Clues for the word "WATER"
We've had 234 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 338 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer crossword on February 25, 2025.
Definition of water
- n. - The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
- n. - A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
- n. - Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
- n. - A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
- n. - The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
- n. - A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
- v. t. - An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
- v. t. - To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
- v. t. - To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
- v. t. - To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
- n. - To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
- v. i. - To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
- v. i. - To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
Referring Clues
- No-cal drink
- Firefighting need
- Contents of a dog's bowl
- Hot ___ (trouble)
- Puzzle's theme (shown in 20-, 40-, 58-Across and 21-Down)
- End of the quip
- It's in the spring
- Addition to a concentrate
- An element, to the ancients
- Use a hose on, as a garden
- Pipe contents
- It may be well-taken
- Marathon handout
- See 22-Down
- Desert wanderer's request
- 10K race handout
- Tend to, as flowers
- Tend the plants
- No-calorie beverage
- Radiator filler
- Word that can precede the first word of 20-, 32-, 43-, and 56-Across
- With 104-Down, utility gauge
- See 11-Down
- Spring flower?
- Word that can precede either part of the answers to starred clues
- Dilute, with "down"
- Aquafina product
- Desert request
- Irrigate
- Desert dearth
- Spring, essentially
- Canteen contents
- Treasure in a desert
- Sign of springs
- Ocean contents
- Spring offering
- Balloon filler, maybe
- Word with buffalo or chestnut
- Well-managed resource?
- Kind of rat or snake
- Word after 17, 38, 59-Across, 11, 34-Down
- "Smoke on the ___"
- Tend to, as plants
- Drink disparaged by W.C. Fields
- Oasis offering
- Triatomic molecule
- Firefighting aid
- H2O
- Hijklmno
- Ocid
- Tend, as houseplants
- ______ski
- Something well-preserved?
- Tend, as plants
- Hijklmno
- H - i - j - k - l - m - n - o
- Pool filler
- Gatorade alternative
- Desert's dearth
- Bottled buy
- Oasis find
- Well fill
- Hose output
- 'Just add ___'
- Moisten
- Most common chemical compound
- Commonest liquid
- White ___
- Tend to the garden
- Adam's ale
- Cooler contents
- Lake filler
- *Plant need
- Aquarium contents
- Creek or river
- Creek or river
- Mixer that completes 37-Across
- Bowl left for Bowser
- It makes a sound
- One of the four ancient elements
- See 31-Down
- Lake makeup
- Mover through a river
- Estuary, essentially
- Its freezing point is 0° Celsius
- H2O (and a word that can follow the starts of 17-, 27-, 49-, and 65-Across)
- Word that can precede the start of the theme entries
- Substance in the middle of the 49-Across
- -
- Important greenhouse gas
- River phenomena (or what literally happens six times in this puzzle)
- Restaurant freebie
- Desert treasure
- Binary compound
- Short-supply item, in a drought
- No-calorie drink
- 48 Across, essentially
- Plain dinner quaff
- Need for life
- Moisten, as a lawn
- Oasis refreshment
- *Tend to the garden
- You're full of it
- With 7-Down, incapable of leaking
- Tend the plants, in a way
- Word with well or tap
- 'Just add '
- Tend to, in a way, as a garden
- Liquid 32-Down
- *Serengeti gathering place
- Most common beverage
- With 68-Across, what the groups of circled letters are famous examples of
- Gunga Din's burden
- City on New York's Black River
- Desert cry
- Prankster's balloon filler
- Desert rarity
- ___ over the dam
- H20
- Mercury in alchemy
- Quasimodo's request
- Pixie's milieu
- Well-kept resource
- Something you can't live without
- Word repeated before "everywhere"
- Radiator contents
- A drink to jump at, maybe?
- Word with bed or bug
- Distilled or purified liquid
- First word learned by Helen Keller
- Scott's left out drink
- Common beverage
- World's healthiest drink
- Odds of being allergic to it: 1 in 230,000,000
- Liquid for drinking
- Doobie Brothers "Black ___"
- Wet song off "Who's Next"
- Well content with exchange rate
- See 6
- Pipe takes a period of time to fill cart
- It's to be found in puddles, pools and ponds
- Chestnut or biscuit?
- See 24
- It runs its course
- A natural runner, that's clear
- Drink was unfinished - a half of bitter
- I've left the waiter something for a drink
- Fighting to curb tide, I'd lost - to this?
- Cheap drink
- Has its main supplier, that's clear
- Game Paltrow's playing with heartless one
- Main ingredient?
- Drink - type of 1 across
- Yellow iris the police, without worry, backed with most of ...
- See 18
- Essential liquid
- Fire fighter
- See 1
- See 14
- See 7
- H<sub>2</sub>O
- Dilute 26's forerunner when the boat comes in
- Drink which clearly makes the difference between competitors
- Fancy art we featured in seascape
- This puzzle's theme source
- *Theme park attraction
- Homeowners monthly expense
- What carbon dioxide reacts with to form carbonic acid
- Dilute, ___ down
- This could contribute to a solution
- 11 with a great fear (or not) - live twice in it
- Capturing leaders of the enemy in conflict as basis for solution, often
- Wear out with time in the sea?
- Liquid consumed in wide river
- Liquid tar we mixed
- Alien upset in struggle to become liquid
- See clues page
- Quality perfumed with 48
- Deterrent rebid, Waugh's work for passing time?
- Liquid whose chemical formula is a homophonic hint to the answers to starred clues
- See 42-Across
- Gristmill turner*
- Pool fill
- Helen Keller's first word
- What fills a reservoir
- Restaurant employee dropping one drink
- Getting too immersed in it can be fatal
- Pond filler
- Word that can precede each word of each starred answer
- Designated driver's order
- Tend to bed or what's in special kind of mattress
- What all totally empty reservoirs principally lack
- Zero-calorie drink
- Fire extinguisher
- Adam's wine
- World's most popular drink
- Sprinkler liquid
- Do penguins have such wings?
- Kool-Aid maker's need
- Dasani product
- Do a gardening task
- Liquid from a tap
- Well-kept supply
- See 34-Across
- A cheap drink
- I left the waiter something for a drink
- I leave the waiter something for a drink
- With the answer below, dilute ... and a hint to the four longest answers
- Word with buffalo or wings
- A fluid we confuse with tar
- Liquid
- Something that's well-kept?
- Do a garden chore
- Seltzer, e.g.
- Vital liquid
- Island environs
- Word with hold or holy
- Salt or fresh follower
- One piece of evidence of a planet's habitability
- With 55-Across, no longer an issue
- Makeup of 32-Across
- Most of the album cover for SZA's "SOS"
- Melted ice
- Runner's drink
- I left the waiter to get a drink
- What more than half of the human body is composed of
- Zero-calorie beverage
- Free drink at most restaurants
- Word before "polo" or "park"
- Makeup of about 60% of the human body
- A drink to jump at, maybe?
- With 42-Across, zodiac trio that hints at the longest answers in this puzzle
- It makes up about 96% of iceberg lettuce's weight
- Oasis drink
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 27, 2024
- USA Today - August 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 19, 2024
- New York Times - May 28, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 01, 2024
- USA Today - March 14, 2024
- USA Today - February 20, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - January 26, 2024
- Mirror Mini - January 23, 2024
- USA Today - January 16, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 24, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 22, 2023
- USA Today - December 18, 2023
- LA Times - December 11, 2023
- New York Times - November 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 01, 2023
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