Clues for the word "WATER"
We've had 235 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 353 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on December 18, 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
- Substance that can be holy or hard
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - December 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 20, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 09, 2025
- LA Times - April 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 21, 2025
- 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
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