Clues for the word "SILENT"
We've had 109 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 216 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on March 29, 2025.
Definition of silent
- a. - Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
- a. - Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
- a. - Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
- a. - Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
- a. - Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
- n. - That which is silent; a time of silence.
Referring Clues
- Mum
- Like a D. W. Griffith film
- Speechless
- Like some auctions
- Like the "p" in psychology
- Clammy?
- Like 33-Down's films
- Like Marcel Marceau, on film
- Mute
- Like Fatty Arbuckle's films
- Unspoken
- Like the "h" in honor
- Unpronounced
- Like some partners
- Still
- Unvoiced
- Saying nothing
- Making no sound
- Like Arbuckle's films
- Kind of majority
- Word in a Christmas carol title
- Like some alarms
- Like many old movies
- Like Tom Mix flicks
- Old movie types
- Like a respectful librarygoer
- Hushed
- Old movie
- ... described thus
- In the background, perhaps
- Completely still
- Completely still
- Muted
- Like the Best Picture of 2011
- Not providing any hints, say
- Unspeaking
- Like one "k" in "knuckle"
- Not talking
- Uncommunicative
- Muffled
- ___ movies (8-, 20-, 39- and 57-Across, in a way)
- Word 1 of a Christmas classic
- Nonspeaking
- Closed up
- Soundless
- With 56-Down, pre-talkies time
- Making no sounds
- Kind of treatment
- Like a very old movie
- With 71-Across, pre-talkies time
- Zipped
- Tight-lipped
- G, as in gnaw
- Like most Chaplin films
- Like the last letter in a column?
- Like the first "d" in "Wednesday"
- Quiet
- Without sound
- Early movie
- Mum ordered tinsel
- Noiseless
- Like some initial P's
- How Mike & the Mechanics ran?
- Mike and the Mechanics "___ Running"
- Enlist (anag) - mum
- What Tori Amos was "All These Years"
- Unheard
- Quiet - 13 (anag)
- Pioneering ecological book is back, fast bound
- Mum will pose holding the boy
- Without a word, listen with attention
- The sort of service for mum?
- Like William, is in retreat and advanced
- Enlist, possibly (in naval service?)
- Mum, able to listen
- Perhaps the artist is an avant-garde 8, taking in two students
- Listen anyhow, without a sound
- Dumb boy in post
- Dumb as the majority are reported to be?
- Like the letters omitted from the starred answers (collected here)
- Bryan Adams "I was caught in the crossfire of a ___ scream"
- Mum, listen for a change!
- Still sent around the Italian
- It's very quiet somehow - listen!
- Like early movies
- Is perversely advanced still
- One may be so in order to listen
- Listen vaguely, not speaking
- Listen out for mum
- With 63 Across, source of quote
- Muted to the max
- Is, perhaps, not given to being uncommunicative
- Like three of the letters of "aisle"
- "___ Night"
- Like all pre-1927 movies
- One is so in order to listen
- Cold kind of treatment
- Saying nothing about naval service
- Omitting of mention, in contract-ese
- See 50-Across
- Like the third letter of "talking"
- Taciturn
- "Were you ___? Or were you silenced?" (37-Down quote)
- The sort of service for mum?
- Phone mode for a theater
- Cellphone setting
- Reticent
- Quiet - that's the way to listen!
- Enlist, possibly (in naval service?)
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 25, 2024
- Daily American - December 12, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 10, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 30, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 28, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 01, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 25, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 25, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 14, 2023
- Family Time - November 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 21, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 03, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 21, 2023
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