Clues for the word "HEW"
We've had 91 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 395 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on May 18, 2026.
Definition of hew
- v. t. - To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
- v. t. - To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.
- v. t. - To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
- n. - Destruction by cutting down.
- n. - Hue; color.
- n. - Shape; form.
Referring Clues
- Cut forests
- Cabinet acronym, once
- Chop down
- Chop
- Use an ax
- Hack
- Fell
- Cut
- Give the ax?
- Shape with an axe
- Cut down
- Carve out
- Go chopping
- Strike with an ax
- Shape with cutting blows
- Cut, as wood
- Cabinet dept. until 1979
- Fell with an axe
- Cut off
- Conform (to)
- Do a hatchet job?
- Adhere (to)
- Cut with an ax
- Wield an ax
- Hack down
- Fell in the forest
- Cut with a blow
- Axe
- Fell trees
- Use a scythe
- Use an axe
- Give the ax
- Make cutting blows
- Take an ax to
- Use a scythe, e.g.
- Go chop-chop?
- Cut down with an ax
- Chop wood
- Fell with an ax
- Shorten, in a way
- Chop up
- Wield an axe
- Wield a hatchet
- Use an ax on
- Whack down
- Chop down, as a tree
- Do a hatchet job
- Stick (to)
- Do ax work
- Chop with an ax
- Cleave
- Go chop-chop
- Cut with an axe
- Emulate Paul Bunyan
- Conform strictly
- Do whittling
- Chop down with an ax
- Cut with a tool
- Fell with a hatchet
- Shape with an adze
- Chop branches
- Sever
- Chop roughly
- Fell a tree
- Axe a tree
- Cut down with an axe
- Cut, as a tree
- Chop, as a tree
- Hack out of the way
- Hack one's way out of the wood
- Strike with an axe
- Use a hatchet on
- Make the cut
- Whittle
- Give the ax to
- Chop with axe
- Shape with axe
- Chop with an axe
- Chop some of the wood
- Hugh, we're told, is just a 'hack'
- Use an axe on
- Like Hugh, he's at central Bayswater
- Shape by cutting
- Chop, as timber
- Take down
- Fell, as firs
- Split, as logs
- Ax
- Do a hatchet job?
- Strictly adhere (to)
- Take an axe to
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - May 18, 2026
- New York Times - May 03, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 05, 2026
- LA Times - January 10, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 09, 2025
- New York Times - July 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 25, 2025
- Mirror Mini - July 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 18, 2025
- New York Times - February 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 04, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 04, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 10, 2024
- LA Times - November 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 16, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 17, 2024
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