Clues for the word "WOLF"
We've had 148 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 176 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on October 27, 2025.
Definition of wolf
- a. - Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
- a. - One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
- a. - Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
- a. - A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
- a. - An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
- a. - The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
- a. - In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
- a. - A willying machine.
Referring Clues
- Eat in a hurry
- "Little Red Riding-Hood" villain
- Whistle maker?
- Whistler?
- Bolt (down)
- Grimm villain
- Grandma, in a fairy tale
- Alarmist's cry, in a fable
- Impersonator in "Little Red Riding Hood"
- Three Little Pigs' foe
- Journalist Blitzer
- Word after timber or cry
- Grandma impersonator of story
- Pack animal
- "The Situation Room" journalist Blitzer
- Red Riding Hood's fear
- Fairy tale villain
- Word with whistle
- 1994 Jack Nicholson film
- Woman-chaser
- Word with dog or whistle
- Real howler
- Fairy tale meany
- Little pigs' nemesis
- Idiomatic sheep's clothing wearer
- Rake
- Wild canine
- Cub Scout rank
- Rapacious person
- Dog's wild cousin
- London character
- Little Pigs' foe
- Blitzer of CNN
- "Little Red Riding Hood" villain
- "The Call of the Wild" animal
- Skirt-chaser
- Kind of whistle
- Gobble (down)
- Pack member
- Red Riding Hood's nemesis
- Fairy tale baddie
- "The Call of the Wild" animal
- Member of Mowgli's adoptive family
- Member of mowgli's adoptive family
- Kipling's Akela, for one
- "The Three Little Pigs" antagonist
- Eat hungrily
- CNN's Blitzer
- Three Little Pigs' pursuer
- Fairy-tale baddie
- Fairy-tale villain
- Grandma impersonator?
- Dog relative
- Prankster's cry
- Fairy tale terror
- Fairy tale threat
- Unwelcome visitor "at the door"
- Timber trailer?
- Little Pigs' adversary
- Fairy tale baddie, often
- Coyote kin
- Three French horns, in a Prokofiev classic
- Fairy tale villain, often
- Dog ancestor
- Villain in the tale named by the starts of 20-, 32-, 41- and 52-Across
- Red Riding Hood's pursuer
- "The Three Little Pigs" adversary
- Pack hunter
- Gulp (down)
- Jackal's kin
- Red Riding Hood's foe
- "Hungry Like the ___"
- Scarf (down)
- Hunter in a pack
- Coyote cousin
- "Big bad" pig harasser
- Fairy tale huffer-and-puffer
- "Air ___"
- Villain in some fairy tales
- Fairy-tale fake grandma
- Foe of the Three Little Pigs
- Nicholson film
- Coyote's cousin
- Lupine animal
- Blitzer on TV
- Howling creature
- Howlin' ___
- Devour ravenously
- Howling canine that hunts in packs
- A pack animal?
- Eat hastily
- Fierce animal making one run the other way
- Carnivore
- Predatory animal
- Turn down female? He won't
- Predatory canine
- Virginia, possibly deprived of oxygen, wearing a fleece - more scary than it looks
- Book 2 dining room
- Beast, member of pack
- Heard evidence for woman's appeal that PC won't accept
- See 2
- Predator that hunts in packs
- Carnivore - breed of 13 down
- Run set up for an animal
- Predatory canine (or man?)
- Turning tide on predator
- See 24 down
- Seducer - gobble down
- "White Fang" figure
- Gush over animal
- Writer Virginia loses heart to philanderer
- Run back to find animal
- Austrian composer, a Lothario
- A type of 25 in ebbing stream
- Howling mammal
- ___ in sheep's clothing
- Red Riding Hood's adversary
- Host Blitzer
- Savage animal turning the tide
- Howling beast
- Three Little Pigs adversary
- Dog's cousin
- Three Little Pigs' nemesis
- Hard course set up needing everyone to finish book
- Plumbing problem, literally
- See 43-Across
- Animal heard at the end of 30-Across
- Animal in a pack
- "Big bad" fairy tale villain
- Predatory canine mammal
- Huffer of fairy tales
- Wild animal
- Dog's ancestor
- Coyote's kin
- Howling wild canine
- Animal that howls at the moon
- Animal that's "ma'iingan" in Ojibwe
- Animal on the Pawnee Nation flag
- Canine in Rome's founding myth
- Canine in a pack
- "Little Red Riding Hood" antagonist
- Fairy tale antagonist
- "Law & Order" creator
- Howling animal
- Jackal's relative
- "The Three Little Pigs" canine
- Howling canine
- Peter's adversary in a Prokofiev composition
Last Seen In
- New York Times - October 27, 2025
- Daily American - August 26, 2025
- LA Times - August 17, 2025
- LA Times - August 08, 2025
- Mirror Mini - June 30, 2025
- New York Times - June 01, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 11, 2025
- LA Times - September 23, 2024
- USA Today - September 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 23, 2024
- LA Times - April 08, 2024
- USA Today - December 14, 2023
- LA Times - November 05, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 21, 2023
- Daily American - August 26, 2023
- New York Times - August 13, 2023
- USA Today - June 26, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 17, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 09, 2023
- Family Time - January 16, 2023
- LA Times - August 07, 2022
- USA Today - July 26, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - June 23, 2022
- USA Today - June 08, 2022
- Mirror Quick - February 03, 2018
- Guardian Quick - January 19, 2018
- Guardian Quiptic - January 15, 2018
- Family Time - October 16, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 26, 2017
- USA Today - September 08, 2017
- And in 146 more crossword puzzles...