Clues for the word "RIFT"
We've had 97 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 285 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of rift
- - p. p. of Rive.
- n. - An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
- n. - A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
- v. t. - To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
- v. i. - To burst open; to split.
- v. i. - To belch.
Referring Clues
- Break in relations
- Break in friendly relations
- Fissure
- Schism
- Diplomatic woe
- It's the geologist's fault
- Break
- Split
- Diplomatic to-do
- Falling out
- Estrangement
- Seeds of a divorce
- Falling-out
- Start of a breakup
- Diplomacy breakdown
- Great ___ Valley (African feature)
- Difference of opinion
- Bad blood
- Narrow fissure in rock
- Breach
- Chink
- Division
- Break (m)
- Gulf
- Result of a quarrel, perhaps
- Diplomatic break
- Great divide
- Open space
- Narrow fissure
- A narrow fissure in rock
- Falling-out result
- Chasm
- Clear breach
- Severance
- Squabble
- Friendship ender
- Crevice
- Break in diplomacy
- Disagreement
- Reconciliation preceder
- Separation
- Break in friendship
- Argument upshot
- Division sign
- Geologist's fault
- Divide
- Friends' feud
- Breach of friendship
- Start of many a feud
- One may lead to a feud
- Social separation
- Major fault
- Major falling-out
- Africa's Great ___ Valley
- Formation of mountain
- Friendship destroyer, sometimes
- Frequent reality-show plot line
- Small disagreement
- Breach in friendly relations
- '93 Phish album
- Band falling-out
- '93 Phish "Maze" album
- Member split
- Breach - falling-out
- General idea that's not opening, is opening
- Gap
- If stuffed into the right crevice
- Schism (in the lute?)
- ... right to embrace, if parting
- Valley of the lute?
- Large separation
- Leader sacked in current breach
- Losing some faith finally in prudence, causing split
- Phish "Maze" album
- A crack that can lead to much strife
- Splitting spat
- Friendship freezer
- Diplomatic falling-out
- Diplomatic squabble
- Geological fault
- Cause of an unfriending
- Break in a friendship
- Interpersonal distancing
- It makes the lute less harmonious
- Split in "th _ _ _ _ y" or "d _ _ _ _ ing"?
- Breakup
- Lost without commercial break
- Split between personalities
- Serious break in relations
- Friendship problem
- It may precede a breakup
- Serious divide
- Big break
- Social split
- Fault
- Big falling-out
- Falling-out between friends
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 20, 2025
- Daily American - September 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 08, 2025
- Daily American - July 31, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 17, 2025
- Daily American - July 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 03, 2025
- Daily American - May 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 06, 2025
- LA Times - April 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 27, 2025
- LA Times - February 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 07, 2024
- Daily American - October 14, 2024
- Daily American - September 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 26, 2024
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