Clues for the word "RIOT"
We've had 448 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1248 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on February 25, 2026.
Definition of riot
- n. - Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
- n. - Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
- n. - The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
- v. i. - To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
- v. i. - To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.
- v. t. - To spend or pass in riot.
Referring Clues
- Laugh-a-minute
- Urban unrest
- Very funny fellow
- Laugh ___
- Civil disorder
- Run amok
- Uproar
- Protest that gets out of hand
- Hit at Catch a Rising Star
- Real howler
- Funny one
- Donnybrook
- Very funny one
- Warden's fear
- Celebration that gets out of hand
- Uprising at Attica
- Brawl
- Scream
- Good comedian
- Civil uprising
- Profusion
- Hilarious comedian
- Laughfest
- Lots of laughs
- Quite a card
- Quite a comedy
- Comedy hit
- Knee-slapper
- Sidesplitter
- Side-splitter
- Situation for rubber bullets
- Urban disturbance
- Unruly event
- Gasser
- Very funny person
- Card
- Hilarious one
- Barrel of laughs
- Wild time
- Some mayhem
- Successful comic
- Uprising
- Go wild
- ___ Act (1715 law)
- One who's just too funny
- Prison unrest
- Laugh-a-minute type
- Protest gone bad
- ___ of color
- Hilarious happening
- Brilliant display
- Real sidesplitter
- Laugh-a-minute sort
- Emulate a mob
- Event involving burning and looting
- Potential lockdown preceder
- Comic who kills
- Hilariously funny thing
- Hilarious act
- Mob scene
- Comedy standout
- Big melee
- Scream, so to speak
- Read the ___ act
- Haymarket Square event
- Quiet ___ ('80s heavy metal band)
- "Act" that may be read aloud
- Hilarious person
- Let loose in the streets
- Haymarket Square happening
- Civil disturbance
- Vivid display
- Rampage through the streets
- Hysterical person
- Knee-slapping show
- Wild display
- Protest in the streets
- Laugh and a half
- Class clown
- Wild display of color
- Class clown, for one
- Protest gone awry
- Civil unrest
- Public disturbance
- Howling success
- Sidesplitting comedy
- Mob activity
- Revolting development?
- Wild disorder
- Real scream
- Laugh-a-minute comedy
- Mob action
- Quite a hoot
- Prelude to a prison lockdown
- Hoot
- Public ruckus
- Out-of-control situation
- Panic
- Wild outbreak
- Ran-tan
- Real joker
- Cause for a lockdown
- Stonewall ___ (1969 Greenwich Village event)
- Outbreak
- Tear-gassing cause
- Laugh-fest
- Word with run or race
- Display mob mentality
- Protest violently
- Word after run or before gun
- Mayhem in the streets
- Prison uprising
- One way to run
- Hysterical one
- Prison chaos
- Kind of act
- Disorderly way to run
- Hilarious character
- Real card
- Run ___
- Public disorder
- Violent unrest
- Something very funny
- Something hilarious
- Gas
- Comedic sensation
- Very funny situation
- Funny fellow
- Card at a party
- Certain act
- Unruly outbreak
- Free-for-all
- Run rampant
- Act that may be read aloud
- Public panic
- Type of act or squad
- "You're a ___, Alice"
- Go on a rampage
- Cell-block brawl
- Hilarious performance
- The National Guard might end one
- Public act of violence
- Violent disorder
- Cause of a lockdown
- Thigh-slapper
- Notable Haymarket Square event
- Word with "act" or "gear"
- Mob gone wild
- Rampage
- Word with act or gear
- Run wild
- Burn and loot, e.g.
- Uprising at Folsom
- Act opener
- Alice, to Ralph
- Something that made a Yippie say "Yippee!"
- First-rate stand-up comic
- Fray
- Real comedian
- Looter's paradise
- Looting in the streets
- Real knee-slapper
- Burn and loot
- Urban uprising
- Public upheaval
- Something hysterical
- Violent protest
- Real cutup
- Disorderly demonstration
- Go hog wild
- Hilarious fellow
- Mr. Hilarious
- Warden's woe
- Read the ___ act (get tough)
- With 7-Down, something read during a lecture?
- Bottle-throwing occasion
- Fracas
- Wildly amusing one
- "You're a ___, Alice"
- Run ___
- Lockdown cause
- 1886 Haymarket hullabaloo
- Prison problem
- One who really evokes laughter
- Out-of-control crowd situation
- Scene after winning a championship, maybe
- Go hog-wild
- Comedian who kills
- Bruhaha
- Cell block disorder
- Mob disorder
- Reaction from a bad crowd?
- Hysterically funny sort
- Funny person
- Be uncivilly disobedient
- Anarchy
- Hilarious joke
- Supreme comedy
- Event in a prison movie
- Event (as opposed to a sit-in) that might legitimize the use of pepper spray
- Big brawl
- Warden's worry
- See 13-Across
- Hilarious thing
- Life-of-the-party type
- Attica uprising
- Good 23-Across, say
- Real hoot
- Mob revolt
- Looting spree
- Laugh-a-minute guy
- Pandemonium
- Blackout worry
- Street tumult
- Street fight
- Huge brawl
- Mob brawl
- Uproarious story
- Lawless outbreak
- Kind of squad
- Kind of squad
- Kind of squad
- Cause for calling in the National Guard
- Warden's nightmare
- Chaotic situation
- ___ Act
- Laugh-out-loud story
- Disturbance of the peace
- Comic on a roll
- Profusion, as of color
- Uproariously funny sort
- Situation for tear gas
- Serious uprising
- Sing Sing outbreak
- Sing Sing disorder
- With 33-Down, plastic shields and such
- Mad mob
- Chaotic scene
- Wild melee
- Really funny person
- Wildly funny joke
- Stitch
- Wild way to run
- With "quiet," an oxymoron
- Pussy ___
- Laugh fest
- Sly & the Family Stone's "There's a ___ Goin' On"
- Sidesplitting person
- Pussy ___ (Russian girl group)
- 1886 Haymarket bombing aftermath
- Wreak havoc in the streets
- Celebrate a championship by destroying your city, say
- Be civilly disobedient, in a way
- Melee
- Public uproar
- Total cutup
- Very funny guy
- The life of the party
- Looting event
- Violent disturbance
- Crowd out of control
- Street brawl
- Cut-up
- Disorderly brawl
- Read the ___ act (rebuke firmly)
- Bedlam
- English act of 1715
- Chaos
- Convulsively comical character
- ___ gear
- Place for Mace
- Instance of civil unrest
- Cutup
- Top card?
- Ruckus
- Cell block brawl
- Prison outbreak
- Type of gear in a prison?
- Shields may be used in one
- Million laughs
- "Language of the unheard," per Martin Luther King Jr.
- Prison disruption
- Unbridled episode
- Life of the party
- Laugh-a-minute fellow
- A way to run
- Disorderly conduct
- Reason for tear gas
- Anarchic action
- Violent mob rampage
- Card relative?
- Be an unruly prisoner
- Crowd disturbance
- Wild uproar
- What revolting people do?
- Mob event
- Gut-buster
- Civil mayhem
- "You're a regular ___!" (Kramden cry)
- Uprising at Alcatraz
- Metaphor for mirth
- More than a melee
- Large brawl
- Destructive mob
- See 57-Across
- Go wild in the streets
- Evocator of laughter
- Civil melee
- Public brawl
- Rebel
- Violent uprising
- Public uprising
- Atari Teenage ___
- Be civilly disobedient
- One who'll keep you in stitches
- Prison ruckus
- Mob violence
- Bucket o' laughs
- Prison outburst
- Major uproar
- Uprising of a sort
- Prison donnybrook
- Prison uprising event
- Tumult
- Pearl Jam: "___ Act"
- Pearl Jam's Act?
- Utter mayhem
- "Metal Health" Quiet ___
- Might happen with no-show
- Hilarious Three Days Grace song?
- Skid Row "___ Act"
- Concert outbreak
- Kevin DuBrow band Quiet ___
- "Metal Health" band Quiet ___
- Frankie Banali band Quiet ___
- Battle of the bands brawl
- "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" Quiet ___
- Kaiser Chiefs "I Predict a ___"
- "Cum On Feel the Noize" Quiet ___
- Rebellion
- Dazzling display - revelry
- I'm in bad with the mob!
- Trouble composing a trio
- Act of mob violence
- Dazzling display in Port Talbot at the front
- Water cannon target
- Violent disturbance by mob
- Traitor in religious group not half creating uproar
- Urban mayhem
- Tumult raised at abattoir's closure
- Disturbance by unruly mob
- Redevelopment in old town starts civil disorder
- When corruption is about, I show no respect for authority
- Insurrection
- Rebel king I turn to
- Back one to enter the height of success!
- Mob melee
- Prison-movie event, perhaps
- Brilliant display of color
- Alice Kramden, at times
- Day of the Locust climax
- 1886 Haymarket Square event
- Yukfest
- Reason for a lockdown
- Laugh-out-loud type
- Huge uprising
- Crowd brawl
- Unruly protest
- Right about low-scoring home win causing loss of crowd control
- Starts to revel in outrageous, tumultuous orgy
- Unruly assembly
- Wild display of red, indigo or turquoise, initially
- Take to the streets
- One that has got into corruption causes disturbance
- See 14
- Hiding in bunk, I scream
- Protest that causes property damage
- Large-scale disturbance of the peace
- Major melee
- Stand-up standout
- Laugh ___ (extremely funny person)
- Comedy club hit
- Violent scene
- Unruly prison scene
- Hilarious type
- Revolting scene
- San Quentin uprising
- Street scene
- Mob disturbance
- Occasion to use water cannons
- Trouble for a prison warden
- Public melee
- Disorder
- Very funny comic
- Unrest in the streets
- Violent public disturbance
- Laugh-a-minute person
- Hilarious sort
- Legislation dating from 1714, often read by those wishing to impose order
- Unmanageable mob or tumultuous trio
- Big prison melee
- Random profusion
- Hilarious routine
- Nonsense about India causing confusion
- Tear gas situation
- Instigator of hilarity
- Explosion, as of color
- Big disturbance
- Total hoot
- "___ Baby" (Tochi Onyebuchi novel)
- Successful jokester
- "The language of the unheard," per MLK
- ___ grrrl (feminist punk movement)
- Anarchist action
- "The language of the unheard," according to MLK
- Certain demonstration
- Wildly funny sort
- Quite a comedian
- 1968 DNC event
- ___ shield
- Nonstop joker
- ___ grrrl (punk movement)
- Ridiculously funny person
- Very humorous person
- Compton's Cafeteria ___ (1966 uprising)
- 1981 Brixton ___ ("Electric Avenue" subject)
- Abundance of color
- Laugh ___ (something very funny)
- With 51-Across, something to "read"
- "Louder Than a ___" (NPR podcast)
- Card relative?
- "Let It Fall" demonstration
- ___ grrrl
- "Stonewall was a ___"
- "Boys Run the ___" (manga series)
- Tumult formerly with a capital T
- Response to injustice
- Nonstop jokester
- "The first Pride was a ___"
- ___ Games, developer behind League of Legends
- Quite the card
- Be part of an uprising
- Lavish display, as of color
- Really great comedy act, e.g.
- Hoot and a half
- Good-for-a-laugh type
- Paramore album with a rebellious-sounding name
- Absolute hoot
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - February 25, 2026
- New York Times - February 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 11, 2026
- Daily American - February 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 20, 2026
- Daily American - January 15, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2025
- New York Times - November 21, 2025
- LA Times - November 20, 2025
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- Mindfood Daily - November 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 13, 2025
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- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 05, 2025
- New York Times - October 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 28, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 25, 2025
- Daily American - August 22, 2025
- LA Times - August 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 04, 2025
- LA Times - July 25, 2025
- Daily American - July 23, 2025
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