Clues for the word "MESA"
We've had 382 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1174 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 21, 2026.
Definition of mesa
- /. - A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.
Referring Clues
- Southwestern desert feature
- Phoenix neighbor
- Costa ___
- ___ Verde National Park
- Southwestern sight
- Tableland
- Idaho's ___ Falls
- City near Phoenix
- Phoenix suburb
- Southwest sight
- City west of Apache Junction
- La ___, Calif.
- Rock wren's habitat
- Hopi reservation sight
- Western plateau
- Hopi Indian locale
- Arizona city
- City on the Salt River
- Part of a western landscape
- Pueblo Indian's homesite
- Appropriately named Colorado county
- Steep-sided plateau
- High land
- Chicago Cubs spring training site
- Blue ___ Reservoir (Colorado's largest body of water)
- Monument Valley feature
- ___ Verde
- Costa ___, Calif.
- ___ Verde (Colorado)
- Badlands feature
- Flat formation
- Flat-topped hill
- Small plateau
- Winter home of the Chicago Cubs
- Arizona spring training site
- It's surrounded by walls
- Table setting?
- Vaquero's view
- City founded by Mormon pioneers
- Silhouette in a Southwest skyline
- Big butte
- City south of the Salt River
- Tijuana table
- Painted Desert feature
- Miniature plateau
- Western flattop?
- Broad terrace with a steep side
- Badlands landform
- Mini-plateau
- Badlands sight
- Flat-topped land feature
- Flattened formation
- Devil's Tower, for one
- City east of Phoenix
- ___ Verde (site of prehistoric cliff dwellings)
- High flat area
- Western Colorado feature
- Western Colorado sight
- Natural table
- Arizona resort
- Plateau's smaller cousin
- City near Scottsdale
- Land feature in the Southwest
- Flat tableland
- Flat-topped formation
- Los Alamos bluff
- Southwestern plateau
- Mini plateau
- Steep-walled elevation
- ___ Grill (Bobby Flay restaurant)
- City in Arizona
- Large butte
- Monument Valley sight
- Flat-topped rise
- Its county seat is Grand Junction, Colorado
- Colorado county
- Home to the Solar Sox of the minors
- Monument Valley land formation
- City in Arizona's Maricopa County
- Table, in Tijuana
- City east of Tempe
- Bobby Flay's ___ Grill
- Pueblo site
- Formation with walls
- Southwestern city founded by Mormons
- View from Los Alamos
- Colorado's Grand ___
- Arizona-based airline
- Steep-walled formation
- It's flat on top
- Raised flatland
- Costa ___: Calif. city
- Los Alamos is on one
- Grand Junction, Colorado, is its county seat
- Rise in the west
- Flat land formation
- Butte relative
- Flat-topped elevation
- Elevated flat land
- Arizona's third-largest city
- "Wild Horse ___" (Zane Grey book)
- Butte's larger cousin
- Butte kin
- Butte's cousin
- Western tableland
- Elevated plane
- Badlands formation
- Flat tableland with steep edges
- Road Runner scene feature
- Western flattop
- Clifflike, flat-topped elevation
- Arizona flattop
- Level-headed elevation
- Southwest tableland
- Acoma Pueblo site
- Arizona city or feature
- Southwest land feature
- Louis L'Amour's "The Haunted ___"
- Rimrock locale
- Butte
- Arizona elevation
- Rimrock neighbor
- Steep-sided land formation
- Black Hills formation
- Southwestern land formation
- Hopi village sites
- Feature of the Painted Desert
- Flat land
- Painted Desert sight
- Badlands land
- Tempe neighbor
- Southwest land formation
- Result of differential erosion
- High point in a Western?
- Large flat-topped hill
- Taxco table
- Hopi flattop
- Western elevation
- Dinosaur National Monument formation
- Grand canyon sight
- Oater backdrop
- Colorado's Grand ___
- Costa ___: Calif. city
- Table mountain
- Table, in Cristobal
- Sight between Tucson and Phoenix
- "Wild Horse ___" (Zane Grey book)
- Grand Canyon formation
- Maricopa County city
- Desert feature
- Landform in the western U.S.
- Desert tableland
- Flatland
- Cubs' spring training city
- Arizona sight
- Oater backdrop
- ___ Verde: Colorado national park
- Mountain with a flat top
- Western feature featured in some westerns
- Relative of a butte
- Southwest landform
- Canyonlands National Park feature
- City in the Salt River Valley
- Beaut of a butte?
- Butte's kin
- Western sight
- Smaller plateau
- Desert sight
- Costa ___, California
- Little plateau
- Plateau's relative
- See 11-Down
- Plateau kin
- Large plateau
- Arizona sight or city
- "Road Runner" background feature
- Monument Valley formation
- Landmass with steep cliffs
- Giant table
- Neighbor of Apache Junction
- Large, flat-topped hill
- Geographical formation whose name is Spanish for 9-Down
- Bit of background in a Road Runner cartoon
- City near Apache Junction
- Western landscape feature
- Suburb of Phoenix
- Geological formation
- Elevation with steep cliffs
- Southwest city founded by Mormon pioneers
- Flat-topped land
- Frequent oater backdrop
- Painted Desert formation
- It's almost the same as a plateau
- Cactus League spring training city
- Sight in Canyonlands National Park
- Colorado's ___ Verde National Park
- Plateau's cousin
- City of Arizona
- Flat-topped tableland
- Tablestand
- Land form in the Southwestern U.S.
- Western landform
- Southwestern formation
- Grand Junction sight
- Arizona desert sight
- Part of an Arizona Highways pictorial
- High plateau
- Natural flat-top
- Hill without a peak
- Butte's big brother
- Small tableland
- Sedona sight
- Elevated flattop
- Neighbor of Tempe
- Canyonlands National Park sight
- Flat-top mound
- Plateau
- Flat-topped landform
- Geological flattop
- U.S. city that becomes another U.S. city if you move the last letter to the front
- Desert formation
- Flat-top formation
- Southwestern tableland
- Southwestern butte
- Southwest hikers' destination
- Canyonlands National Park attraction
- Colorado's ___Verde National Park
- Tenis de ___ (Ping-Pong, in Spain)
- Road Runner cartoon background element
- New Mexico silhouette
- High flat
- Plateau's kin
- Plateau cousin
- Topological table
- Chicago Cubs' spring training city
- Road Runner cartoon sight
- Geological flat top
- City between Tempe and Apache Junction
- Western rise
- Spanish for "table"
- Formation with steep cliffs
- Plateau's baby brother
- Monument Valley vista
- Table: Sp.
- Phoenix-___ Gateway Airport
- City near Tempe
- Land shaped by erosion
- Southwest plateau
- Plateau with steep sides
- Rock plateau
- Scottsdale neighbor
- New Mexico's enchanted ___
- Tablelike formation
- Formation larger than a butte
- Desert plateau
- Flat hill
- Sandstone structure in the Black Hills
- With 31-Across, National Park in Colorado
- Cliff-like, flat-topped elevation
- Flat-topped anagram of same
- Arizona city, or Arizona sight
- "oad Runner"background feature
- Southwest city
- Desert flatland
- City in central Arizona
- ___Verde National Park
- Geographical flattop
- Site for a Road Runner cartoon
- Town near Phoenix
- Road Runner toon's background feature
- Elevated flat top
- Land formation in a Road Runner cartoon
- Flat-topped land formation
- In the US south-west, a steep-sided flat-topped hill
- Maybe the same table
- Possibly the same table
- Spanish-style table in Rome, say
- Same table?
- Big cousin of a butte
- Southwestern height
- Flat-topped hill with steep sides, common in the southwestern US
- Consume salmon cutlet at high table
- In the USA, a steep-sided flat-topped hill
- It's less extensive than a plateau
- It has a flat top
- Utah's Island in the Sky, e.g.
- Where Cubs emerge in springtime?
- Flat-topped mountain
- California's Costa ___
- Hill with no peak
- What a lookout might climb in a western
- American hill? Same difference
- Flat-topped Southwestern hill
- Arizona's third-largest city by population
- Small, flat-topped hill
- Bigger butte
- ___ Verde National Park (attraction in Colorado)
- Formation similar to a butte
- Small plateau in the Southwest
- Elevation in Arizona
- Steep-sided land
- Desert rock formation
- Twisted "same" place
- Erosion formation
- Walled land formation
- High land in Thames area
- Western high-rise?
- Buttelike hill
- Buttelike structure
- New Mexico elevation
- Badlands tableland
- Colorado Plateau formation
- New Mexico's Cerro Pedernal, for one
- Flat feature
- Southwest formation
- Landform found backward in 20-, 40- and 57-Across
- *Tableland (look for a novel in each starred row!)
- City beside Tempe
- Western skyline sight
- Four-letter U.S. city with the highest population
- Painted Desert landform
- See 45-Across
- 29-Down's cousin
- Arizona city or landform
- Arizona landform
- Table, in Madrid
- Some say there's no sauce, just the table
- Same form of table
- Elevated landform
- It's a butte and then some
- A city in Arizona
- Flat highland
- Neighbor of Phoenix
- Landform with a flat top
- Southwestern flat-topped hill
- Hill in westerns
- Tableland, in geography
- Flat-topped Western hill
- Arizona locale for MLB spring training fans
- A table some say is too long!
- Plateau relative
- Most populous U.S. city that isn't a county seat
- Elevated vantage point for Wile E. Coyote
- Arizona city named for a landform
- Southwestern landform
- City ESE of Phoenix
- Road Runner cartoons landscape feature
- Monument Valley landform
- Arizona College of Nursing city
- Anasazi home setting
- A city of Arizona
- Landform that's Spanish for "table"
- Arizona locale for spring training fans
- Southwestern landscape feature
- Bit of Southwest topography
- High, flat land feature
- Flat-earther?
- Largest city in the U.S. that's not a county seat
- Flat top?
- Hill with a flat top
- Plain protuberance
- Piece of furniture for comidas
- Same table?
- Place in Arizona
- City outside Phoenix
- Grand Canyon landform
- Site for a cliff dwelling
- Land formation on "The Road Runner Show"
- Beaut of a butte?
- U.S. city named for a geological formation
- It's bigger than a butte
- Landform seen when flying into Phoenix
- Elevated land formation
- Flat-topped geological structure
- Flat-topped Arizona city?
- Table in the desert
- Home of two Cactus League stadiums
- American city in the Sonoran Desert
- Home of Arizona's idea Museum
- Wide flat-topped hill
- Table outside
- Flat earth?
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 21, 2026
- Daily American - February 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 13, 2026
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