Clues for the word "MAIN"
We've had 167 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 505 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on October 11, 2026.
Definition of main
- n. - A hand or match at dice.
- n. - A stake played for at dice.
- n. - The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
- n. - A match at cockfighting.
- n. - A main-hamper.
- v. - Strength; force; might; violent effort.
- v. - The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
- v. - The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
- v. - The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
- v. - principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.
- a. - Very or extremely strong.
- a. - Vast; huge.
- a. - Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
- a. - Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.
- a. - Important; necessary.
- a. - Very; extremely; as, main heavy.
Referring Clues
- With 39-Across, featured boxing match
- Water conduit
- Predominant
- Chief
- Water source
- Kind of a drag
- ___ Line (fashionable Pennsylvania area)
- Common street name
- Central
- Water pipe
- Street with stores, usually
- Foremost
- Duct
- Bounding site?
- It may be bounding
- Cardinal
- Sinclair's street
- Central street
- Primary
- Most important
- Key
- Paramount
- Spanish ___
- With 59-Across, A-B-C-A in the illustration
- Street that may be a U.S. highway
- Water duct
- Large water pipe
- Kind of a drag?
- Water carrier
- Principal
- Everystreet
- Lead
- Big water pipe
- Water route
- Large pipe
- Wide passageway for water
- Primary sail
- High seas
- Most-important
- It might cross 1st, 2nd and 3rd
- Big drag?
- Word with drag or squeeze
- Might's partner
- Might's partner
- Central street name
- Anytown, USA street
- Big pipe
- "___ Street" (1920 Sinclair Lewis novel)
- Primary water pipe
- Disneyland street
- Alternative name for 1st Street, often
- Water bearer, maybe
- Principle
- Most significant
- Frankfurt's river
- Portage and _________
- Anytown, USA, street
- Heritage river in Newfoundland
- Popular street name
- Major water line
- Newfoundland heritage river
- Disneyland street that ends at Sleeping Beauty Castle
- "The ___ event"
- Leading
- "___ Street"
- Street one block over from Second, maybe
- Common parade street
- Important street
- Ocean
- Kind of attraction
- Squeeze starter
- Companion of might
- Street likely to have the most stoplights
- Street through the middle of town
- Street in a Sinclair Lewis title
- Chief or primary
- Its state quarter has a lighthouse
- Open ocean
- Disney World's ___ Street U.S.A.
- The ___ ingredient
- Principal graduate at home
- Stage at a festival
- ___ stage
- "Exile on ___ St."
- Water or gas carrier
- Coveted festival stage
- Dominant
- Lynyrd Skynyrd "___ Street's still there but the stores are all empty"
- (The mighty) sea
- Finally acclaim own Scottish chief
- Chief - principal electricity cable
- See 4
- Leading part in drama, initially
- Principal sea area off Ireland, not large
- Pipe for sea water?
- Sea water pipe?
- The chap holding the line is the chief
- Chief - sea ...
- Animal without wings, swimming in the sea
- Leading sea power
- See 24
- High sea swirling round Sardinia manor houses
- Principal motivation
- ,22 A tide at sea may help to give time
- See 8
- Graduate elected as principal
- The biggest of the canvas carriers (medium) is not commonly found round mother's
- Supplier of "light ... on land or sea"?
- Chief generator at the house
- Island, including island in the sea
- Sound head of hair for the most part
- Chief stretch of water
- Chief expanse of water
- Am back at home, chief!
- Key state out East
- Parent, one new to Head
- Important chess piece capturing one
- Principal speaker's head of hair
- Bounding site?
- Chief person holding the line
- Chief in size
- Important pipe
- ___ drag (most-used street in a town)
- Chief and the old woman at home
- 1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis set in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota
- Word before drag or squeeze
- Principal sea
- Being the one stuck in the pipe
- Disneyland's ___ Street USA
- Principal person getting out of line
- Principal line
- Word after bounding or water
- The chief chap, I introduced
- Common downtown street name
- Major water pipe
- Central, as a street
- Principal water line
- Prevailing
- Not peripheral
- Primary pipe
- Pipe for sea water?
- With might and ___
- Type of street, attraction or event
- Sea water pipe?
- Street name in practically every city
- Word before "event" or "course"
- Water ___
- Small-town parade street
- Principal fellow getting out of line
- Word with drag or sail
- Major water source
- Word with "street" or "event"
- Most common street name in the U.S.
- Water line
- ___ character energy
- ___ course (entree)
- Not supporting, perhaps
- ___ squeeze
- Course opener?
- Prime Minister hiding a heavy heart
- Ocean, poetically
- One's primary character, in video game lingo
- Street name in the center of town
- Street ending at Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle
- Kind of a drag?
- Word with dish or drag
- Street that might run all the way through town
Last Seen In
- New York Times - October 11, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - October 08, 2026
- New York Times - October 04, 2026
- New York Times - September 27, 2026
- Your Life Choices - September 15, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - September 03, 2026
- Daily American - August 29, 2026
- LA Times - August 25, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - August 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - August 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - August 06, 2026
- LA Times - July 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 16, 2026
- Daily American - June 25, 2026
- New York Times - May 28, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 03, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 23, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 09, 2026
- Daily American - March 04, 2026
- New York Times - February 07, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 01, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 10, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 09, 2025
- New York Times - October 06, 2025
- LA Times - October 05, 2025
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