Clues for the word "SWIFT"
We've had 82 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 130 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on September 03, 2026.
Definition of swift
- v. i. - Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.
- v. i. - Of short continuance; passing away quickly.
- adv. - Swiftly.
- n. - The current of a stream.
- n. - Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds.
- n. - Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard.
- n. - The ghost moth. See under Ghost.
- n. - A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- n. - The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.
Referring Clues
- "A Modest Proposal" writer
- Clever, slangily
- Galloping
- Fleet
- Gulliver's creator
- "A Modest Proposal" satirist
- Happening quickly
- Not too ___
- "... from the ___ completion of their appointed rounds"
- Fast
- "Gulliver's Travels" author
- Fleet-footed
- Fleet of foot
- ". . . the ___ completion of their appointed rounds"
- Houyhnhnm's creator
- Gullivers creator
- "... the ___ completion of their appointed rounds"
- Bird named for its flight speed
- Speedy
- Lilliput's creator
- Rapid
- Singer Taylor
- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" singer Taylor
- Gulliver's creator
- Hummingbird's cousin
- Satirist Jonathan
- Aptly named bird
- Very fast
- "Blank Space" singer
- Taylor with the No. 1 hit "Bad Blood"
- Like hand motions during a shell game
- Speedy old satirist
- "Wildest Dreams" singer Taylor
- See 22
- Flyer in posh part of London paper
- Fast - novelist
- Fast, as a way to get fit, funnily enough!
- Fast writer?
- Not slow to identify the bird
- The flying dean?
- Quick way to get fit, perhaps
- Fleet Street accepts Dutch, not English
- Fast - bird
- Quick - writer
- Riddle takes week for writer
- Bird wife found in sieve
- Fast flier
- Fast mover of 11
- Rapid - writer - bird
- Author quick to get the bird
- Bird, the satirist
- Quicksand! Sense foot being caught
- A satirist must be quick
- Riddle involving western satirist
- Anglo-Irish satirist is fast
- Direction taken in search, which is up
- Way in which partner is cut to the quick
- Writer travelling with expedition
- Satirist's riddle about Whitehead
- Satirist, one of the 12
- Author like Usain Bolt?
- Way to embrace partner, kicking back
- See 7
- Jonathan was not slow
- Fast on one's feet
- Quick
- Flier and author
- Brisk
- Quick way to get fit by exercise
- 1989 singer
- Bird that can spend up to 10 months in the air without landing
- Fast writer?
- Taylor ___, some of whose hit songs are featured in the answers to the starred clues
- Prompt treatment for fits out West
- The flying dean?
- Fleet-footed ("A Maypole")
- Going by air is pretty quick
- Taylor who's recording "(Taylor's Version)" albums
- Taylor who was Time's 2023 Person of the Year
- Most-awarded musician at the American Music Awards
- Hurried
- Time's 2023 Person of the Year
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 03, 2026
- Daily Quick - July 25, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - May 14, 2026
- Daily Quick - May 05, 2026
- New York Times - April 12, 2026
- New York Times - March 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 05, 2026
- Daily Quick - November 30, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 09, 2025
- LA Times - October 10, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 02, 2025
- New York Times - May 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 14, 2024
- LA Times - December 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 30, 2024
- Mirror Mini - October 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 16, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 30, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 09, 2023
- Mirror Mini - October 03, 2023
- USA Today - September 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 21, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 04, 2023
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