Word "STERN" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
Synonyms:
austere
Examples:
a stern face

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
severe and unremitting in making demands
Synonyms:
exacting, strict
Examples:
a stern disciplinarian

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the rear part of a ship
Synonyms:
after part, poop, quarter, tail

Crossword Clues for STERN

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Howard -, US radio personality who played himself in 1997 biopic Private Parts (5) Mirror Quiz 31 Aug 2025
Winger supporting Middlesbrough's centre-back (5) The Guardian Cryptic 01 Aug 2025
Back of a boat
Grim film you and I left (5)
Exacting Thomas Joseph 15 Jul 2025
Serious and unforgiving USA Today 12 Jul 2025
Second time eagle cut tail The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Jul 2025
Radio & TV host Howard ___
Serious; strict (5)
Unrelenting, austere (5)
Strict, severe The Times Concise 26 Jun 2025
Hardly lenient Wall Street Journal 25 Jun 2025
Strict The Telegraph Quick 19 Jun 2025
Strict The Telegraph Plusword 11 Jun 2025
Small bird following rear of ship (5)
Rear end of a boat Puzzler Backwords 03 Jun 2025
Isaac with a bow (or the opposite of bow)
Strict in tone New York Times Mini 31 May 2025
Severe at the back Mirror Cryptic 24 May 2025
Serious Mirror Quick 24 May 2025
Austere at the rear end (5)
Back end of a boat (5)
Like a parent who practices tough love
It is the steersman's place to be unrelenting (5)
Former "America's Got Talent" judge Howard ___
Unrelenting tail (5)
At which this is the back, and unrelenting (5)
Back from the grave (5)
Super serious USA Today 03 May 2025
Ship's rear Eugene Sheffer 02 May 2025
Back of ship looks grim (5)
*Stem to ___ or ___ parent
Strict, forbidding
The ___ Gang (Lehi, Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) (5)
Harsh; back The Telegraph Quick 20 Apr 2025
Unsmiling thing one sees when the boat has passed one (5)
Serious novelist on the radio The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Apr 2025
Rear admiral's rear
Inflexible rump(5)
Strict USA Today 09 Apr 2025
Isaac, Russia-born violinist who made his New York debut in 1937 (5)
Republican welcomed by gun firm The Times Cryptic 26 Mar 2025
Rear end of boat (5)
America's Got Talent judge Howard
Small seabird at the back (5) Puzzler Cryptic 23 Mar 2025
Set out with the Navy at the back of the craft (5)
Back end of boat
Forbidding the rest to travel north (5)
The rear part of a boat (5)
The rear part of a ship
Harsh group in Ulster, normally (5)
Some consternation is strict (5)
Master Neville was a bit serious (5)
Strict hunting term for a hound's tail? (5)
Rear of boat
Westerner's hard heart
Right. A gun is covering the back (5)
Southern sea bird is back on ship (5)
Severe if back on board
Exacting Thomas Joseph 06 Feb 2025
Rearmost part of a ship
1995-2011 Trinidad and Tobago forward whose sides included Nottm Forest and Southampton (5,4)
Austere The Telegraph Quick 25 Jan 2025
Back end of ship
Boat back Thomas Joseph 22 Jan 2025
Back rents in disarray (5)
Harsh barrister, neatly encapsulated (5)
Part of the ship where the seabirds gather around
Rear of a vessel The Times Concise 17 Jan 2025
Shock jock Howard
Hard poop could be on this
Severe at the back Mirror Cryptic 13 Jan 2025
Serious Mirror Quick 13 Jan 2025
Ship's rear Universal 05 Jan 2025
Firm LA Times Daily 05 Jan 2025
Back at sea? Grim! (5)
Harsh, strict Mirror Tea Time 29 Dec 2024
Back, looking grim (5)
Shock jock Howard ___ turned 70 (5)
Firm part of boat (5)
Back of a boat Commuter 12 Dec 2024
Behind? That's serious (5)
It's grim back at sea! (5)
A serious rear end (5)
Exacting Thomas Joseph 05 Dec 2024
Austere and bare (5)
Boat back Wall Street Journal 03 Dec 2024
Strict, unforgiving The Telegraph Mini 03 Dec 2024
Unrelenting back
Unbending New York Times 01 Dec 2024
Strict or severe (5)
It's hard to get back (5)
Not in a joking mood at all
Harsh, strict Mirror Tea Time 27 Nov 2024
Unlikely to approve of horseplay LA Times Daily 26 Nov 2024
Austere The Telegraph Quick 26 Nov 2024
SiriusXM radio host Howard
Boat's rear end
Howard ***** , shock jock born in New York in 1954 (5)
The master, normally seeks this part of his ship
Harsh at the rear (5) Puzzler Cryptic 10 Nov 2024
Strict revision of rents (5)
Severe end to a ship (5)
It looks forbidding, the back of the ship (5)
Forbidding the revision of rents (5)
Boat back Thomas Joseph 05 Nov 2024
Strict and solemn
It's tough at the rear (5)
Howard or Daniel
Unsmiling or strict
Namesake of an auditorium in Carnegie Hall
Back settled in Ulster now
Like a disciplinarian LA Times Daily 13 Oct 2024
It is the end of craft that is austere (5)
Unyielding Newsday 06 Oct 2024
Back part of cutter, say, is made of steel? (5)
A serious backside! (5)
The main auditorium at Carnegie Hall is named after which Isaac? (5)
Grim end for the Titanic? The Times Quick Cryptic 28 Sep 2024
Hard as the heart of a westerner (5)
Back of ship
Harshly strict
The rear of a boat
Back at sea it is grim (5)
Rear of ship
Strict at the back (5)
Describing a severe attitude shown by the master nowadays (5)
Daniel ____, Marv the burglar in Home Alone The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 18 Sep 2024
Back part of boat having austere appearance
Strict, austere (5)
All set to join the navy? Which part of the ship is this, then? (5)
Rear to be tough? (5)
Rigid part of ship The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Sep 2024
Serious Mirror Quick 03 Sep 2024
Severe at the back Mirror Cryptic 03 Sep 2024
Exacting New York Times 01 Sep 2024
Violinist Isaac ____
Harsh, severe: give a - warning
Harsh, authoritarian (5) Puzzler 25 Aug 2024
Unyielding Commuter 24 Aug 2024
First rook building nest at back of craft (5)
It's grim at the back of the boat (5)
Harsh The Sun Mini 12 Aug 2024
Rear part of boat (5)
Harsh at the back Mirror Cryptic 25 Jul 2024
Severe Mirror Quick 25 Jul 2024
Uncompromising The Sun Two Speed 20 Jul 2024
Rigid back end The Sun Two Speed 20 Jul 2024
Rigorous rump (5)
Strict regulation of rents
Severe The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 15 Jul 2024
Stony and strict (5)
Southern water-bird back (5)
Forbidding rents to be revised
Serious, humourless (5)
Writer doesn't finish either half of hardback
Daniel in "Home Alone"
Austere back at sea (5)
Ship's rear The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 04 Jul 2024
Austere at the rear (5)
Severe Mirror Quick 01 Jul 2024
Harsh at the back (5) Mirror Cryptic 01 Jul 2024
Sailor's rear end? Universal 25 Jun 2024
"Private Parts" author Howard LA Times Mini 24 Jun 2024
Rigid back (5) The Guardian Quiptic 23 Jun 2024
Brooking no nonsense
Avraham _, a commander of the militant group Irgun, born in 1907 (5)
Grim end to a boat (5)
Hind part of a vessel (5) Puzzler 18 Jun 2024
Uncompromising The Telegraph Mini 18 Jun 2024
Rear to be strict (5)
Unbending at the back (5)
A hard back (5)
Back being serious
Back rents suitably adjusted
Ship's rear Mirror Tea Time 06 Jun 2024
Harsh, strict Mirror Tea Time 05 Jun 2024
Forbidding The Telegraph Plusword 03 Jun 2024
Hardback of a ship (5)
Oddly, setter rang back?
Back at sea it's very forbidding (5)
Grim part of ship (5)
Isaac ***** , violinist who made a 1979 tour of China (5)
Now a bow; not even a smile apparently (5)
Back with a gun, run inside (5)
Boat's rear (5)
Grim-looking
Grim end? (Hardback offers two more versions) (5)
A grim "Load right into the gun" (5)
Unsmiling LA Times Daily 04 May 2024
Hard-nosed New York Times 01 May 2024
Back at sea? Wall Street Journal 23 Apr 2024
"Howard ___"; 1994-2005 talk show
Not a bow; not even a smile apparently (5)
Howard ____ of radio
FCC flouter Howard
Unsmiling face of stranded flyer
Inflexible tail (5)
Unfriendly gulls moving south (5)
Rear to be ruthless (5)
A cold back (5)
Hardback
Grim at the back (5)
Not lenient USA Today 22 Mar 2024
Demanding somewhat faster news The Times Cryptic 22 Mar 2024
Draconian backside! (5)
Describing the sort of discipline that comes from a master nowadays? (5)
Rear end of a boat Puzzler Backwords 19 Mar 2024
Isaac or Howard
Pasternak's hard heart! (5)
Not smiling back
Southern bird at rear of ship
Vessel's rear (5)
Pirate's rear end?
It takes the master, normally, to show one this part of the ship
Howard of radio fame
Renowned expert with a bow
Uncompromising shock jock? (5)
Hard as a westerner's heart (5)
Rear of a ship Puzzler Backwords 18 Feb 2024
Tough, like Judge Judy LA Times Mini 16 Feb 2024
Harsh, strict Mirror Tea Time 13 Feb 2024
Back rents suitably dealt with (5)
From stem to ___ (completely on a boat)
Austere The Sun Two Speed 29 Jan 2024
Rigid back end The Sun Two Speed 29 Jan 2024
Handback! (5)
It's severe at the rear (5) Puzzler Cryptic 09 Jan 2024
Dour in demeanor
Rents dilapidated part of ship The Times Quick Cryptic 04 Jan 2024
Back of an aircraft carrier LA Times Mini 29 Dec 2023
Back of an aircraft under
Back of a ship Newsday 26 Dec 2023
We leave a cowboy movie - it's grim
Back on the ocean? Family Time 18 Dec 2023
Far from lenient Newsday 13 Dec 2023
Looking angry, back at sea (5)
Strict The Telegraph Quick 05 Dec 2023
Serious US violinist? (5)
Stringent Family Time 20 Nov 2023
Somber Thomas Joseph 15 Nov 2023
Back on board Wall Street Journal 04 Nov 2023
Severe and strict Universal 29 Oct 2023
Back of a boat Universal 04 Oct 2023
Severe USA Today 24 Aug 2023
Serious or no-nonsense, as a teacher (anagram of "rents")
Strict and serious USA Today 17 Aug 2023
Boat's back Thomas Joseph 27 Jul 2023
Hard-nosed Wall Street Journal 08 Jul 2023
Strict and serious USA Today 21 Jun 2023
Very strict Newsday 22 May 2023
Sailor's rear New York Times 21 May 2023
Rear small bird The Times Cryptic 09 May 2023
Strict and serious Universal 28 Apr 2023
Strict, as a teacher
Austere The Telegraph Quick 18 Apr 2023
Back of a boat LA Times Daily 17 Apr 2023
Stringent Family Time 16 Apr 2023
Strict Universal 11 Apr 2023
Doctor Zhivago author held this back The Telegraph Toughie 07 Apr 2023
Not in the mood for any funny stuff LA Times Daily 30 Mar 2023
From stem to __ LA Times Daily 27 Mar 2023
Rear of a ship Newsday 21 Mar 2023
No-nonsense LA Times Daily 21 Feb 2023
Boat back Thomas Joseph 17 Feb 2023
Bow's opposite Wall Street Journal 13 Feb 2023
Strict, like a disciplinarian
Hard stone terrine regularly used The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Feb 2023
By-the-book Newsday 27 Jan 2023
Severe LA Times Daily 17 Jan 2023
Not prone to goofing around Universal 11 Jan 2023
Back at sea? Wall Street Journal 10 Jan 2023
Strict New York Times 28 Dec 2022
Uncompromising Newsday 17 Dec 2022
Stringent Newsday 15 Dec 2022
Back of a boat Newsday 11 Dec 2022
Serious in demeanor USA Today 08 Dec 2022
Rear The Telegraph Quick 08 Dec 2022
Severe Premier Sunday 04 Dec 2022
Severe Wall Street Journal 12 Nov 2022
Strict The Telegraph Quick 08 Nov 2022
Rear of a ship New York Times 07 Nov 2022
Like a talking-to Universal 29 Oct 2022
Very strict Newsday 26 Sep 2022
Forbidding The Telegraph Quick 08 Sep 2022
Unyielding New York Times 03 Sep 2022
Rhadamanthine New York Times 27 Aug 2022
Howard ___, American radio personality who has hosted his own show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio since 2006
Unyielding Newsday 25 Aug 2022
Back of a boat New York Times 22 Aug 2022
Like a serious talking-to USA Today 18 Aug 2022
Exacting The Guardian Quick 15 Aug 2022
Severe in tone USA Today 29 Jul 2022
Bark back Wall Street Journal 21 Jul 2022
Rudder's locale LA Times Daily 12 Jul 2022
Harsh way to make money, we hear The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Jul 2022
Not lenient Universal 29 Jun 2022
Back of a ship Newsday 14 Jun 2022
Bow's opposite, on a boat
Unyielding Premier Sunday 08 May 2022
Authoritarian is back The Times Cryptic 06 May 2022
Serious in tone USA Today 22 Apr 2022
Back of a ship Newsday 11 Apr 2022
Like many disciplinarians Wall Street Journal 02 Apr 2022
Small bird's back The Guardian Cryptic 28 Mar 2022
Small bird's back
Unpleasantly serious or unfriendly Irish Times Simplex 25 Mar 2022
Unyielding The Washington Post Sunday 13 Mar 2022
Back of a ship New York Times 08 Mar 2022
Back of a boat
Ship's rear Family Time 06 Feb 2022
Violinist Isaac who performed the solos in the movie "Fiddler on the Roof" LA Times Daily 02 Feb 2022
Violinist Isaac who performed the solos in the movie 'Fiddler on the Roof' The Washington Post 02 Feb 2022
Strict Universal 24 Jan 2022
Overly firm when giving instructions Family Time 16 Jan 2022
Like a disciplinarian's look
Rudder's place Universal 16 Dec 2021
Back of a ship Universal 05 Dec 2021
Severe — not entirely Mister Nice The Guardian Quiptic 25 Oct 2021
Severe — not entirely Mister Nice
Not up for any nonsense Newsday 15 Oct 2021
Tough back on warship, for example
Like the tone of a talking-to New York Times 22 Sep 2021
See 49-Across LA Times Daily 17 Sep 2021
See 49-Across The Washington Post 17 Sep 2021
Back of a boat Newsday 15 Sep 2021
Unrelenting Universal 07 Sep 2021
Unyielding Universal 30 Aug 2021
Boat back Thomas Joseph 28 Aug 2021
Back of a ship New York Times 23 Aug 2021
Like a disciplinarian Universal 30 Jul 2021
Unrelenting Newsday 25 Jul 2021
Demanding back
Radio star Howard whose name sounds strict
Very strict Newsday 30 Jun 2021
Back of the canoe Family Time 07 Jun 2021
Austere The Telegraph Quick 25 May 2021
Back of the boat LA Times Daily 18 May 2021
Back of the boat The Washington Post 18 May 2021
Unsmiling New York Times 16 May 2021
Ship's rear The Telegraph Quick 11 May 2021
Back of a boat Newsday 05 May 2021
Rear with rudders Newsday 29 Apr 2021
Iron-willed Newsday 18 Apr 2021
Rents out to firm Irish Times Crosaire 18 Mar 2021
Back of a yacht Jonesin 16 Mar 2021
Exacting Thomas Joseph 12 Mar 2021
Back of a ship Newsday 10 Mar 2021
Boat's back Thomas Joseph 08 Mar 2021
Second regular migrant back on board
Unsmiling Wall Street Journal 18 Feb 2021
Grimly serious The Times Concise 17 Feb 2021
Rigidly rule-enforcing Universal 26 Jan 2021
Harsh The Washington Post Sunday 17 Jan 2021
Boat back Thomas Joseph 15 Jan 2021
Gondolier’s position Wall Street Journal 09 Jan 2021
Rearward part of a ship USA Today 09 Jan 2021
Boat's back Eugene Sheffer 08 Jan 2021
Not lenient USA Today 05 Jan 2021
Back of the boat Universal 23 Dec 2020
Prow : front :: ___ : back Universal 13 Dec 2020
Back of a boat USA Today 22 Nov 2020
. Pasternak exposing his rear end?
Harsh LA Times Daily 30 Oct 2020
Harsh The Washington Post 30 Oct 2020
Serious and strict Newsday 20 Oct 2020
Hard back
Strict Universal 24 Aug 2020
Back of a marine vessel The Guardian Speedy 16 Aug 2020
Harsh Premier Sunday 16 Aug 2020
Rigid; rear The Telegraph Quick 14 Aug 2020
Rudder's locale Newsday 09 Aug 2020
Doling out tough love Newsday 08 Aug 2020
Rear part of a ship Newsday 28 Jul 2020
Strict
Tail end of film we skipped The Telegraph Toughie 07 Jul 2020
Like a disciplinarian The Washington Post 26 Jun 2020
Like a disciplinarian LA Times Daily 26 Jun 2020
Rudder area LA Times Daily 24 Jun 2020
Rudder area The Washington Post 24 Jun 2020
Far from lenient USA Today 21 Jun 2020
Rear Canadiana 01 Jun 2020
Rents structure for firm Irish Times Crosaire 20 May 2020
Small aquatic bird in rear of vessel
Highly exacting Newsday 10 May 2020
Back of a boat
Draconian Premier Sunday 03 May 2020
Rigorous Newsday 25 Apr 2020
Severe USA Today 21 Apr 2020
Strict The Telegraph Quick 19 Apr 2020
Unyielding Newsday 17 Apr 2020
Ship's rear end Universal 24 Mar 2020
Severe; rear The Times Concise 20 Mar 2020
Ship's rear Eugene Sheffer 04 Mar 2020
Strict The Washington Post 09 Feb 2020
Strict LA Times Daily 09 Feb 2020
Rudder's place New York Times 05 Jan 2020
Letters from schoolmaster never enforcing discipline
Strict, like a disciplinarian
Strict or rigid?
Hard back
Back of the boat
Rear small bird
Back in register nowadays
Give a ___ look (unfriendly or serious)
Serious Irish novelist hasn't finished
Stiff back
A severe, serious look
To give someone a ___ look (indicate that you are serious)
Inflexible part of ship?
Grim prospect for yachtsman trying to catch rival
Rigid back
Firm rear
Rigid back
Ridiculous rents are demanding
Hard part of a vessel
Hard back
Unrelenting sun starts to turn everyone red before noon
Small bird's grave
Tough bow? Just the opposite
Rump of small bird
Demanding bow? Quite the opposite
Hard old gang leader causing a fair bit of consternation
Grim end to a ship
Uncompromising New York Times 06 Oct 2008
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