Clues for the word "PHDS"
We've had 106 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 165 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on October 26, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Academic types
- Professors' degs.
- High degrees?
- Thesis penners
- Master's superiors?
- Highest degrees
- Goals of some candidates, for short
- Profs have them
- Many college profs
- Many profs.
- Advanced degs.
- Academics' degrees
- Grad school achievements
- Profs' degs.
- Goals for many graduate students
- High degrees
- Some graduates
- Advanced degrees
- Third degrees
- Degrees of profs.
- Profs., often
- High degs.
- Third degrees, usually
- Profs' degrees
- High degrees: Abbr.
- Successful dissertation defenders
- Hard-earned degs.
- Many profs
- Hard-earned degrees
- Some profs
- Advanced college degs.
- Profs.' degrees
- Some Drs.
- Advanced degrees: Abbr.
- Coveted degrees
- They've been given the third degree?
- Goals for many grad students
- Profs, usually
- Ones who get a third degree
- Degs. for many profs
- Many academics, for short
- MIT degrees
- Pursuits of some candidates, for short
- All Economics Nobelists of 2010
- Degrees of excellence?
- Many college profs.
- They're given the third degree?
- Third degrees, often
- Full profs usually hold them
- Doctorate degrees
- Degrees of profs
- Some doctors, academically
- Degs. for profs.
- Degs. that result in jobs, eventually, I hope
- Upper-tier academics
- High degrees (abbr.)
- Degrees for many profs.
- Nth degrees?
- Classics degrees, e.g.
- Many profs.' degrees
- Third degrees?
- Professors, e.g. (abbr.)
- Advanced degrees (abbr.)
- Goals of some candidates
- Degrees of magnitude?
- Most profs
- Condoleezza Rice and Martin Luther King Jr., for two
- Many engineers
- Degs. for many professors
- Many tenured profs
- Elite group of grads
- Some scholars, for short
- Some postgrad degrees
- Achievements of Henry Kissinger and Martin Luther King Jr., in brief
- Dissertation writers' prizes
- Some univ. conferrals
- Many faculty members, in brief
- Impressive degs.
- Academia designations
- Degrees after M.A.s
- Major academic achievements
- Many university profs
- Advanced degrees, for short
- Many Economics Nobelists
- Some graduate degrees
- High degrees, for short
- Degrees for some adjunct profs
- Third degrees, for short
- Some advanced degree holders
- Results of some successful defenses
- Degrees held by most college professors
- Degrees held by most profs
- Some terminal degrees
- Univ. conferrals
- Degrees for most profs
- Honors held by only one U.S. president and one U.K. prime minister
- Degrees with dissertation defenses
- Some postgrad degs.
- Grad. degrees
- Many think-tank hires, in brief
- Third degrees?
- Tenured profs, often
- Advanced postgrad degs.
- Degrees of success, for short?
- Job requirements for top research positions, in brief
- 53-Down degs.
Last Seen In
- LA Times - October 26, 2025
- New York Times - October 12, 2025
- New York Times - October 08, 2025
- LA Times - October 05, 2025
- New York Times - September 28, 2025
- Daily American - September 11, 2025
- Daily American - May 29, 2025
- New York Times - May 04, 2025
- LA Times - February 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 11, 2025
- New York Times - December 08, 2024
- USA Today - December 04, 2024
- USA Today - October 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 27, 2024
- LA Times - September 08, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 26, 2024
- USA Today - August 25, 2024
- USA Today - July 23, 2024
- LA Times - July 05, 2024
- LA Times - March 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 13, 2024
- New York Times - February 12, 2024
- New York Times - February 10, 2024
- New York Times - November 12, 2023
- LA Times - October 31, 2023
- LA Times - October 29, 2023
- LA Times - October 16, 2023
- USA Today - September 16, 2023
- USA Today - September 14, 2023
- Daily American - September 11, 2023
- And in 135 more crossword puzzles...