Clues for the word "SILENT"
We've had 110 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 226 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on December 28, 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?)
- In order to listen?
Last Seen In
- LA Times - December 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 05, 2025
- 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
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