Clues for the word "RAVEN"
We've had 167 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 398 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 13, 2026.
Definition of raven
- n. - A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
- a. - Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
- n. - Rapine; rapacity.
- n. - Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
- v. t. - To obtain or seize by violence.
- v. t. - To devour with great eagerness.
- v. i. - To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Referring Clues
- Deep black
- Ark's first disembarker
- Poe called it "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous"
- Poe visitor
- Talking bird of poetry
- Poe bird
- Shade of black
- Lustrous black
- Mystery writer's award
- See 109-Across, with "The"
- "Nevermore" speaker
- Baltimore athlete
- Croaking flier
- Bird that "perched upon a bust of Pallas"
- In a poem, it "perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door"
- Poe's black visitor
- Titular bird
- Loud black bird
- Bird in an Edgar Allan Poe poem
- Poe poem, with "The"
- Poe's talking bird
- Croaking bird
- Baltimore player
- Poe's dark creature
- Poe's "ungainly fowl"
- Poe called it "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous"
- Baltimore football player
- "Nevermore" bird of poetry
- Poe's one-word bird
- Jackdaw cousin
- Baltimore NFLer
- Rook relative
- One-word bird?
- Bird in a Poe poem
- Dark color
- Bird seen on totem poles
- Black bird
- Ray Lewis is one
- Poe's bird
- First creature off the ark
- "Quoth the ___, 'Nevermore"'
- Ray Lewis, e.g.
- Poe's corvine visitor
- Eat greedily
- Poe subject
- Baltimore pro
- Baseball : Oriole :: football : ___
- First bird off the Ark, in Genesis
- "Nevermore" utterer
- "Nevermore" quoter
- Poe's midnight visitor
- Joe Flacco, for one
- Black tress tone
- Poe crow
- 'Nevermore' sayer
- Ominous bird
- 'Nevermore' speaker
- Ray Lewis, for one
- Black scavenger
- Magpie cousin
- Mail carrier in "Game of Thrones"
- Bird that often symbolizes death
- Harsh voiced bird
- "Ungainly fowl" of verse
- Shiny black
- Baltimore gridder
- Flacco or Rice, e.g.
- Flacco or Rice
- Baltimore footballer
- N.F.L. player with a black helmet
- Brilliant black
- Poe's "ebony bird"
- "Nevermore" croaker
- Yukon's official bird
- Poe bird that quoth "Nevermore"
- Yukon's bird
- Trickster of American Indian mythology
- Literary percher on a bust of Pallas
- Bird in a Poe classic
- Lee Majors series
- Poetic rapper
- 11-Across maker
- "Thing of evil," per Poe
- Crow's cousin
- Hair descriptor
- Crowlike bird
- "Quoth the ___, 'Nevermore'"
- Fairy-tale black
- See 134-Across
- Poe's "The ___"
- Class poem by Poe, with "The"
- Kin of a nutcracker
- "Hoarse" bird in "Macbeth"
- Crow family's largest
- Joe Flacco at work
- Poetry's "ominous bird of yore"
- "Nevermore" squawker
- Terrell Suggs, for one
- 22-Across's "ungainly fowl"
- Bird that said "Nevermore"
- "Ungainly fowl" of poetry
- One "sitting lonely on the placid bust," in a classic poem
- Poe poem that starts "Once upon a midnight dreary," with "The"
- Crow's kin
- "The ___" (Poe poem)
- Large crow
- Bird
- Large bird of the crow family
- Cowardly Conservative disembarks jet
- The bird flew out one day
- Black
- Tower of London bird
- Bird of prey
- Flier taking the right road north
- Large black bird
- Largest member of crow family
- Bird in 1's poem
- Guardian of Tower opposed in rear approach
- First bird sent from Noah's Ark
- One was "tapping, tapping at my chamber door"
- Grip over the Tower of London
- It flies a welcome in the British Fleet
- Poetic "fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core"
- Letter carrier in "Game of Thrones"
- "Grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore"
- First bird off Noah's Ark, per Genesis
- Sailors holding girl up to see bird
- Bird of one variety seen soaring
- Bird, headless chicken
- Crow-like bird
- Have a wild time with new bird
- Bird, yellow, all but head
- Heading off, yellow and black bird
- Bird that's yellow, caught flying off
- Bird with mosaics if not available
- Bird used to be very hungry
- Hungrily devour bird
- Poe's black bird
- Merl relative
- Talk madly and name a bird
- Heading off 5, 12 down
- Poetic rapper of renown
- NFL mascot Poe, e.g.
- "Nevermore!" bird
- <span>Bird, the black </span><i>Corvus corax</i><span>
</span>
- Big black bird
- Baltimore NFL player
- Flier's short way to enter the navy
- Rapper with a one-word vocabulary?
- Author Leilani
- Poetic bird of one word
- Actress ___-Symone
- Loud bird
- Bird that "quoth" in a Poe poem
- Bird in the crow family
- John Harbaugh's favorite avian
- "Nevermore" speaker, in poetry
- Sailors were around when Eva broke this flier's heart
- Poem that begins "Once upon a midnight dreary," with "The"
- Cousin of a crow
- Rook kin
- Crow relative
- Avian means of long-distance communication in Westeros
- Literary bird with a one-word vocabulary, apparently
- Bird used to deliver messages on "Game of Thrones"
- N.F.L. player in a purple uniform
- Noisy bird
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - September 11, 2026
- Daily Quick - September 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - August 16, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - August 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - August 03, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 13, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 03, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 11, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 05, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 06, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 18, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 11, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 08, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 07, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 07, 2026
- New York Times - February 04, 2026
- Daily American - January 02, 2026
- New York Times - December 21, 2025
- LA Times - November 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 14, 2025
- Daily American - September 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 28, 2025
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