Clues for the word "SWORD"
We've had 110 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 180 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on October 22, 2026.
Definition of sword
- n. - An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
- n. - Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
- n. - Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
- n. - The military power of a country.
- n. - One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Referring Clues
- Fencing weapon
- Dubbing need
- A D-Day beach
- Duel tool
- Zorro's weapon
- Swashbuckler's weapon of choice
- Swashbuckler's weapon
- Weakling, next to a pen
- Excalibur, e.g.
- Excalibur, notably
- Duel-purpose weapon
- King Arthur's Excalibur, for one
- Dueling weapon
- Fighting blade
- D-Day beach
- Swashbuckler's need
- Excalibur, for one
- Scimitar, e.g.
- Bilbo or scimitar
- Hand-to-hand weapon
- "The ___ in the Stone" (1963 animated film)
- Pen's inferior, it's said
- Musketeer weapon
- "... shall perish with the ___" (Matthew)
- Weapon for Zorro
- Scabbard contents
- Duel-purpose weapon?
- Plowshare material, per Isaiah
- "Kill Bill" weapon
- Prop in a Roman epic
- Symbol of justice
- Stellate : star :: xiphoid : ___
- Foil, e.g.
- Fencing need
- Damocles' worry
- Cavalry weapon
- Drawn weapon
- Old arena draw?
- Weapon used with a shield, maybe
- Fencing unit?
- Cutlass
- pe, say
- There's a point to it
- Samurai weapon
- Katzbalger
- Knight's weapon
- Shogun's slicer
- Combat, figuratively
- Weapon used to slay the [circled letters]
- Foil, eg
- Excalibur, for example
- Pen's inferior in strength, so they say
- Samurai's weapon
- Centurion weapon
- Pen's inferior, in a saying
- Symbol of military power
- War metaphor
- Weapon on an Oscar statuette
- Fencing tool
- Saber, e.g.
- Duelist's weapon
- See 59-Down
- Epee, e.g.
- Edged weapon
- Two-edged weapon
- "The ___ in the Stone"
- Sabre
- Slash lives "By" it
- "Sabre", "scimitar" or "steel"?
- 24 down is found at the end of this puzzle
- Weapon of steel
- 57-Across, for one
- Coming from Wales, rows with world entertainer!
- Don leaves oath by which those who live also die
- Cutting weapon
- Not hard to keep promise, pity 8 22 spoke of this
- Weapon associated with Damocles
- Epee or rapier
- Knight's blade
- Second rumour concerning Excalibur, perhaps
- Sometimes words conceal a weapon
- Son's term for a weapon
- Blade's small talk
- Expression after opening of silver foil?
- The cutter that completes the puzzle
- Fencer's weapon
- Sabre, for example
- Rapier
- "Highlander" weapon
- Piercing weapon
- This weapon is always found in crosswords
- Epee or foil
- Symbol of power
- Pentathlon tool
- Weapon with a hilt
- Has it a sharp edge for mincing words?
- In crosswords, the pen may be more effective than this
- Weapon in a scabbard
- Sports blade
- Weapon for Valkyrie
- Feature of an Oscar statuette
- Ensiform, adj.: Shaped like a ___
- Fencing piece?
- Sabre, say
- Medieval weapon that's a cut above
- Weapon in a sheath
- "Forged in Fire" creation
- Weapon that killed Medusa, in myth
- Shape of some cocktail picks
- Katana, e.g.
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - October 22, 2026
- LA Times - October 15, 2026
- New York Times - October 05, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - September 10, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - August 27, 2026
- Daily Quick - August 14, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 28, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 26, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 19, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - May 13, 2026
- Daily Quick - April 26, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 06, 2026
- LA Times - March 18, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 24, 2025
- New York Times - December 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 10, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 25, 2025
- USA Today - February 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 29, 2025
- USA Today - January 15, 2025
- LA Times - December 04, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 20, 2024
- Family Time - November 17, 2024
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