Clues for the word "HOUSE"
We've had 161 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 248 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on October 13, 2026.
Definition of house
- n. - A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.
- n. - Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.
- n. - Those who dwell in the same house; a household.
- n. - A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.
- n. - One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.
- n. - A firm, or commercial establishment.
- n. - A public house; an inn; a hotel.
- n. - A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.
- n. - A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
- n. - An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.
- n. - The body, as the habitation of the soul.
- n. - The grave.
- v. t. - To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
- v. t. - To drive to a shelter.
- v. t. - To admit to residence; to harbor.
- v. t. - To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- v. t. - To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.
- v. i. - To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.
- v. i. - To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8.
Referring Clues
- Roulette player's opponent
- Fraternity ___
- Representative location
- Monopoly purchase
- Poe's "The Fall of the ___ of Usher"
- Put up
- On the ___ (free)
- IT MAY BE OPEN OR SAFE
- "Dream ___" (Bob Eubanks game show of 1983-84)
- ___ of Commons
- Word that can follow the end of 21-, 33-, 43- or 56-Across
- Casino, to a gambler
- Milne's "The Red ___ Mystery"
- Theater audience
- Big winner at the casino
- Royal family
- Fraternity, e.g.
- Laura Ingalls' was little
- Abode
- TV drama or its incorrigible leading character
- Senate's counterpart
- Hugh Laurie series
- Body of 435
- He's played by Laurie on TV
- Give shelter to
- Inexpensive wine choice
- Abode, and word that can follow both parts of answers to starred clues
- Perennial Vegas winner
- Legislative body
- Word that can follow both parts of 17- and 62-across and 10- and 36- down
- Peabody Award-winning medical drama
- Harbor
- Residence
- Fraternity headquarters
- Contain
- Monopoly buy
- Hold inside
- Quarter
- Realtor's offering
- Fox doctor
- Senate counterpart
- Dressing choice
- Word with poor or round
- Provide with shelter
- Dwelling
- Take in, as guests
- Abode, and word that can follow both parts of answers to starred clues
- About Me And My ______ , by S. Ross
- Casino winner, often
- Domicile
- Half of Congress
- Hugh Laurie title role
- Hugh Laurie TV series
- White ___
- Medical drama on Fox
- Congress half
- Provide space for
- Not a dry eye in the ___
- Provide a place to stay
- On the ___: no charge
- Monopoly purchase before a hotel
- Winner at roulette, often
- Accommodate
- Provide quarters for
- Word that can follow both halves of 18-, 20-, 32-, 40-, 54- and 57-Across
- Living quarters
- Real estate offering
- It always wins, in a saying
- Capitol Hill body
- With 40-Across, critic's positive review of a Fox medical drama?
- Word with poor and porter
- Target of the 64-Across
- ___ of Representatives
- TV doctor
- "a ___ divided . . ."
- Lower chamber
- Gambling opponent
- Audience
- Curler's target
- See 47-Across
- With 41-Across, quarantined, and a hint to completing 12 puzzle answers
- Lawmaking body
- Word with safe or out
- Apartment alternative
- Green Monopoly piece
- Home
- Bring down the ___
- White ___ (president's place)
- Building to live in
- Residential building
- Grouchy TV doctor
- TV doctor with a limp
- Shelter
- "___ of the Rising Sun"
- Beatles "Nobody was really sure if he was from the ___ of Lords"
- Theatre audience - dwelling
- Put up hotel on river
- Accommodate a bend in a pipe
- It evidently has hot and cold running water
- See 1
- Dance music dynasty
- Orange, say, ending on purplish flower
- Domestic building
- Put up with stockings: turn in
- See 13
- Provide quarters to
- Building for dwelling in
- Home building
- Accommodation with hot water in Yorkshire
- Place for bingo
- Audience of aristocrats in stockings
- Dwelling place hard by the river
- Play with break after 23 down: doctor here?
- Casino, to gamblers
- Be quarters for
- Star sign's exclamation at lottery win
- See 23
- See 26
- * Turn in pipe that was blind at night
- Residence in centre of Boroughbridge overlooking river
- Inn by river's hot
- Building hospital overlooking river
- Building hospital overlooking river in York
- Sun god disheartened by oriental royal family
- Something you wouldn't stake on a lottery, or bingo!
- 5's 22 fell - Bingo!
- See 2
- See 19 across
- TV doctor role for Laurie, once
- See 9
- With 16-Across, indoor chores
- Building for human habitation
- TV medical drama starring Hugh Laurie
- Half hope to take advantage of building
- One of four purchased for a Monopoly property
- An audience for bingo?
- Take in
- Gambler's opponent, at a casino
- Green Monopoly building
- Eponymous television doctor played by Hugh Laurie
- See 6-Across
- Curmudgeonly TV doctor
- Word with hot or dog
- ___ wine
- Residence with hot water
- ___ cat
- One stays upright after being flipped
- The property game
- A place useless to abbreviate
- -
- Word with party or guest
- Windsor, e.g.
- See 6-Down
- Casa
- Biggest winner at the casino
- Accommodate, in a way
- *Free
- Word after "bounce" or "haunted"
- Sorority residence
- It always wins, they say
- Shindig for someone settling into a new home
Last Seen In
- New York Times - October 13, 2026
- Your Life Choices - August 06, 2026
- Daily Quick - May 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 26, 2026
- New York Times - January 01, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 25, 2025
- LA Times - October 31, 2025
- Daily American - August 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 25, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 05, 2025
- LA Times - December 10, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 07, 2024
- Daily American - November 20, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 08, 2024
- USA Today - August 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 22, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 24, 2024
- USA Today - May 17, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 24, 2024
- LA Times - April 18, 2024
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