Clues for the word "MOOR"
We've had 193 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 452 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on February 19, 2026.
Definition of moor
- n. - One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
- n. - Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
- n. - An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
- n. - A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- v. t. - To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
- v. t. - Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
- v. i. - To cast anchor; to become fast.
Referring Clues
- Secure
- Resting place
- Secure a ship
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" locale
- Anchor
- Poor drainage area
- Drop anchor
- Othello, for one
- Othello was one
- El Cid foe
- Foe for El Cid
- Heath
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" setting
- What boats may do in an inlet
- Othello, ethnically
- Wasteland
- "Wuthering Heights" setting
- Alhambra builder
- Secure, as a ship
- Scene of many a werewolf tale
- Desdemona married one
- Site of many a werewolf attack
- Fix firmly
- Invader of Iberia
- Setting for many an English romantic novel
- Make a vessel fast
- Othello, notably
- Peaty area
- Park at the pier
- Secure, as a boat
- Open wasteland
- Low-lying wetland
- Cornwall feature
- Shrubby wasteland
- Othello, e.g.
- Ludovico Sforza's nickname, with "the"
- Tie up, as a ship
- Alcázar castle resident
- Peaty expanse
- Heath-covered wasteland
- Peaty wasteland
- Old Spain invader
- Tract near Baskerville Hall
- Fix in place
- Tie up
- Use an anchor
- Secure, as a vessel
- Tie at anchor
- Othello, by birth
- Heather-covered wasteland
- Secure via cable
- Secure with lines
- Boggy wasteland
- Boggy expanse
- Marshy expanse
- Marshy tract
- Attach to a dock
- Medieval invader of Spain
- Tie at the dock
- Iberian Peninsula invader
- Secure in a harbor
- Tie up, in a way
- Iberian invader
- Secure, in a way
- Dock
- Iago, for one
- Drop a line, in a way
- Tie up the tugboat
- Peaty place
- Tie up, as a boat
- Marshy wasteland
- Where heather grows
- Where heather grows
- Where Heather grows
- Where heather grows
- Early Alcázar castle resident
- Werewolf-sighting site
- Orthello for one
- Boggy area
- Secure in the harbor
- Heathland
- Wild heathland
- Desdemona's husband was one
- Heather locale
- Shakespeare's "Othello, the ___ of Venice"
- Swampy area
- Tie down, as a ship
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" backdrop
- Heather site
- Keep from drifting away
- Tract for Heathcliff and Cathy
- Heath-covered tract
- Tie up in the harbor
- British national park
- Peaty land
- Minister's house
- Keep from floating away
- Tie up at a dock
- Tie up a ship
- Word in "Othello" title
- Tie up "The Love Boat"
- Tie up to a pier
- Tie up in a harbor
- Apt rhyme for "secure"
- Secure with lines and anchors
- Plain land
- Tie up, as a tug
- Make fast, in a way
- Barren wasteland
- Secure a boat
- Tie up at the dock
- Secure a ship for Othello, perhaps
- Othello, for example
- Uncultivated upland
- Upland tract - eg Othello
- Large area of open, uncultivated land
- Open expanse covered with heather and bracken
- Open land covered with heather and bracken
- Othello in James Bond? Not quite
- Tract of uncultivated upland
- Opportunity arises in high-lying country
- Expanse of uncultivated upland
- The gentleman with the spectacles inside is a N. African
- Othello's back room?
- Land when there's room for development?
- Upland tract - secure boat
- See 5 down
- Open land - secure a boat - North African
- Make fast a boat - open tract of rough ground
- Make fast
- Fasten to a pier, say
- North African grouse may be found here
- North African - secure boat
- North African - secure a boat - tract of land
- A Mauretanian fell
- Berth in back cabin
- Fell in dock
- See 11
- Dock the boat
- The Baskervilles' backyard
- Open, peaty wasteland
- Tie up (boat)
- Heath land
- Anchor (boat)
- Space to turn round and berth
- Turning Space (fell)
- Fell from space, pointing at sky
- Man loves to his core: Othello, perhaps?
- Fell in low river
- Tie up a boat
- Arab fell in dock
- See 8
- North African territory unlikely to be cultivated
- Park the boat
- Tie up at a 5-Down
- Tie up the boat
- Tie up that Venetian character
- Barren heath
- Berber
- Bog
- Secure at a pier
- Secure, as a sailboat
- Shady deal site, literally
- Tie up, as a yacht
- Secure at a dock
- Tie to a dock
- Peaty tract
- Baskerville Hall setting
- Attach to the pier, say
- Open land
- Tie up, like a ship
- Come into a dock, as a ship
- Secure, as a yacht
- "The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple ___": Noyes
- Secure to a dock
- Secure at shore
- Landscape that's part of a house spelled backward
- Homophone of "more"
- Tie down
- Othello's back room?
- Secure, as a skiff
- Piece of land that would suit a cow?
- Land when there's room for development?
- "The Hound of the Baskervilles" location
- Terrain in "Wuthering Heights"
- ___ House: "Jane Eyre" setting
- Anchor a boat
- Habitat for heather
- Anchor, like a ship
- Secure to a pier
- Give berth to?
- Area low and to the right
- Brontë novel locale
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- Penny Dell Daily - December 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 07, 2025
- Daily American - November 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 26, 2025
- New York Times - October 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 17, 2025
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- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 29, 2025
- New York Times - May 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 26, 2025
- Daily American - April 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 28, 2025
- USA Today - March 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2025
- USA Today - March 02, 2025
- Daily American - February 17, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 05, 2025
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