Clues for the word "NAUTILUS"
We've had 28 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 28 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on November 30, 2025.
Definition of nautilus
- n. - The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.
- n. - The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.
- n. - A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.
Referring Clues
- Gym equipment
- Vessel in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
- Nemo's submarine
- Captain Nemo's final resting place
- Spiral-shelled creature
- Captain Nemo's submarine
- Cephalopod known for its shell
- Captain Nemo's sub
- Nuclear submarine
- First nuclear-powered sub
- It is a many-chambered thing
- It is a many chambered thing
- Chambered
- Sea creature whose name means "sailor"
- Creature that moves by jet propulsion
- Submarine
- Captain Nemo's vessel
- First submarine
- Bowflex makers
- First atomic submarine
- Sea creature - literary submarine
- Insult divers find acceptable to the French sub
- Ship created by Jule Verne for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Just a shell until USA converted it into a nuclear sub
- Sea dweller
- World's first nuclear submarine
- Mollusk considered a living fossil
- Spiral-shelled mollusk
Last Seen In
- New York Times - November 30, 2025
- LA Times - October 22, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 11, 2018
- Netword - October 04, 2017
- New York Times - July 25, 2017
- Guardian Quick - August 25, 2014
- New York Times - August 09, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 05, 2014
- New York Times - August 09, 2013
- Family Time - December 30, 2012
- USA Today - December 20, 2012
- Washington Post - September 10, 2012
- Universal - July 08, 2012
- Guardian Quick - June 18, 2012
- Canadiana - February 20, 2012
- New York Times - May 11, 2011
- Chronicle of Higher Education - January 14, 2011
- Family Time - September 05, 2010
- New York Times - March 25, 2010
- New York Times - February 27, 2010
- New York Times - May 13, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - February 12, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - May 21, 2007
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 29, 2007
- Netword - October 04, 2005
- Jonesin - April 26, 2005
- Washington Post - September 17, 2004
- New York Times - November 09, 2001