Clues for the word "HIT"
We've had 328 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 745 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on December 25, 2025.
Definition of hit
- pron. - It.
- - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
- imp. & p. p. - of Hit
- v. t. - To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
- v. t. - To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.
- v. t. - To guess; to light upon or discover.
- v. t. - To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- v. i. - To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
- v. i. - To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.
- n. - A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- n. - A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.
- n. - A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
- n. - A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
- n. - A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
Referring Clues
- Top 10 song, say
- Strike
- Smash
- Triple, say
- Best-selling
- Gold-record earner
- Single or double
- Sellout
- Severely affected
- Internet page visit
- Cybersearch result
- Big success
- Best seller
- Successful
- Success in the offing?
- Web search result
- Bomb's opposite
- Top 10 record
- Chart maker
- Bang
- Chart topper
- Event on "The Sopranos"
- Big royalty generator
- Chart-topper
- Baseball datum
- "Stormy" was one for the Classics IV
- Chartbuster
- Collide
- Boffo
- Any of the Billboard Top 40
- Success
- "Livin' La Vida Loca," e.g.
- Successful at-bat
- ___ the ground running
- Word before list or parade
- Battleship score
- Conspicuous success
- "Battleships" success
- "___ Me With Your Best Shot"
- Attain
- Page visit, perhaps
- Land on
- Successful show
- Smashing success
- Google return
- Batter's goal
- Battleship success
- Successful song
- Homer, for one
- Miss partner
- Batter's success
- Broadway success
- Homer, e.g.
- Sock
- Successful turn in Battleship
- Google result
- Angel's delight
- Billboard listing
- One of Rose's 4,256
- Official scorer's ruling
- Box office success
- Popular number
- #1 song
- Run's partner
- Single, e.g.
- Smite, and hint to this puzzle's theme
- Single or homer
- Big number
- Best-seller
- With 18-Across, be unsportsmanlike, literally
- Smack
- Googler's success
- Top tune
- Top-rated record
- Arrive in
- Web-page visit
- Collide with
- See 28 Across
- Popular success
- Producer's dream
- Successful film
- Belt
- Successful record
- Battleship player's goal
- Platinum record, for sure
- Single or double, maybe
- Box score notation
- "___ the deck!"
- "Iron Man," e.g.
- Flop's opposite
- Black jack dealer's action
- It's delivered on the gridiron
- Double, for one
- Any of the Top 40
- Box-office smash
- With 42-Down, words that can precede the answers to starred clues
- Smasheroo
- Box-office bonanza
- Partner of 40-Down, traffic-wise
- Wallop
- Top ten item
- Sell out
- Angel's hope
- Search engine result
- Top-10 tune
- Double, e.g.
- No turkey
- Clobber
- Delgado concern
- No turkey
- Sellout, perhaps
- Single, for one
- Base runner's need
- Big moneymaker
- Flip of a flop
- Sold-out show
- Pummel
- Producer's hope
- Top-10 record
- SRO show
- Backer's hope
- Slug
- Batter's hope
- Swat
- Whack
- Thwack
- Hugely successful
- Blackjack decision
- Google success
- Batting average fattener
- Batter's datum
- Mob job
- Nice at-bat result
- What a batter hopes for
- Diamond datum
- Miss's partner
- Top 10 tune
- Chart-topping success
- Affected
- Long running play
- Smash into
- Blockbuster
- Google finding
- Any top 10 song, say
- Popular
- Broadway smash
- Punch or jab
- Stage success
- Result of a good at-bat
- Miss alternative
- Chart-topping song
- Strike and not a strike
- Platinum record, e.g.
- Google datum
- Popular show
- Parade member?
- Popular song
- Bomb opposite
- Punch
- Internet-page visit
- Google unit
- Smash ___
- Bit of Google success
- Item on a Billboard list
- Triple, for one
- "the nick ___ list"
- Line-drive single, e.g.
- Box-office smash, e.g.
- Billboard's No. 1, e.g.
- Good guess in Battleship
- Popular movie
- Slap
- Flop opposite
- Smite
- Great success
- Single, double or triple
- Help for the flummoxed
- Website visit
- Result of a successful at-bat
- Smash at the theater
- Top 10 song
- Pop ___
- Cinematic success
- Google goal
- Baseball statistic
- 6-Across, for one
- Successful turn in the game Battleship
- Creative success
- Chart buster
- Runner-advancing action
- Diamond statistic
- Arrive at
- Triple or homer
- Successful song or film
- Many a Beatles single
- Box-office success
- Success in the game 60-Across ... or a hint to interpreting the circled squares
- Success for a batter
- Miss's counterpart
- A popular success in Wichita
- ___-or-miss
- Triple, e.g.
- What a batter wants
- A single, double or triple
- It gets a batter on base
- Single or double, for example
- Single or homer, in baseball
- A successful blow?
- Mob killing
- Single or home run, for example
- Red peg, in Battleship
- Strike or direct a blow
- Single or triple
- Bestseller
- Big song
- Double or home run
- Number one single
- What every rocker wants to have
- Sugarcubes song about top spot?
- Stones "One ___ (To the Body)"
- Everclear "One ___ Wonder"
- Successful single
- A "Whitehall" success?
- For success, it needs a head start
- It's striking when we cover it in white
- Big success in a Whitehall farce
- Badly affected by success?
- Whitehall stage success?
- Paul Whiteman's success?
- Make hard contact with the thing in question
- Successful new thing, obviously not NG
- It's at Crouch End that one has success
- Hard at it, you'll find success
- Hard at it, you won't be missing anything
- Sock drained of colour we chucked
- Good news for a Battleships player
- "Big" was a big one
- Strike - success
- Single, say
- Visit, for a website
- Battleship call
- Collided with
- Single or double, e.g.
- Affect severely
- Winner
- Battleship cry
- Clout
- Trendy, but lacking wit to get clobber
- What Jack should do to the road, according to Ray Charles?
- Very successful show
- Song that goes to #1
- Conk
- Athletics achievement?
- Batter's objective
- Google search result
- Billboard Hot 100 topper
- Rock smash, say
- Google search results unit
- Mega-seller
- Baseball stat
- Chart-topping tune
- #1, e.g.
- A successful blow?
- Pop smash
- Musical success
- ___ the hay
- Top seller
- Success in Battleship
- We hold this success to be not particularly colourful
- A strike
- One-___ wonder
- Strike as most snowy in the west
- Top number
- A Whitehall success?
- Word before "home" or "the road"
- To strike
- Arrived at
- Very popular number
- Blackjack request
- Major success
- Success on parade?
- Huge success
- Top 40 song, e.g.
- Single in Fenway Park
- Chart-topper, e.g.
- Super success
- Decision in the game of blackjack
- See 9 Down
- Red peg, in the game Battleship
- Two-bagger, for one
- Batting success
- Damaged by popular success?
- Knock it on the head, initially!
- No. 1 song, e.g.
- Strike ... or a batter's success
- Successful video game
- Song that's high on the charts
- Angel's wish
- Baseball crushed off the wall
- Runaway success
- Liner off the Fenway Park Green Monster
- Badly affected by success?
- Popular play
- Whitehall stage success?
- Paul Whiteman's success?
- Double off the left-field wall, for example
- Toke
- Successful move in Battleship
- Smash success
- Portion of whiting (not chicken) in batter!
- Blackjack choice
- Single, double or triple, in baseball
- Top 10 song, e.g.
- Song on a Billboard chart
- Give a card to
- Billboard Hot 100 song, e.g.
- Song on Japan's Oricon chart, e.g.
- Box office moneymaker
- Double or triple, maybe
- Deal a blow
- ___ points (health in a video game)
- Stat booster in volleyball or baseball
- Response in the game of Battleship
- Hot single
- Double down the line, for example
- Success in a game of Battleship
- Word with single or home
- A `ibang on^i production
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - December 25, 2025
- LA Times - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 14, 2025
- LA Times - November 08, 2025
- Mirror Mini - November 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 01, 2025
- LA Times - September 30, 2025
- Daily American - September 25, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 28, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 17, 2025
- LA Times - August 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 25, 2025
- LA Times - July 21, 2025
- Daily American - July 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 13, 2025
- New York Times - July 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 03, 2025
- And in 715 more crossword puzzles...