Clues for the word "ORDEAL"
We've had 115 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 290 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 25, 2026.
Definition of ordeal
- n. - An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
- n. - Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
- a. - Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
Referring Clues
- Tough going
- Severe test
- Baptism of fire
- Boot camp, typically
- Difficult experience
- Big test
- Trying experience
- Tough row to hoe
- Trial by fire
- Tough time
- Terrible trial
- Test of one's mettle
- Tough sledding
- Grueling experience
- Tough period
- Bad piano recital, for one
- Medieval method of trial
- It's no picnic
- Difficult trial
- It's trying
- Trial
- Trying time
- Harrowing experience
- Severe trial
- Tribulation
- Trying period
- No picnic
- Tough test
- Trier of men's souls
- Traumatic experience
- Major trial
- Nightmare
- An audit may be one
- Boot camp, as a rule
- Dental appointment, e.g.
- Dental appointment, e.g.
- Severe experience
- Tough trial
- No walk in the park
- Baptism by fire
- Tough road to hoe
- Major hassle
- Time of tribulation
- Experience you might want to forget
- Trying test
- Extended trial
- Kidnapping, e.g.
- Traveling around the holidays, maybe
- Tax audit, e.g.
- April 15, for many
- Long trial
- Difficult challenge
- Harsh experience
- Hell week, e.g.
- Tough slog
- Climbing Mount Everest, e.g.
- Trial - or trade
- Trial for gold trade?
- Trauma
- Tough event
- Severe or testing experience
- Distressing experience
- Ancient method of trial, or coming to agreement
- Traffic added to servicemen's anguish
- Suffering
- Trouble in gold market
- Painful experience, getting low grades in exam
- A trying time or transaction
- Loader when working finds it a great trial
- Test gold before transaction
- Outwardly oral test
- Severe trial or pact?
- Test limits of dependence in examination
- Half made to butt into examination test
- Test alternative arrangement
- Test dunce's limits in examination
- Trial of precious metal trade
- Trial by fire or wood
- Trial by fire, say, or wood
- Trial to find alternative to softwood
- Test of French in viva voce
- Trial of gold with lead, perhaps
- Trial of alternative way to give out cards
- Confused, Dora partly absorbs the French test
- Suffering from low grades in exam
- Disturbing experience in river in old Kent town
- Test alternative business
- Torture alternative: to bargain
- A tough time struggling to reload?
- Fraternity hell night, say
- Severe test of French in exam
- Taxing experience
- Nothing legitimate about duke's trial
- Terrible time
- Trial for gold trade?
- Boot camp, to many
- Tough time for Rod, drunk on bad ale
- Free loader for trial?
- New loader on trial
- Nightmarish experience
- Moving long-distance, e.g.
- Peril
- Hardly a walk in the park
- Trial or transaction
- 2020, for many
- Herculean undertaking
- Hardship
- Odysseus' journey, for example
- Travail
- Nightmare of a situation
- Stressful experience
- Opposite of a breeze
- Flying a commercial airline, often
- Bad experience
- Tough go
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 25, 2026
- Daily American - January 28, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2025
- LA Times - November 27, 2025
- LA Times - November 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 17, 2025
- Daily American - September 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 07, 2025
- Daily American - May 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 27, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 08, 2025
- Daily American - January 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 08, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 07, 2024
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