Clues for the word "FLAIL"
We've had 46 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 106 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on March 12, 2026.
Definition of flail
- n. - An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
- n. - An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
Referring Clues
- Swing wildly
- Threshing tool
- Thrash
- Grain threshing tool
- Beat
- Wave (one's arms) about
- Thresher's tool
- Wave wildly
- Thrash (about)
- Swing out of control
- Swing with abandon
- Thrash about
- Attract the lifeguard, perhaps
- Attract the lifeguard
- Threshing aid
- Threshing instrument
- Swing vigorously
- Swing around wildly
- Swing around madly
- Threshing implement
- Swing violently
- One way to attract a lifeguard
- Swing about
- Thrash or thresh
- Gives thrashing to
- Struggle dramatically
- Catch the lifeguard's eye, in a way
- Swing wildly, as one's arms
- Thrash wildly
- Swing loosely
- Thresh
- Thrashing tool
- Threshing device
- Thresh about
- Don't pass round the trainee's weapon!
- Toss about
- Dance wildly
- Complicate a lifeguard's rescue
- Thrash about wildly
- Thrash (around)
- Swing willy-nilly
- Move like a promotional tube man
- Struggle helplessly
- Move like an inflatable tube man
- Whip around wildly
- Swing wildly and helplessly
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - March 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 01, 2024
- New York Times - December 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 29, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 10, 2023
- New York Times - April 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 10, 2023
- LA Times - September 29, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - August 31, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - January 24, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - January 04, 2018
- Evening Standard Easy - January 02, 2018
- Mirror Quick - December 09, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - November 27, 2017
- LA Times - May 07, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - March 14, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - December 20, 2016
- USA Today - November 18, 2016
- And in 76 more crossword puzzles...