Clues for the word "TAIL"
We've had 320 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 776 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on May 24, 2026.
Definition of tail
- n. - Limitation; abridgment.
- a. - Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
- n. - The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
- n. - Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
- n. - Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
- n. - A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- n. - The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
- n. - The distal tendon of a muscle.
- n. - A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
- n. - A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.
- n. - One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- n. - A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- n. - The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- n. - Same as Tailing, 4.
- n. - The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
- n. - See Tailing, n., 5.
- v. t. - To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- v. t. - To pull or draw by the tail.
- v. i. - To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
- v. i. - To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
Referring Clues
- Peacock's pride
- Shadow
- Party game pin-on
- Mermaid feature
- Cow's flyswatter
- Follow closely
- Deer's scut
- Plane section
- Dinosaur's weapon
- Lobster order
- Lobster serving
- Follow furtively
- Lobster part
- Horse's fly-swatter
- Surveil, in a way
- Follow
- Site of the 9-Across on an old nickel
- It may be docked
- Detective, at times
- Act the private eye
- Behind
- Kite part
- Final portion
- Investigator, at times
- Box kite's lack
- Shadow, as a suspect
- Comet feature
- Caboose, e.g.
- Follow, as a suspect
- What a donkey gets at a children's party
- Manx cat's lack
- Follower, as in espionage
- Head's opposite
- Following detective
- What you might catch a tiger by, in a saying
- Turn ___ (flee)
- Opossum's gripper
- What a dog may chase
- Dwindle, with "off"
- Act the P.I.
- Follow around
- Squirrel's portable umbrella?
- Shirt part
- Barbary ape's lack
- Airplane section
- Opossum's branch grabber
- End of the lion
- Bad place to hold a tiger
- Dog, in a way
- Abate, with "off"
- Prehensile body part
- Word after pig or pony
- Suspect's concern
- A 66-Across lacks one
- Peacock's distinctive feature
- Apt attachment to the ends of 30-, 37-, 59- and 62-Across
- Tec, at times
- Trophy for a matador
- Detective, on occasion
- The kinkajou has a prehensile one
- Manx's lack
- Suspect follower
- Dick, at times
- Follower
- Switched appendage
- Weimaraner wagger
- See 20-Across
- Stay behind
- Kite attachment
- Follow secretly
- Keep tabs on, perhaps
- Dog
- Kite stablizer
- Spiked part of a stegosaurus
- Suspect's shadow
- Animal's appendage
- Mr. Ed's fly swatter
- Shadower in a whodunit
- Deer's scut, e.g.
- Pin the ___ on the donkey
- Monkey's prehensile body part
- Mouse appendage
- Whippet wagger
- Word with pig or pony
- Pipe opening?
- Part of 10-Across
- Best part of the lobster
- Rear of a plane
- Kangaroo stabilizer
- Horse's flyswatter
- Westie's wagger
- Showy peacock feature
- Cat ______
- Horse____
- Comet part
- Donkey's need, in a party game
- Horndog's pursuit
- Follow relentlessly
- Donkey's pin-on
- Donkey's pin-on?
- Plane part
- Hindmost part
- Do surveillance on
- Head alternative
- Keep tabs on
- Whippet's wagger
- Donkey attachment
- Manx lack
- Kohoutek feature
- Part of a dog
- Dog feature
- With 29-Across, very last part
- Cat feature
- Guinea pig's lack
- A dog wags it
- Rear
- Quarter side
- Part of a dress shirt
- Watch from behind
- Pooch appendage
- What a dog wags
- Cow's fly swatter
- Location of a scorpion's stinger
- See 35-Across
- Spy, at times
- Homophone for 57-Down
- Caudal appendage
- Party-game pin-on
- Follow frutively
- Stick close to
- Part that wags
- Fox feature
- Succulent lobster piece
- Feature of most kites
- Caudal apendage
- Dog's wagger
- Ape's lack
- Donkey pin-on
- Missing part of a Manx
- Fox follower
- Cow's fly swatter?
- Wagger on the dog
- Follow, or the one doing the following
- -
- Comet's trailer
- Tip of a comet
- Word with spin or wind
- Comet or kite feature
- It's turned before bolting
- Dog's feature
- End
- Part of a kite or comet
- Kite feature
- Follow, or follower
- Follow, in a way
- Appendage
- Pig's curly feature
- Donkey feature
- Prehensile ___
- Godzilla weapon
- Follow around, as a detective might
- Bird part
- Kite dangler
- Back part of a plane
- Kite's end
- End of a kite or comet
- Kite's back part
- Kind of fin or spin
- Follow, in crime novels
- Follow stealthily
- Apt rhyme for "surveil"
- Word after cock or cotton
- Bushy part of a squirrel
- Shadow, in a whodunit
- Keep close tabs on
- Comet's train
- Appendage lacked by an unusual feline
- Meaty lobster part
- End of a kite
- Part of a dog or comet
- Word before (or synonymous with) end
- Word with coat or shirt
- Cat's body part that aids in balance
- Kite's trailer
- Kite trailer
- Elongated comet part
- Bedog
- Angling attachment
- Dog part
- Lobster order, often
- Wagged part
- What Fido wags
- A monkey hangs by one
- Follow the arrows if looking for starters
- Streamer on a kite
- Comet component
- Item in a blindfolded party game
- Waggin' part
- Part of a monkey
- End of a dog
- Powderfinger song about a cat?
- Powderfinger's first single
- Alkaline Trio "Nose Over ___"
- Scorpions "Sting in the ___"
- Genesis "A Trick of the ___"
- Daniel Ash band Tones on ___
- Buck Owens "I've Got a Tiger By the ___"
- Back end
- Powderfinger song about mouse?
- Follow to the end
- Follow with a brush
- At last it's ended by specialist bowlers
- End part
- A beastly end
- See 20
- Said to be the story's end
- Follow closely - taper (off)
- Follow story read out
- Train makes Tory leader feel off colour
- See 21
- Tory leader has pain in bum
- Dog, or feature thereof
- Pursue
- A fishy end?
- What a Manx cat lacks
- Follow, in detective mode
- Tip of a kite
- Part of American car seen in Rear Window
- See 10
- Follow at the end
- End story in hearing
- [See instructions]
- Follower with story to tell
- Dog story recited
- See 26
- Kite stabilizer
- "Prehensile" part
- Lassie's wagger
- Dog, or part of it
- The end of a nameless Italian, maybe
- Follow a story that's heard
- It helps a plane arrive early*
- Time to be sickly comes to an end
- Much of a snake
- Opossum's grasping appendage
- Animal feature
- Part of a lobster
- The last thing that may be turned?
- The rear end of rabbits?
- Appendage used in locomotion
- Plane-seating section
- One doggedly wagged?
- Aircraft's rear part
- Expressive dog part
- The end of a rear gunner in WWII
- 26-Across feature
- Dog ... or dog part
- Chase
- Dog trailer?
- Muffler attachment
- Curly pug part
- Dog appendage
- Lizard part
- Place for a scorpion's stinger
- Ending
- Follow in secret
- Follow closely, as a spy might a mark
- Kite appendage
- Cricketers' place for rabbits
- What's pinned on a donkey
- End of story, we're told
- Much of a mermaid costume
- Long part of a lemur
- Be just behind
- Indicator of a dog’s mood
- Showy part of a peacock
- Mermaid's feature
- Go along with, in a way
- Long part of a jerboa
- Curly part of a chow chow
- Body part that a human lacks
- Part that a lizard might regrow
- Mermaid costume part
- Bone head?
- Part of a lemur or a comet
- Wolf costume part
- An ape doesn't have one
- Body part that a Manx cat lacks
- A sea horse has a prehensile one
- The end of certain rabbits
- Cat costume part
- Curled part of an akita
- The end of a cricket team?
- What a mudi wags
- What a monkey has that an ape doesn't
- Long part of a comet
- Devil costume part
- Ringed part of a raccoon
- Wagging part of a dog
- Common animal feature that humans lack
- Follow surreptitiously
- Peacock show?
- 5-Across body part
- A fishy end?
- Hound, or part of a hound
- A cat's may twitch while playing
- Dog part that wags
- Back of a plane
- Pig feature
- Follow closely behind
- Part of a cat costume
- Feature of a kangaroo but not a koala
- Pompom, for a stuffed bunny
- Dog's active part
- Dog, or a dog's body part
- Something on a mouse
- Long part of a kite
- Kite extension
- Follow covertly
- Common serving of lobster
Last Seen In
- New York Times - May 24, 2026
- Daily American - May 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 01, 2026
- LA Times - April 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 26, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - March 25, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - March 23, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 23, 2026
- Daily American - February 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 22, 2026
- New York Times - February 05, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 23, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 22, 2026
- Daily American - January 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 08, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 11, 2025
- New York Times - November 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 28, 2025
- Daily American - October 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 12, 2025
- LA Times - August 31, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 28, 2025
- LA Times - August 22, 2025
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