainous act
- Axis of ___
- See 44-Down
- Demonic
- Devil's doings
- Damnable
- Worse than knavery
- Satan's doings
- Devil's work
- Big Bad Wolf's doing
- Malevolence
- Diabolical
- Dark side
- Villain's work
- Set, Egyptian god of ___
- It's not good
- Perfidious
- Dastardly doings
- "___ falls on him who goes to seek it": Cervantes
- Worse than bad
- It can't be good
- Vice
- Blackhearted
- Foul doings
- Rotten
- Dr. ___ of "Austin Powers" films
- Demon's doing
- Dr. ___ (Mike Myers character)
- "The ___ of Frankenstein" (Peter Cushing film)
- Christie's "___ Under the Sun"
- Beelzebub's bailiwick
- Black-hearted
- Villainous
- Vaderesque
- Apt anagram for "vile"
- Really, really bad
- What "lurks in the hearts of men"
- Heinous
- Nefarious
- Mean business
- Satan's stock in trade
- Bad
- Good competition
- Sinister
- Austin Powers' nemesis Dr. ___
- "See no ___..."
- Like the Devil
- Live up?
- "Midnight in the Garden of Good and ___"
- Like Lucifer
- "___ Under the Sun"
- Good's opposite
- "Touch of ___" (Welles film)
- Bad, in the worst way
- Darth Vader descriptor
- Dastardly
- "___ Ways" (1970 Santana hit)
- Bad doings
- What The Shadow knows
- Pernicious or perifidious
- Armageddon faction
- Type of twin
- Pernicious
- Corrupt
- Far from good
- Nasty (and an apt anagram of 13-Across)
- Vicious
- Dr. ___, nemesis of Austin Powers
- Meany business
- Opposite of good
- Satan's doing
- Very bad
- Bad, and then some
- With 28-Down, whammy
- "... there is no ___ angel but Love": Shakespeare
- Really bad
- It "is easy, and has infinite forms," according to Blaise Pascal
- Dark
- Straight from hell
- "... deliver us from ___" (line from the Lord's Prayer)
- Agatha Christie's "___ Under the Sun"
- "Who knows what ___ lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
- Like Cinderella's stepmother
- Devilish
- Like Hannibal Lecter
- Like supervillains
- Good fighter?
- "Resident ___" (2002 film)
- "___ Woman" (ELO?hit)
- Black
- Terribly bad
- Sinful
- "The ___ Dead" (1983 horror film)
- Foul
- Like fairy tale stepmothers
- Villain's forte
- Base path?
- Like some movie twins
- Axis makeup?
- Bad stuff
- Bad deeds
- "See no ___ ..."
- Good opponent
- Diabolical doings
- No-good
- No good
- Dr. ___ (Austin Powers foe)
- Beyond mischievous
- "See no ___ . . ."
- Disastrous
- Like Lecter
- Up to no good
- "See no ___, . . ."
- Sermon subject
- Good fighter
- Irredeemably bad
- Maleficent
- Downright nasty
- Morally wrong
- Deviltry
- "... what ___ lurks in the hearts of men?"
- Wicked as sin
- Downright rotten
- Word with "eye" or "spirit"
- Three monkeys' subject
- "... deliver us from ___"
- Thing worse than knavery
- Armageddon side
- "Touch of ___" (Welles film)
- Vile anagram that's just as bad
- Far from benevolent
- "... deliver us from ___"
- Diabolic
- "___ Under the Sun"
- Sermon subject, sometimes
- Like Edmund in "King Lear"
- Not just bad
- What lurks in the hearts of men, it's said
- Feature of the dark side
- Badder than bad
- Side in a classic battle
- All bad
- Definitely not good
- Like a witch's eye
- Subject for three monkeys
- Ahriman's forte
- It's definitely not good
- Mephistophelean
- Mean business?
- Apt anagram of vile
- Hardly a good thing
- Like Old Nick
- Demonic doings
- It's not a good thing
- Satanic pursuit
- Like a twin in horror films
- "Beloved, follow not that which is ___" (3 John)
- Dr. ___ (Austin Powers' nemesis)
- "Hear no ___, speak no . . ."
- Activity from below?
- Wicked stuff
- The ___ One (sobriquet for Satan)
- Good competition?
- Beyond bad
- "Who knows what ___ lurks in the hearts ..."
- Not good
- Austin Powers' nemesis Dr. ___
- Like many a movie twin
- It ain't good
- What superheroes fight
- Dr. ___ (enemy of Austin Powers)
- An amulet may ward it off, purportedly
- Iniquitous
- ___ eye
- Vile anagram?
- "... what ___ lurks in the hearts of men?"
- "See no ___ ..."
- Like Lord Voldemort
- Depraved
- Dr. ___ (Austin Powers foe)
- "See no ___, ..."
- "Hear no ___, speak no ..."
- It isn't good
- Wrongdoing
- Malignant
- Kind of twin
- Subject for three monkeys?
- "Fear is pain rising from the anticipation of ___": Aristotle
- Word with "eye" or "intention"
- Misfortune
- Interested in world conquest at all costs, say
- What mad scientists are generally portrayed as
- Dr. ___ (villain inexplicably returning in a 2013 film)
- Unconscionable
- Devil's forte
- Google motto, "Don't be ___".
- Good's counterpart
- Harm
- Fairy tale side, often
- Satan's specialty
- Satan's forte
- Mephistophelean doings
- Maleficence
- Satan's field
- Not merely impish
- Super-bad?
- Beelzebub's specialty
- Beelzebub's field
- Not good at all
- Austin Powers' foe
- Real bad
- Beelzebub's forte
- Beelzebub's doings
- The Hyde side
- With 110-Across, malevolent gaze
- With 44-Across malevolent look,
- Like villains
- Insidious
- Three monkeys avoid it
- Like the bearded twin
- Morally wicked
- Malefic
- More than bad
- Nefarious doings
- Morally bad
- Devil's specialty
- Immorality
- Forte of 55-Down
- With 42-Across, a 1975 hit for 41-Across
- The devil's work
- Like Hannibal Lecter and Voldemort
- Like some fictional twins
- 84-Down's doings
- Belial's bailiwick
- What villains dabble in
- Good competitor?
- Santana song, "___ Ways"
- Good's opponent
- Complimentary adjective for a metal band
- Like Mr. Hyde
- Like many a movie genius
- Harmful
- Superhero's target
- "Don't be ___" (Google's motto)
- Like Voldemort
- Word with "eye," "spirit" or "intention"
- Depravity
- The devil's bag
- "Touch of ___" (Orson Welles film)
- What good seeks to conquer
- Like Iago, say
- Rotten to the core
- Negative forces
- Like Iago and Voldemort
- Foul by a mile?
- Like the Green Goblin
- Like a villain
- Way beyond mischievous
- Sin
- Source of harm
- Anagram of 50-Down
- It's assuredly not good
- Foe of Powers in spy spoofs
- Old Nick's knack
- Fiend's forte
- Baleful
- Like Cruella de Vil
- Like some spirits
- Worst than bad
- Thoroughly corrupt
- Like a good villain
- Word with "eye" or "temper"
- "good and ___"
- Like Professor Moriarty
- Like Walter White
- Demon's doings
- Wicked doing
- Good combatant
- Maleficent, aka Mistress of All ___
- Devil's play
- "Stupidity is the same as ___ if you judge by the results": Atwood
- Super nasty
- Depraved or wicked
- "Don't be ___" (Google slogan)
- Doings of the wicked
- One of a classically opposed pair
- More than nasty
- Like Bond foes
- Severely wicked
- Excessively wicked
- Horrible acts
- One side in an eternal battle
- Darth Vader's essence
- "___ is whatever distracts": Kafka
- What satan sows
- Anagram of "vile"
- Dr. ___, Austin Powers's foe
- Fiendish or wicked
- Like some film geniuses
- Opposite of good
- Like a supervillain
- What the devil represents
- What Mr. Hyde personified
- The wrong stuff?
- Like a soap opera twin
- Word in the three wise monkeys' proverb
- Like fairy-tale stepmothers
- Very nasty
- Very dark
- Voldemort-like
- Odious
- There is no good in it
- "Don't be ___" (Google motto)
- What superheroes battle
- It's a long way from being good
- Satanic doings
- Word before eye or Empire
- Decidedly wicked
- Morally depraved
- Mean-spirited
- Beelzebub's handiwork
- Like Jekyll's alter ego
- Like Satan and his minions
- Baneful
- Like good foes?
- Villainy
- Like a predictable twin in horror films
- Good's nemesis
- Immoral
- More than just villainous
- Why the world is not all good
- Far from harmless
- What the devil is known for
- Badness
- Like Mr. Hyde, e.g.
- "See no ___ ... "
- Side in an age-old battle
- What villains are
- Not good
- Kind of eye
- Villain's doings
- Satan's practice
- Like one soap-opera twin
- Like Michael Myers of "Halloween"
- Like Stephen King's Pennywise
- More than wicked
- Mr. Hyde's doings
- Fiend's doings
- Flagitious
- Element in Stephen King novels
- Mischievous
- Morally corrupt
- Iniquity
- Cruel
- Extremely mean
- Dr. ___ (Austin Powers adversary)
- Hear no ___, see no...
- Extremely bad
- A long, long way from good
- Opponent of good
- "... deliver us from ___" (part of the Lord's Prayer)
- "Austin Powers" surname
- Certainly not good
- Torn veil? That's very bad
- Wickedness in the village
- Resident ___ (PlayStation game)
- More than mischievous
- Like a goateed twin?
- Full of malicious intent
- Heinous (4)
- Terribly wicked
- More than just a bad person
- Like a horror film villain
- Demonic Interpol song?
- Kind of "Dream" Dio had
- R.E.M. "See No ___"
- Devilish Interpol song?
- ELO "___ Woman"
- Wicked Howlin' Wolf song?
- Kind of "Woman," to ELO
- Devilish Interpol hit?
- "Dream ___" Dio
- Demonic Ladytron song?
- Bad to the bone Stevie Wonder song?
- Dark Earth, Wind & Fire song?
- Dastardly Interpol song?
- Breaking Benjamin "___ Angel"
- '01 Cult album "Beyond Good and ___"
- "So you think I got an ___ mind, I tell you honey"
- Mean Flaming Lips song?
- Michigan band Pop ___
- Frank Zappa "That ___ Prince"
- '05 Avenged Sevenfold album "City of ___"
- Tom Jones song about something very bad?
- MI band Pop ___
- Not-so-nice Interpol song?
- Demonic Mercyful Fate song?
- Diabolical Interpol song?
- Steve Miller song about wickedness?
- "Am I ___?" Metallica
- "100 in a 55" Pop ___
- Vile (anag)
- Profoundly immoral
- Like the villain of the piece (and the other way round)
- Come back to settle in, but not for good
- Drunkenly to lie about the civic centre is bad
- Not a good way to live
- Bad back during delivery
- Force opposed by good
- Bad to be rejected
- Quick to return to sin
- Vice, as it happens, repelled
- Be rejected? That's bad
- Bad to be in recession
- Force fighting good
- Good foe
- Vile
- "Beyond Good and ___" (Nietzsche)
- Like a twin in horror movies
- Evangelist's target
- As far as one can get from well-intentioned
- Doctor ___ (Austin Powers' nemesis)
- Three monkeys' avoidance
- Synonym and anagram of 48-Across
- "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to ___": Thomas Mann
- Darth Vader or Ming the Merciless, e.g.
- "Banality of ___" (phrase coined by Hannah Arendt)
- "Indifference, to me, is the epitome of ___": Elie Wiesel
- Manichaean concept
- Soul Asylum "Just Plain ___"
- Old Nick's thing
- Dangerous to be around
- Wicked piece of devilry
- See 31 across
- Extremely unpleasant in the village
- Current upset is diabolical
- Not good to be back
- The wrong way to be
- 24 last to return
- Word that can follow the first parts of 17-, 39- and 62-Across and "no"
- Good's antithesis
- Resident ___ (video game series)
- U-turn from holy
- Like Voldemort or Darth Vader
- More than just mischievous
- Noted figures, but villainous
- Armageddon force
- Good's foe
- Not at all good
- "Man produces ___ as a bee produces honey": William Golding
- Like James Bond antagonists
- Wrong
- Morally repugnant
- Extremely wicked
- Stage villain not entirely wicked
- Good battler
- Bad, bad, bad
- "___ Woman" (ELO hit)
- 5 Across' doings
- Like Goldfinger
- Corruption
- It's very bad in a Portuguese villa
- Workings that are definitely not good
- Malignity
- Good rival?
- Like a superhero's archenemy
- "___ Woman"
- Hateful
- Nastiness
- Wicked revolutionary not pre-recorded
- Truly rotten
- Nemesis of cinema spy Powers
- Good fighter?
- A bit of a devil
- Like foes of 007
- Downright dastardly
- Villainous doings
- Profoundly wicked
- ELO's "___ Woman"
- With 56 Across, horror film franchise with a book called the Necronomicon
- "The ___ that men do lives after them": Antony
- It's negative where brass monkeys are concerned
- Ignorance, to Socrates
- A long way from good
- Like the Joker
- With 53-Across, one whom you might blame for something bad that you did
- Dastard's doings
- Doing bad
- Good rival
- Saintly? No, take a u-turn
- Like Beelzebub
- Good's adversary
- Dreadful
- Morally wrong or bad
- Like Lex Luthor or the Green Goblin
- Demons’ doings
- More than just plain bad
- Like some twins and geniuses
- Like a "mwa-ha-ha" laugh
- Dr. ___, film enemy of Austin Powers
- Not good at all?
- What mustache-twirling might suggest
- "Resident ___"
- Like the serpent in 65-Across
- Hardly angelic
- "Deception, disgrace, ___ as plain as the scar on his face"
- Morally reprehensible
- Good match
- Of bad character
- "___ Ways" (Santana hit)
- Live the wrong way?
- Wicked, terrible lie about Victor
- Really mean
- Good competitor?
- What the three wise monkeys can't see, hear and speak, respectively
- Descriptor for geniuses or grins
- Like some omens
- "Maleficent: Mistress of ___"
- What Satan is
- "The ___ that men do lives after them" (Shakespeare)
- Adjective that describes It
- Like some twins and grins
- "The School for Good and ___"
- Subject for pastors and philosophers
- Horribly un-good
- Not even close to good
- With a bad heart?
- Like Scar from the Lion King
- Like 58-Down
- With 39-Down, malevolent look
- Resident ___ (video game franchise)
- 180 degrees from good
- Resident ___ (horror game series)
- What saying "kayn aynhoreh" wards off
- As far away from good as you can get
- Like Dr. Facilier or Shan Yu
- Hardly holy
- Like the more interesting twin, some would say
- Like Hela and Thanos
- Wickedly 20-Down
- "May the forces of ___ become confused on the way to your house": George Carlin
- See/hear/speak no ___
- From "vile," a word meaning bad
- Like Thanos in the Marvel universe
- ___ eye (glare said to bring bad luck)
- Enemy of good
- Like a stereotypical fairy-tale stepmother
- Profoundly bad
- Word with twin or grin
- Like Scar, in "The Lion King"
- Gave the ___ eye
- Word with eye or empire
- Extremely immoral
- As wicked as wicked can be
- Necessary ___
- Like IT, in "A Wrinkle in Time"
- Very wicked
- Mean business?
- Really, really wicked
- "Speak No ___" (Uzodinma Iweala novel)
- Morally bankrupt
- Truly wicked
- "... and deliver us from ___"
- Like many a villain
Last Seen In
- USA Today - April 17, 2024
- Daily American - April 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 04, 2024
- LA Times - April 01, 2024
- LA Times - March 31, 2024
- Family Time - March 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 17, 2024
- Family Time - March 17, 2024
- Family Time - March 11, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 10, 2024
- LA Times - March 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 02, 2024
- LA Times - February 29, 2024
- LA Times - February 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2024
- Daily American - February 11, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 10, 2024
- LA Times - February 03, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 27, 2024
- USA Today - January 25, 2024
- LA Times - January 23, 2024
- Family Time - January 22, 2024
- LA Times - January 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 11, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 11, 2024
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