Clues for the word "FATE"
We've had 123 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 416 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on March 17, 2026.
Definition of fate
- n. - A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
- n. - Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
- n. - The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
- n. - The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
Referring Clues
- Kismet
- Lot
- It may be tempted
- It may have a twist
- There's no changing it
- "___ laughs at probabilities": Bulwer-Lytton
- One way to explain a coincidence
- Fortune
- Doom
- Lot in life
- Inevitability
- What will be
- Horoscope revelation
- Destiny
- Predestination
- Emerson said intellect annuls it
- Them's the breaks
- You can't escape it
- Tarot reader's revelation
- Phenomenon with a "fickle finger"
- Tarot reader's pronouncement
- Karma
- Inevitable outcome
- The way the cookie crumbles
- Predetermined thing, so they say
- Atropos, for one
- Clotho, for one
- The breaks
- The inevitable
- It's preordained
- Atropos or Clotho
- What's inevitable
- It's inevitable
- Predestined outcome
- Inescapable outcome
- It's destined to happen
- It has a fickle finger
- Don't tempt it
- Destined lot
- Conventional explanation for a tragic event
- You can't get away from it
- It's bound to happen
- Clotho was one
- It may involve a twist
- How some explain a coincidence
- Horoscope disclosure
- It's "written in the face," per Fellini
- You may have a brush with it
- Writing on the wall
- Tarot cards' determination
- The way it goes
- Free will negator
- White-robed figure of Greek mythology
- It's unavoidable
- It can be cruel
- Predetermined outcome
- Inevitable end
- Bad thing to tempt
- What destiny has in store
- Song in the musical "Kismet"
- A twist of ___
- Unavoidable outcome
- "When ___ hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade" (Dale Carnegie)
- Final outcome
- You've got it coming
- One's destiny
- Clotho, e.g.
- It's sometimes worse than death
- "The stars"
- What "All are architects of," per Longfellow
- "___ is the hunter"
- Person's inescapable outcome
- It's inescapable
- It "will find a way," according to Virgil
- "Chance" found on the outsides of 17-, 28-, 47- and 63-Across
- There's no escaping it
- Mercyful ___
- Chaka Khan song about destiny?
- Robert Plant "___ of Nations"
- Foretold Danish heavy metalers?
- Fellow scoffed a lot
- Fortune makes us rich, by the way
- The fellow ate the lot
- One's destiny as a well-rounded sweetheart
- Sure thing!
- It's sure a tricky feat!
- Extraordinary feat, yet it's inevitable
- Fellow put away fortune
- Lot of grease going on bearing
- Cup to drink, not a lot
- Initiator of Fauvism? Munch historically was, a lot
- Cheers up, entertained by extremes of fame and fortune
- "There is no such thing as accident; it is ___ misnamed": Napoleon
- Corpulent oriental lot!
- Fortune for female put away
- Destiny of subdominant and leading note
- Female consumed the lot
- Destiny of overweight English?
- Sizeable first edition made one's fortune
- Palm reader's concern
- Writing on the wall, so to speak
- It's meant to be
- Theme in some time travel fiction
- What's going to happen
- What the Roman goddess Fortuna controls
- "Twist of ___"
- One's lot in life
- One goddess in three is absolutely sure
- Unavoidable end
- Unalterable destiny
- You can't avoid it
- It's written in the stars
- What the opening motif of 36-Across is said to represent
- What you can't 46 Down
- "A man's character is his ___": Heraclitus
- Final outcome that may have a twist
- The stars, so to speak
- Unavoidable future
- Bob Dylan's "Simple Twist of ___"
- One's destiny is to get rich at the end
- Cosmic destiny
- Predetermined future
- It's your destiny
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - March 17, 2026
- Daily American - December 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 18, 2025
- New York Times - October 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 22, 2025
- New York Times - July 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 24, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 18, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 14, 2025
- USA Today - March 01, 2025
- USA Today - December 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 16, 2024
- New York Times - December 11, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 22, 2024
- USA Today - November 05, 2024
- LA Times - October 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 21, 2024
- Daily American - October 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 01, 2024
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