Clues for the word "STRAIT"
We've had 91 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 192 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on January 10, 2026.
Definition of strait
- a. - A variant of Straight.
- superl. - Narrow; not broad.
- superl. - Tight; close; closely fitting.
- superl. - Close; intimate; near; familiar.
- superl. - Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
- superl. - Difficult; distressful; straited.
- superl. - Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
- adv. - Strictly; rigorously.
- a. - A narrow pass or passage.
- a. - A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
- a. - A neck of land; an isthmus.
- a. - Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
- v. t. - To put to difficulties.
Referring Clues
- Sea route
- Nautical passageway
- Commercial passage
- Narrow passage
- Predicament
- Ship's passage
- Nautical passage
- Country singer George
- Magellan, for one
- Narrow channel
- Bering, for one
- Narrow waterway
- Narrow way
- The Bosporus, e.g.
- Bering or Cook
- Narrow body of water
- The Dardanelles, e.g.
- Navigable connection
- Naval route
- Bering or Bosporus
- British Columbia's ____of Juan de Fuca
- Bering ___
- Gibraltar passage
- ___ of Gibraltar
- Narrow waterway for ships
- C&W singer George
- Natural passage
- Isthmus
- Water channel
- Narrow marine passageway
- Cook or Bering
- Magellan or Bering
- Channel of the sea
- Channel relative
- Narrow water passage
- Passage off Gibraltar, e.g.
- New York's East River, technically
- Channel
- Narrow channel of the sea
- Country icon George
- Narrow sea passage
- Narrow - artist (anag)
- Gibraltar has one that doesn't sound gay
- For a start, I have to rewrite the passage
- 9 features back to front
- Outspoken spoken passage
- Music centre with characteristic sound
- Just said it's a passage
- That sounds fair for the passage
- Blunt, it may be said, is sound
- Connecting passage of water
- Artist (anag)
- Narrow Southern characteristic
- Sound sort of artist
- Hardship - narrow passage of water
- ... and kind of jacket with back to front characteristics
- Artist's work, laced as 3 is minded
- Channel is without water, we hear
- Narrows definition of second feature
- Special feature of sound
- Kind of jacket, characteristic to a point
- Artist's dire channel
- Stretch of water
- Seafarer's channel
- Narrow nautical passage
- Undiluted sound in passage
- Artist's fanciful representation of a watercourse
- Narrow
- Frank listened to stretch of water
- Son's characteristic water passage
- Channel with singular quality
- Pinched passage in society feature
- Kind of restrictive jacket
- Tough situation
- A channel without water, we're told
- Narrow passage for ships
- Narrow channel - not winding, by the sound of it
- Narrows
- Narrow stretch of water
- Direct verbally from the passage
- ___ of Hormuz
- A narrow passage of water connecting two seas
- Route between continents
- Bering, e.g.
- Waterway named for Bering
- Land : isthmus :: water : ___
- Narrow passage of water
- ___-laced
- Connecting waterway
- Not, you say, a winding passage
- Acutely difficult position
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - January 10, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 21, 2025
- New York Times - October 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 29, 2025
- LA Times - August 28, 2025
- Daily American - July 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 25, 2025
- Daily American - June 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 02, 2024
- LA Times - October 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 06, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 12, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 23, 2024
- Daily American - May 03, 2024
- Daily American - February 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 10, 2024
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