Clues for the word "TUNNEL"
We've had 51 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 97 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on August 05, 2025.
Definition of tunnel
- n. . - A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- n. . - The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel.
- n. . - An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
- n. . - A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- v. t. - To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
- v. t. - To catch in a tunnel net.
- v. t. - To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
Referring Clues
- Burrow
- Dig
- Prison escape route, maybe
- Secret passage, perhaps
- ___ of love
- Prison escape route, perhaps
- Miniature golf feature
- Path for a mole
- Illicit vault access
- Underground passage
- Mole's work
- Underground route
- Holland or Lincoln, e.g.
- Dig, perhaps
- Go underground
- See 30-Down
- Mountain passage
- Gopher's route
- Ant farm feature
- Do a mole's work
- Surreptitious route
- Smuggling aid
- Subway, basically
- Kind of vision
- Means of escaping prison, maybe
- Be boring, perhaps
- Way under a river
- Underground thoroughfare
- See 7
- Wherein to make love on the tube?
- Melody containing new line to hold most of these lines
- (Soppy) fairground ride
- See 6
- See 11
- Sight defect
- Really dig?
- Underpass
- See 15
- Dig fast, surfacing around centre of mounds
- The optimist sees 9 at its end
- Boy, weirdo, returning by underground route
- Burrow (under)
- Shaft
- Mimic a mole
- Players' entrance in a stadium
- Mine feature
- 35-Across' creation
- Problem for a claustrophobic driver
- With 86-Across, fixation problem suggested by this puzzle's theme
- Wherein to make love on the tube?
- Subway passage
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - August 05, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 17, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 08, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 12, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 03, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 27, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - September 12, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 31, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 18, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 13, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 14, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 19, 2023
- Daily Quick - April 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 21, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - December 10, 2022
- Daily Quick - December 08, 2022
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