Clues for the word "VENUS"
We've had 117 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 175 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 25, 2025.
Definition of venus
- n. - The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
- n. - One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
- n. - The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
- n. - Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
Referring Clues
- Star impersonator?
- At times, it's the third-brightest object in the sky
- Ruler of Taurus and Libra, in astrology
- See 123-Across
- Neighbor of Earth
- Morning Star
- Botticelli's "The Birth of ___"
- Bright shiner
- Magellan visited it
- Flytrap's namesake
- Tennis star Williams
- Billboard chart topper for Frankie Avalon in 1959
- Serena's sister
- Second rock from the Sun
- 1986 Bananarama chart-topper
- Serena's frequent doubles partner
- Morning star, often
- EPILOGUE: Band member: Where can we possibly go where they won't find us? T: I'm thinking ___ (Frankie Avalon)
- Planet with a nearly circular orbit
- Mariner's first destination
- First name in tennis
- "Magellan" mapped it
- Serena's rival
- First name among tennis stars
- Earth neighbor
- Performance by an actor in a leading role: 25-Down in "___"
- Second planet from the sun
- Mythological subject for Titian and Botticelli
- Love goddess
- *2006
- Evening star
- EPILOGUE: Band member: Where can we possibly go where they won't find us? T: I'm thinking ___ (Frankie Avalon)
- "Magellan" mapped it
- The Magellan spacecraft mapped it
- Second-brightest object in the night sky
- Adonis' love
- Aphrodite counterpart
- End of a John Gray title
- Botticelli's 'Birth of ___'
- Planet with the most circular orbit
- Women's home, said John Gray
- Moonless planet
- Goddess of love
- Earth's neighbor
- Target of the Magellan probe
- Roman love goddess
- One of the planets
- "___ de Milo"
- Big name in pro tennis
- Hot planet
- Tennis great Williams
- Inner planet
- Beautiful woman with a heavenly body
- Planet
- Planet (5)
- Roman goddess of love
- Yet a non-starter, American Beauty
- She makes a bit of love before sunrise
- She brings a bit of heaven to the States
- She can bring us a bit of heaven
- Does she have a great day when the sun rises?
- Love endless tryst with Pole
- Body of little beauty after 19
- Like Aphrodite, she has a heavenly body
- Botticelli depicted her with a heavenly body
- A bit of love before sunrise would presumably suit her
- She means a bit of heaven to the Americans
- In several ways, to us, she looks a star
- The Romans imagined her to be heavenly
- She looks a star
- Locations abandoned by Oriental deity
- Love reversing gas guzzler around Tyneside etc
- 1 across the wrong gender to be from here? (Half have daily turns)
- Like blood vessels, say, in marine mollusk
- She makes love heavenly
- *"The Bringer of Peace"
- She shows a bit of heaven to American tennis fans
- Body spaces, barring the East
- It's nearer the sun - that's some evenings from the East
- Goddess taking new arrivals, if 19 down
- Wanderer with seamen on the "Victory" in Europe?
- Place to meet briefly with sun goddess
- Love for the nouveaux riches, if below par?
- (I) have gone round the sun
- L from heaven, usquebaugh
- Love our neighbour?
- Sculpture perhaps alternatively titled 13 9?
- Plant, a vision on the web?
- Warmer girl not entirely laid-back, a beauty
- Like blood as it enters the ear?
- Nearby planet
- Full of love, she's considered 'armless
- Botticelli subject
- Sex goddess very exciting at first to students
- Planet between Mercury and Earth
- One imagines she's out of this world
- Goddess with a heavenly body
- One planet in seven, usually
- Archdeacon attending American Beauty
- To us, a bit of heaven
- Bright at night, she gives some love before sunrise
- Appellation associated with large net profits
- A well known sister goddess
- Sister of Serena
- Like Aphrodite, she'll have a bit of love before sunrise
- Tennis legend Williams
- She brings us a little bit of heaven
- Does she have a great day when the sun rises?
- "___ of the Louvre": Emma Lazarus poem
- Five-time Wimbledon singles champion Williams
- She circulates with the likes of Mars and Pluto
- Williams seems to be in heaven usually!
- Williams may well be looked up to
- Adonis's love
- Planet whose day is longer than its year
- Second planet
- Williams with four Olympic gold medals
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 03, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 30, 2025
- LA Times - October 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 13, 2025
- Daily American - August 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 06, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 10, 2025
- New York Times - January 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 30, 2024
- LA Times - September 30, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 25, 2024
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