Word "FLY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
change quickly from one emotional state to another
Examples:
fly into a rage

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
travel in an airplane
Examples:
she is flying to Cincinnati tonight
Are we driving or flying?

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
pass away rapidly
Synonyms:
fell, vanish

Crossword Clues for FLY

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Clue Source Date
Travel by hot-air balloon
Word that follows "horse" to refer to an annoying bug
Take to the skies
Take wing Thomas Joseph 28 Jul 2025
Flee The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 28 Jul 2025
A six-footer - clever, too!
Shrewd attitude honestly dismissed (3) The Guardian Cryptic 24 Jul 2025
Outer layer of a tent New York Times Mini 15 Jul 2025
Emulate a drone
Do the Wright thing? LA Times Mini 07 Jul 2025
Stylish, in dated slang
The ___, 1987 Jeff Goldblum horror film, or 1991 hit for U2 (3)
Extremely frightful, unknown insect
An insect, blow it! (3)
Fruit pest
Travel like Superman
Word after "house" or "dragon"
A dressed fish-hook (3)
Aviate, like birds
Soar USA Today 30 May 2025
Sinatra song: Come - With Me
Knowing it's a hired vehicle, take to the air (3)
Travel by airplane, say
Escape from insect The Times Quick Cryptic 20 May 2025
It can precede back, paper and wheel The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 20 May 2025
Travel like Superman, say
Insect will zip (3)
Travel to or from 67-Down LA Times Daily 08 May 2025
What birds do ... or with 54a, a glowing insect
Take to wings
Sticky paper won't let it do it! (3)
Bug in the ointment
Pant zipper, informally
Use wings, say
Be a __ on the wall Commuter 04 Apr 2025
An aphid is a green or black one; a white one is totally different (3)
Soar USA Today 20 Mar 2025
Light hired vehicle that would go by air (3)
Aviate Eugene Sheffer 11 Mar 2025
Aviate Commuter 01 Mar 2025
Go by plane Newsday 25 Feb 2025
Go by plane LA Times Daily 11 Feb 2025
Travel like Superman, say
Pesky insect, blow ___
Travel in an aircraft (3)
A six-footer ___ clever, too! (3)
Travel by airplane
How time can pass, even for an insect! (3)
"Black Boy ___" (Kendrick Lamar track)
"____, you fools!", Gandalf quote The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 07 Jan 2025
On paper, perhaps, it can't live up to its name!
Unwelcome pest
What bats uniquely do amongst mammals The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 20 Dec 2024
How to look down on other mortals? (3)
Travel like a bird
Travel by hot air balloon
Knowing how to get off the ground (3)
House pest that is absent in Antarctica
Pants part Wall Street Journal 11 Dec 2024
Shrewd little creature? (3)
Display flag on tent flap (3)
Take to the sky LA Times Daily 03 Dec 2024
Web designer's acquisition?
'The -', 1986 David Cronenberg film starring Jeff Goldblum (3)
Travel through the sky
Even a folly can soar (3) Puzzler Cryptic 17 Nov 2024
Travel through the sky
Pest hit with a baseball bat (3)
Kites and airplanes do this
Aviate Commuter 05 Nov 2024
Insect Mirror Classic 20 Oct 2024
Wing it? LA Times Daily 16 Oct 2024
Flee local yob at first (3)
Fruit __ LA Times Daily 10 Oct 2024
Wing it on El Al? (3)
Travel like Superman
Surreptitious and quite lacking in attitude The Times Cryptic 07 Oct 2024
Be airborne (3)
Undertake inclination (3)
Travel by helicopter
Swattable insect
Go by aeroplane (3)
Word that follows "horse" to refer to an annoying bug
Rush LP, _ By Night (3)
___ Me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra song (3)
What flap covers the entrance to a tent? (3)
Flap wings, say
Take to the skies
Pass muster LA Times Daily 02 Aug 2024
Travel Southwest, say New York Times Mini 28 Jul 2024
Pesky insect
Travel by air, ... to London
Be a pilot Family Time 21 Jul 2024
Travel fast, that is, from "19 Across" (3)
Take to the skies
You cannot fish like this on an aircraft (3)
Aviate Eugene Sheffer 05 Jul 2024
*Buzzing pest ... or a word that goes with "trap" to refer to a snare for the said pest
Escape, ... the coop
If shrewd, one will travel by air (3)
Run swiftly zoom
Jeans feature Thomas Joseph 19 Jun 2024
Fruit pest
Word after "house" or "dragon"
"A ___ Went By" (classic children's book) New York Times 04 Jun 2024
Go very fast Premier Sunday 02 Jun 2024
Bug, whether with or without butter? The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 22 May 2024
(6/6) The beautiful butterfly is now ready to spread its 34d and ___
Insect whose larvae are maggots USA Today 10 May 2024
Go by plane Newsday 07 May 2024
Only half stop being a bit fishy (3)
Jeans feature Wall Street Journal 30 Apr 2024
It's attached to the leader by a tippet (3)
Be a pilot Family Time 21 Apr 2024
What would pilot do to insect? (3)
Travel on plane
Aviate Commuter 15 Apr 2024
Move through the air (3)
Kind of wheel for light carriage (3)
"- Me to the Moon"
Operate an aircraft (3)
It's smart to go by air (3)
'The -', 1986 film by David Cronenberg (3)
Soar through the heavens
Fishing gizmo
Birds do this (3)
Bisected insects found on the rugby field (3,6)
See 55-Across LA Times Daily 09 Mar 2024
Wide-awake insect (3)
Travel on a blimp
Take wing Thomas Joseph 22 Feb 2024
Knowing how to go by air (3)
What an ostrich or kiwi cannot do
Wideawake insect (3)
"I'll ___ Away"
Jeans feature Thomas Joseph 09 Feb 2024
Plant whose flowers resemble insects (3,6)
Pop __ LA Times Daily 01 Feb 2024
Travel in aircraft, (3)
Spider prey Newsday 24 Jan 2024
Soar through the air USA Today 21 Jan 2024
Insect necessarily airborne?
Penguins and ostriches can't do it
___ Me to the Moon1964 Frank Sinatra song closely associated with the Apollo missions to the moon
Learn To _ (3)
___ swatter
Travel by hot air balloon
House pest that is absent in Antarctica
Simple tent cover
A fast stagecoach; a familiar spirit; a fishing lure; a flap, such as a tent-door or zip cover; or, a dipteran whose figurative presence in ointment alludes to a small but irritating flaw (3)
Swattable insect
What American customers do New York Times Mini 27 Nov 2023
Go by air New York Times 26 Nov 2023
Travel like Superman
Kites and airplanes do this
Move like a bird
Take to the skies USA Today 19 Oct 2023
Birds do it Wall Street Journal 11 Oct 2023
Travel by helicopter USA Today 10 Oct 2023
Travel through the sky
Frank Sinatra's "___ Me To The Moon"
Travel on a magical broom, say
Cool Universal 09 Sep 2023
Go by jet, e.g New York Times 04 Sep 2023
Succeed, as a suggestion New York Times 01 Sep 2023
Winged insect The Telegraph Quick 29 Aug 2023
Travel by airplane
Pass muster Wall Street Journal 27 Jul 2023
Elapse quickly Newsday 20 Jul 2023
Emulate Amelia Earhart
Aviate Eugene Sheffer 07 Jul 2023
Take a plane USA Today 28 Jun 2023
Soar through the skies
Annoying buzzer you want to swat
"Final step: Fasten your seatbelts and get ready to ___! Have a great trip!"
Play with, as a kite
Travel by helicopter
Travel the skies
Zip it! New York Times 02 Apr 2023
'That'll never ___' New York Times 28 Mar 2023
Go by plane LA Times Daily 28 Mar 2023
Pesky insect Family Time 05 Mar 2023
Travel by airplane
Do the Wright thing? New York Times 26 Feb 2023
Aviate Canadiana 13 Feb 2023
Take wing, say
Aviate New York Times 31 Jan 2023
Operate a plane Family Time 22 Jan 2023
Pant zipper, informally
Soar Family Time 09 Jan 2023
Kingbird, for one Wall Street Journal 05 Jan 2023
Be like a pilot Family Time 26 Dec 2022
Aviate Eugene Sheffer 23 Dec 2022
Operate an airplane, say
Kites and airplanes do this
Swattable insect
"The ___," 1986 sci-fi horror film starring Jeff Goldblum about a scientist whose experiment fails
Insect The Telegraph Quick 19 Oct 2022
Soar, like a robin Family Time 16 Oct 2022
Travel on a 787 Universal 26 Sep 2022
Cool, in dated slang, and what can follow the ends of 20-, 25-, 46- and 52-Across Wall Street Journal 12 Sep 2022
What an ostrich can't do?
Travel by air LA Times Daily 16 Aug 2022
"Learn to ___," 1999 Grammy-winning song by Foo Fighters
___ on the wall (unnoticed observer)
Travel like a bird
Be feasible, as a proposal New York Times 02 Jul 2022
Experience turbulence, maybe Universal 08 Jun 2022
Take to the skies
Take to the skies USA Today 21 May 2022
Travel in economy or business, say
Travel by airplane, say
Certain fishing lure Universal 06 May 2022
Soar, say Universal 02 May 2022
"On the ___" (spontaneously)
Household nuisance Canadiana 04 Apr 2022
Travel by hot-air balloon
Cunning insect The Times Cryptic 15 Mar 2022
Wing it Wall Street Journal 08 Jan 2022
Jeans feature Thomas Joseph 30 Dec 2021
Insect The Telegraph Quick 25 Dec 2021
What planes do
Take to the air Family Time 15 Nov 2021
Be an actual pilot Family Time 24 Oct 2021
Be airborne, or an airborne pest Newsday 30 Sep 2021
___ Emirates, international airline and flag carrier of UAE that sponsors soccer club Real Madrid
Travel by helicopter
"___, you fools!" quote by Gandalf from "The Lord of the Rings"
On the ___ (impromptu)
Escape in haste Wall Street Journal 19 Aug 2021
"...Take these broken wings and learn to ___" ("Blackbird" by The Beatles)
Insect The Times Concise 19 Jul 2021
Intelligent dash display
The old lady swallowed one Universal 18 Jun 2021
Go by air Newsday 26 May 2021
"House" pest you would swat
But lots of other insects do this too
Aviate Eugene Sheffer 03 May 2021
On the ___ (impromptu)
One doesn't stay safe on the web Universal 24 Apr 2021
Take to the skies USA Today 20 Mar 2021
Tackle box item Wall Street Journal 18 Mar 2021
Travel by jet Universal 11 Mar 2021
What an eagle can do Family Time 01 Mar 2021
Take wing Thomas Joseph 05 Jan 2021
Travel in a 40-Down Universal 12 Dec 2020
Sac __ LA Times Daily 08 Nov 2020
Sac __ The Washington Post 08 Nov 2020
One having trouble getting off the web? Universal 04 Nov 2020
Travel through the air USA Today 28 Oct 2020
Take a plane USA Today 25 Sep 2020
Move quickly; insect The Times Concise 21 Sep 2020
"___ Me to the Moon," Frank Sinatra's song
Airborne picnic pest Newsday 02 Sep 2020
Horse or fish follower Canadiana 24 Aug 2020
One subject to metamorphosis Newsday 08 Aug 2020
Take off in a hurry New York Times 07 Aug 2020
Take a plane Universal 27 Jul 2020
Swatted pest Family Time 20 Jul 2020
Stylish, slangily New York Times 24 Jun 2020
High hit to the outfield New York Times 02 Jun 2020
One way to travel
Buzzer? Universal 28 May 2020
Go by plane Premier Sunday 24 May 2020
Cause of a buzz Family Time 03 May 2020
Travel like Superman, say
Kite user's verb LA Times Daily 29 Mar 2020
Kite user's verb The Washington Post 29 Mar 2020
Frank Sinatra's, "___ Me To The Moon"
Aviate, like birds
___ in the ointment Universal 27 Feb 2020
House buzzer USA Today 26 Feb 2020
Take wing from insect The Sun Two Speed 22 Feb 2020
Use air transport The Sun Two Speed 22 Feb 2020
Do a pilot's job
Take to the skies
Aviate, like a bird
Pants zipper, informally
Cool-looking, in slang
Cool-looking, in slang New York Times 28 Nov 2019
Soar and flap Family Time 17 Nov 2019
Take a plane
Emulate Earhart Wall Street Journal 15 Oct 2019
Travel by airplane
Aviate
Pilot an airplane
Insect that can follow "fruit" or "butter" Universal 28 Jul 2019
Hover ___, garden insect that helps in pollination and aphid-control
Birds travel this way
Aviate Premier Sunday 19 May 2019
One way to travel
What an ostrich or kiwi cannot do
What mosquitoes do to travel?
Bolt Newsday 23 Feb 2019
Wing it? Universal 18 Feb 2019
Spider's prey, or what the first parts of 17- and 62-Across and 9- and 30-Down can do USA Today 12 Feb 2019
Jeans feature Wall Street Journal 11 Feb 2019
Leave in a hurry New York Times 09 Feb 2019
"No-__ zone" (where planes or drones are not allowed)
Pant zip, informally
Use one's wings, as a fairy
Travel on Alaska or Hawaiian New York Times 21 Jan 2019
Jeans feature Thomas Joseph 03 Jan 2019
Emulate Earhart
Wing it?
Leave in a hurry
Jeans feature
Spider's prey, or what the first parts of 17- and 62-Across and 9- and 30-Down can do
Travel on Alaska or Hawaiian
Insect that can follow "fruit" or "butter"
What mosquitoes do Family Time 24 Dec 2018
Word with house or horse The Washington Post 19 Dec 2018
Word with house or horse LA Times Daily 19 Dec 2018
Take a jet
Go by air Thomas Joseph 17 Dec 2018
Run away The Times Concise 16 Dec 2018
Insect The Times Concise 26 Nov 2018
To become a pilot .. Universal 04 Nov 2018
What does a plane do?
Flee The Telegraph Quick 02 Oct 2018
Take to the skies Jonesin 14 Aug 2018
Travel by plane Newsday 07 Aug 2018
Travel by airplane
Annoying buzzer The New Yorker 23 Jul 2018
Go by plane Newsday 19 Jun 2018
Pesky insect USA Today 22 May 2018
With 32-Across, sticky strip LA Times Daily 14 May 2018
Pesky insect
With 32-Across, sticky strip The Washington Post 14 May 2018
Travel through the air Irish Times Simplex 01 May 2018
Make use of the wings
Take off Universal 07 Apr 2018
Victim of a carnivorous plant USA Today 25 Mar 2018
Bothersome insect Canadiana 12 Feb 2018
Trout lure LA Times Daily 07 Feb 2018
Trout lure The Washington Post 07 Feb 2018
Take to the air
Take to the air
Work, as a proposal New York Times 19 Jan 2018
Soar; hurry The Telegraph Quick 15 Jan 2018
Take to the skies New York Times 08 Jan 2018
Work, as a proposal
Pesky insect
Trout lure
With 32-Across, sticky strip
Word with house or horse
To become a pilot ...
Take off
Take to the skies
Embarrassing opening?
Insect The Telegraph Quick 17 Nov 2017
Buzzer that can follow the last parts of 18-, 27-, 45- and 57-Across USA Today 03 Nov 2017
Aviate Canadiana 16 Oct 2017
Travel by airplane
Pants part Thomas Joseph 20 Sep 2017
Be successful, as a proposal New York Times 26 Aug 2017
Aviate Universal 22 Aug 2017
What planes do
One way to cover a lot of ground Universal 12 Jun 2017
Take wing Newsday 26 Apr 2017
Travel a la Superman USA Today 03 Apr 2017
Travel by airplane
Be a pilot Family Time 13 Feb 2017
Soar Newsday 01 Feb 2017
The ____ (1986 Cronenberg movie) Canadiana 16 Jan 2017
Be successful, as a proposal
Aviate
One way to cover a lot of ground
Buzzer that can follow the last parts of 18-, 27-, 45- and 57-Across
Travel a la Superman
Inappropriately dump clever piece of advice
With 57-Across, light fishing gear USA Today 15 Nov 2016
Outfielder's chance USA Today 02 Sep 2016
Travel like Superman New York Times 22 Aug 2016
No-___ zone New York Times 15 Jun 2016
Angler's lure LA Times Daily 06 Jun 2016
Take a plane Family Time 23 May 2016
Take to the skies LA Times Daily 03 May 2016
Go by jet Universal 07 Apr 2016
Aviate Family Time 15 Feb 2016
Take the high way? LA Times Daily 07 Feb 2016
Angler's lure
Take the high way?
Travel like Superman
No-___ zone
Take to the skies
Swatter target LA Times Daily 29 Dec 2015
Canny angler's doctor, perhaps The Times Cryptic 10 Dec 2015
1986 Jeff Goldblum film, with "The" LA Times Daily 10 Oct 2015
Solo, say LA Times Daily 25 Sep 2015
Elapse quickly Newsday 23 Sep 2015
Fishing lure New York Times 10 Sep 2015
Insect; move quickly The Times Concise 06 Aug 2015
What the birds and the bees do? USA Today 27 Jul 2015
Planes do it Family Time 01 Jun 2015
Zapper target Jonesin 07 May 2015
Go fast, as time Newsday 31 Mar 2015
Soar Eugene Sheffer 05 Mar 2015
End of remembrance Canadiana 26 Jan 2015
Go by jet Premier Sunday 04 Jan 2015
Go by plane
Swatter target
What the birds and the bees do?
Solo, say
1986 Jeff Goldblum film, with "The"
Zapper victim, often
Fishing lure
Emulate a drone
Tackle box item
Go fast, as time
Go by jet
Elapse quickly
AC/DC "___ on the Wall"
Hurry, knowing about trap
*See 29-Across
See 36-Across
Pesky insect
Take wing
Really cool, in slang
Ointment spoiler
King's X song that lifts you up?
Midge
Do the Wright thing
Picnic pest
It may be in the ointment
Aviate
Spider's prey
Fielder's catch
Spider's prey
Compost heap visitor
Swatter's target, often
Go by plane
Swattable bug
Travel by jet
Web site crasher?
It may be embarrassing if it's open
Zipper cover
Take wing
Stylish, in slang
Use wings
What Sugar Ray just wanted to do
Word with blow or pop
Ointment denizen?
Zipper hider
Jeans part
Take wing
Annoying buzzer
Word that can follow the start of the answers to the 10 starred clues
Trout fishing lure
Bluebottle, say
Annoying buzzer
With 114-Down, light fishing gear
Take off
Soar
Pass muster
It may be at the end of the line
It may be at the end of the line
Go quickly
Do some aviating
Fishing lure, sometimes
Pitcher plant victim
Birds do it, bees do it
Take off
Succeed, as a proposal
Take the plane
Take off
Go by space shuttle
Trout lure
Something in the ointment?
Something that shouldn't be left open
With 20-Down, airshow activities
Pesky insect
House buzzer
Something in the ointment?
Probable out in baseball
Do the American thing?
Tackle box item
Spider prey
Cause of a buzz
Do the American thing?
Cause of a buzz
Go by plane
Wing it?
Zipper opening
Ointment contaminant?
Take wing
With 65-Across, go to Florida, maybe
Take a jet
Really zoom
It may be at the end of the line
Spider's parlor invitee
Screen invader
Wing it?
Ointment intruder?
One way to travel
Stylish, in slang
With 2-Down, fine particles produced during combustion
No-pest strip victim
Bluebottle, e.g.
Bluebottle, e.g.
Ointment intruder?
One way to travel
Bonds might catch it
Spider's prey
Succeed, as a proposal
Wing it?
Escape
Escape
Birds do it
Outfield hit
Ointment denizen?
Annoying buzzer
Take wing
Picnic pest
Spider's parlor invitee
Bug out
Jet
Eyes from a wall
Angler's device
Birds do it
Ointment problem?
Soar
Sprint
Work out, as a proposal
Ointment problem?
Ointment intruder
___ in the ointment
___ in the ointment
Go by air
Take the plane
Take to the air
Run away
House or horse follower
Tent flap
See 36-Across
Take wing
Work a Piper
Jean splicer?
Web casualty
Take Air Force One
Goldblum film (with "The")
Cunning insect
With 54-Across, furnace emission
Said the spider to the ____
Go over a lot of ground?
Wing it?
Pesky insect
Jeff Goldblum horror film, with "The"
What the birds and the bees do?
Do some aviating
1986 sci-fi remake, with "The"
House buzzer
Zipper cover
Attempt to escape
Fishing lure
Ride the wind
It's at the end of the line
Caught by Barry Bonds
Go by plane
The birds and the bees do it
Tent part
Aviate
Emulate Earhart
Ointment settler
Thing in the ointment
Ointment spoiler
Soup extra?
Muscidae family member
Can of corn, to Winfield
Emulate Daedalus
Angler's gadget
Swatter victim
Bluebottle
Go by jet
Travel in a way
Dragon or pop
Certain parlor guest
Coachman or herl
Spider's parlor guest
Batted ball.
Move swiftly.
Emulate the jet set.
Outfield chance.
Texas leaguer
Birds and bees do it
Reach new heights?
Tackle box item
Ball batted in the air.
Coachman or red quill.
Aviate.
Ball to the outfield.
Midge.
Silver doctor or blue quill.
Baseball term.
Device used as bait.
Texas Leaguer.
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