Clues for the word "LEVEE"
We've had 189 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 496 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on June 14, 2026.
Definition of levee
- n. - The act of rising.
- n. - A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.
- v. t. - To attend the levee or levees of.
- n. - An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
- v. t. - To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.
Referring Clues
- Army Corps of Engineers construction
- Flood embankment
- Waiting area for the Robert E. Lee
- Bank
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___..." (1972 lyric)
- Flood protector
- It may get high marks
- A bank may have one
- Sandbag stack, sometimes
- Bank that may get in trouble?
- Embankment
- River embankment
- Flood protection
- "___ Song" ("I've Been Working on the Railroad")
- Flood insurance of sorts
- Bank that may be created by the government
- Sight along the Mississippi
- River barrier
- "When the ___ Breaks" (old blues song)
- It holds water
- Bank manager?
- Flood preventer
- Flood stopper
- Result of some sandbagging
- Flood-zone sight
- Flood prevention
- Reception, usually in someone's honor
- Corps of Engineers responsibility
- Embankment down by the riverside
- New Orleans embankment
- Flood prevention measure
- Flood prevention barrier
- Embankment designed to prevent flooding
- Man-made embankment
- Flood control structure
- Embankment to ward off floods
- It'll hold water
- Wall near a bed
- Bank that deters flooding
- Flood insurance?
- Mississippi bank
- Water bank
- Flood barrier
- Sea wall relative
- Flood-control structure
- River-flood preventer
- River-flood barrier
- Common lowland sight
- Dike
- Mississippi sight
- Waiting place of song
- Mississippi restraint
- Mississippi feature
- Water container?
- Place for Don McLean's Chevy
- "American Pie" destination
- Robert E. Lee waiting spot
- Flood guard
- It rhymes with "Chevy" in a classic song
- Bank for a rainy day?
- Water barrier
- Spillover stopper
- Water container
- Flood-control barrier
- Artificial embankment
- River blocker
- Quay
- Water-level regulator
- Sea wall's kin
- It was dry in "American Pie"
- Bank security feature
- Protective bank
- What Don McLean drove his Chevy to
- New Orleans sight
- Embarkment
- New Orleans protector
- Coastal safety measure
- Water holder
- Enbankment
- Wall of sandbags, maybe
- Structure destroyed by Katrina
- Delta dike
- Water holder-backer
- Floodplain feature
- Barrier along a bank
- Bank support?
- Flood zone structure
- Flooding preventer
- Big Easy protector
- It might consist of sandbags
- Corps of Engineers project
- Led Zeppelin tune, "When the ___ Breaks"
- Dike's kin
- Protective river embankment
- Bad thing to be breached
- Antiflood structure
- If it breaks, things get wet
- Bank protection
- It's dry in "American Pie"
- Flood blocker
- Structure with high-water marks
- Bad place for a breach
- Earthen dike
- Formal reception
- Breaking point?
- Flood control
- Bank security feature?
- Mississippi River feature
- Flood inhibitor
- Kind of embankment
- Chevy's "American Pie" destination
- Surge protector?
- Bank to rely on
- Flood defense
- Flood deterrent
- Flood foiler
- River's border, sometimes
- Bank construction
- New Orleans feature
- Anti-flood structure
- Riverside embankment
- Flood control embankment
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___": "American Pie" lyric
- It provides bank security?
- Anti-flooding embankment
- Bank insurance?
- Flood-protection embankment
- Chevy's destination, in "American Pie"
- Surge protector of a sort
- Construction beside some banks
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___ ..." ("American Pie" lyric)
- River wall
- "Drove my Chevy to the ___ ..."
- Bank protector
- "American Pie" embankment
- Riverbank
- What "broke" for Zeppelin
- Led Zep "When the ___ Breaks"
- Led Zep "When the ___ breaks, mama, you got to move"
- "When the ___ breaks I'll have no place to stay"
- Zep "Mean old ___ taught me to weep and moan"
- Left a woman a note at the reception
- Early morning reception by a monarch
- Embankment on the Mississippi
- Embankment that should prevent flooding
- Embankment holding water back
- 2 3 to keep the water out
- Flood wall
- Raised river bank
- River bank reinforcement, particularly in the US
- Bank's reception
- What "broke" for Zeppelin?
- Riverbank structure
- Flood controller
- Chevy destination, in "American Pie"
- Dyke
- Bank built for a rainy day
- Surge protector?
- Protective embankment
- Current inhibitor
- Riverbank flood blocker
- (Artificially strengthened) river bank
- Reception
- Flood-preventing barrier
- River's flood barrier
- Riverside structure
- Morning reception on the Embankment?
- Flood-blocking structure
- Bank security option?
- Anti-flood barrier
- Formal reception on the embankment?
- Flood-preventing structure
- Bank investment?
- Chadwick Boseman film role
- River restraint
- Bank barrier
- Bank regulator
- New Orleans structure
- Word rhymed with "Chevy" in "American Pie"
- Project for the Army Corps of Engineers
- Embankment for a river
- Rhyme for "Chevy" in Don McLean's "American Pie"
- One holding things back?
- Damlike structure
- Bank of New Orleans?
- Flood-protection structure
- Dock
- Protection against flooding
- Army Corps of Engineers project
Last Seen In
- LA Times - June 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 26, 2026
- New York Times - March 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 19, 2026
- New York Times - March 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 05, 2026
- New York Times - February 24, 2026
- Daily American - February 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 19, 2026
- LA Times - January 26, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 04, 2026
- Daily American - January 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 05, 2025
- Daily American - November 05, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 21, 2025
- New York Times - August 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 31, 2025
- Mirror Mini - July 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 23, 2025
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