Clues for the word "FLOOD"
We've had 60 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 122 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 13, 2026.
Definition of flood
- v. i. - A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
- v. i. - The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
- v. i. - A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
- v. i. - Menstrual disharge; menses.
- v. t. - To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
- v. t. - To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
Referring Clues
- Result of a bank failure?
- Kind of insurance
- Johnstown disaster
- Overrun
- Inundate
- Deluge
- Noah's problem
- Reason for 21-Across
- Bank breaker
- Monsoon result, often
- Sudden influx
- Genesis cataclysm
- Cloudburst
- Noah's natural disaster
- Fill with water
- Overflow
- Inundation
- Stall the engine
- Result of a burst dike
- Fill, and then some
- Torrent
- Result of failing banks?
- Result of excessive rainfall
- Weather warning
- Hurricane consequence
- Bank breacher
- Genesis event
- Gates
- Monsoon aftermath
- There was a great one in Genesis
- Noah's challenge
- ___ insurance
- Noah's concern
- Sight for Noah
- Reason for Noah's ark
- Overwhelm in abundance
- Overwhelm
- What the 27 Across was built for
- Noah conquered it
- Noah built an ark to prepare for it
- What Noah and his family survived
- Act of God
- Spate
- A catastrophe of old
- Left food out for a natural emergency
- Left food out, suitable for ducks
- Left food out with water
- Left food out, and water
- Too much liquid left in what one eats?
- Grub left to get eaten in swamp
- Poor fool to start diving on a rising tide
- Stream widener
- Excessive water left in food
- Girl to do wrong with, in a deluge
- "Noah" event
- Follower of antediluvian events
- Left food out, and ample water
- Event lasting 40 days and nights in the Bible
- Cataclysm in the lore of many world cultures
- Test for Noah
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 10, 2025
- LA Times - February 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 09, 2025
- Daily American - December 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 26, 2024
- Mirror Mini - April 11, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 07, 2024
- USA Today - January 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 17, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 15, 2023
- Mirror Mini - April 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 28, 2023
- And in 92 more crossword puzzles...