Clues for the word "RURAL"
We've had 171 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 539 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 16, 2026.
Definition of rural
- a. - Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.
- a. - Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.
Referring Clues
- In the boondocks
- Part of R.F.D.
- Country
- Back-country
- Countryman
- Urban's opposite
- Bucolic
- Like 63-Across, usually
- Not built-up
- The "R" in R.F.D.
- Like the boondocks
- Like Mayberry
- Like Grandma Moses's scenes
- Countrified
- The "R" of R.F.D.
- Like "Green Acres"
- On the range, say
- Not built up
- From the country
- Countryish
- Cry interrupting a prank
- Pastoral
- Living in the country
- Like much of Kansas
- Part of RFD
- Of the countryside
- Beyond the suburbs
- From the boondocks
- Agrarian
- Hick
- Like some sticks?
- Rustic
- Like farm country
- Country-style
- From the backwoods
- Of farm life
- Outlying, in a way
- Far from the big city
- Of country life
- Beyond the exurbs
- Like the boonies
- Mayberryesque
- Backcountry
- In the boondocks, e.g.
- Far from the city
- Out in the sticks
- Campestral
- Beyond suburban
- Bucolic and rustic
- Beyond the 'burbs
- Backwoods
- Like country life
- RFD part
- Of the boonies
- Like the setting of "Green Acres"
- Arcadian
- Way out in the country
- Like a certain route
- Like Montana, mostly
- Not urban
- Not urban
- Like the sticks
- Bumpkin
- Like the backwoods
- Of the sticks
- Like most of Montana
- Like hayseeds' hangouts
- Beyond the burbs
- Steak order
- Opposite of urban
- Like agricultural areas, usually
- Out of town?
- Like most of western China
- From the sticks
- "R" in RFD
- Like most of Wyoming
- Definitely not urban
- Concerning country life
- Lacking Verizon coverage, maybe
- Out in the country
- Not in the city
- Filled with farms
- Nonurban
- Like the settings of typical Grant Wood paintings
- Back country
- Like much of New York
- Like Dogpatch or Mayberry
- Like a general store's locale
- Like most of Maine
- Neither urban nor suburban
- In the country
- Rustic part of the lower Urals
- Of the country
- Out in farm country
- The ___ Alberta Advantage
- Like areas played when starting out
- Like scenery on "Nebraska" cover
- Relating to the countryside
- To do with the countryside
- Countryfied
- Right old city with others not citified
- Out in the country, right over the river
- Relating to the country
- It's right for a river to be bucolic
- A return game between two sides in the country
- It's truly hard to say if you're drunk
- In the countryside
- Out of town, it's right to reach a conjectural conclusion
- Country sport really regularly cancelled
- Registered web address to describe a country
- From the countryside
- Farmland adjective
- Road over a river in the country
- Popular urban retreat - fields in the country
- Country river and mountains
- Right to range in the country
- Country sportsmen backing God
- Countryside sport legitimate without conclusion to chase
- Lacking good cell coverage, perhaps
- Unfamiliar to city slickers
- Two rivers characteristic of the country
- Country river - a Russian river
- Country has right to mountain range
- Country artist interned by government out east
- Bucolic pair of rivers
- Two rivers in the country
- River sport has state backing in the country
- Rook seen over river in the country
- Rustic artist interrupting canon, endlessly
- Regular members of group really relating to countryside
- Gatherings of rugby players abandon situations in the country
- Not dense, in a way
- In the boonies
- Like a farm
- Like much of Iowa
- Like the air terminal over the river, not in town
- Outside the city
- Far from urban
- Initially rounding up runaways at large in the country
- Like much of Oregon
- Sparsely populated
- Like Grant Wood settings
- Like much of Idaho
- Like scenes in Grant Wood paintings
- Truly this can be tricky to pronounce
- Is such a dean a countryman?
- Like much of the Dakotas
- William Cobbett's preferred means of learning what was really happening in England?
- Beyond exurban
- Like farm life
- Truly it can be hard to say
- From beyond the suburbs
- Like the countryside
- Like much of Nebraska
- Like about 97% of U.S. land
- Filled with farmland
- Counterpart of urban
- Urban opposite
- Like many scenes of the artist Jean-François Millet
- Sub-suburban
- Like 86% of New York State, contrary to stereotype
- Like areas filled with farmland
- Outside of the city
- Like a farming community
- Like life in the country
- Like much of Montana
- Like a place with more hogs than humans
- Like life on a farm
- Like much of Maine
- A truly difficult word to say?
- Like much of central Illinois
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 28, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 05, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 21, 2025
- LA Times - August 21, 2025
- New York Times - August 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 08, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 25, 2025
- New York Times - July 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 10, 2025
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