Clues for the word "FLAT"
We've had 281 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 432 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on July 10, 2026.
Definition of flat
- superl. - Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
- superl. - Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
- superl. - Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
- superl. - Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
- superl. - Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
- superl. - Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
- superl. - Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
- superl. - Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
- superl. - Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
- superl. - Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
- adv. - In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
- adv. - Without allowance for accrued interest.
- n. - A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
- n. - A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
- n. - Something broad and flat in form
- n. - A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- n. - A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- n. - A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
- n. - A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
- n. - The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
- n. - A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
- n. - A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- n. - A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
- n. - A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
- n. - A homaloid space or extension.
- v. t. - To make flat; to flatten; to level.
- v. t. - To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
- v. t. - To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- v. i. - To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- v. i. - To fall form the pitch.
Referring Clues
- Holding steady
- Unexciting
- Woman's shoe
- Fizzless
- Like the world to pre-Columbians
- Like earnings in some reports
- Off-pitch
- Like the world, to the ancients
- One way to fall
- Like a pancake
- Motorist's woe
- Blowout result
- Sharp's counterpart
- Apartment
- Reason to pull to the roadside
- Sign accompanying a musical note
- Apartment, to Brits
- Fizzless, as a soft drink
- Off-key, in a way
- Like some rates
- Cyclist's problem
- Pitched too low
- Out of fizz
- Lacking sparkle
- Showing no growth
- Kansaslike
- Unchanged
- Driver's headache
- What a 17-Across might get assistance with
- Motorist's headache
- It makes a note lower
- John Steinbeck's "Tortilla ___"
- Unspirited?
- Staff symbol
- Sharp opposite
- Unqualified, as a denial
- Not having enough carbonation
- Exactly, to a timekeeper
- Digs in Derby
- Lacking contrast
- Prone
- Certain accidental
- Tire trouble
- Off-pitch, in a way
- Like plains
- Key to the left
- Black key, at times
- ___ as a pancake
- Exactly
- No longer fizzy
- Place to stay in London
- Prairielike
- Opposite of sharp
- Below the intended pitch
- Lacking carbonation
- Sharp's opposite
- Comfortable shoe
- Off-key
- Sharp's counterpart
- Reason to pull over
- Lacking fizz
- Lacking effervescence
- London apartment
- Fizzless, as a Coke
- Driving problem
- One way to be turned down
- Needing tuning, maybe
- Musical symbol
- Needing a 1-Across
- Iron or foot preceder
- In need of tuning
- Needing to get keyed up?
- London living quarters
- Without carbonation
- Sharps counterpart
- Pitched poorly?
- Bland
- Pump kin
- ___ as a pancake
- Place to take 27-Down
- Deflated tire
- Road trip delayer
- Like soda with no sparkle
- Needs to get keyed up?
- Sharp relative
- Dull as dishwater
- Level
- Like the plains
- Toneless
- Music symbol
- Insipid
- Lackluster
- Tasteless
- Pitch lowerer
- Horizontal
- Driver's woe
- Short on pizazz
- Lacking vitality
- No longer effervescent
- Utterly
- *Smooth
- Reason to retire?
- Apartment in London
- Musical notation
- Tire difficulty
- Like unfizzy soda
- Smooth
- Bad condition for a tire
- *London rental
- Apartment, in London
- Lacking pizzazz
- Boardlike
- With 24-Down, blowout result
- Fixed, as a rate
- Like some fees and feet
- Unshiny
- Turnpike concern
- Bubbleless
- Uninspired
- Musically off
- Out of air, as a tire
- Tire mishap
- Tire problem
- Like much desert
- Tuned too low
- Penzance pad
- Like useless tires
- Under the intended pitch
- Fizzles
- Like a useless tire
- Chelsea apartment
- Punctured tire
- Dead-tired?
- Needing reinflation
- Like Kansas, topologically
- Like fizzless soda
- Airless tire
- Level; not bumpy
- Un-fizzy
- Soho pad
- Word that can precede the first parts of 17- and 59-Across and 11- and 25-Down
- Like day-old seltzer
- Flush
- Level and smooth
- Auto trouble
- Soho apartment
- Like some tires
- Without sparkle
- It looks like a lowercase B
- Lacking bubbles
- Free of fizz
- Unexciting apartment
- Like an inconvenient tire
- Half step lower, in music
- Smooth and even in texture
- Opposite of sharp, in music
- Dull
- Accidental
- See 9-Down
- Not sharp
- Firm to pay for copper
- Not charged for the pad
- The plainsman's home?
- Dead people's event?
- Even getting a puncture!
- Even
- Uninteresting accommodation?
- Character in bar, lowering the tone
- Apartment - on the level
- Home, having a blow-out
- Pressed home
- Dull place to live
- Even - somewhere to live
- A home in the plains?
- Apartment - below the note
- Palm found in worker's accommodation?
- Residence with no outstanding features
- A residence of note?
- Level - uninteresting - accommodation
- Pressing implement
- Small residence - lacking sparkle
- Constable positioned at this level-crossing?
- Home for the plain-dweller?
- Quarters - punctured - smooth
- Boring - apartment
- Dull character on the staff
- Equestrian event boring people
- A low-key dwelling?
- Single-storey residence? Absolutely
- *See 61-Across
- Man on street in winter month needing retrieval after puncture, calling for AA?
- One might force you to retire
- In need of air, possibly
- Like Florida's landscape
- A residence that lowers the tone?
- A low-key dwelling?
- Note such a battery is unserviceable
- Uninteresting piece of scenery
- Boring kind of 15
- Pied-à-terre
- Spooner's "you're such a gorgeous pipistrelle" - no charge?
- Dull people run without jumping
- About fifty, overweight and dull
- Sluggish car going from 1 to 50?
- Bedsit
- London abode
- Accommodation lacking sparkle
- Out of tune
- Needing inflation
- Without bubbles
- Tire with no air
- Punctured tyre
- Smooth and level
- Smooth to the touch
- Not carbonated
- Down a half step, say
- How a bad joke may fall
- Without air, as a tire
- Musical symbol resembling a lowercase b
- Home, having had a puncture
- Not hilly
- Dull and lifeless
- Level on a bit too low
- Dull place to live?
- Kind of 28-Down or 57-Down
- Horizontally level
- Sharp's counterpart, in music
- Apartment, across the pond
- Unexciting abode?
- Outright
- Pad
- Horizontal, level
- Even pad
- Having a level surface
- In which life lacks ups and downs?
- Type of residence
- Like much desert terrain
- Roadside problem
- Shoe that may have no heel
- Domicile
- Not fizzy anymore
- Tire in need of air
- Hardly hilly
- Like old soda
- Neither sharp nor on key
- Unchanged, as on an earnings report
- Out of tune ... or bubbles
- Premises of note?
- Noteworthy accommodation
- The plainsman's home?
- Like soda after sitting out for a while
- Without hills
- Fully horizontal
- Like soda that's been sitting out for too long
- What an a cappella singer never wants to be
- Uninteresting accommodation?
- Word with panel or screen
- Like a tire that needs help
- Like 9-Across that has lost its fizz
- You might take a lift to one
- Totally horizontal
- Note punctured tyre
- A semitone lower in pitch
- Like an airless tire
- Unfizzy
- It's plain it has no stairs to climb
- Lacking fizz, as soda
- A residence of note?
- Shoe with little to no heel
- Heel's opposite
- Ballet ___
- Lacking pep
- Fell ___ (flopped)
- Lacking pop
- Like the top of a mesa
- Like seltzer that was left out overnight
- ___ white: espresso bar order
- Like hair after removing a beanie
- Like an open can of soda, eventually
- Having lost all its fizz
- Lifeless
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 10, 2026
- Daily American - July 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 02, 2026
- Daily Quick - June 02, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - May 25, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - May 14, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 04, 2026
- New York Times - May 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - April 22, 2026
- Daily Quick - April 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 22, 2026
- Daily American - March 08, 2026
- New York Times - February 07, 2026
- LA Times - February 05, 2026
- LA Times - February 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 13, 2026
- LA Times - January 11, 2026
- New York Times - January 05, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 02, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - December 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 02, 2025
- Daily American - August 10, 2025
- LA Times - August 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 31, 2025
- Daily American - July 29, 2025
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