Clues for the word "PLAGUE"
We've had 49 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 100 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 17, 2026.
Definition of plague
- n. - That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
- n. - An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.
- v. t. - To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.
- v. t. - Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.
Referring Clues
- Camus subject
- Annoy continually
- Biblical torment
- Calamity
- Blight
- One of 10 in Exodus
- Epidemic
- Pestilence
- Torment
- Widespread affliction
- Bubonic ___
- Bedevil continuously
- Badger
- Harass
- Trouble greatly
- Punishment of biblical proportions
- Hound
- One of a biblical ten
- Harass incessantly
- Bubonic, e.g.
- One of ten in Exodus
- Serious epidemic
- Deadly epidemic
- Harry's little medal good for Queen
- Curse city for changing sides
- The pest is given a leg up, mistakenly
- Harass capital, having changed sides
- Soaring mountain road missing from visitant's haunt
- Afflict
- 8 down said to be about this in London, where capital is changing hands
- Badger epidemic
- Pestilence transmitted by rat fleas
- What may bring illness to place
- Infection spreading up a leg
- Epidemic (the "Great" one being in 1665)
- Harry would make capital with the other side
- Apostle loses heart with one complaint or another
- Pestilence in city that's changed hands
- A serious problem for capital, if my second changed sides
- Epidemic in the city before 9
- Pester
- Bedevil
- Infestation
- A glue has spilled on the top end, which is a nuisance
- Pest
- It infected some of the people with fever
- Blood, frogs or lice, in the Passover story
- Former magazine that featured male nudes
- Pester continually
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 17, 2026
- LA Times - September 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 04, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 30, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 27, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 31, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 04, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 14, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 15, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 04, 2023
- New York Times - July 23, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - July 06, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - May 20, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 13, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - April 28, 2023
- USA Today - April 05, 2023
- Your Life Choices - April 04, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 14, 2023
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