Clues for the word "RAIN"
We've had 411 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 819 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on April 13, 2025.
Definition of rain
- n. & v. - Reign.
- n. - Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.
- n. - To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.
- n. - To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.
- v. t. - To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.
- v. t. - To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.
Referring Clues
- Kind of check
- ___ cats and dogs
- Picnic hamperer
- Pour
- See 47-Across
- Many a Seattle weather forecast
- Shower
- Farmer's prayer, perhaps
- Reason for postponement
- Sahara rarity
- 1994 Peace Nobelist
- Picnic spoiler
- Storm production
- Seeders make it
- Precipitate
- Fall in April?
- A pluviometer measures it
- Reservoir filler
- Subject of some prayers
- Parade spoiler, perhaps
- Gobi rarity
- Picnicker's worry
- Drops from above
- Parade spoiler
- Drops from the sky
- "Walkin' in the ___" (Ronettes hit produced by Phil Spector)
- Pitter-patter maker
- Wet forecast
- Ballgame spoiler
- Acid ___
- Parade stopper
- Desert rarity
- Cause for umbrellas
- It may delay things
- Drops down from above
- Game delayer
- Flooding cause
- Farmer's prayer
- Common cause of postponement
- Outdoor event planner's worry
- Game stopper
- Eavesdropper?
- Drought relief
- Not be fair?
- Mac user's motivation
- Common Seattle forecast
- Reason for a makeup game
- Cause of a game cancellation
- Word repeated before "go away"
- Word after "ppd." on a sports page
- "___ Man" (Hoffman flick)
- Drought ender
- Flood cause
- Downpour or drizzle
- Gene Kelly was singin' in this
- Frequent occurrence in Seattle
- Outdoor shower
- Drought buster
- Start to fall?
- Shine counterpart
- Wet stuff
- Cause for a makeup game
- Postponement cause
- Outside shower
- Storm form
- Seattle forecast, often
- Word with dance or date
- Water fall?
- It's forecast in percentages
- Cause for a game delay
- With 39-Down, area of tremendous biodiversity
- Ball game delayer
- Tlaloc's domain, to the Aztecs
- Be unfair?
- Barbecue spoiler
- Fall from the sky
- Delay cause, maybe
- Fall from above
- Desert lack
- Epitome of rightness?
- Drought easer
- April forecast
- Acid ___
- Drops from the clouds
- Picnic concern
- Cause of some delays
- Picnic ender
- Ballgame delayer
- Yard-sale spoiler
- Death Valley rarity
- Bad weather for golf
- Ball-game spoiler
- Golf spoiler
- Come down
- Cloud seeder's product
- Maugham story
- Reason for a wet suit?
- Picnic dampener
- What "it looks like," in conversation
- "___ Man" (Hoffman flick)
- Type of check
- End of a dry spell
- Farmer's necessity
- It'll fall
- What Gene Kelly was singin' in
- Eaves dropper?
- Fall from the sky?
- Small talk topic
- Drops on the ground?
- Shine alternate
- Patter source
- Parade woe
- Type of shower
- It ruins a dry spell
- Word with forest or barrel
- Type of barrel
- It's heard on the roof
- Type of forest
- It may be forecast for the start of the second quarter?
- Showers, e.g.
- Baseball game postponer
- Nonfactor at domed stadiums
- Parade problem
- Parade postponer
- Genesis forecast
- Certain dancer's hope
- Precipitation
- Noah's concern
- Ball game ruiner
- It often messes tresses
- It falls somewhere every day
- Picnic problem
- Game delay cause
- April forecast, often
- Phenomenon described by the ends of 17-, 23-, 47- and 57-Across
- 69-Across source
- Cause of delay
- It might hold up a parade
- Weather in Genesis 7
- Reason for a delay, perhaps
- Cloudburst
- What "it looks like," in conversation
- Watery downpour
- Relief for the Kalahari
- Reason to wear 57A
- It might lead to a check
- Dust Bowl dream
- *It may drop acid (1)
- Arid area dweller's prayer request
- Farmers look for it
- Dark sky's omen
- Water down?
- Shower in public?
- "Still Falls the ___": Edith Sitwell poem
- Pavement pounder
- Game interruption
- Shower, maybe
- Puddle source
- It may come in buckets
- Weatherman's forecast(4)
- Check or date preceder
- Drizzle, say
- Reason for a tarpaulin
- Forecast word
- Monsoon weather
- April weather
- Reason for a tarp
- Ball game postponer
- BBQ ruiner
- BBQ spoiler
- Parade ruiner
- Picnic ruiner
- See 116-Across
- Sprinkle
- Result of a high seeding?
- Result of high seeding
- Some precipitation
- Right as ___
- "A Little Fall of ___" ("Les Miserables")
- Windshield-wiper weather
- Parade concern
- Gift from the god Jupiter Pluvius
- April forecast, typically
- Downpour
- Deluge
- Wet weather
- What gray clouds may produce
- Shine alternative
- Camping trip dampener
- "Liquid sunshine"
- "liquid" sunshine
- Grass grower's need
- Flower bed wetter
- "Purple ___" (1984)
- What to be right as?
- It may come in sheets
- Prince's "Purple ___"
- Cloudburst, e.g.
- Reason for a game delay
- Showers, say
- Picnic worry
- Word with check or date
- Game delayer, perhaps
- Water from the sky
- Nonfactor at the Skydome
- Drops out of the sky
- T.J. on "Head of the Class" ___ Pryor
- Gully filler
- Outing ruiner
- Farmer's prayer, sometimes
- Wetness in Seattle?
- Ball game spoiler
- Baseball game delayer
- Best Picture between "The Last Emperor" and "Driving Miss Daisy"
- Come down hard
- Cause of a game delay
- Makeup of some sheets
- *Drought ender
- Golfer's inconvenience
- Showery forecast
- Word with fall or dance
- Dreary forecast for nonfarmers
- Drizzle, e.g.
- Umbrella weather
- Drought's lack
- Forest fighter's aid
- Cats and dogs, metaphorically
- Desire of some dancers
- Form of precipitation
- Ballgame postponer
- It can come in sheets
- ___ check
- Dramatization of a Maugham story
- Common London forecast
- Goal of some seeders
- Word with drop or fall
- Spring shower
- Bad weather for a parade
- Cause of pitter-patter
- Golf game spoiler
- Sprinkle, say
- "Purple ___" (Prince hit)
- Golf outing spoiler
- It might be driving on your head
- It often occurs following a car wash, seemingly
- What may hit tarps
- Common 68-Across forecast
- Common forecast for Mobile, Alabama
- Gullywasher
- Dust Bowl's lack
- Weather for 63 Across
- Drought reliever
- Downfall
- April shower
- April showers
- It falls from the sky
- It's warmer than snow
- It falls from clouds
- Spring showers
- It ends a dry spell
- Type of cloud
- Drought need
- Wet weather keeps artist at home
- Ballgame ender
- "Chocolate ___" (2007 YouTube viral video)
- What it does a lot in London
- Drizzle
- Festival drag
- Phil Collins: "I Wish It Would ___ Down"
- What Phil Collins wishes it would do
- Beatles' psychedelic B-side
- Festival no-no
- Blind Melon "No ___"
- Wet Beatles song?
- Counting Crows are the "King" of this
- CCR wonders "Who'll Stop" it
- It waters the garden
- Dramatic weather
- Being under a cloud puts a damper on things
- Pronouncement of rule that could stop play going on
- Is it forecast precipitately?
- With precipitation, I shot round
- Farmer's hope during droughts
- Weather - shower
- See 12
- See 10
- See 1
- Directed film about filling of Big Mac
- It might get the drop on you
- Ballgame stopper
- Dreary forecast
- It hits the roof
- One managed to hold water
- Precipitation from clouds
- Wildland firefighter's aid
- It may hold up the game
- Favorable forecast, to farmers
- CCR hit "Have You Ever Seen the ___?"
- Kelly sang in it
- Drops on your head?
- It might come in buckets
- Word with date or dance
- Water from sky
- Said to be monarch's downfall
- Among flora I need cats and dogs?
- Most endangered (having collected stats) - as this in 22 across?
- The weather according to Miss Thompson
- Rare weather forecast for a desert
- Reason to roll out the tarp
- Crawford film
- Water from clouds
- Wimbledon delayer
- Common precipitation
- Pour, e.g.
- Dust Bowl deficiency
- Reason for a tarp on the ball field
- Common forecast for Seattle
- Weather that might cause a tennis match to be canceled
- Head wetter
- Prince album that was #1 for 24 weeks
- 40-day event in Genesis
- Monsoon phenomenon
- Precipitate commonly
- What fills some gauges
- Spring fall
- I ran out in the wet
- Water fall?
- Nursery rhyme word repeated before "go away"
- The water was running when I came in
- Rarity in a 58-Across climate
- Precipitation falling in drops
- Drought-ending weather
- "God's tears"
- Seattle forecast
- Dramatic downpour
- Puddle producer
- Sadie Thompson drama
- One dashed to get out of it
- Weather word
- Farm relief, perhaps
- Cloudy day chance
- Drops not all restraint!
- Come down, in a way
- One hurried to get out of it
- Reason for a ball game delay
- A sound rule in weather forecasting
- "Purple ___"
- Thunderstorm precipitation
- It doesn't stop a mail carrier
- Puddle former
- Drizzle or shower
- Field day spoiler
- Nonissue at domed stadiums
- Dry spell ender
- Reason to roll out a tarp
- What may come down in buckets
- Shower or drizzle
- Genesis problem
- Delay cause
- What may be mixed with snow
- Common April forecast
- Eaves dropper?
- Type of forest in Iran?
- Drops in a forecast
- See 7 Across
- "Don't ___ on My Parade"
- Shine's counterpart
- "Purple ___" (Prince album)
- Reason for indoor recess
- Common Portland forecast
- Unwelcome wedding-day forecast
- Weather often associated with Vancouver
- Drops from a great height?
- Green on a weather map
- Word before check or forest
- Pour, say
- Golf date ruiner
- Sprinkle, perhaps
- Reason to reschedule
- Drizzle or pour
- It's of no concern if the stadium is domed
- Farmer's occasional joy
- Reason to wear a hat
- Weather that may cancel a picnic
- "Drop everything now / Meet me in the pouring ___" (Taylor Swift lyric)
- "Make it ___"
- *Certain forecast
- and 19. With a dark look, promises to water the garden
- Heavy drizzle
- Spring forecast, often
- It may lead to greener pastures
- "___ on Me" (Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande song)
- Is it forecast precipitately?
- What Noah was expecting
- Common PNW forecast
- Dry-spell relief
- What a pluviometer measures
- Pour down
- "Pouring" precipitation
- Drops in the forecast
- Word before date or dance
- "Mouths of ___" (essay collection by queer Black writers)
- Petrichor is the aroma produced by this
- "Purple ___" (Prince song)
- Common sound from a white noise machine
- Rarity in a drought
- Welcome downfall for a gardener
- Pluviometer measure
- Showery weather
- Its name in Botswana is the same as the word for "money"
- Beach day bummer
Last Seen In
- New York Times - April 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 06, 2025
- LA Times - March 28, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 21, 2025
- New York Times - March 21, 2025
- LA Times - March 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 09, 2025
- New York Times - February 21, 2025
- USA Today - February 15, 2025
- USA Today - February 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 06, 2025
- Daily American - February 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 02, 2025
- Daily American - January 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 19, 2025
- LA Times - January 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 08, 2025
- LA Times - January 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 28, 2024
- New York Times - December 23, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 16, 2024
- New York Times - December 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 19, 2024
- USA Today - November 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 09, 2024
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