Clues for the word "THAW"
We've had 184 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 532 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 23, 2026.
Definition of thaw
- v. i. - To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.
- v. i. - To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
- v. i. - Fig.: To grow gentle or genial.
- v. t. - To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
- n. - The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed.
Referring Clues
- Easing of tensions
- Take out of the freezer
- Warm up
- Spring happening
- Spring thing?
- Defrost
- Rapprochement
- Soften up
- Become less reserved
- Spring event
- End of 14-Across
- Become less tense
- Get friendlier
- Detente
- Winter break
- Sign of spring
- Become friendlier
- Become soft, say
- Spring occurrence
- Microwave option
- Unfreeze
- Loosen up
- Loosen
- Opening for peace talks
- Spring break?
- Remove from the freezer
- Spring phenomenon
- Melt
- Become more responsive
- Spring spell
- Melt down
- Easing of tension
- Lose iciness
- Soften
- Break the ice?
- Melting period
- Midwinter phenomenon, sometimes
- Become less hostile
- Reduction in hostility
- Ease, as hostilities
- Microwave setting
- Turn to liquid
- Begin to melt
- "Ragtime" character
- Reduction in tension
- Start to melt
- Become less icy
- Microwave, maybe
- Diplomatic improvement
- Winter-to-spring transition
- Cold-War-to-detente transition
- Move from a frozen state?
- Freeze follower
- Cold War-to-detente transition
- Turn slushy
- Prepare for cooking
- Springtime occurrence
- Grow genial
- Warming of relations
- Freeze follower, often
- Meltdown
- Liquefy
- Grow less hostile
- Soften in the sun
- Break in the Cold War
- Winter-ending event
- Warming
- Cold war abatement
- Easing of hostilities
- Warming trend
- Diplomacy improvement
- Get ready for the oven
- Spring thing
- Get out of the cold?
- Relax, as tense relations
- Dissolve
- Winter break?
- Warm spell
- "Ragtime" character
- 26-Down sculptor's concern
- Lose one's cool?
- Prepare for roasting
- De-ice
- January event
- Turn to slush
- Defreeze
- Deice
- Onset of melting
- Springtime period
- Lose one's aloofness
- End of winter
- Melt, as ice
- Winter warmer of a sort
- Leave out of the freezer
- Antifreeze?
- Winter warming
- Deice?
- Midwinter event, often
- Spring warming
- Become less formal
- Spring occurence
- Feel less angry, so to speak
- Relief for the snowbound
- Warm spell in winter
- Spring melt
- Start-of-spring event
- Grow friendly
- Instruction on a frozen turkey
- Spring melting period
- With 68-Across, release philosopher John Stuart from cryonic suspension?
- Put in the defroster
- Become liquid, sometimes
- Gradual melting
- Spring meltdown
- Prepare for cooking, perhaps
- Icicle foe
- Lose that frozen feeling
- January warm spell
- Winter respite
- Improvement in relations
- Become less aloof
- Icebreaker?
- Defrost in a microwave
- Unbend
- Turn liquid
- What ice will do in your room
- Dissolve, as snow
- melt as snow
- Spring warmth
- Warm up after being in the freezer
- Liquefy, as snow
- Melt(ing)
- John can act with melting effect
- An end to snow? What nonsense!
- What upset John - possibly ...
- What changed as one result of global warming
- To melt
- What about some relaxation?(4)
- Defrost, as a roast
- Become liquid, maybe
- Soften, perhaps
- Start to soften
- Inspector Morse might relax
- What's melting?
- Winter warm spell
- Warming in relations
- Diplomatic desire
- Deintensification
- Harbinger of spring
- What changes when the snow melts!
- Become less cold? What's wrong with that?
- Weather change not enough to take one's breath away
- Spring awakening sign
- What melts?
- Melt from a frozen state
- Become friendlier; loosen or warm up
- What must be modified to produce rapprochement
- Lose solidity, in a way
- Détente
- Soften in a microwave
- Spring harbinger
- Move from freezer to counter
- Lessening of hostilities
- Extended defrosting
- Warm spell that causes melting
- Become less frozen
- Remove from the deep freeze
- Get warmer
- Become slushy, say
- Become more relaxed
- Become slushy
- Go from ice to water
- Gradual warming
- Opposite of freeze
- Become more approachable, say
- Melt, like snow
- A hotel in marble will not remain too cold
- Cause of puddles in early spring, say
- Defrost, or become more friendly
- Spring break?
- Sign of warming temperatures
- What spring may bring
- Move from the freezer to the sink, perhaps
- Be unchill?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 23, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 09, 2026
- Your Life Choices - November 23, 2025
- New York Times - November 14, 2025
- LA Times - November 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 29, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 31, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 17, 2025
- LA Times - July 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 13, 2025
- Daily American - June 08, 2025
- LA Times - May 28, 2025
- New York Times - May 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 08, 2025
- LA Times - May 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 29, 2025
- LA Times - April 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 31, 2025
- New York Times - March 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 11, 2025
- Mirror Mini - March 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 05, 2025
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