Clues for the word "HORN"
We've had 267 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 454 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on May 26, 2026.
Definition of horn
- n. - A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
- n. - The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
- n. - Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
- n. - An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- n. - Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
- n. - A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
- n. - A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
- n. - The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
- n. - A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
- n. - The pointed beak of an anvil.
- n. - The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- n. - The Ionic volute.
- n. - The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- n. - A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- n. - One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- n. - One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
- n. - The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
- n. - The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
- n. - A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
- n. - An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- v. t. - To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
- v. t. - To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
Referring Clues
- Telephone, slangily
- Loudspeaker, informally
- Glaciated mountain peak
- Headpiece?
- Honker
- Phone, slangily
- Little Boy Blue's instrument
- Taxi feature
- It clears the way
- Angry motorist's need
- Warning device
- It may be heard before an accident
- It may be French
- Game ender, perhaps
- Powder holder
- Gunpowder holder
- Crescent-shaped tract of land
- A driver may sit on it
- Beeper
- Blast maker
- Middle of many a steering wheel
- One with road rage might lean on it
- Car alarm
- Barge (in)
- Rhinoceros feature
- Roy who's recovering in Las Vegas
- Highway hooter
- Basketball game-ending sound
- Chile's cape
- Triceratops feature
- French instrument?
- Unicorn feature
- Traffic jam honker
- Shofar, e.g.
- See 33-Across
- With 6-Down, some glasses
- Part of a Western saddle
- Word with French or English
- French ___
- Traffic jam sound
- Bugle, for one
- Highway warning
- Rush hour blower
- Trumpet, e.g.
- French wind?
- Yak feature
- With 29 Across, orchestral adjuncts
- Antler
- Ram's weapon
- Trumpet or bugle
- Highway honker
- Satchmo's instrument
- Rhinoceros protuberance
- It may be used before an accident
- ___ of plenty
- Cornet, e.g.
- A driver may lay on it
- Hirt's companion
- Auto part
- What some lean on in traffic?
- Rhino feature
- Bull's weapon
- Matador's worry
- Rhino's weapon
- Game ender, at times
- Tooter
- Device making a 53-Down
- Car beeper
- Feature of Africa ... and some of its denizens
- Crescent moon feature
- English or French instrument
- Wynton Marsalis's instrument
- Blast source
- Part of Africa
- Fearsome cape
- Brass instrument
- Crescent part
- French ___
- English saddle's lack
- Prop for Harpo
- One of Drake's capes
- Saddle part
- "Beep beep" maker
- Cape ___
- Bull ______
- Butt (in)
- South america's cape ___
- Sedan sound
- Feature of many Viking helmets
- Driver's warning
- Possible inducer of road rage
- Trumpet
- Gridlock noisemaker
- New Year's noise-maker
- Tooted thing
- Car alert
- Bugle, e.g.
- Tuba, e.g.
- Sound of traffic frustration
- Unicorn feature, e.g.
- Warning at sea
- Honked thing
- It gets tooted
- Somalia's locale in Africa
- Intrude, with "in"
- Devilish adornment
- Crescent tip
- Year-end party favor
- Car alarm?
- Sax player's "ax"
- Car signal
- What someone with road rage might lean on
- Saddle handgrip
- Steering-wheel feature
- Chilean cape
- Instrument used to play 25-Down
- Parade instrument
- Dilemma feature, figuratively
- Traffic jam noise
- What Little Boy Blue blew
- Trumpet, for one
- It's heard on the street
- Feature of 14-Across
- Traffic sound
- Cornucopia shape
- Chile's Cape ___
- Part of a car alarm, maybe
- Antelope feature
- Shofar material
- It's honked
- Basketball game ender
- Bull weapon
- Wind that can be controlled
- Beeper, of a sort
- Part of a rhinoceros
- Rhino part
- Car tooter
- One of a satanic couple
- "Around the ___" (weekday ESPN roundtable show since 2002)
- Feature of 32-Across
- Phone, slangly
- Trumpet or cornet
- East Africa has one
- "young man with a___"
- Road rage catalyst
- Phone, informally
- It's hit in traffic jams?
- Rhino weapon
- 38-Down source
- Serengeti weapon
- Prop for Harpo Marx
- Feature of Africa
- Car's beeper
- Notable feature of Africa
- Rhino poacher's prize
- Middle of a wheel, often
- Cape of Chile
- Steering wheel adjunct
- Signal from an impatient motorist
- Bugle
- "Come blow your ___"
- Something to blow
- Instrument you blow
- Bony outgrowth
- A bugle, for one
- Traffic jam noise-maker
- Tuba or trumpet
- Saxophone or bugle
- Type of band section
- Producer/Buggles singer Trevor
- See 1 across
- Instrument - rhino's feature
- French cape?
- Musical instrument
- Wind instrument - cape
- House for sailors, as at the Cape
- It may be heard on the streets
- Possession of huntsman or deer
- Musical instrument - antler
- Wind instrument
- Instrument - rhino's appendage
- See 24
- Powder or shoe follower
- Rhino's defense
- A Cape
- Road-rage inducer, possibly
- Motorist's wordless rebuke
- Piece of Hägar the Horrible's helmet
- Cape being blown in the wind?
- Warning device on a vehicle
- See 1
- See 22
- Impatient driver's attention-getter
- Sound that signifies the end of a basketball game
- "Dinah, blow your ___!"
- Semi warning
- Road warning
- It may be heard on the street
- Car's hooter
- "Around the ___": ESPN panel show
- "Game over" signal
- Circus seal's honker
- See 23
- Beetle noise source?
- Trumpet, for example
- An English one is wood, a French one brass
- One of a devil's pair
- Car's noisemaker
- Front part of a saddle
- Part of Africa or an orchestra
- Bugle or trumpet
- Musical instrument by post, perhaps
- Instrument named for an animal part
- "A-oo-gah" sounder
- Warning from a motorist
- Jazz band staple
- Unicorn projection
- Rhino's protrusion
- One of three for a triceratops
- Pedestrian startler
- An outstanding feature of the unicorn
- Beep source
- Instrument with French and English varieties
- Rhinoceros part
- Unicorn protrusion
- Sound from a sedan
- Important part of a taxi
- Bugle or tuba
- Pointy part of a rhino
- Sax or trumpet, for example
- Vuvuzela, for one
- Cape ___, place where the Pacific and Atlantic meet
- Common center of a steering wheel
- Mellophone, e.g.
- Feature of an impala ... or an Impala
- Type of brass instrument
- French ___ (brass instrument)
- Tuba or saxophone
- Part of a goat or Africa
- Per musician Charlie Parker, "If you don't live it, it won't come out your ___"
- ___ section (common ska band part)
- Noisy car part
- French cape?
- Car's honker
- Natural projection
- Warning sound
- Instrument with a bell on the end
- Device for honking
- Something that a ram and a Ram have in common
- Noisy bike accessory
- Word after "English" or "French"
- It can be played in hot or neutral style
- Cornucopia, essentially
- Feature of a unicorn or rhino
- Motorist's warning
- Instrument in a toot suite?
- ESPN's "Around the ___"
- Eritrea's locale in Africa
- "Trader ___"
- What disbudding prevents the growth of
- Sousaphone, e.g.
- Period ender
- Car instrument
- Bike attachment
- Beeper?
- Cape a huntsman might possess?
- What's the point of bullfighting?
Last Seen In
- New York Times - May 26, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 07, 2026
- LA Times - May 06, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 27, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 12, 2026
- LA Times - April 08, 2026
- Daily American - March 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 25, 2026
- Daily American - February 23, 2026
- Daily American - February 13, 2026
- Daily American - January 10, 2026
- LA Times - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 04, 2025
- LA Times - October 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 27, 2025
- LA Times - August 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 29, 2025
- New York Times - July 12, 2025
- New York Times - July 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 12, 2025
- Daily American - June 12, 2025
- Daily American - June 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 28, 2025
- New York Times - May 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 19, 2025
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