Clues for the word "FISSION"
We've had 10 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 21 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on October 22, 2025.
Definition of fission
- n. - A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
- n. - A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division.
- n. - A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- New York Times - October 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 30, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 14, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 26, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - March 08, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - July 24, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 20, 2022
- Daily Quick - January 29, 2018
- Mindfood Daily - October 29, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 26, 2017
- Guardian Quick - April 06, 2013
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 06, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - May 06, 2010
- USA Today - July 02, 2009
- New York Times - February 07, 2004
- New York Times - March 13, 1999