Clues for the word "HOVER"
We've had 75 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 125 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on December 19, 2025.
Definition of hover
- n. - A cover; a shelter; a protection.
- v. i. - To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.
- v. i. - To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
Referring Clues
- Remain in an uncertain state
- Hang like a chopper
- Hang like a hummingbird
- Show protectiveness
- Hang in the air
- Hang
- What helicopters do
- Protect, in a way, with "over"
- Stay up?
- Hummingbirds do it
- Emulate a feeding hummingbird
- Act like a doting grandma, perhaps
- Hang in midair
- Hang up?
- Float like a copter
- Float like a hummingbird
- Be still in the air
- Move like a chopper
- Be overattentive, as a waiter
- Hang, as a hummingbird
- Wait nearby
- Emulate a hummingbird
- Act like an overly protective parent
- Flutter above
- Hang suspended
- Act like a protective mother
- Imitate a UFO
- Do like some birds and bees
- Stay in one place, like a helicopter
- Float, as a helicopter
- Float
- Hang like a helicopter
- Float like a helicopter
- Float in the air
- Supervise too closely
- Emulate a dragonfly
- Float like a butterfly
- Hang over
- What helicopter parents do
- Be too protective
- Hang around
- Hang fluttering
- Emulate a news helicopter
- Hang, like a drone
- Be watchfully ever-present
- Emulate a drone
- Linger
- Hang motionless
- Levitate
- Word before craft or board
- Flutter
- Hang around near Brighton, at the railhead
- Remain in one spot in the air
- Hang around, perhaps craftily?
- Fly over same spot
- Wait around (like a kestrel)
- Remain stationary while aloft
- Linger by resort's river
- Float hanging in the air
- Hang Henry More?!
- Hang up?
- Defy gravity craftily?
- Hummingbirds can do it
- Hang about craftily?
- Be overly protective
- Behave like a helicopter parent
- Hang around the hotel too much
- Act like a helicopter parent
- Fly the cockney across
- What drones may do
- Hang around too much with a hothead
- Fly
- Soar
- Hang around, perhaps craftily?
- Appear overprotective, say
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - December 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 29, 2025
- New York Times - June 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 24, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 06, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 01, 2023
- LA Times - October 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 10, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 27, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - August 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 02, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 21, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - November 18, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - October 27, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - September 02, 2022
- And in 95 more crossword puzzles...