Clues for the word "TORPEDO"
We've had 76 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 128 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on May 22, 2026.
Definition of torpedo
- n. - Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
- n. - An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
- n. - A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.
- n. - A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.
- n. - A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.
- n. - A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.
- n. - An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.
- n. - A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
- v. t. - to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.
Referring Clues
- Sink
- Tucker ___ (car with a third headlight)
- Ruin
- Sub launching
- Cigar-shaped missile
- Undermine
- Undersea weapon
- Hit man
- Hero sandwich
- Ruin, as plans
- Submarine weapon
- Naval armament
- Sub weapon
- Sub sinker
- Lusitania's downfall
- Lusitania's undoing
- Red October armament
- Underwater missile
- Ship sinker
- Destroyer destroyer
- Naval weapon
- Quiznos offering
- Underwater weapon
- Sabotage
- Sink, as one's chances
- Weapon of war
- Fish in wreck
- Underwater projectile
- Naval missile
- American sandwich made with a long split roll
- Missile destroyed depot storing gold
- Finish off drink at party, imbibing water in the end
- Missile
- Wreck lower-class party after 24 drunk
- To make a further attempt to capture Polaris' top missile?
- Fuss about correct speech: English can sink a ship!
- Self-propelled marine weapon
- It sinks below the waves
- Weapon that may be ported, 8
- Sub shot
- Missile dropper drops odd bits amid confusion
- Projectile weapon lifts off to explode protective covers
- Self-propelled underwater explosive device
- Wreck, a danger at sea
- Self-propelled submarine weapon
- Weapon travelling under water
- Code protecting interior switches in explosive device
- Ray used as weapon of destruction
- Item dispatched by sea to 14
- "The Hunt for Red October" weapon
- Sub's missile
- It sinks beneath the waves
- Fuss about right exercise weapon
- Poor Ted rebuilt underwater missile
- Ruin poor Ted in crash
- See missile, they say, getting trooped around
- Fuss about right drill for weapon
- Submarine weaponry
- Sea-borne missile
- Newly promoted male avoided underwater missile
- Missile - fuss about right drill
- Ray opted out, or in?
- Sea battle weapon
- Marine missile
- Marine weapon
- Fishy weapon of war?
- Sub's weapon
- Submarine missile
- Explosive device dropped regularly amidst commotion
- New Yorker's hero
- Self-propelled weapon
- Undersea missile
- Missile for a submarine
- Long sandwich
- Missile for a sub
- Underwater sinker
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - May 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 23, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 19, 2026
- Daily American - March 11, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - February 14, 2026
- Daily Quick - November 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 06, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 11, 2024
- Daily American - August 26, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 11, 2024
- Family Time - May 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 24, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 18, 2024
- Daily American - March 10, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 22, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 25, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 18, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 21, 2023
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