Clues for the word "FLY"
We've had 188 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 355 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on May 22, 2026.
Definition of fly
- v. i. - To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
- v. i. - To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
- v. i. - To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
- v. i. - To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
- v. i. - To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
- v. i. - To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
- v. t. - To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
- v. t. - To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
- v. t. - To hunt with a hawk.
- v. i. - Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
- v. i. - Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
- v. i. - A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
- v. i. - A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
- v. i. - A parasite.
- v. i. - A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
- v. i. - The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
- v. i. - The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- v. i. - That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- v. i. - Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- v. i. - A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
- v. i. - The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- v. i. - The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- v. i. - A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- v. i. - Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- v. i. - A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- v. i. - The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
- v. i. - One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
- v. i. - The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
- v. i. - A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
- a. - Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
Referring Clues
- It's at the end of the line
- Zipper cover
- See 36-Across
- With 54-Across, furnace emission
- Bug out
- Spider's prey
- Succeed, as a proposal
- Wing it?
- Tackle box item
- Something that shouldn't be left open
- With 20-Down, airshow activities
- Tent flap
- Spider's parlor invitee
- Go by air
- Take wing
- Ointment denizen?
- Birds do it
- Do the American thing?
- Probable out in baseball
- With 2-Down, fine particles produced during combustion
- It may be at the end of the line
- Pitcher plant victim
- Stylish, in slang
- With 65-Across, go to Florida, maybe
- Take a jet
- Take off
- Something in the ointment?
- Cause of a buzz
- Ointment intruder?
- Bluebottle, e.g.
- Really zoom
- Spider prey
- Pesky insect
- Go quickly
- Take the plane
- Go by plane
- Trout lure
- Go by space shuttle
- Zipper opening
- What the birds and the bees do?
- Soar
- Do some aviating
- Fishing lure, sometimes
- Pass muster
- Zipper hider
- Annoying buzzer
- Bluebottle, say
- Aviate
- Word that can follow the start of the answers to the 10 starred clues
- Zipped thing
- Horse ____
- Tsetse
- House buzzer
- Trout fishing lure
- #1 hit for Sugar Ray in 1997
- Way to refuse
- Jeans feature
- Take to the skies
- Web victim
- With 114-Down, light fishing gear
- Word with blow or pop
- Emulate 41-Across
- Travel by jet
- Use wings
- It may be embarrassing if it's open
- Web site crasher?
- Travel by plane
- Swatter's target, often
- It may be in the ointment
- Fielder's catch
- *See 29-Across
- Really cool, in slang
- Escape
- Ointment spoiler
- Go by jet
- End of remembrance
- Tsetse ___
- Emulate a drone
- Zapper victim, often
- Travel in space
- Take a plane
- Winged insect
- Fishing lure
- Elapse quickly
- Solo, say
- 1986 Jeff Goldblum film, with "The"
- One way to travel
- Swatter target
- Take the high way?
- ___ in the ointment
- Angler's lure
- No-___ zone
- Pop up
- Travel like Superman
- Outfielder's chance
- With 57-Across, light fishing gear
- Bonds might catch it
- Annoying insect
- The ____ (1986 Cronenberg movie)
- Travel a la Superman
- One way to cover a lot of ground
- Be successful, as a proposal
- Pants part
- Buzzer that can follow the last parts of 18-, 27-, 45- and 57-Across
- Work, as a proposal
- Winged pest
- Be on a plane
- Word with house or dragon
- Sit on a plane
- Gross title role for Jeff Goldblum, with "The"
- Planes do it
- Operate a plane
- "House" insect
- Household pest
- Zapper target
- Be a pilot
- What Sugar Ray just wanted to do
- King's X song that lifts you up?
- AC/DC "___ on the Wall"
- King's X "Ogre Tones" song that soars?
- Sugar Ray smash
- A clever little insect
- Go the fast way, being smart
- It's clever to move fast
- A shrewd six-footer
- Travel fast, that is, from –19 Across"
- Insect
- On paper, perhaps, it can't live up to its name!
- Travel on plane
- Escape, ___ the coop
- Unseen observer, ___ on the wall
- Bothersome insect
- Superman can do it, but Batman can't
- ___ ball (baseball hit to the outfield)
- Victim of a carnivorous plant
- With 32-Across, sticky strip
- What aviators do
- It's smart to go by air
- To become a pilot ...
- Insect pest
- Word with house or horse
- What mosquitoes do
- Travel on Alaska or Hawaiian
- Leave in a hurry
- Spider's prey, or what the first parts of 17- and 62-Across and 9- and 30-Down can do
- Wing it?
- Bolt
- Shrewd little creature?
- A six-footer - clever, too!
- Insect that can follow "fruit" or "butter"
- Emulate Earhart
- Soar and flap
- Cool-looking, in slang
- Clever style of fishing?
- Soup spoiler
- Buzzer?
- High hit to the outfield
- Stylish, slangily
- Swatted pest
- Take off in a hurry
- One subject to metamorphosis
- Airborne picnic pest
- Travel through the air
- One having trouble getting off the web?
- Travel in a 40-Down
- ___-by-night
- One doesn't stay safe on the web
- Be an actual pilot
- Take to the air
- Take to the sky
- Be feasible, as a proposal
- Fire chaser?
- Travel by air
- Soar, like a robin
- Be like a pilot
- Do the Wright thing?
- "That'll never ___"
- Zip it!
- Travel by helicopter
- Soar through the air
- Pop ___
- See 55-Across
- Insect whose larvae are maggots
- "A ___ Went By" (classic children's book)
- Fruit ___
- Travel to or from 67-Down
- Household pest with wings
- Cool, in '90s slang
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - May 22, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - May 11, 2026
- New York Times - April 21, 2026
- LA Times - April 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 07, 2026
- New York Times - March 30, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 18, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 06, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 23, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 03, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 23, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 23, 2025
- LA Times - May 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 26, 2025
- USA Today - March 20, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 18, 2025
- LA Times - February 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 20, 2024
- LA Times - December 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 21, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 18, 2024
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