Clues for the word "YAWS"
We've had 52 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 112 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on January 15, 2026.
Definition of yaws
- n. - A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
Referring Clues
- Swerves at sea
- Swerves, at sea
- Doesn't go straight
- Deviates at 74-Down
- Goes off on a tangent?
- Deviations of a ship's course
- Course deviations
- Swerves off course while sailing
- Swerves a ship
- Deviates from a course
- Doesn't quite go straight
- Sails temporarily off course
- Deflects from a course
- Swerves off course
- Goes off course
- Sails off course
- Deviates erratically
- Sailing deviations
- Swerves off a nautical course
- Swerves
- Tropical skin disease
- Swerves off-course, in a ship
- Deviates off course
- Alternates
- Goes way off course
- Veers off course
- Zigs or zags
- Goes astray for a bit
- Sails crookedly
- Swerves temporarily off-course
- Zigzags, nautically
- Wobbles, as a rocket
- Motions controlled by rudders
- Deviates from the course, nautically speaking
- Moves side to side, like an aircraft
- Deviates from the course, nautically
- Swerves, as a ship
- Goes off-course on the ocean
- Veers from a course
- Veers at sea
- Moves from side-to-side, at sea
- Flight problems
- Swerves, nautically
- Swerves off course, in a yacht
- Swerves in one's yacht
- Sway anagram, for sailors
- Oscillates about a vertical axis
- Turns sharply, as an aircraft
- Veers port or starboard
- Swings back and forth, as a ship
- Twists off course, as a ship
- Twists side-to-side
Last Seen In
- Daily American - January 15, 2026
- New York Times - October 05, 2025
- Daily American - October 05, 2025
- New York Times - September 28, 2025
- Daily American - July 30, 2025
- Daily American - March 27, 2025
- Daily American - January 21, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 04, 2024
- New York Times - February 11, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 04, 2024
- Daily American - January 15, 2024
- LA Times - October 22, 2023
- Daily American - October 05, 2023
- Daily American - July 30, 2023
- LA Times - July 11, 2023
- Daily American - March 27, 2023
- LA Times - February 03, 2023
- Daily American - January 21, 2023
- Universal - January 31, 2018
- Daily American - January 15, 2018
- Daily American - October 05, 2017
- Daily American - July 30, 2017
- Daily American - March 27, 2017
- Family Time - February 26, 2017
- Family Time - February 13, 2017
- USA Today - February 01, 2017
- Daily American - January 21, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 30, 2016
- Family Time - April 10, 2016
- And in 82 more crossword puzzles...