Clues for the word "PILOT"
We've had 271 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 487 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on December 10, 2025.
Definition of pilot
- n. - One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
- n. - Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees.
- n. - Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
- n. - An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- n. - The cowcatcher of a locomotive.
- v. t. - To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.
- v. t. - Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.
Referring Clues
- Series sample
- Kitchen light
- Ace, e.g.
- Ace, maybe
- Command
- TV series precursor
- Person in a high chair?
- It may be within your range
- Jet controller
- Test episode for a TV series
- 747 flier
- Person who sits in front of a cabin
- Gas stove light
- Stove light
- Altimeter user
- Test for a sitcom
- Introductory TV episode
- Light in the furnace
- One whose work is up in the air?
- Snoopy in a Sopwith Camel, e.g.
- Aviator
- Word with light or episode
- Wiley Post, for one
- TV series test
- First episode of many a series
- Test episode
- Northwest worker
- American worker
- High-flying individual
- Fly
- Cockpit occupant
- Cockpit worker
- Light in the kitchen
- Lindbergh, notably
- Test on TV
- Flier
- Test on the tube
- First airing
- Jet flier
- Job for Twain
- Navigator
- TV-series prototype
- Steer
- Drone aircraft's lack
- Airline employee
- Whale type
- "Cast Away" casualty
- Sky jockey
- Possibility for the fall TV schedule
- Banking expert?
- First episode
- American employee
- Flyboy
- Tube test?
- Frequent flier
- Plane starter
- Air Force ace
- Sitcom tryout
- Range's flame
- Joystick user
- First episode in a TV series
- Sitcom demo
- Cockpit vip
- Joystick manipulator
- Series' test episode
- First chair in the air
- Pre-episode
- Light on the stove
- Cockpit boss
- Navigate
- "Miracle on the Hudson" hero, e.g.
- Chesley Sullenberger, e.g.
- TV tryout
- Series test
- Airline worker
- Sitcom sample
- Sample episode
- Test show
- Television series tryout
- "Miracle on the Hudson" occupation
- Jet jockey
- Cockpit figure
- Delta worker
- Drone's lack
- Sitcom's test episode
- Highflier?
- Series opener, often
- Helmsman
- Maneuver, as a ship
- Aeronaut
- Frequent flyer
- Frequent flier?
- Do the Wright thing
- One trying to avoid a banking crisis?
- Oven light
- Plane flier
- Airman
- Plane handler
- Test episode, say
- First of a series
- One likely to go far?
- Cockpit position
- Furnace light
- First TV show
- Southwest driver?
- Plane's captain
- Guide
- Experimental
- Series opener
- Kitchen light?
- Speculative episode
- Spec episode
- First in a long line of sitcoms?
- Show's first episode
- Test on the air
- Charles Lindbergh, e.g.
- See 67-Across
- "Sully's" profession
- Tom Hanks, in "Sully"
- "Sully," for one
- Hub regular
- First sitcom episode
- Chuck Yeager, famously
- Drone plane's lack
- Airplane flier
- Airplane driver
- High flier
- Trial TV show
- Plane driver
- Person flying a plane
- Person who flies planes
- Person that flies planes
- The one flying the plane
- Airplane operator
- One-off programme for aviator
- Constant amount for aviator
- Earhart, for one
- Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, for one
- Episode 1 title, frequently
- Who Maiden wrote "Aces High" about
- System of a Down "Jet ___"
- Small flame that ignites a gas boiler
- Storyline involving international aviator
- One giving guidance to a sanctimonious set?
- For an airman, look in a mine!
- Guide one in area of land
- He flies with an awfully good bunch of chaps
- A half pint's plenty for the captain!
- The one left in a vessel who can set a course?
- Mine contains half a loaf for the captain
- Whatever his rank, he's the captain
- He flies a good deal
- Harbour master?
- One much spoilt, possibly, by stewardesses?
- Guide to one in piece of ground
- Leader of religious group?
- Skipper's line in the plot
- One of those terribly spoilt by air hostesses?
- One guide - or a good many
- Giver of guidance to one entering a scheme
- Airman concerned with ignition?
- Flier of aircraft
- Local expert dropped overboard?
- Flier for whom half a pint's plenty
- Captain is first into bed
- But he wouldn't be dropped out of an aeroplane!
- But this officer cannot necessarily fly
- First person in the scheme is an airman
- As a flier, his heart's in the scheme
- RAF man on light duty?
- Guide back to border
- Name of Mr Rochester's dog
- Controller of aircraft
- Flier - guide
- Director of experimental (in-flight) movie?
- Guide - flier
- Conductor of mass in church, perhaps?
- Many supporting relationship guide
- Guide the first person in the area
- Aeroplane captain
- One who may get you grounded?
- Be at the helm of
- Introductory episode
- Series starter
- TV trial episode
- Harbour guide
- In bed one may use a joystick
- High-flier, one in bed ...
- Experimental look into abyss
- One in conspiracy trial
- Test or trial (project or programme)
- Guide the Italian aboard vessel
- Guide one into allotment
- One going into storyline for trial episode
- Guide holy group
- See 9
- "Magic" band
- In the story, I act as guide
- Aircraft flier
- Landing negotiator
- Premiere episode of a TV series, often
- Banking pro
- One who steers or one entering into conspiracy
- Airman's awfully good fortune
- Sully, notably
- Sort of scheme from which the Italian can opt out?
- Range light
- Banking pro?
- Frequent flyer?
- TV test episode
- Southwest worker
- Plan to accept one as experimental
- American worker?
- Steer, guide
- Light in flight?
- One enters a scheme with an airman
- Person in a cockpit
- Harbour master?
- Captain of an awfully good bunch
- As an airman, is he a little light?
- Plane figure
- Word before light or study
- Flyer
- Is he a little light?
- Sky chief
- Hanks' role in "Sully"
- Test episode of a TV show
- Car : driver :: plane : ___
- Experimental programme on television
- Pre-docking liner boarder
- Plane worker
- Whale of a show, initially?
- Amelia Earhart, e.g.
- Airman in an awfully good bunch
- One working in plane clothes?
- A light show to start with?
- ___ light
- First in a series
- Trial episode of a TV show
- Captain, at times
- Initial TV episode
- One guide of a good many
- Start of a series
- One giving guidance to a sanctimonious set?
- Trial episode
- The one left in a vessel who can set a course?
- Starter in a gas range
- Did terrible toil, on the quiet, get him his wings?
- Spirit guide?
- Plane flyer
- One much spoilt, possibly, by stewardesses?
- Aviator I put into storyline
- Test ___
- Airman in a hole having only half a loaf
- Steer a plane
- Airman concerned with ignition?
- Local expert dropped overboard?
- Test episode of TV
- Flight school graduate
- One winging it?
- Trial episode of TV
- Test-run episode of a TV series
- RAF man on light duty?
- One in plane clothes
- Frontier figure
- Flier's scheme to tour India
- Aviator's awfully good fortune
- Flight leader
- Trial program
- Might he be a little light?
- Series opener?
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - December 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 09, 2025
- LA Times - December 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 16, 2025
- LA Times - August 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 23, 2025
- New York Times - April 06, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 27, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 25, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 07, 2025
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