Clues for the word "STERN"
We've had 300 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 749 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on December 07, 2025.
Definition of stern
- n. - The black tern.
- superl. - Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
- v. t. - The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
- v. t. - The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
- v. t. - Fig.: The post of management or direction.
- v. t. - The hinder part of anything.
- v. t. - The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
- a. - Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
Referring Clues
- Back of a boat
- Rudder's locale
- Grave
- Unaccommodating
- Uncompromising
- Stringent
- Unsmiling
- Rear
- Back
- Finger-wagging
- Back on the briny
- Rudder's place
- Rudder's spot
- Unbending
- Demanding
- Rowboat's rear
- Boat's back
- Shock jock Howard
- Like some warnings
- Violinist Isaac
- Howard of morning radio
- Bark back
- Back on the high seas
- Draconian
- Opposite of soft
- Not lenient
- Finger-wagging, say
- Schindler's business partner in "Schindler's List"
- Like disciplinarians
- Place for an outboard motor
- Brooking no dissent
- Forbidding
- Rear, in the Navy
- Back at sea?
- Far from soft
- Hard-nosed
- Firm
- Rear of a galley
- Imus rival
- "Private Parts" author Howard
- Back of the boat
- Relentless
- Back on the sea
- Sailor's rear
- Rudder locale
- Self-proclaimed "King of All Media"
- Back in the navy
- Stem's opposite
- Severe in manner
- Back end
- Laying down the law
- Austere
- See 15-Across
- Far from lenient
- FCC flouter Howard
- Howard of Sirius radio
- Ferry tail
- Ruling with an iron fist
- Back on the ocean
- Back at sea
- Stem to ___
- Noted shock jock
- Harsh
- "Private Parts" author
- Flinty
- Sirius star
- NYU's business school
- NBA commissioner David
- Back on the ocean?
- Rigid
- Tough
- Boat back
- Severe
- Tiller's place
- After part
- Back of a ship
- Very strict
- Brooking no nonsense
- Back in the Navy?
- Back of a skiff
- Back, at sea
- Hardly lenient
- Unyielding
- Outboard motor's locale
- Hardly permissive
- Iron-fisted
- Boat section
- Bow's opposite
- Place for a wake?
- Outboard motor location
- Like old schoolmasters, stereotypically
- Hardhearted
- Opposite of stem
- Hind end
- Ship's rear
- 26-Down opposite
- Howard of satellite radio
- Violin virtuoso Isaac
- Hard
- Rear of a ship
- From stem to ___
- Harsh, as a reprimand
- Isaac with a bow
- Whaler's rear end
- Back, on a skipjack
- Outboard motor locale
- Virtuoso Isaac
- Poop's place
- Radio's bad boy
- Back of a skipjack
- Shock jock
- Tiller's locale
- Grim
- Back on the high seas?
- Rents anagram
- Not easily amused
- Unlikely to crack a smile
- Prow opposite
- Prow opposite
- Exacting
- Somber
- Barge back
- 'King of All Media'
- Radio's Howard
- Unrelenting
- Boat back
- Like a tough-love parent
- Not at all lenient
- Authoritarian
- Quarterdeck's place
- Uncompromising virtuoso
- Bow's counterpart
- Strict
- Fiddling Isaac
- Daniel of "City Slickers"
- Like taskmasters, often
- Serious
- Rear admiral's rear
- Back in the water
- Exacting, discipline-wise
- Not at all lax
- Gondolier's position
- Rudder's location
- Scene of a wake
- Rudder location
- Heavy handed
- Inflexible
- 'America's Got Talent' judge
- Isaac with a violin
- Satellite-radio star
- Wes of "Rhoda"
- Resistant to compromise
- Ironfisted
- Howard ___ of radio
- Back in the water?
- Like a parental lecture
- "City Slickers" co-star
- Violinist Isaac ___
- All business
- Cruiser's rear
- Hard to move
- Harsh in apperance
- Area to the rear
- Like a disciplinarian's talk
- Rear, to an admiral
- Without empathy
- Far from lax
- U.S. violinist
- Howard or Isaac
- SiriusXM star
- Grim-looking
- Barge's back
- Titanic rear end
- Taking no guff
- Unlikely to smile
- Part of a ship
- See 60-Across
- Where a ship leaves its wake
- Serious and firm
- Sirius XM radio star
- Harsh or rigid
- Adamantine
- Ocean liner's rear
- Aft area
- Howard on satellite radio
- Howard or Daniel
- Ship section
- Ship's section
- Wacky Howard
- Small bird at rear of ship
- Unrelenting back
- The rear of a ship or boat
- Howard on the airwaves
- Daniel of "Home Alone"
- Rocker interviewer Howard
- Radio interviewer Howard
- Forbidding in aspect
- Grim prospect for yachtsman trying to catch rival
- Back end of a ship
- Frowning in consternation
- During Easter, normally, it's tough
- Not smiling back
- Back rents suitably dealt with
- Pasternak's back! (In hardback?)
- Hard as a westerner's heart
- Westerner's hard heart
- It's severe at the rear
- Strict regulation of rents
- It's hard to get back
- Rear to be tough?
- It's tough at the rear
- Grim end to a ship
- Not a bow - not even a smile, apparently
- Severe -- back of boat
- Strictly speaking, the tail of a dog
- Harsh, severe
- Point on bird's back
- Hardback?
- Rigorous - back of boat
- Quarterdeck's location
- Small bird's tail
- Point to bird's back
- Unyielding - rump
- Point to bird's rump
- Rear small bird
- Back on a boat
- Back on board?
- Like a demanding schoolmaster
- Ship back?
- No-nonsense
- Rear of ship
- Austere Midwesterner?
- Point to bird at back end of ship
- Severe and unremitting: area of a ship
- Authoritarian writer of novels, abridged
- Irish novelist reportedly having a forbidding appearance
- Serious novelist, not English
- Irish novelist, reportedly, is demanding
- Rigid back
- Firm rear
- Rear end
- Self-described "King of All Media"
- Outboard motor's spot
- Skipjack's back
- Southern bird at rear of ship
- Lenient? No way
- Forbidding rents to be revised
- National Radio Hall of Famer Howard
- Harsh, as a teacher
- Howard of XM radio
- Unrelentingly serious
- Harsh, as an instructor
- Last part of the Titanic above water
- Like a disciplinarian
- Back of a barge
- Endmost part of an aircraft
- Hard as the heart of a westerner
- Severe if back on board
- Forbidding the revision of rents
- 4-Across' opposite
- Rudder's region
- Humorless
- Unsympathetic
- Rear of a boat
- Ship's rear end
- Rigorous
- Highly exacting
- A tough back
- Rudder area
- Rear part of a ship
- Back rents collected
- Doling out tough love
- NYU school of business
- Serious and strict
- Back rents, maybe
- It's grim, getting set about by sailors!
- Prow : front :: ___ : back
- Rearward part of a ship
- Rigidly rule-enforcing
- A stiff back?
- Rear with rudders
- Back of the canoe
- Strict and serious
- See 49-Across
- Overly firm when giving instructions
- Violinist Isaac who performed the solos in the movie "Fiddler on the Roof"
- Serious in tone
- Like the tone of a talking-to
- Severe in tone
- Like a serious talking-to
- Rhadamanthine
- Pasternak's back! (In hardback?)
- Pasternak's hard heart!
- Serious in demeanor
- Rear to be tough?
- Back on the ocean?
- Unlikely to approve of horseplay
- Back in the navy?
- Showing tough love, say
- Isaac or Howard
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - December 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 06, 2025
- New York Times - September 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 26, 2025
- LA Times - September 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 10, 2025
- Daily American - July 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 10, 2025
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