Clues for the word "YEARN"
We've had 113 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 422 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on May 18, 2026.
Definition of yearn
- v. t. - To pain; to grieve; to vex.
- v. i. - To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
- v. i. & t. - To curdle, as milk.
- v. i. - To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
Referring Clues
- Long (for)
- Pine
- Long
- Hunger (for)
- Be lovesick
- Have a hankering
- Thirst (for)
- Hanker
- Hanker (for)
- Feel wistful
- Thirst
- Feel nostalgia, e.g.
- PANT
- Eat one's heart out
- Want badly
- Have a craving (for)
- Be filled with longing
- Pine (for)
- Really want, with "for"
- Ache
- Deeply desire, with "for"
- Be moved
- Desire strongly
- Eat your heart out
- Want like mad
- Hunger
- Long for
- Languish
- Have a longing
- Hunger or thirst
- Be nostalgic
- Hanker, and a synonym for the ends of 21-, 26-, 43- and 50-Across
- Want badly, with "for"
- Be homesick, say
- Be homesick (for)
- Ache (for)
- Crave (with "for")
- Pine for
- Have an itch
- Desire greatly
- Jones
- Feel nostalgic
- Ache for
- Desire
- Long wistfully
- Wish for
- Aspire
- Crave
- Be wistful
- Have an earnest desire
- Earnest desire
- More than want
- Wish for fervently
- Wish (for)
- Have deep desires
- Have a craving
- Long period ending in autumn
- Long story about English leader
- Long, pine
- Have a strong desire
- Be eager (for)
- Pant - pine
- Feel desire
- Long time before noon
- Feel a need, yes, for service
- Long time at the detention centre
- Want to get paid at the end of the day
- Long time north
- Long - more than a year, anyway
- Long period at the middle of the month
- Have strong desire
- Long for agreement with British sailors
- Barney scratches head - terrible itch
- Be unsatisfied with what one has
- Long tale about the East
- Have a desire (for)
- Long time no start
- Long story without point
- Long time before 6
- Long time and a quarter
- Desire earnestly
- Long (for) or crave
- Desire to be paid at the end of May
- Long 12 months at the Pole
- Long for story about sweetheart
- Long time before last train
- Long to get paid by the end of May
- Long period of time close to Ramadan
- Long period of time before end of depression
- Long story about Egypt's leader
- Long story about last in clubhouse
- Long thread binding feline's tail
- Crave (for)
- Long story about the capital of Ecuador
- Wax nostalgic
- Long to get the bit of money you deserve
- Have a yen
- Desire strongly - yes, to join the Navy!
- Strongly long (for)
- Have desires
- *Knitting tread
- To pine
- Long to get the amount of pay you deserve
- Long, yes, to join the navy
- Long to finish a story and get paid
- "Long" means more than twelve months
- More than a year long
- Long yarn about England's capital
- Long to finished the day and get paid
- Long for something
- Long for someone
- Long to be in agreement with the navy
- Feel a longing
Last Seen In
- New York Times - May 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 07, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 17, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - April 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 02, 2026
- LA Times - March 30, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 09, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 04, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 17, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 05, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 28, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 14, 2026
- LA Times - December 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 19, 2025
- LA Times - November 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 16, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 18, 2025
- And in 392 more crossword puzzles...