Clues for the word "ROD"
We've had 429 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1344 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 20, 2026.
Definition of rod
- n. - A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
- n. - An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
- n. - A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
- n. - A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
- n. - A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
- n. - An instrument for measuring.
- n. - A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Referring Clues
- Roscoe
- Engine part
- Staff
- Farm distance
- Reactor part
- Bacillus shape
- Punishment, with "the"
- Scepter
- Casting requirement?
- Dipstick, e.g.
- Line carrier
- It may be spared
- Authority, metaphorically
- 16 1/2 feet
- Fishing aid
- Poet McKuen
- Staff associate?
- Fishing need
- Hot ___ (souped-up auto)
- Reel's partner
- Pistol, slangily
- Heater
- Curtain holder
- Salmonella's shape
- Fishing pole
- Serling of "The Twilight Zone"
- Towel holder
- ANGLER'S BUY
- Serling who wrote the TV script "Perchance to Dream"
- Punishment, metaphorically
- Towel site
- "Spare the ___, spoil ..."
- Symbol of punishment
- Dowsing need
- Wand
- Old-fashioned punishment
- See 43-Across
- Casting need
- Dowel
- Retinal cell
- Gun-cleaning aid
- Fishing stick
- Axle, e.g.
- 5.5 yards
- "Night Gallery" host Serling
- "The Twilight Zone" host Serling
- Staff partner?
- Shower curtain suspender
- Singing Stewart
- Serling of sci-fi
- Curtain suspender
- "Lonesome Cities" poet McKuen
- Curtain support
- Abacus part
- Rocker Stewart
- 16.5 feet
- Thug's heater
- Stewart who sang "Maggie May"
- Cone's partner
- Word after fishing or lightning
- TV writer/host Serling
- Switch
- Stick
- Cone's counterpart in the retina
- Handgun, in slang
- Symbol of discipline
- Hood's heater
- Brother of Todd Flanders on "The Simpsons"
- Optical sensor
- Hot ___
- Punk's piece
- Retina cell
- Reel partner
- Divining tool
- Gangster's heater
- Fish stick?
- Lightning attractor
- Piece of the underworld?
- Pole
- Drapery support
- Axle, essentially
- Dowsing stick
- Discipline, so to speak
- Angler's need
- Steiger or Serling
- Diviner's device
- Stewart or Serling
- Gat
- Curtain hardware
- Reel holder
- Diviner's need
- Curtain fixture
- The reel thing?
- Fisherman's need
- Unit of linear or square measure
- Angler's item
- Staff without personnel?
- "The Twilight Zone" creator Serling
- "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" singer Stewart
- Angling aid
- Casting choice?
- Divining or dowsing instrument
- Mr. Serling
- Divining device
- Curtain supporter
- Ned's son on "The Simpsons"
- Cone's retinal partner
- Length of measure
- Reactor core part
- Staff's partner
- Something to "spare"
- Attachment for 30-Down
- Lightning stick
- Tennis legend Laver
- "Spare the ___ ..."
- "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" singer Stewart
- Gun, in slang
- Cone's counterpart
- Fishing tool
- Fishing gear
- Good name for a surveyor?
- Hot ___
- It holds the line
- Perp's piece
- "The Twilight Zone" creator Serling
- Piece of the hood?
- Serling or Stewart
- Piece of pier gear
- One of Ned Flanders's sons
- Taylor of "The Birds"
- Unit equivalent to 5.5 yards
- Mace
- Linear measure
- Linear unit
- Abacus components
- Valance holder
- Staff;stick
- Tool
- Eye part
- Gangster's gun
- Something sometimes spared
- Divining implement
- Dipstick
- Divining impliment
- Word after hot or lightning
- Angler's equipment
- 62-Across, e.g.
- Piston connector
- First name of 7-Down
- Retina part
- Baton
- Singer Stewart
- Partner of 44-Across
- Lightning ___
- Axle, for one
- Dowel, e.g.
- See 1-Down
- Angling tool
- Angling need
- Part of a nuclear reactor
- Some advise sparing it
- Diviner's tool
- Pretzel shape
- Angling pole
- 198 inches
- Car axle, e.g.
- The lax may spare it
- Something to spare?
- Thing to spare, in an adage
- See 55-Down
- Fisherman's buy
- Angling device
- One holding the line
- Reel companion
- Functional stick
- Taylor of "The Time Machine"
- ___ and reel
- Psalm 23 comforter
- Serling or Steiger
- Word with "fishing" or "curtain"
- Bygone means of corporal punishment
- Five-and-a-half yards
- Word after hot or fishing
- Part of a reactor
- Dowser's tool
- Place to hang something
- Optic
- Surveyor's unit
- Fly ___
- Casting director?
- Word after hot or curtain
- "Maggie May" singer Stewart
- Angler's requirement
- Piece for a hood
- Curtain hanger
- Diviner's aid
- Fisher's need
- Bit of fishing tackle
- "Twilight Zone" writer Serling
- Fuel ___: reactor component
- Land meas.
- Singer ___ Stewart
- Fishing shop purchase
- Part of a fasces
- Angler's pole
- Laver of tennis
- Casting aid
- Slender pole
- Slender stick
- Curtain accessory
- Unit of 5.5 yards
- Discipline, figuratively
- "Spare the ___, spoil the child"
- Piscatory pole
- Wand, essentially
- Carew in Cooperstown
- Implement for an angler
- See 4-Down
- Metal bar
- Metaphor for punishment
- Drapery pole
- Drape support
- Bar of iron
- Fishing ___
- Slender bar
- Fisherman's pole
- Stewart or Steiger
- Towel's place
- Clothes closet fixture
- Baseball's Carew
- Punty
- Author Serling
- Reel's mate
- Curtain bar
- Shaft
- ___ and reel (fishing equipment)
- Creepy Serling
- Bob's late "The Price Is Right" announcer
- Fishing ___ and reel
- Ned Flanders' son
- Blagojevich in 2009 news
- Stewart who did an August 2016 stint in Vegas
- Hall of Famer Carew
- Word with "curtain" or "shower"
- It holds a fishing line
- Stick, shaft
- ___ "The Bod" Stewart
- "Have I Told You Lately" Stewart
- "Broken Arrow" Stewart
- "Handbags and Gladrags" Stewart
- "Maggie May" Stewart
- Fishing item used in shooting
- What the fisherman is armed with?
- Stick with a round exterior
- Stick nothing in the middle of the road!
- What the fisherman's armed with?
- Aphrodite took him to her heart
- Pole's forename, familiarly?
- Stick - measure
- He's useful at fishing
- Name your weapon
- With which to catch a perch
- Had he the right to do wrong?
- One bent on catching a big fish?
- He may be bent on catching a big fish
- Arm with a stick
- Stick (for fishing?)
- Stick with him
- Boy given the stick?
- He gets the stick
- Chap bent on catching a big fish?
- Metal stick
- Gunman in bar in Hull, 24 worker
- Stick - bar
- See 22
- Staff ends up agreed to differ
- See 13
- Cone counterpart
- Angler's cane
- Wand - fishing stick
- Cane - shaft
- Stick, symbol of punishment
- A punitive measure
- Punishment, symbolically
- Tinkertoy piece
- Punishment symbol
- A gun in the fishing-boat
- Taylor in "The Birds"
- Stewart or Laver
- ___ and reel (fishing gear)
- Drapes supporter
- Mr. Steiger
- Souped-up car, hot ___
- Way without a perch
- Faces Chief Brody's unlimited time in rough waters
- Push leader away from shaft
- Baton, pole
- Bar starts with roll of drums
- Dowsing tool
- Tennis player Laver or baseball player Carew
- Staff travelled endlessly
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member ___ Stewart
- It may hold the line
- Chap an angler wouldn't be without
- Boy to go fishing with?
- Spit
- Shower curtain holder
- The switch, man!
- Bit of pier gear
- Stick held by conductor oddly
- Nominally the part of Aphrodite
- Tennis great Laver
- Word with curtain or hot
- Stick around in Benidorm
- 18-time MLB All-Star Carew
- Straight stick of a sort
- Drapery supporter
- Straight stick
- Stick connected to a reel
- TV's Serling
- Angler's tool
- Beads holder on an abacus
- He'll throw nothing out of the back door!
- Drape supporter
- Word after fuel or fly
- Towel rack component
- Steiger or Stewart
- Serling or Taylor
- Stick usable as a perch, once
- Aaron's staff
- Boy on "The Simpsons"
- Hot car?
- Thing to spare, in a saying
- Reel's companion
- Gunman?
- Item of fishing gear
- Laver or Stewart
- A switch in production
- Selfie stick, e.g.
- Boy's name
- Shepherd's tool
- Reel go-with
- Stewart or Taylor
- Stick or shaft
- "Submitted for your approval ... " first name
- Raspy-voiced Stewart
- Sceptre
- Staff without workers?
- Punishment is right when you do wrong!
- 45 Down applicator
- Stick used in prodding
- A shooting stick!
- Stick to Stewart
- Bathroom towel support
- Drapery holder
- Tennis's Laver
- Tackle shop buy
- Angler’s tool
- Cone's retinal counterpart
- Stepped
- A famous sculptor took him in
- Tackle component
- Word after "lightning" or "hot"
- Thin pretzel shape
- Taylor or Steiger
- Staff without personnel?
- In stage productions, used for casting
- Man's name
- Aerodynamic part of a piston
- Bit of lakeside equipment
- Fishing instrument
- Actor Taylor
- Retina cell near a cone
- Angler's ___ and reel
- Eye cell
- Tinkertoy connector
- Caster's implement
- Angler's name for a perch?
- Is he right to do wrong?
- Retinal receptor
- Word with tie or fly
- One bent on catching a big fish?
- Stick an article out of the way
- A pole to catch a perch?
- The man with the stick
- A shower curtain hangs from one
- Closet bar
- Fishing bender
- Erector Set piece
- Word with fishing or lightning
- Thin bar
- What the fisherman is armed with?
- The gun that beats the others?
- What the fisherman's armed with?
- You can slide curtains on it
- Casting requirement?
- Bit of rebar
- Pole's forename, familiarly?
- It bends on a dock
- Face towel holder
- Support for a shower curtain
- What something bacillary is shaped like
- Word with hot or fly
- Had he the right to do wrong?
- Fish stick?
- Old measure used in angling
- Apt name for an angler
- Shower curtain support
- Aaron's fishing pole?
- Boy given the stick?
- Foosball apparatus
- Bone insert following an accident
- Reel attachment
- Chap bent on catching a big fish?
- Paper towel holder
- Curtain pole
- Measure the piece of wood
- Ned Flanders' oldest son
- Photoreceptor cell
- Good name for a nuclear engineer?
- Curtain hanger's need
- Host Serling
- Unit equivalent to 16.5 feet
- Surveyor's measure
- He's in aerodynamics
- K'Nex connector
- Divining ___
- Partner of a cone, or of a reel
- Eye cell that plays a role in night vision
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 20, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - February 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 19, 2026
- Daily American - February 18, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 16, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 14, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 14, 2026
- Daily American - February 12, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 05, 2026
- New York Times - January 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 15, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 30, 2025
- LA Times - November 19, 2025
- New York Times - November 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 06, 2025
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