Clues for the word "MODERN"
We've had 75 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 146 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 25, 2026.
Definition of modern
- a. - Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.
- a. - New and common; trite; commonplace.
- n. - A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
Referring Clues
- Part of MOMA
- Big Apple museum, for short, with "the"
- Contemporary
- In step with fashion
- One of the M's in MoMA
- "___ American Poetry" (Louis Untermeyer anthology)
- Tate ___ (London art gallery)
- 21st-century
- Hi-tech, perhaps
- Up-to-date
- Dance style
- Like Millie
- MoMA constituent
- Newfangled
- New
- Hip
- Up to date
- Not old-school
- Like Cubism and Pop Art
- State-of-the-art
- Current
- With 18-Down, life today
- Today
- Spoken today
- In step with the times
- Leading-edge
- Fresh
- Antonym of "dated"
- In history, the era since the middle ages
- With 5-Down, present time
- Part of many art museum names
- Certainly not old-school
- "___ Romance"
- Bowie's "Love"
- '83 David Bowie smash "___ Love"
- New style in navy
- The new men do barge right in
- New-style Morden
- New fashion for the silent service
- New deal started during the forenoon
- Way fleet is brought up to date?
- See 11
- See 27
- Present
- Sailors' style before and in the present
- New style navy
- Progressive brought new Communist order about
- New dome used by sailors
- 1 after 27, the fashion for sailors
- Contemporary sailors follow fashion
- Navy follows fashion to be up-to-date
- Mr North is suppressing an ode, not very old
- Up-to-date way with the navy
- Current prototype docked by Royal Navy
- In history, the period or era since the Middle Ages
- Fresh way to add salts?
- New colour put back in the next
- Contemporary Royal Navy following current fashion
- How poet's day starts, absorbing French from novel
- New day inspiring cardinal after uprising
- Break or mend, so new
- Like a new drome at the North Pole!
- Cutting-edge
- New development in Morden
- Recent
- Old-school? Not at all
- Up-to-date fashion with the navy
- Latest fashion for sailors
- New doormen deprived of nothing yet upset
- Like the new drome at central Greenwich
- New fashioned service
- New dome constructed by the navy
- Present-day
- Recent development in Morden
- Like the latest fashion for sailors
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 25, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 10, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 04, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 08, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 19, 2024
- Daily American - July 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 12, 2024
- USA Today - January 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 05, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 21, 2023
- New York Times - October 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 17, 2023
- And in 116 more crossword puzzles...