Clues for the word "HAIL"
We've had 236 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 451 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of hail
- n. - Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or grains are called hailstones.
- v. i. - To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.
- v. t. - To pour forcibly down, as hail.
- a. - Healthy. See Hale (the preferable spelling).
- v. t. - To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.
- v. t. - To name; to designate; to call.
- v. i. - To declare, by hailing, the port from which a vessel sails or where she is registered; hence, to sail; to come; -- used with from; as, the steamer hails from New York.
- v. i. - To report as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from.
- v. t. - An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
- n. - A wish of health; a salutation; a loud call.
Referring Clues
- Salute
- Flag down a cab
- Honor, as a conquering hero
- Salute with enthusiasm
- Hard rain?
- Nasty fall?
- Hearty hello
- It's hard on the head
- It falls hard
- Come (from)
- "___, Vermont" (a 31-Across song)
- It comes down hard
- Icy pellets
- Flag down
- "Huzzah!," e.g.
- Acclaim
- Applaud
- Stones from the sky
- Precipitation that can leave dents
- Approve enthusiastically
- Precipitation that may be the size of golf balls
- Word to the chief
- ___ Mary
- Thunderstorm product
- Signal, as a cab
- Call a cab
- Come down hard?
- Icy precipitation
- A hard rain that's a-gonna fall?
- Hard rain
- Car-denting precipitation
- Greet Caesar
- Welcome
- Greeting to the chief
- Frozen rain
- Flag
- "Ave" of the Americas?
- Some precipitation
- Potentially painful precipitation
- Golf-ball-sized precipitation, maybe
- Hard water?
- Signal, as a taxi
- Solid precipitation
- Hard precipitation
- Welcome warmly
- Greet with acclaim
- Summon, as a cab
- Call to
- Icy-pellet precipitation
- Pellet precipitation
- Signal, as for an 18 Across
- Storm pellets
- Word with "stone" or "storm"
- Damaging precipitation
- Sleet relative
- Rare weather forecast
- "Ave!"
- Honor, as a military hero
- Wave down, as a taxi
- Praise
- Cloud output, sometimes
- Flag Alex Rieger's vehicle
- Icy shower
- Word with storm or stone
- "___ Caesar!"
- When repeated, exuberant cry
- Greet with pomp
- Frozen precipitation
- Flag down, as a cab
- Damaging downpour
- Pellets in a tempest
- Enthusiastically acclaim
- Hard downpour
- Ice show?
- "___, Caesar!"
- Greet with enthusiasm
- Word with "stone" or "storm"
- "Ave!"
- It may come down hard on you
- Farmer's nemesis
- Call for
- Crop destroyer
- Call, in a way
- Ice pellets
- Flag, as a cab
- Stony weather?
- Greet
- Crop ruiner
- Wave to, as a taxi
- Winter weather
- Greet loudly
- Falling ice
- Balls of ice
- Pellets of ice and hard snow
- "___ to the Chief"
- Salute for Caesar
- '___ Caesar!'
- Crop hazard
- Word repeated before "the gang's all here"
- Greet enthusiastically
- Cumulonimbus creation
- Try to grab, as a cab
- Icy fall
- Wave to from the curb, maybe
- Bane of farmers
- Part of a shout-out to Satan
- Thunderstorm formation, perhaps
- Icy precip
- It can be golf-ball sized
- Pelting pellets
- Precipitation type
- Icy precipitation in many hurricanes.
- Weather forecast, perhaps
- Weather phenomenon that might be compared to golf balls or grapefruits
- Call to a cabbie
- Caesar's predecessor?
- With 37-Across, desperate attempts
- Frozen raindrops
- Warmly welcome
- Chief greeting
- "____, Caesar!"
- Falling pellets
- Weather forecast that's hard to predict?
- Weather forecast
- Downpour that can hurt
- Pellets of precipitation
- Cold shower?
- Loudly acclaim
- Precipitation stones
- An enthusiastic greeting
- Spheroids from the sky
- Precipitation that can cause dents
- Greet rapturously
- Extol
- Multi seasonal Pelter
- Sleety stuff
- Glorify
- Precipitation of ice and hard snow
- Some nasty winter weather
- Frozen ice pellets
- Cab signal
- Greet bad weather
- Call, as a cab
- Rain hard?
- Call a 27-Across
- Make stop, as a cab
- Repeated word in "No Code" Pearl Jam hit
- Salute idols
- '03 Radiohead album "___ to the Thief"
- What AC/DC will do to "Caesar"
- Greet - precipitation
- Falling ice pellets
- Call for - praise, vociferously
- Call from a distance
- Greeting from heaven?
- Welcome - precipitation
- Shower of ice pellets
- Welcome sign of cold weather
- Precipitation - old greeting
- What 'raining hard' could imaginably mean?
- Greet(ing) - frozen shower
- Call out to
- Greeting - falling stones
- Weather - greeting
- Weather sometimes compared to golf balls
- Ice pellets - greeting
- Long-distance call in the shower
- Greeting - precipitation
- Prince receives one cheer
- A greeting from the heavens?
- Greet the score at Ibrox
- Call for some pieces of ice
- Formal greeting of old
- Summer fall, at times?
- Pellets from above
- Thunderstorm by-product, at times
- Heavy weather?
- Icy rain
- A greeting from the Stones?
- Greet with bombardment
- Greet, acclaim
- Precipitating ice pellets
- Sound of healthy acclaim
- Spooner's man unshaven? Say it with remorse
- Formal greeting
- "___ to the Thief"
- Precipitation that might be pea-sized or golf ball-sized
- Pellets of frozen rain
- Crop-damaging downpour
- Welcome with pomp
- Wintry weather is healthy, you say
- Stones' No 1, covered by Prince
- "Golf-ball-sized" precipitation
- Call a taxi
- Greet with honor
- Signal to stop
- Precipitation
- Call from the curb
- Hard rain?
- Rain hard?
- Precipitation in pellets
- Noisy precipitation
- Pellets that pelt
- Commend loudly
- Get a cabbie's attention
- Flag down (a taxi)
- Cause of some roof damage
- Destructive precipitation
- Greet with fanfare
- Greet heartily
- Painful precipitation
- Give kudos to
- Storm pellet
- Cry from the heavens?
- Hello! That means winter's here!
- Bad fall?
- Pelting precipitation
- Greet grandly
- Greeting from heaven?
- Rare forecast
- Try to get the attention of
- It may cause roof damage
- Praise loudly
- A shout of "Well said!"
- "Peas" or "golf balls"
- Shower of ice
- Heavy downpour?
- Precipitation that can be golf ball-sized
- What 'raining hard' could imaginably mean?
- It can fail from the sky
- Herald
- Precipitation that can hurt
- Precipitation that may leave dents
- Signal to stop, say
- Precipitation similar to sleet
- Hazard in some storms
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 27, 2025
- Daily American - September 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 25, 2025
- Daily American - July 30, 2025
- Daily American - July 19, 2025
- Mirror Mini - July 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 14, 2025
- Daily American - May 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 18, 2025
- New York Times - March 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 26, 2025
- USA Today - February 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 23, 2024
- USA Today - December 21, 2024
- Daily American - December 11, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 27, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2024
- New York Times - November 08, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 26, 2024
- USA Today - September 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 03, 2024
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