Clues for the word "METAPHOR"
We've had 32 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 59 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on January 10, 2026.
Definition of metaphor
- n. - The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
Referring Clues
- "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," e.g.
- Figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared
- It's sometimes mixed
- Figure of speech
- It may be mixed
- Symbolic figure of speech
- Literary comparison
- Comparison
- Sand in an hourglass, for time
- "The asphalt jungle," literarily
- "Life's a beach" is one
- Allegory's kin
- "Life is a bowl of cherries," e.g.
- "Mixed" figure of speech
- Face the music, perhaps, mixing this?
- Figure of speech that directly indicates a likeness
- Rhetorical device encountered once before in speech
- A figure of speech satisfied a figure in speech
- Figure of speech - other map (anag)
- Homer with apt effect in figure of speech
- Morph map with other image
- Came upon a local alternative for what 5 26's 20 was for 12?
- Homer apt to produce a figure of speech
- Redesigned other map's symbol
- "All the world's a stage" is one trope ham delivered badly
- Satisfied with top mark for speaking? Don't take that literally
- Heart of gold, for one
- Something that shouldn't be mixed
- Nerves of steel, e.g.
- Franklin’s “A good conscience is a continual Christmas,” e.g.
- Spoon theory, for example
- "All the world's a stage," e.g.
Last Seen In
- Daily American - January 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - June 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - March 30, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 25, 2025
- Daily American - January 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 16, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 03, 2024
- Daily American - January 10, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 25, 2023
- Daily American - January 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 16, 2022
- USA Today - December 07, 2022
- Daily Quick - October 08, 2022
- Mirror Daily - July 23, 2022
- Netword - February 03, 2018
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 16, 2018
- Daily American - January 10, 2018
- Family Time - November 20, 2017
- Netword - October 09, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 02, 2017
- Daily American - January 14, 2017
- USA Today - August 03, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 07, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - September 08, 2015
- Universal - August 21, 2015
- Guardian Quick - March 26, 2015
- Guardian Prize - October 11, 2014
- And in 29 more crossword puzzles...