Clues for the word "VAMPIRE"
We've had 30 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 34 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Sunday crossword on July 27, 2025.
Definition of vampire
- n. - A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
- n. - Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
- n. - Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
- n. - Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.
Referring Clues
- Dracula, for one
- Anne Rice's Lestat, for one
- Twilight Saga character
- Interview With The ___, 1994 Hallowe'en heart stopper
- Creature who might disagree with the saying at the ends of 17-, 22-, 48- and 56-Across
- Garlic hater
- 'Twilight' creature
- Fanged monster
- Horror-movie villain
- Halloween figure
- *Garlic avoider, traditionally
- Sucker?
- Folklore creature traditionally averse to the starts of the answers to starred clues
- Anne Rice character
- Blood-sucker
- "Twilight" characters
- Bloodsucker
- Transylvanian bloodsucker
- Blood-sucking ghoul
- State representative's passion for seductive woman
- It drinks the blood of the living by night
- He's certainly tasted blood!
- Corpse that crosschecks?
- Prim Eva turned out to be a bloodsucker
- Dracula, e.g.
- One of the undead in endless primeval dance
- One who’s out for blood?
- Twilight's Edward Cullen, for one
- Halloween costume choice
- Bat boy?
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 27, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 03, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 25, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 29, 2018
- LA Times - November 23, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 31, 2017
- Daily Quick - July 25, 2017
- LA Times - January 20, 2016
- New York Times - June 08, 2014
- Netword - August 12, 2013
- LA Times - July 19, 2013
- Jonesin - March 05, 2013
- Guardian Quick - July 31, 2012
- New York Times - October 31, 2011
- LA Times - October 31, 2010
- Canadiana - August 16, 2010
- Guardian Quiptic - October 26, 2009
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 07, 2009
- Guardian Quick - August 29, 2008
- New York Times - July 15, 2008
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 26, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - September 22, 2006
- Guardian Quick - April 03, 2006
- Guardian Quick - November 24, 2005
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 20, 2005
- And in 4 more crossword puzzles...