Crossword-Solution: CROSS 5 letters, 474 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Cross	n.	A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.
Cross	n.	The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.
Cross	n.	Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
Cross	n.	A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
Cross	n.	An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.
Cross	n.	A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.
Cross	n.	A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
Cross	n.	The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
Cross	n.	Church lands.
Cross	n.	A line drawn across or through another line.
Cross	n.	A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
Cross	n.	An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
Cross	n.	A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
Cross	a.	Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
Cross	a.	Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
Cross	a.	Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
Cross	a.	Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.
Cross	prep.	Athwart; across.
Cross	v. t.	To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
Cross	v. t.	To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
Cross	v. t.	To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
Cross	v. t.	To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
Cross	v. t.	To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
Cross	v. t.	To interfere and cut off; to debar.
Cross	v. t.	To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
Cross	v. t.	To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.
Cross	v. t.	To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
Cross	v. i.	To lie or be athwart.
Cross	v. i.	To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.
Cross	v. i.	To be inconsistent.
Cross	v. i.	To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
CROSS	anagram	CORSS, ROSSC

We have 474 clues for the answer “CROSS”

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"Ride Like the Wind" Christopher	1 answer
"Sailing" artist Christopher	1 answer
"Sailing" singer	1 answer
"Where can I get one of those necklaces with a t?" "A ___?" "A___ from where?" (classic "Arrested Development" exchange)	1 answer
A man who knows operas.	1 answer
Angry and annoyed	1 answer
Ankh, for one	1 answer
Anti-vampire device	1 answer
Antivampire aid	1 answer
COMPROMISE between two things	1 answer
Charing or double	1 answer
Charles ___, pop singer	1 answer
Common necklace symbol	1 answer
Connecticut's Governor, 1931–1939.	1 answer
Deceive, with "up"	1 answer
Do this to jaywalk	1 answer
Dracula repellent	1 answer
Emblem on Greek flag.	1 answer
Emblem on a Greek flag	1 answer
End of a one-two	1 answer
Erstwhile "Voice of the Opera"	1 answer
Famous opera commentator.	1 answer
First century execution method	1 answer
Ford, perhaps	1 answer
Form an intersection	1 answer
Former Governor of Connecticut.	1 answer
Founder of "Yale Review."	1 answer
Get on the bad side of	1 answer
Get to the other curb	1 answer
Get to the other side	1 answer
Go against or go over	1 answer
Go to the opposite curb	1 answer
Go to the other side of the street	1 answer
Governor at Augusta.	1 answer
Governor in Augusta.	1 answer
Grammy-winner Christopher: 1980	1 answer
Greek or Maltese, e.g.	1 answer
Head for the other side	1 answer
Hot __ buns	1 answer
In a nasty mood	1 answer
Intersect with	1 answer
Intersect, as two streets	1 answer
Kind of cut or beam	1 answer
Kind of purposes	1 answer
Lighted in Scott's "Lady of the Lake."	1 answer
MIXTURE between two things	1 answer
MSC word	1 answer
Maltese symbol.	1 answer
Many people see a big one on Sunday	1 answer
Mass hanging	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ARETE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with CROSS (5)

Only one of these to be attempted.” Or “(1) Describe Mother’s laugh; (2) Describe Father’s laugh; (3) Describe Mother’s Party Dress; (4) Describe the Kennel and its Inmate.” They were just everyday questions like these, and when you could not answer them you were told to make a cross; and it was really dreadful what a number of crosses even John made.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

And the noble Hiawatha, With his hands aloft extended, Held aloft in sign of welcome, Waited, full of exultation, Till the birch canoe with paddles Grated on the shining pebbles, Stranded on the sandy margin, Till the Black-Robe chief, the Pale-face, With the cross upon his bosom, Landed on the sandy margin.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus’dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th’ Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more Worlds, Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look’d a while, Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frith He had to cross.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

With this, two of the constables pulled out their shining pistols, and swore, by their Creator, that they would make him cross his hands or kill him.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

She’ll work all day and go to a Bohemian wedding and dance all night, and drive the hay wagon for a cross man next morning.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with CROSS (3)

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart’s truth.

Elisabeth Elliot Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the cross paid the complete debt of death we owe for our sin; to trust that His resurrection gives us eternal life instead of relying upon our own ability to please God. To be "in Christ" is to claim, by faith, the free gift of salvation. To be "in Christ" is to enjoy a completely restored relationship with ou…

Charles R. Swindoll

If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could be somehow proved, then we would have no choice but to believe. We would lose our freedom not to believe. And in the very moment that we lost that freedom, we would cease to be human beings. Our love of God would have been forced upon us, and love that is forced is of course not love at all. Love must be freely …

Frederick Buechner The Magnificent Defeat

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 232 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).