Clues for the word "HELL"
We've had 140 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 222 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on January 10, 2026.
Definition of hell
- v. t. - The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
- v. t. - The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
- v. t. - A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
- v. t. - A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- v. t. - A gambling house.
- v. t. - A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
- v. t. - To overwhelm.
Referring Clues
- Site of 7-Down
- High water alternative
- "War is ___"
- What partyers raise
- Alternative to high water
- Hot spot
- Paradise's opposite
- Scratch pad?
- Living ___
- Something to pay?
- Fiery place
- Extreme torment
- Something to catch or raise
- The pit
- What may be raised at celebrations
- "I'm mad as ___ ..." (classic line from "Network")
- It may be raised at a party
- "A place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself": Shaw
- Hades
- Satan's domain
- Fire down below?
- War, to Sherman
- ___ week (pre-initiation time for a frat)
- It's sometimes raised
- ___ week (frat initiation period)
- Dante's inferno
- High water's partner
- "Like a bat out of ___"
- Handbasket rider's destination?
- "___ hath no fury ..."
- It might be raised
- ___ week: frat initiation period
- Inferno
- Sherman's word for war
- Beelzebub's bailiwick
- It has a fire down below?
- Dante setting
- Misery
- Sherman's equivalent of war
- See 9-Down
- Fiery fate
- Lucifer's realm
- ___ week: frat initiation period
- *Fire down below? (and the end of the word ladder)
- "Paradise Lost" locale
- "aradse lost" locale
- War, as they say
- War, to Gen. Sherman
- Sherman's opinion of war
- Sherman's analogy of war
- Sherman's war comparison
- The pits
- Fire place?
- The devil's playground
- Word after raise or catch
- Something to catch from scolding parents
- Locale for 10-Down
- Subject of Dante's "Inferno"
- Epitome of hotness
- Heaven it's not
- "A half-filled auditorium," to Frost
- Dante's "Inferno"
- Word sometimes spelled with "double hockey sticks"
- "Other people," to Sartre
- "'___ is empty / And all the devils are here'": "The Tempest"
- Heaven's opposite
- Pluto's domain
- It's divided into nine circles
- Utter agony
- 29-Down's milieu
- Where to go "for the company," per Mark Twain
- Frequent Bosch setting
- "drat!" magnified
- Place for the infernal characters from Othello
- It's for children, in a Pat Benatar song
- "___ no, we won't go"
- Abode of Satan
- Satan's abode
- Subject for Dante
- All-American Rejects "Gives You ___"
- Abode of the damned
- Foo Fighters song for devils?
- Netherworld
- Disturbed song about home of evil?
- Devil's fiery home
- Infernal regions
- It's infernally bad when he gets left behind again
- Infernal place
- Satan's realm
- Devil's home
- Nether world
- Beelzebub's home
- Place of vice, misery or turmoil
- Underworld
- Man's going to fire
- Celebrity mag detailed suffering
- A living nightmare
- Misery of loveless greeting
- Tartarus, of myth
- He's going to damnation
- High water's alternative
- Satan's place
- Setting of Sartre's "No Exit"
- Curse as front breaks off explosive
- "Divine Comedy" setting
- Groening strip setting
- Satan's hangout
- The fiery part of Othello
- ___ on wheels
- Place of suffering or misery
- "Other people," per Sartre
- Infernal region
- Land down under?
- "___ is other people": Sartre
- Nether regions
- "___ come around"
- Setting of many a "Far Side" comic
- Severe criticism
- Word spelled with "double hockey sticks"
- ___-bent (stubbornly determined)
- Classic AC/DC song represented by the falling circled letters and this answer
- "Good as ___" (Lizzo bop)
- Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of ___"
- Tartarus, by another name
- Heaven and ___
- Place with nine circles, per Dante
- "I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to ___ in his own way": Robert Frost
- Where 95-Down's Wild Ride ends, at Disneyland
- Setting of Dante's "Inferno"
- "Raise ___" (Brandi Carlile song)
- Billie Eilish's "All the Good Girls Go to ___"
- Alternative to high water, in an idiom
- "Good as ___" (Lizzo hit)
- "It's ___ on earth to be heavenly"
- Frequent Bosch subject
- "___ was the journey but it brought me heaven"
- "___ if I know!"
- A half-filled auditorium, per Robert Frost
- Dante divided it into nine circles
- âInfernoâ setting
Last Seen In
- LA Times - January 10, 2026
- LA Times - December 21, 2025
- New York Times - November 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 15, 2025
- New York Times - September 03, 2025
- Daily American - August 27, 2025
- Daily American - July 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 25, 2025
- Daily American - June 07, 2025
- New York Times - June 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 19, 2025
- USA Today - March 05, 2025
- LA Times - December 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 25, 2024
- Daily American - September 04, 2024
- USA Today - August 30, 2024
- Daily American - August 14, 2024
- LA Times - July 19, 2024
- Daily American - April 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 02, 2024
- Daily American - March 27, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 12, 2024
- Daily American - February 24, 2024
- New York Times - February 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 03, 2024
- New York Times - December 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 06, 2023
- New York Times - October 22, 2023
- LA Times - October 12, 2023
- And in 192 more crossword puzzles...