Clues for the word "WILD"
We've had 93 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 150 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on October 21, 2025.
Definition of wild
- superl. - Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
- superl. - Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
- superl. - Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
- superl. - Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
- superl. - Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
- superl. - Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
- superl. - Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
- superl. - Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
- n. - An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
- adv. - Wildly; as, to talk wild.
Referring Clues
- Junglelike
- From the jungle
- Like jokers, often
- Like jokers
- Unbroken
- ___ Turkey (bourbon brand)
- Out of control
- Uncontrolled
- Feral
- Word repeated before West
- Uncombed, say
- Untamed
- One way to run
- With total abandon
- Untamed, and word that can precede the starts of 17- and 61-Across and 11- and 28-Down
- Like eights in crazy eights
- Wacky
- Natural
- Like some jokers
- Not tamed
- Uncivilized
- Woolly partner?
- Woolly partner
- Like some pitches
- Like jokers, sometimes
- Like the West, once
- And woolly
- Boon for a poker player
- Hard to control
- With a jungle mentality
- Unrestrained
- Uncontrollable
- Frenzied
- Rugged
- With wood, Alberta com-munity
- See 115 Across
- See 49-Down
- Like some Uno cards
- Uncultivated
- Like some very bad pitches
- Metaphor for quick-spreading success
- "Born to Be ___"
- "___ Kingdom"
- Minnesota athletes
- Like most zoo animals
- Kind of card or goose
- Frantic
- Word repeated before "West" in a film and 1960s TV series
- Undomesticated
- Unable to throw strikes
- Savage
- "___ at Heart"
- Opposite of tame
- Like joker values
- "Play That Funky Music" ___ Cherry
- Cult "___ Hearted Son"
- Jokers so delirious?
- Unrestrained determination finally increased tenfold
- Angry with a joker?
- Not tame
- A tame denial
- Angry and a bit bewildered
- Said to have passed time in the jungle, perhaps
- Feral - crazy
- Tree kept by 21 with a spreader
- See 26
- Not throwing strikes, say
- Impulsive dramatist? Sounds like it
- See 11
- Like dogs in packs
- "Where the ___ Things Are"
- ___ and woolly
- Joker, in poker
- Like game reserve animals
- Irate
- Like animals in the Serengeti
- Free to be angry
- Like deuces, sometimes
- Word before "card" or "rice"
- Seriously off the mark, as a throw
- Word before "guess" or "West"
- Like some parties and flowers
- Rabid
- Opposite of 13-Across
- 2014 Reese Witherspoon film
- Unruly
- Stormy
- A joker maybe, but angry
- Angry with a joker?
- Like uncombed hair
- Minnesota's NHL team
- Not domesticated
- Cheryl Strayed memoir subtitled "From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail"
Last Seen In
- Daily American - October 21, 2025
- New York Times - September 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 02, 2025
- Daily American - March 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 13, 2024
- New York Times - November 15, 2024
- USA Today - September 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 31, 2024
- USA Today - June 18, 2024
- USA Today - June 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 17, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 07, 2023
- Daily American - October 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - May 10, 2023
- LA Times - April 23, 2023
- USA Today - April 06, 2023
- Daily American - March 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 01, 2022
- LA Times - November 16, 2022
- New York Times - November 03, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 31, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 20, 2022
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