Clues for the word "TRADITION"
We've had 19 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 19 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on September 23, 2025.
Definition of tradition
- n. - The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
- n. - The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
- n. - Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.
- n. - An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
- n. - That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.
- v. t. - To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Referring Clues
- It's handed down
- Standard practice
- Custom
- Reverse of skill shown by publication - not English usage
- Usual practice of one missile turning into dud
- Customs etc handed down
- Practice established with time: it's in a way to telegraph pole
- Customs making sad idiot rant
- Usage of a Dior tint's transforming!
- See 12 Down
- Established practice
- Custom, long-standing practice
- Briefly, business on Italian island's working as it's always been done
- Established practice in art? I do it differently with end of crayon
- Commercial appeal in group with northern heritage
- Custom of not returning to collect bones over time
- Saying grace before dinner, e.g.
- Long-established custom or belief
- How things have always been done
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - September 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 07, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 07, 2023
- New York Times - October 06, 2022
- Guardian Weekend - May 27, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - May 01, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - August 14, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - December 28, 2014
- Guardian Quiptic - February 17, 2014
- Washington Post - December 05, 2012
- Guardian Quick - May 06, 2012
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 29, 2009
- Guardian Speedy - May 10, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - March 12, 2009
- USA Today - May 15, 2006
- Guardian Cryptic - January 13, 2006
- Guardian Speedy - March 06, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - March 05, 2004
- Guardian Cryptic - March 18, 2003