Clues for the word "SPIRAL"
We've had 105 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 193 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on April 28, 2026.
Definition of spiral
- a. - Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
- a. - Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
- a. - Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
- a. - A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.
- a. - Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
Referring Clues
- Fusilli's shape
- Inflationary path
- Well-tossed pigskin
- Kind of notebook
- Tailspin
- What well-thrown 44-Across do
- Standard pass
- Snail shell shape
- Shell shape
- Like some shells
- Form of a well-thrown pigskin
- Corkscrew
- Milky Way's shape
- Staircase shape
- Spin like a well-tossed pigskin
- Pasta or staircase shape
- Pigskin pass
- Type of notebook
- Well-thrown football pass
- Galaxy shape
- Helix
- Rotini shape
- Helical
- Skillful pass
- Conch shell shape
- Nice pass
- Perfect pass
- Type of galaxy
- Notebook type
- Football's flight
- Type of staircase
- Montana pass?
- Like many notebooks
- Perfect pigskin toss
- Corkscrew shape
- Pass word?
- Slinky shape
- Inflation, metaphorically
- Cochlea shape
- Helix shape
- Nautilus shape
- Staircase type
- Quarterback's pass, maybe
- Like one end of the Yellow Brick Road
- Air show maneuver
- Volute
- Coil
- DNA shape
- Common notebook binding
- Fusilli shape
- Go a few rounds?
- Nebula shape
- Curve upwards
- Like honey buns
- Spit curl's shape
- Helical form
- Shaped like fusilli pasta
- Quarterback's pass, hopefully
- Godsmack song that winds?
- Nine Inch Nails "The Downward ___"
- Winding like the thread of a screw
- April's novel corkscrew
- Twist succeeded - April fool!
- Screw
- Winding like a thread
- Staircase with rails winding around post
- Formation of tornado in southern April storms
- Line under Paris going round winding curve
- Sort of staircase (could be vicious?)
- April's wild wind
- The continual round of wage increases?
- April's turning out to be spring-like
- Wind round Paris rocked last bit of Eiffel's structure
- Move in well-connected circles
- Continuous decline left Paris reeling
- Twisting, turning borders filled by artist
- Winding up the French with tears
- Spin like a well-thrown football
- "Golden" shape in mathematics
- Certain staircase shape
- Shape of certain pasta
- April's stormy wind
- Spring shape
- I slap cast over the finale of Oliver Twist
- Fusilli form
- Milky Way shape
- Wind giving rise to the French tears
- Nautilus shell shape
- Twisting staircase shape
- Well-thrown football
- Space-saving staircase type
- Winding up with an increase in prices
- Shape of some galaxies
- A tightly-thrown football
- Like screw threads
- ___ staircase
- Corkscrew left at Paris, perhaps
- Perfectly thrown football
- With 51 Across, rotini
- Winding staircase shape
- Go around and around
- When preceded by [the circled letters], natural shape said to be seen in 61-Across and 27-Down
- Like some space-saving staircases
- Like the Vatican's Bramante Staircase
- Feature of a well-thrown football
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - April 28, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 20, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 13, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 08, 2025
- Daily American - February 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 20, 2025
- LA Times - February 19, 2025
- LA Times - November 10, 2024
- New York Times - November 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 30, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 14, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 08, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 30, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 26, 2023
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