Clues for the word "RIO"
We've had 671 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1766 times in crosswords. It was last seen in USA Today crossword on March 24, 2025.
Referring Clues
- 1947 Hope/Crosby destination
- ___ Bravo
- Bravo, e.g.
- City on Guanabara Bay
- ___ Group (Latin American association)
- ___ Piedras, P.R.
- A "Road" destination
- "Wild Orchid" locale, 1990
- Where Maracana Stadium is
- Capital city till 1960
- Port with a natural harbor
- Carnival site
- "Blame It on ___" (Caine comedy)
- Orinoco, e.g.
- ___ Grande
- Latin metropolis
- "Black Orpheus" setting
- Brazilian city
- Brazilian vacation destination
- Carnival locale
- Earth Summit host, 1992
- Copacabana site
- ___ de Janeiro
- Southern vacation spot
- "___ Bravo" (1959 film)
- Carnaval site
- Uruguay, for one
- Carnival city
- Hope-Crosby destination
- With 21-Across, a 1970 John Wayne film
- Spain's Guadalquivir, e.g.
- Popular resort, briefly
- Hope/Crosby film destination
- Place to do the samba
- Copacabana locale
- Earth Summit site
- Popular vacation spot
- Lago feeder
- Carnival place
- Brazilian city, familiarly
- Océano feeder
- Guanabara Bay city
- Copacabana city
- Copa locale
- Sugar Loaf Mountain site
- Uruguay, e.g.
- Where Sugarloaf Mountain is
- "Flying Down to ___"
- Antonio Carlos Jobim airport locale
- "___ Lobo" (John Wayne film)
- City that Fred Astaire was "flying down to" in a 1934 hit
- Guanabara Bay locale
- Wayne film "___ Bravo"
- Brazilian hot spot
- Ipanema locale
- City in a Peter Allen song title
- Blanco or Negro
- "Road" film destination
- Brazilian hot spot, briefly
- Copacabana Beach site
- Brazilian vacation spot, informally
- Sugarloaf Mountain locale, briefly
- "Notorious" setting, 1946
- 1950 World Cup host, with a stadium for 180,000+ people
- 36-Down, por ejemplo
- Brazilian getaway
- John Wayne's "___ Lobo"
- Kia model
- Madeira, e.g.
- Varig destination
- Tuneful city "by the sea-o"
- Resort city that shares its name with a Duran Duran hit
- 1941 musical comedy "That Night in ___"
- Kia subcompact
- "Notorious" setting
- Copacabana Beach locale
- Rock in ___ (largest rock festival in the world)
- Sugar Loaf Mountain site, briefly
- "Road to ___" (1947 flick)
- Carnaval city
- Grande opening?
- "A Rainy Night in ___" (1946 hit)
- 1983 Duran Duran hit
- South American cruise stop
- Brazilian vacation spot
- Pre-Lenten carnival site
- Brazilian port of call
- 1983 Duran Duran tune
- Brazilian port, for short
- City known for Carnival
- Brazilian resort
- Brazilian port, familiarly
- City "by the sea, oh"
- Brazilian city, popularly
- Brazilian vacation destination, for short
- Carnival setting
- First word of three John Wayne movie titles
- South American resort
- Bravo or Grande
- 1947 Hope-Crosby destination
- Brazil metropolis, familiarly
- Brazilian metropolis
- Brazil resort, familiarly
- "Blame It on ___" (Michael Caine flick)
- Country group Diamond ___
- South American setting of Hitchcock's "Notorious"
- Brazilian resort, for short
- Brazilian tourist mecca, briefly
- River, to Raoul
- Bravo, for one
- Brazilian getaway city
- Popular cruise port
- "___ Bravo" (John Wayne film)
- Second-largest city on the Atlantic coast
- Copacabana city, familiarly
- River, to Ricardo
- Pão de Açúcar's city, familiarly
- ___ Rancho (suburb of Albuquerque)
- Ipanema's city
- Ipanema's locale
- 2016 Olympics locale
- "Blame It on ___"
- ___ de Janeiro, Brazil
- Host city for the 2007 Pan American Games
- With 38-Across, 1942 Abbott and Costello film
- Duran Duran album with the hit "Hungry Like the Wolf"
- Copacabana setting
- Sugarloaf Mountain city, briefly
- Where the airline Varig is headquartered
- Manchester United defender ___ Ferdinand
- 1983 Duran Duran song
- Carnival-themed Las Vegas casino
- "___ Lobo" (1970 John Wayne film)
- Guanabara's capital
- Girl from Ipanema's home
- Samba city
- "The Marvelous City"
- Los del ___ ("Macarena" duo)
- Setting of Maracanã Stadium
- Brazilian port
- Site of Floresta da Tijuca, one of the world's largest urban forests
- ___ Grande
- Carnival resort
- Brazil's capital before Brasília
- Brazilian resort, familiarly
- "The Girl From Ipanema" setting
- "___ Bravo"
- Pinar del ___: Cuban city
- South-of-the-border river?
- River in Spain
- Carnival location
- Madeira, por ejemplo
- Bolivian river
- Spanish river
- ___ de Janeiro
- 2007 Pan American Games host
- Cruise port
- Where Ipanema is
- River, in Spain
- "Notorious" setting
- Brazilian city, for short
- River, to Roberto
- Feature on "un mapa"
- "___ Bravo"
- Christ the Redeemer city
- Lead-in for Branco or Bravo
- "Blame it on ___" (Caine film)
- "Blame It on ___"
- River in Peru
- Diamond ___ (country music group)
- Ipanema city
- Short name for a popular South American city
- "___ Bravo" (Wayne film)
- Where Christ the Redeemer stands
- "Black Orpheus" locale
- Former capital on Guanabara Bay
- Popular cruise port, briefly
- "Black Orpheus" setting
- "Christ the Redeemer" locale
- "___ Lobo" (John Wayne film)
- ___ de la Plata
- Lead-in for "Bravo"
- Start of three John Wayne movie titles
- Former capital on Guanabara Bay, briefly
- Carnival city, briefly
- Maracana Stadium locale
- Copacabana city, informally
- Brazil's tourist lure
- Bravo or Lobo
- "Blame It on ___" (Caine film)
- ___ Branco, Brazil
- ___ Grande River
- It's "by the sea-o"
- Sugar Loaf Mountain locale, briefly
- River of Spain?
- Brazilian destination
- It's Grande
- Brazilian hot spot, informally
- Carnival site, for short
- Carnival location, for short
- Place name with Claro or Cuarto
- River in Costa Rica
- Brazilian vacation destination, informally
- Hope/Crosby destination
- Los Del ___ ("Macarena" band)
- Sugar Loaf Mountain locale
- Copacabana's city
- Brazilian-themed Vegas casino, with "The"
- Big Brazilian city, for short
- Setting for Hitchcock's "Notorious"
- World capital until 1960
- 2016 Olympics city
- Sugar Loaf Mountain city
- Carnival city, casually
- Carioca's home
- River, in Mexico
- Resort on Guanabara Bay
- Sugarloaf setting
- "That Night in ___" (1941 film)
- Carnaval locale
- Big city for soccer
- Hit 2011 animated film
- 2016 Olympics site
- "Christ the Redeemer" locale
- Lead-in for "Bravo"
- "___ Bravo"
- Pinar del ___: Cuban city
- Grande opening
- Start of three John Wayne titles
- Crosby-Hope destination
- River, to Rivera
- 1992 Earth Summit site
- Feature on "un mapa"
- Vegas casino hotel, with "the"
- Metropolis, to Pedro
- Old auto
- Capital city, to Pedro
- City in Brazil
- Brazil's capital until 1960
- 2016 Olympics host
- ___ de Oro
- Mexican flower?
- Vegas hotel that hosts the World Series of Poker
- Spanish watercourse
- "road movie" locale
- Museu do Índio site
- 2011 animated film about a blue macaw named Blu
- Waterway in spain
- Spanish for metro
- Christ the Redeemer locale, briefly
- 35 Across city
- South American vacation spot
- City of Brazil, for short
- Brazilian tourist mecca
- Brazilian resort city
- Mardi Gras city
- Carioca city
- 2016 Olympics setting
- Carnival spot
- Hackneyed
- Southern resort
- 'Flying Down to ___'
- Ipanema is there
- Carnival venue
- Carnival center
- Hope/Crosby 'Road' destination
- Place to fly down to
- 38-Across port
- City in Brazil, briefly
- Blameworthy city?
- Copa's city
- Brazilian city, briefly
- Ipanema site
- 'Blame It on ___'
- Spanish stream
- Pedro's river
- Start of three Wayne films
- Christ the Redeemer locale
- A samba place
- 2011 animated film that grossed almost $500 million worldwide
- Where the statue of Cristo Redentor stands
- Annual Carnaval locale
- John Wayne film: "___ Bravo"
- "Road to ___"
- Copacabana Beach site, for short
- Argentine city
- #1 tourist city in the Southern Hemisphere
- Ipanema's site
- 2011 animated movie about a Spix's macaw
- Resort, for short
- "___ Rita" ('42 film)
- Lead-in for Bravo
- Animated film that grossed almost $500 million in 2011
- 1947 comedy, "Road to ___"
- Ipanema's city, for short
- Christ the Redeemer overlooks it
- "Cherry ice cream smile" wearer, in a Duran Duran hit
- ___ Grande (part of Texas' border)
- El Paraguay, e.g.
- 2011 movie about a smitten macaw
- "City the sea-o"
- Sugarloaf Mountain site
- Animated picture with the voice of will.i.am
- Vegas hotel
- River in Spain?
- 2014 World Cup locale, for short
- Next Summer Olympics host
- Brazil-ian city
- Host of the 2016 Olympics, familiarly
- Roberto's river
- 2014 World Cup final site
- With 22-Down, John Wayne movie
- El Amazonas, por ejemplo
- 2016 Olympics site, familiarly
- "Grande" preceder
- Site of the 2016 Olympics
- Riot without end?
- Future Olympics host
- Where agua flows
- Vegas casino that hosts the World Series of Poker, with "the"
- Brazil burg briefly
- 1983 hit for Duran Duran
- Summer Olympics host after London
- Vegas casino
- Host of the 2016 Summer Games
- 2011 cartoon movie with a planned 2014 sequel
- Home to Sugarloaf Mountain
- 2014 World Cup city
- Rock in ___ (major music festival)
- Brazilian burg, for short
- Grande preceder
- Birthplace of the bossa nova
- Metropolis, to Manuel
- Brazilian-themed Vegas casino
- Brazilian hot spot, familiarly
- Brazil city, briefly
- South American cruise stop, for short
- River, to Ramone
- Sugarloaf Mountain's city
- South American city to be blamed, per a 1984 movie title
- Estadio Olimpico Joao Havelange location
- Brazilian tourist spot
- Port in Brazil, for short
- Brazilian city with a "Christ the Redeemer" landmark
- River: Sp.
- Resort added to the answers at 17-, 25-, 43-, and 59-Across
- Ebro, por ejemplo
- Grande or Bravo
- Bravo starter
- ___ Grande (border river)
- 2011 animated film featuring a macaw named Blu
- Copacabana setting, briefly
- 2014 World Cup locale, familiarly
- Animated movie featuring birds
- ___ Negro: Amazon tributary
- 2014 World Cup setting, briefly
- Hit animated film of 2011
- Lead-in for "Branco" or "Bravo"
- Spanish for "river"
- Animated film franchise starting in 2011
- River, to Juan
- 2011 animated musical
- ___ Cuarto, Argentina
- "___ Rita"
- Olympics host after London
- 'Flying Down to '
- 1982 double-platinum Duran Duran album
- Where to find "Christ the Redeemer"
- El Amazonas, e.g.
- Start of three John Wayne films
- ____ de Janeiro
- Dolores del ___
- "___ Bravo" (Western)
- Brazilian city, informally
- Guanabara Bay city, briefly
- Spanish waterway
- Copa's home
- Kia sedan
- River, to Ruiz
- Ipanema site, briefly
- Car from Kia
- A city, and a car
- "Christ the Redeemer" city
- ___ Grande City, Texas
- Exotic "Now, Voyager" setting
- Angry Birds sequel setting
- 2016 Olympics city, informally
- Brazilian port, commonly
- 2011 animated film set in Brazil
- Ipanema setting
- 1947 Hope/Crosby "Road" movie destination
- Diamond ___
- ___ summit
- 'Road to '
- Carnival town
- Brazilian-themed Vegas hotel, with "The"
- Subcompact based on the Hyundai Accent
- Pão de Açúcar city
- 2014 World Cup site
- Christ the Redeemer city, briefly
- It beat out Madrid as host city for the 2016 Olympics
- 2016 Summer Games setting
- City hard hit by the Zika virus
- Ipanema's locale, for short
- S.A. vacation destination
- Ipanema locale, for short
- Lorenzo Lamas on "Air America"
- Agua que fluye
- Olympics venue between London and Tokyo
- Brazilian hot spot, in brief
- 1983 double-platinum album by Duran Duran
- 2016 Olympics site, for short
- "Her name is ___ and she dances on the sand" (1983 pop lyric)
- South America's ___ Negro
- Mexican watercourse
- Where gymnast Simone Biles won Olympic gold
- 2016 Olympic games city, for short
- Extirpate
- Locale of Phelps's last five gold medals
- Brazilian-themed Vegas hotel
- 2016 hot spot
- 2016 Olympic site
- Carioca's city
- Brazilian port city, in brief
- Carnival city, for short
- '___ Bravo'
- Recent Olympics venue
- Brazilian tourist city, informally
- Kia Motors offering
- Brazilian resort, briefly
- El Orinoco, e.g.
- Brazil tourist city, briefly
- Home of Christ the Redeemer, briefly
- ___ Rancho, NM
- Flight destination in a 1933 title
- Copacabana Beach city
- Brazilian hot spot, for short
- Copacabana's city, for short
- Site of the last Olympics
- Recent Olympics site
- Brazilian beach city, briefly
- ___ Tinto, city in Brazil
- "___ Conchos," 1964 western
- Country music's Diamond ___
- Former Brazilian Capital
- Word with Grande
- ___ de Janiero
- She "really shows you all she can," in song
- Carnaval setting
- Hit 1982 album, or its lead track
- Song with the lyric "she really shows you all she can"
- Movie with Blu the macaw
- Summer Olympics city after London
- City in 2016 sports news
- Brazil tourist city
- Grande, e.g.
- Popular cruise stop
- Duran Duran's girl who dances on the sand
- Mexican waterway
- "Her name is ___ and she dances on the sand"
- 2016 Olympics city, for short
- She dances on the sand?
- She dances on the sand, to Duran Duran
- '82 Duran Duran smash
- "Hungry Like the Wolf" album
- '82 Duran Duran album
- Duran Duran "Save a Prayer" album
- Peter Allen "I Go to ___"
- Diminished capital, formerly
- Where Brazil was deprived of capital
- Copacabana Beach location
- Where Simone Biles won gold
- Where Phelps won five more gold medals
- 2011 film for which George Lopez voiced a toucan
- Where Phelps won his 23rd gold medal
- 2016 Games host
- Peruvian river
- A man around here may be taken for a girl
- Capital before Brasilia
- Orinoco, por ejemplo
- Summer Olympics host between London and Tokyo
- Where Katie Ledecky won four Olympic gold medals
- Site of the 2014 World Cup final
- Copacabana Beach setting
- Favela city
- City close to the Tropic of Capricorn
- Where Simone Biles won four gold medals
- Cariocan city
- 2016 Olympics host, for short
- Ipanema's city, briefly
- "Blame It on ___" (Demi Moore film)
- 2011 animated film set mostly in Brazil
- Sugar Loaf setting
- 1992 Earth Summit city
- Gaucho's water source
- 2016 Olympics host city
- City watched over by "Christ the Redeemer"
- South America's "Marvelous City"
- Setting of Hitchcock's "Notorious"
- Del ___, Texas
- Site of the statue "Christ the Redeemer," familiarly
- Sugarloaf Mountain's city, briefly
- Brazilian hotspot
- Brazil hot spot
- City, ___ de Janeiro
- Girl loses man, discovering port
- ___ Ferdinand, footballer
- Brazilian city that hosted the 2016 Summer Games, for short
- 5 across found variously in 4, 8 down and 51
- Brazil's second-largest city, for short
- Where Simone Biles won four golds
- Recent Olympics host
- Brazilian metropolis, for short
- 2014 World Cup Final host
- ___ Grande (river in the southwestern US)
- Large South American city
- Subcompact Kia car
- City in which the three took time off
- River, to Reynaldo
- 2011 animated film with lovestruck macaws
- City in Brazil, for short
- Atlantic resort city
- It was a capital little place
- Maracana Stadium city
- Brazilian destination, briefly
- Annual Carnival locale
- 2016 Olympics host, informally
- Corcovado spot
- What Christ the Redeemer overlooks, for short
- Sugarloaf locale
- Carnival setting, informally
- Corcovado is there
- Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon site
- Brazilian tourist spot, briefly
- Where the U.S. won its 1,000th Summer Olympic gold
- Where Katie Ledecky won four gold medals
- Where Brazil took Olympic soccer gold
- Kia car
- Carnival city, familiarly
- Little city in the central Loire, maybe
- Last Summer Olympics city
- Brazilian metropolis, briefly
- Where Katie Ledecky earned four gold medals
- "Road to ___": Hope/Crosby film
- City that's the center of industriousness?
- Destination of the fifth Crosby-Hope "Road to" movie
- Copacabana's city, informally
- "Black Orpheus" city, for short
- Beijing ('08), London ('12), ___ ('16)
- Copacabana city, casually
- 2016 Summer Games site, for short
- 2011 film set in Brazil
- Carnival host
- Former South American capital
- Agua source
- Ferdinand's little place?
- South American city
- Feature on a Spanish map
- Olympics venue
- Brazil tourist attraction, familiarly
- Popular Brazilian destination
- Brazilian patriotic piece
- Where Ipanema Beach is
- 2016 Olympics city, familiarly
- Former Olympics venue
- Summer Olympics host before Tokyo
- Where Bolt last got three golds
- Where I go "when my baby smiles at me," in song
- South America's Carnaval city, informally
- Brazilian metropolis, informally
- 2011 Blu movie
- Flowing "agua"
- Brazilian vacay destination
- Carnival city, informally
- 1983 double-platinum Duran Duran album
- Olympic venue
- ___ Bravo (una frontera norte de México)
- Ipanema Beach's city, informally
- Soul’s sibling
- Host of the Olympics where golf returned after a 112-year hiatus
- Ritzy Vegas hotel
- Brazil map word
- Flow of agua
- Hit 2011 animated movie
- Brazilian metropolis, slangily
- Apelido da cidade brasileira
- El Misisipi, e.g.
- Cristo Redentor city
- Brazil's capital before Brasilia, informally
- Brazil's ___ Roosevelt
- Where Simone Biles won four Olympic golds
- "Christ the Redeemer" is there
- Cypriot city, in short?
- Summer Olympics site after London
- Vegas casino with the Penn & Teller Theater
- Home of the statue Christ the Redeemer, familiarly
- Resort where it's summer in February
- Feeder of un lago
- Summer Games host between London and Tokyo
- ___de Janeiro
- Vegas hotel with Samba Suites
- Informal name of a Brazilian vacation spot
- Patriotic heart of Brazil
- 2011 animated movie set in Brazil
- River in Panama
- Sugarloaf city
- City that's home to the Sugarloaf Cable Car, informally
- Year-round vacation city
- Ferdinand has the right figure for a footballer
- River, in Spanish
- Brazil's Amazonas, e.g.
- Brazil-themed Vegas casino
- Exotic birds animated in 2011
- Major city in Brazil, briefly
- River in Madrid
- Brazil's second-largest city, informally
- Ipanema Beach locale, informally
- Setting for Hitchcock's "Notorious," informally
- Where swimmer Katie Ledecky won four Olympic golds
- Spain's Ebro, por ejemplo
- Copacabana's Brazilian city, informally
- The city in 2002's "City of God"
- Brazilian carnival city, informally
- Home to the Christ the Redeemer statue, in brief
- Brazil's second-most populous city, for short
- Home of the world's largest carnival
- Brazil's tourist city
- Where Simone Manuel won gold
- City run by King Momo five days per year
- Maracanã Stadium city
- Vegas hotel and casino that is the longtime host of the World Series of Poker
- The ___ Grande
- Where Claressa Shields most recently won Olympic gold
- Brazil metropolis
- Place many travel to in Brazil
- Animated movie set in Brazil
- Brazil's capital until 1960, for short
- Setting for the memorable cable car scene in "Moonraker"
- Where Simone Biles and Simone Manuel won Olympic gold
- Drag queen Bianca Del ___
- Carnival locale, briefly
- Christ the Redeemer city, for short
- Ipanema Beach's city
- Maracanâ¹ Stadium city
- Home to Maracanã Stadium
- 2016 Summer Olympics city
- Brazil's party city
- Animated film about a bird from Brazil
- Grande opening?
- Bravo in the movies?
- Capital of Brazil until 1960, informally
- Home of Christ the Redeemer, informally
- Brazilian port city
- Big city in Brazil
- City that hosts the largest Carnival in the world
- Major carnival city
- Code name on "Money Heist"
- Copacabana Beach's city
- "Her name is ___ and she dances on the sand" (Duran Duran lyric)
- Casino that houses the Penn & Teller Theater
- City that's home to Copacabana Beach, familiarly
- 2016 Summer Olympics host, informally
- Animated film set in Brazil
- Birthplace of bossa nova
- Nickname for a Brazilian city
- Christ the Redeemer's city
- South America's ___ de la Plata
- Natural feature between México y Texas
- 2016 Olympics host city, familiarly
- Home of the Sugarloaf Cable Car, informally
- City whose official song is "Cidade Maravilhosa"
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