Clues for the word "THIRST"
We've had 70 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 142 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 19, 2026.
Definition of thirst
- n. - A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
- n. - Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.
- n. - To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.
- n. - To have a vehement desire.
- v. t. - To have a thirst for.
Referring Clues
- Craving
- Great desire
- Common companion of a dry throat
- Want water
- Strong desire
- Gatorade "target," in ads
- Longing
- Water shortage consequence
- Parchment?
- Desire for water
- Reason to find an oasis
- Desire
- Mild dehydration symptom
- A drink can quench it
- More than desire
- Parched feeling
- Kind of craving
- Feel the need to drink
- It will lead you to drink
- You may slake it
- What you slake
- Drive to drink?
- Reason to drink
- Desire for a drink
- Need for water
- Need for libation
- Hankering
- Need of a 53-Down
- Desire for drink
- Desert traveler's symptom
- Desire to drink
- Yen
- Eager desire
- Need water
- Crave water
- It causes the need to drink water
- Urge to drink water
- Have a craving for
- T-shirt (anag)
- Long to get out of the T shirt
- Long and badly cut T-shirt
- Grounds for guzzling
- Desire a new T-shirt
- Desire to see last of beetroot pickler
- Saatchi's core to artist's keenness
- Model finds artist in need of a drink
- Long time to be wed to an artist
- First cockney to experience dryness
- Craving for drink
- Strong desire for something
- Long crumpled T-shirt
- Have one for a beer after rocking out
- Feeling of a person stranded in the desert
- Need to have a drink
- Desire, as for knowledge
- Long sort of t-shirt
- Crave hydration
- It'll drive you to drink
- Dryness
- Hanker (for)
- Hunger, in one sense
- Feeling on a hot day
- Intense longing
- Eagerness
- Intense craving
- ___-quencher
- ___ trap (sexy selfie)
- ___ for knowledge
- Feeling while walking in a desert
- Want very much, with "for"
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 10, 2025
- Daily American - September 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 27, 2025
- Daily American - May 13, 2025
- New York Times - May 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 21, 2025
- New York Times - February 27, 2025
- USA Today - February 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 12, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 17, 2024
- New York Times - July 01, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 19, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 03, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 25, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 03, 2024
- USA Today - March 13, 2024
- USA Today - February 27, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 10, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 15, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - October 28, 2023
- Daily American - September 02, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 31, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 17, 2023
- Daily American - May 13, 2023
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