Clues for the word "MAY"
We've had 227 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 560 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on November 29, 2025.
Definition of may
- v. - An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.
- n. - A maiden.
- n. - The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
- n. - The early part or springtime of life.
- n. - The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
- n. - The merrymaking of May Day.
Referring Clues
- Has a green light
- Mom's month
- Busy time at Indy
- Word of possibility
- Word of indecision
- Fifth of twelve
- What "5" can mean
- Fifth of 12
- Barry Manilow hit
- Kentucky Derby time
- When to celebrate Armed Forces Day
- ___ Day
- Indianapolis 500 time
- Memorial Day setting
- Indy 500 time
- Might
- Blooming period
- ___ Queen (spring festival figure)
- "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of ___": Shak.
- <-- What this is, on a calendar
- Victoria Day month
- Spring time
- Kentucky Derby's month
- 5 in a date
- Spring month
- Just might
- Mother's Day month
- Fifth calendar page
- Flowery month
- Armed Forces Day month
- Shortest month, in a way
- Kentucky Derby month
- New Jersey's Cape ___
- National Salad Month
- Can
- Mothers' month
- Perhaps will
- Period named for an earth goddess
- Merry month
- Mother ___ I? (kids' game)
- Queen or Day preceder
- Uncertain word
- Memorial Day month
- Possibly will
- Wall-calendar page
- Has permission to
- Indy 500 month
- Will, potentially
- When mom gets her due
- Has permission
- "If I ___ be so bold ..."
- Flowering month
- "Lusty Month" in Camelot
- Merry 31 days
- Kind of fly or flower
- Kind of pole
- Derby month
- Spider-Man's aunt
- When moms are honored
- "Can" alternative
- Has the okay
- "If I ___ be so bold ..."
- National Hamburger Month
- Month of the Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500
- Month of the Indianapolis 500
- 5, at times
- Zombie Awareness month
- "Maggie ___" (1971 Rod Stewart chart-topper)
- Preakness month
- When the French Open starts
- Fifth month
- Flowering time
- Spring period
- Has permission to
- April follower
- Spring part
- Potentially will
- Has potential
- Cape ___, N.J.
- Calendar page
- Fifth in a series
- Could possibly
- Has possibilities
- 5, written out
- International Masturbation Month
- Fifth of 12 pages on the wall
- 5, in a date
- "Primary Colors" screenwriter Elaine
- Will perhaps
- Peter Parker's devoted aunt
- Has clearance
- Calendar month
- When you stop having so many showers?
- 5, spelled out?
- It's in the spring
- National No Socks Day month
- "If I ___ ..."
- Are allowed to
- Permission word
- "Seven Days in ___"
- Month
- Conditional word
- What Taurus and Gemini share
- Peter Parker's aunt in "Spider-Man"
- "___ I?"
- ' I help you?'
- Fifth of a dozen
- Cape , N.J.
- Warm month
- ___-December romance
- Is allowed to
- June preceder
- Polite word before "I"
- National Bike Month
- Request word
- "Your mileage ___ vary"
- Dame Whitty
- Month of much flowering
- With 62-Down, a spring festival
- After April
- Tennyson's "The ___ Queen"
- Come what ___
- Month to celebrate Mother's Day
- Fifth calendar month
- "___ I have some, please?"
- Fifth month of the year
- "___ I?" (polite question)
- "___ I?" ("Please?")
- "___ I have some more?"
- Blossom for a girl
- Mental Health Awareness Month
- Jewish American Heritage Month
- One of a dozen
- Month where Star Wars Day falls on the 4th
- One of the 12 months
- The shortest month?
- "___ I see that?"
- Metallica "Wherever I ___ Roam"
- When Cursive's "Flowers" bloom
- Brian of Queen
- Indianapolis 500 month
- Rod Stewart "Maggie ___"
- Month fest season starts, perhaps
- Hawthorn blossom
- A month of uncertainty?
- That time when a Yankee followed mum
- She's a blossom
- Month - tree
- She has permission
- Upside-down tuber's blossom
- Fifth page out of twelve
- "5 ___" (popular piece of music by Bach)
- Have permission to
- Graduation time
- Word with "pole" or "day"
- "The Marry Month of ___" (O. Henry story)
- David Cameron successor
- Is she not certain?
- Spring vegetable making comeback
- Uncertain flower
- British Prime Minister Theresa ___
- "___ the Force be with you"
- She starts and finishes Monday
- When Derby Day is
- Fifth in a series of twelve
- Request beginning
- Cameron's successor
- With 25-Down, "Are we finished?"
- "___ I have more?"
- John Crace's unimprovable nickname for the prime minister?
- Last full month of spring
- "___ I?" (question)
- Graduation time, often
- Shakespeare's merry month
- Start of a polite request
- Brexit negotiation figure
- Brexit defender
- British P.M. beginning in 2016
- Could
- Annual flower
- Prime minister who resigned in 2019
- Possibly could
- Ms. Britt
- Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- Johnson's predecessor as British P.M.
- ALS Awareness Month
- Month when the Battle of Puebla is commemorated
- National Barbecue Month
- Peter Parker’s aunt
- Prime minister between Cameron and Johnson
- A month of possibility
- Month to honor Mom
- Hedging word
- Is permitted to
- Star Wars Day month
- Leader before Johnson
- When the National Day of Prayer is celebrated
- National Nurses Week month
- Rod Stewart's "Maggie ___"
- When the Kentucky Derby is held
- Actress Britt
- 5, in 5/8, say
- A month of uncertainty?
- National Bike to Work Day month
- "Results ___ vary"
- In spring, is allowed to
- National "Get Caught Reading" Month
- Good time for shorts and T-shirts
- National Homebrew Day month
- Eid al-Fitr's month in 2022
- International Workers' Day month
- Shortest month of the year
- Suffragist and abolitionist Abby ___ Alcott
- New Jersey cape
- AAPI Heritage Month
- About seven or eight weeks before 5-Down
- Harvey Milk Day's month
- National Talk Like Yoda Day month
- "___ Fools"
- To whom it ___ concern
- World Bee Day month
- Lei Day's month
- Astrophysicist/Queen guitarist Brian
- Warm 31 day period
- ___ Day (European festival)
- Pleasant weather month
- Queen guitarist Brian
Last Seen In
- New York Times - November 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 26, 2025
- Daily American - November 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 13, 2025
- LA Times - September 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 31, 2025
- Daily American - July 27, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 21, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 15, 2025
- LA Times - April 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 09, 2025
- Daily American - April 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 10, 2025
- USA Today - February 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 12, 2025
- Family Time - February 10, 2025
- New York Times - February 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 21, 2025
- Family Time - January 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 04, 2025
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