Crossword-Solution: BAYOU 5 letters, 179 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Bayou n. An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a
large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement
except from tide and wind.

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"Blue __": 1963 and 1977 hit 1 answer
"Blue ___" (1977 Linda Ronstadt hit) 1 answer
"Blue ___" (Linda Ronstadt hit) 1 answer
"Blue ___," 1977 hit tune 1 answer
"Blue _____" (1977 hit) 1 answer
"Born on the ___" (CCR) 1 answer
"Born on the _____" (Creedence Clearwater Revival) 1 answer
"Jambalaya" territory 1 answer
"Swamp People" setting 1 answer
"The Princess and the Frog" setting 1 answer
"The __ City": Houston nickname 1 answer
'Blue --' ('77 hit) 1 answer
*Gulf Coast waterway 1 answer
. . . fun on the ___ 1 answer
A marshy outlet of a lake 1 answer
Alligator tour locale 1 answer
Arm of the Atchafalaya 1 answer
Arm of the Mississippi 1 answer
Arm or outlet of a lake 1 answer
Boggy backwater 1 answer
Boggy biome 1 answer
Cajun country 1 answer
Cajun milieu 1 answer
Cajun swamp 1 answer
Cajun waterway 1 answer
Cajun's home 1 answer
Catfish habitat 1 answer
Certain backwater 1 answer
Cottonmouths' milieu 1 answer
Crawdad's habitat 1 answer
Crawfish habitat 1 answer
Crawfish's home 1 answer
Crayfish habitat 1 answer
Creek of the Gulf Coast. 1 answer
Crocodile habitat 1 answer
Delta habitat 1 answer
Ecosystem endangered by global warming 1 answer
Ecosystem susceptible to eutrophication 1 answer
Gulf Coast feature 1 answer
Gulf Coast habitat 1 answer
Gulf Coast phenomenon. 1 answer
Gulf Coast wetland 1 answer
Gulf States inlet 1 answer
Gulf coast creek. 1 answer
Habitat for alligators and crawdads 1 answer
Habitat for an American alligator 1 answer
Hideout for Lafitte 1 answer
Home for American alligators 1 answer
Home for crawdads 1 answer
Home to crawfish 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with BAYOU (5)

BEYOND THE BAYOU The bayou curved like a crescent around the point of land on which La Folle’s cabin stood.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty-four feet; at New Orleans only fifteen, and just above the mouth only two and one half.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
The oaks shook off long tresses of their mossy beards to the tugging of the wind, and the bayou in its ambition put on miniature waves in mocking of much larger bodies of water.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
The seat of Government was removed to Harrisburg, a small place on the Buffalo Bayou; and Houston was sure that this change would cause Santa Anna to diverge from his route to Nacogdoches.
Remember the Alamo Amelia E. Barr 2008
Anybody can run a boat into a dark bayou and dump rifles on the beach and scurry away to sea again but only heroes can sit for a month on a hotel porch or at the end of a wharf, and wait.
Adventures and Letters Richard Harding Davis 2008

Quotes with BAYOU (3)

Okay, so how does this work exactly?" I ask as we walk toward his car. "Do we float down the bayou in rowboat while little critters sing 'Kiss the Girl'.
Colleen Hoover Never Never: Part Three
The storm is passing over us. Do you want to go to the bayou this night?” he asked softly, separating her hair deftly and beginning to weave it into a thick braid. She loved the feel of his hands in her hair, his fingers massaging her scalp, tugging so gently on the thick length of braid. She reached up to place a palm over her bare shoulder, the exact spot where his lips had touched her. “I would love to go to the bayou with you.” He smiled at her, his silver eyes molten mer…
Christine Feehan Dark Magic
I thumped her on the back, picked her up and dropped her on top of her dungarees. “Put them pants on,” I said, “and be a man.” She did, but she cried quietly until I shook her and said gently, “Stop it now. I didn’t carry on like that when I was a little girl.” I got into my clothes and dumped her into the bow of the canoe and shoved off. All the way back to the cabin I forced her to play one of our pet games. I would say something — anything — and she would try to say someth…
Theodore Sturgeon The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume III: Killdozer!
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 190 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).