Clues for the word "SHALL"
We've had 61 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 128 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on January 27, 2026.
Definition of shall
- v. i. & auxiliary. - To owe; to be under obligation for.
- v. i. & auxiliary. - To be obliged; must.
- v. i. & auxiliary. - As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, "the day shall come when . . . , " since a promise or threat and an authoritative prophecy nearly coincide in significance. In shall with the first person, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough, a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the expression approximates in meaning to our emphatic "I will go." In a question, the relation of speaker and source of obligation is of course transferred to the person addressed; as, "Shall you go?" (answer, "I shall go"); "Shall he go?" i. e., "Do you require or promise his going?" (answer, "He shall go".) The same relation is transferred to either second or third person in such phrases as "You say, or think, you shall go;" "He says, or thinks, he shall go." After a conditional conjunction (as if, whether) shall is used in all persons to express futurity simply; as, if I, you, or he shall say they are right. Should is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall, as its imperfect. It also expresses duty or moral obligation; as, he should do it whether he will or not. In the early English, and hence in our English Bible, shall is the auxiliary mainly used, in all the persons, to express simple futurity. (Cf. Will, v. t.) Shall may be used elliptically; thus, with an adverb or other word expressive of motion go may be omitted.
Referring Clues
- Strong will?
- "We ___ Overcome"
- "I ___ return"
- "___ we?"
- "___ we dance?"
- Are going to
- Formal will?
- "...and the truth ___ set you free"
- Intend to
- "___ We Dance"
- Will
- Fully intends to
- Fully expects to
- "___ We Dance?"
- Traditional will?
- "... and the truth ___ set you free"
- "We ___ Overcome"
- "... and the truth ___ set you free"
- Repeated word of the Beatitudes
- Verb of the future
- "We --- Overcome"
- "___ we go?"
- '___ I compare thee ...'
- Will surely
- Definitely will
- He who ___ remain nameless
- Intend to definitely
- "Congress ___ make no law ..."
- Will definitely
- "I ___ return": MacArthur
- Formal "will"
- Must, in legalese
- Forward looking verb
- 'We Overcome'
- Formal will
- Formal-sounding will?
- Legalese future tense
- "all that is and ___ be," Sophocles
- Will, once
- "___We Dance?"
- Sheryl Crow: "I ___ Believe"
- The Band "I ___ Be Released"
- Bob Dylan "I ___ Be Released"
- OK Go "This Too ___ Pass"
- Has ordered over fifties to make will
- Second space must ...
- "The truth ___ set you free"
- Strong will?
- "___ we?"
- Halls? (anag)
- "You ___ not pass!"
- Will, more emphatically
- “I ___ return”
- "When ___ we three meet again": "Macbeth" opening line
- Word of intent
- "This too ___ pass"
- "Will," more formally
- "This too - pass"
- Certainly will
- "- We Dance?"
- "And never the twain ___ meet"
Last Seen In
- Daily American - January 27, 2026
- Mirror Daily - November 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 21, 2025
- LA Times - May 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 30, 2025
- LA Times - March 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 29, 2025
- Daily American - January 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 12, 2025
- New York Times - November 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 24, 2024
- Mirror Mini - September 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 20, 2024
- New York Times - June 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 06, 2024
- Daily American - January 27, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 15, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 25, 2023
- USA Today - October 06, 2023
- Mirror Mini - September 07, 2023
- LA Times - August 17, 2023
- Daily American - January 24, 2023
- Mirror Daily - January 18, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 05, 2022
- USA Today - September 15, 2022
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