Clues for the word "WHALE"
We've had 123 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 191 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 06, 2025.
Definition of whale
- n. - Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
Referring Clues
- Moby-Dick, for one
- Humpback, e.g.
- Jonah's swallower
- Capt. Ahab's obsession
- Thrash
- Use a harpoon
- Source of ambergris
- One known for spouting off
- Mammoth mammal
- The largest is blue
- Problem for Jonah
- Swimmer in a pod
- Beluga
- Monstro, for one
- Ahab's obsession
- Jonah's problem
- Rorqual, e.g.
- Blubber source
- Scrimshaw source
- Starbuck's quarry
- Pinocchio swallower
- Mammal with a blowhole
- Pod swimmer
- Mammal with flippers
- Ambergris source
- Largest mammal
- Aquarium attraction
- Giant sea mammal
- Largest animal that ever lived
- Monstro or Willy
- Pod member
- Ocean behemoth
- Exemplar of great size
- Ahab's quarry
- Bigness exemplar
- Jonah's three-day prison
- A ____ of a time
- Queequeg target
- Moby Dick, for one
- 7-Across, e.g.
- Massive mammal
- Sea spouter
- Sea mammal
- Marine mammal
- Dolphin kin
- Orca, e.g.
- Moby-Dick, e.g.
- Spouter
- Leviathan
- "Humpback" beast
- Krill killer
- Dilemma for Jonah
- Pequod sinker
- Orca
- Large marine mammal
- High roller, in casino jargon
- Arctic giant
- Oil source
- Swallower of Pinocchio
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- Subject of some watches
- Shamu, e.g.
- Largest sea mammal
- Ambergis source
- Large ocean mammal
- *Pinocchio swallower
- Spouting sea creature
- Orion : Hunter :: Cetus : ___
- Huge swimmer
- Blubbery mammal
- Keiko was one
- Creature in a pod
- Monstro, in "Pinocchio"
- "Gods and Monsters" subject
- Police "Blue ___ beached by a spring tide's ebb"
- Large mammal
- Mammoth marine mammal
- A great swimmer
- Large creature
- Large animal
- Big bettor at the casino
- Biblical swallower of Jonah
- It can deliver a blow while in the water
- We accept Henry as member of the school
- Pequod's target
- Humpback or minke
- Orca, killer ___
- Soundly beat one in school
- First sign of whopper, robust creature
- Prophet's host gives bard's friend a drink
- Cetacean
- Ocean mammal
- Moby-Dick, notably
- Bit of water required by robust aquatic mammal
- Big bettor at a casino
- Enemy of 28 Across
- Humpback
- Casino high roller
- Member of a pod
- Thrash, with "on"
- Nantucket sleighride beast
- Dolphin relative
- Big blue creature in the American Museum of Natural History
- Word that can follow the first parts of 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Down
- Massive marine mammal
- Beluga, e.g.
- Animal that swallowed Jonah
- Mammal
- More than a high roller, in casino lingo
- Big spender, in gambling lingo
- Willy, e.g.
- See 64-Across
- Big spender at a casino
- Humpback or beluga
- "Humpback" creature
- One in a pod
- Pearl Krabs or Moby Dick
- Splashy gambler, in lingo
- Creature that moves in pods
- Animal that swallowed Pinocchio
- Ocean giant
- Mammal that feeds on krill
- High-stakes gambler, in Vegas lingo
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 18, 2025
- LA Times - March 17, 2025
- LA Times - March 03, 2025
- USA Today - March 02, 2025
- Family Time - December 15, 2024
- New York Times - September 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 20, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - June 20, 2024
- Daily American - May 09, 2024
- USA Today - May 05, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 01, 2024
- LA Times - April 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 16, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 31, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 19, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - January 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 27, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 18, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 17, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - September 11, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 20, 2023
- USA Today - August 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 14, 2023
- USA Today - July 05, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - June 11, 2023
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