Clues for the word "TROPIC"
We've had 52 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 127 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on July 17, 2026.
Definition of tropic
- a. - Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
- n. - One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
- n. - One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
- n. - The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
- a. - Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
Referring Clues
- Start of two Henry Miller titles
- ___ of Capricorn
- Line around the globe
- It circles the globe
- Hot and humid
- Torrid Zone boundary
- Globe encircler
- Cancer or Capricorn
- Capricorn, e.g.
- ____ of Capricorn
- Henry Miller's "___ of Cancer"
- Geographical parallel
- Word in Henry Miller titles
- Line around the world
- Global line
- ___ of Cancer
- Capricorn, for one
- Equatorial
- Global ring
- "___ of Cancer"
- Torrid Zone parallel
- "___ Thunder"
- "___ Thunder" (2008 Jack Black movie)
- Parallel of latitude about 25<sup>o </sup>N or S
- Like a sunny area with some pictorial possibilities
- Running round the world is a subject of interest outright!
- Interzonal line
- Harbour on Guernsey, perhaps, set up for a global line
- Line bordering hot region
- It marks a turning point when king takes subject out
- Cancer, say, left over one hundred
- Cancer, for instance, is right in issue
- Line defining hot zone
- Subject matter about right for a mundane circle
- Subject receives sovereign on one of two lines
- Hot line? Theme's about right
- Imaginary circle's radius called into question
- Hot line to subject imprisoning 2 or 15
- Global hotline?
- One of two circles, one left to turn around
- King interrupts subject to give some latitude
- Latitude for subject to imprison king
- Channel Islands port turns up well north of this
- Speaker's last boring subject - "circle on sphere"
- In geographical circle what's discussed includes river
- Subject accepting right line on map
- Perhaps cancer sufferer's last to be included in matter for discussion
- Line of latitude
- It circles the Earth
- Latitude line
- One of two circling the earth
- Hot water line?
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - July 17, 2026
- Daily Quick - June 03, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 05, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 07, 2026
- LA Times - January 04, 2026
- Daily Quick - November 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 30, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 20, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 08, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 15, 2024
- New York Times - June 23, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 28, 2023
- USA Today - November 24, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 17, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - September 26, 2023
- LA Times - September 02, 2023
- USA Today - August 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 30, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 10, 2023
- Your Life Choices - March 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - March 01, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - February 04, 2023
- Daily Quick - January 22, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 20, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 29, 2022
- And in 97 more crossword puzzles...