Clues for the word "ORPHAN"
We've had 74 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 135 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on February 27, 2025.
Definition of orphan
- n. - A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
- a. - Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
- v. t. - To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
Referring Clues
- Annie, e.g., in the comics
- "Little ___ Annie"
- Dickens's Pip, e.g.
- Harold Gray's Annie, for one
- Annie or Dondi, of the comics
- Parentless child
- Book printer's no-no
- Annie, for one
- Annie of the comics, e.g.
- Dogie, for one
- Foster child, maybe
- Annie, e.g.
- Jane Eyre, e.g.
- "Little ___ Annie"
- Annie of the comics, for one
- Oliver Twist, for one
- Harry Potter, for one
- Dogie
- Warbucks' Annie, e.g.
- Foster-home dweller, maybe
- Parentless kid
- Unfunded, as a research project
- 'Little ___ Annie'
- Oliver Twist, e.g.
- Annie or Harry Potter
- Single word on the last line of a paragraph, say
- Foundling
- Annie's status
- Bruce Wayne, e.g.
- James of "James and the Giant Peach," for one
- Many an adoptee
- "___ Black"
- Broadway's Annie, for one
- Dogie, e.g.
- Tom Sawyer or Oliver Twist
- Little ___ Annie
- Annie, notably
- Little Annie, e.g.
- "Little ___ Annie" (comic strip)
- Annie is one finding empty pouch in North African port
- No harp playing for child who's deprived
- Oliver Twist, say - he's first seen in ragged apron
- A child who has lost both parents
- Composer called an unfortunate, lacking ancestry
- Child without parents
- Oliver, perhaps, or Tom out of Lloyd Webber work?
- Solitary individual old pub's managed without
- One who has lost both parents
- Child such as Harry Potter or Jane Eyre
- Child deprived by death of both parents
- Waif in pub in African port
- How regularly might the Queen describe one alone in childhood?
- Deprived child in pub in African port
- Oliver Twist, perhaps, in many instances in 1 down
- Tom Sawyer, e.g.
- Deprived person or phantom cat gone missing
- Annie is one local resident in North African port
- A bit of a laugh in porn version of Oliver!?
- Harry Potter possibly is in favour of turning up at Hollywood awards night, initially
- The golden spirit has missed Tom, unfortunate child
- One deprived of chryselephantine fragments?
- Deprived child - no harp ordered
- Anne of Green Gables or Annie
- Waif
- Harry Potter, e.g.
- Annie of comics, e.g.
- Unmatched sock, informally
- Ward of the state, maybe
- "___ Black" (sci-fi series)
- Dickens's Oliver Twist or Kipling's Mowgli
- Batman or Harry Potter, e.g.
- Anne of Green Gables, for one
- Any of the Baudelaire children in "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
- Bruce Wayne in the Batman comics, e.g.
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - February 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 27, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 21, 2024
- New York Times - June 08, 2024
- Mirror Mini - February 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 27, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 21, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 14, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 20, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - June 17, 2023
- Family Time - June 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 16, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 10, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 01, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 03, 2023
- New York Times - March 19, 2023
- New York Times - March 02, 2023
- Mirror Mini - February 16, 2023
- LA Times - February 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 05, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 27, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - December 21, 2022
- New York Times - May 03, 2022
- New York Times - November 01, 2021
- Mirror Quick - January 01, 2018
- And in 105 more crossword puzzles...