Clues for the word "HEAD"
We've had 255 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 433 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on December 30, 2025.
Definition of head
- n. - The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
- n. - The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.
- n. - The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head.
- n. - The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like.
- n. - The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.
- n. - Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
- n. - The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will.
- n. - The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.
- n. - A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head.
- n. - A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
- n. - Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
- n. - Power; armed force.
- n. - A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair.
- n. - An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
- n. - A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
- n. - A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
- n. - The antlers of a deer.
- n. - A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.
- n. - Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- a. - Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.
- v. t. - To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an expedition, or a riot.
- v. t. - To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
- v. t. - To behead; to decapitate.
- v. t. - To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees.
- v. t. - To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
- v. t. - To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
- v. i. - To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
- v. i. - To go or point in a certain direction; to tend; as, how does the ship head?
- v. i. - To form a head; as, this kind of cabbage heads early.
Referring Clues
- Intellect
- Come to a ___
- Principal
- Skull
- Crisis point
- Commander
- Cattle in a cattle drive
- Cattle count
- Nincompoop
- Brain's site
- Cattle rancher's unit
- With 40A, a firebrand
- Lucille Ball, notably
- Ranch unit
- Beanball target
- Noggin
- John, at sea
- Read/write ___ (part of a disk drive)
- Foam
- Fourth row
- Brewski topper
- Hat stand?
- Lettuce form
- Hair raiser?
- Bean ball target
- Lettuce unit
- River origin
- Lead
- All that's seen of the Wizard of Oz, at first
- Top of the body
- Something to keep under your hat
- Noodle or noggin
- Something scratched or shaken
- Beer topper
- Chief
- Flat beer's lack
- Hat's place
- Word with cold and case
- Spot for a band
- Ale feature
- Produce unit
- Word that can precede each word in 17-, 38- and 61-Across
- Apt attachment to the starts of 14-, 17-, 35- and 43-Across
- It can follow the last words of 18-, 24-, 37-, 53-, and 60-Across to make synonyms
- Cabbage purchase
- Top dog
- First wrong guess in hangman
- Word that can precede the starts of 17-, 27-, 45- and 60-Across and 11- and 34-Down
- Noogie target
- Word before cold or wind
- Be in charge of
- Belfry, so to speak
- See 48 Across
- Lettuce purchase
- Strong start
- Leader
- River source
- Cabbage unit
- Kind of hunter
- It has plenty of brains
- Boss
- Top of a nail
- Cattle unit
- President
- Stream's source
- With 37-Across, hair accessory ... or a literal hint to 19-, 27-, 47- and 56-Across
- Go (toward)
- Romaine purchase
- Hat holder
- Shoulders' partner
- Beer froth
- *Noodle or noggin
- ______ ingly, Manitoba
- Move (toward)
- Take charge of
- One in charge
- With 67-Across, store that often won't discuss its own stock
- With 37-Down, complete
- Milliner's mannequin
- Nail part
- Be the leader
- One of the 4-H Club's H's
- Administrator
- Beer feature
- Eye site?
- Eye site
- Lettuce buy
- Command
- Person in charge
- Foremost
- Froth in a mug
- Toilet, colloquially
- With 70-Across, what you'd likely have if you said this puzzle's four longest answers
- Froth on beer
- Thing that might be shrunken or swelled
- Brain case
- Focus of a phrenologist
- ___ over heels
- Part of a pin
- Nova Scotia's White ____
- Feature of a freshly poured beer
- First in line
- Captain
- John in the navy
- Noggin, and a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues
- Cranium
- Military fortification
- Aim toward
- Proceed
- Something to keep under your hat?
- Pin part
- Fez bearer
- With 23-Down, deli product
- Skull's place
- Be a leader
- Body support for the end of 57-Across, in a Swiss folk tale suggested by the ends of the answers to starred clues
- Beer foam
- Big part of an Easter Island sculpture
- Director
- Face place
- Nail's top
- Main part of a bust
- Foam on a beer
- Place for a band
- Key word #2
- Floating latrine
- Wind or waiter
- Preside over
- Hat locale
- Word with master or waiter
- Torso topper
- Go
- Big enchilada
- Body part
- Be in charge of, as a committee
- What a nail and whale both have
- Unit of lettuce
- Brain case?
- Source of a river
- Herd unit
- Body topper
- Chair
- Upper part of the body
- Place for a hat
- "Mr. Potato ___"
- Your neck supports it
- Top
- Cold spot?
- Popular game, Mr. Potato ___
- Where the brain is
- It's above the shoulders
- ___ and shoulders
- Bonce
- Jesus & Mary Chain "___ On"
- "The ___ nurse spoke up. Said, 'Leave this one alone.'"
- Quiet Riot "Bang Your ___"
- Lights in HMP Slade out around one
- Be editor of Independent, admitting wife is no friend of cyclists
- See 6
- A topping fellow at school
- See 1
- Nut loaf
- Nose blocked, eyes streaming? In that case, wear a hat!
- The boss, heated after losing a couple of letters?
- See 12
- Lead man of our time
- A capital boss
- See 14
- Top man on commercial
- Oversee
- Leader's policy, which dominates the front page(8)
- See 25
- See 2
- Premier man on our times
- 13 across lad adjusted, entering measurement
- Spooner's metal building an irritating thing?
- Proceed left by rocks for a feature of a 13 across?
- He gets publicity as top man
- Boater's spot
- Madly in love
- Part of a bust
- From ___ to toe
- ___ over heels in love
- Front (of queue)
- Part of the Admiralty Arch
- See 17
- First male (Adam) had no ma, surprisingly
- Leader by a nose!
- Bowler's place
- Part of the address given by principal
- Utterly smitten, ___ over heels in love
- Word that can follow the ends of 23-, 35-, 38-, 53-, 73-, 89-, 106- and 108-Across
- See 10
- Neck cap?
- Where you wear a fedora
- Run around like a chicken with its ___ cut off
- Top in the administrative department
- Lead, helium and nitrogen escapes
- Chief, principal
- As top man, he gets a bit of publicity
- It holds your face
- Top tract of land rejected for clearance
- Keep it under your hat!
- Noodle, so to speak
- The boss is a nut!
- Place for a cap
- Sleepy Hollow horseman's lack
- White froth on beer
- SK's Indian ___
- Froth on a beer
- Make for the top
- Cattle ranch unit
- Cabbage buy
- Bibb buy
- It appreciates a neck
- Principal nut
- Good thing to keep above water
- Colorful part of a match
- Important part of the table
- School principal
- Circle in the game hangman
- The nut in charge
- With 70-Across, call it a night, say
- The loaf to use sensibly
- Had to go out East with the boss
- Melon, facetiously
- A supporter for 5-Across
- Beer's foam
- What the top sphere on a snowman represents
- Suds
- Principal, for one
- A man now is boss
- *Graveyard sight
- Chairperson, e.g.
- Amount of cabbage
- Chief of the admin section
- Important part of the human body
- Place for a crown
- Place to go on a ship
- Unit of cauliflower
- Place for a tiara
- Foam on top of a beer
- Cauliflower unit
- Part of a river that ironically doesn't contain the mouth
- Ball of lettuce
- The boss, heated after losing a couple of letters?
- The "H" of SMH
- Unit of cabbage
- Place for a beanie
- ___ for the hills
- O, in hangman
- Top part
- Broccoli unit
- What a hat covers
- Circle at the top of a stick figure
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - December 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 19, 2025
- Daily American - July 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 11, 2025
- Daily American - July 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 25, 2025
- Daily American - June 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 29, 2025
- New York Times - May 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 17, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 28, 2025
- USA Today - February 24, 2025
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