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WAR

146 recorded uses

DateClue
2026-08-30"Catch-22" topic
2026-08-26Word that can precede cry or baby
2026-05-07"You can no more win a ___ than you can win an earthquake": Jeannette Rankin
2025-11-09Luck-based card game
2025-08-28Word with price or proxy
2025-06-20"You can no more win a ___ than you can win an earthquake": Jeannette Rankin
2024-12-31Simple two-player card game
2024-08-17Epic backdrop, maybe
2024-08-15"Foyle's ___" (British TV drama)
2024-05-06It's good for "absolutely nothing," per a 1970 #1 hit
2024-02-04Simple card game
2024-01-06"A symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal," according to John Steinbeck
2022-10-21Word with horse or hero
2022-09-13What games like chess, Stratego and Risk simulate
2022-08-14"If we don't end ___, ___ will end us": H. G. Wells
2022-05-04Game with the objective of winning all the cards
2022-02-24It may be revolutionary
2022-01-17Mindless two-player card game
2022-01-09Domain of Mars
2022-01-05*Word in a classic Tolstoy title
2021-10-31Churchill ___ Rooms (London tourist attraction)
2021-05-02"___ is mainly a catalog of blunders": Churchill
2021-03-11"I have seen ___. I have seen ___ on land and sea. ... I hate ___.": F.D.R.
2021-02-16What truth is said to be the first casualty of
2021-01-31General practice?
2020-12-31Game that's 100% luck
2020-06-10"The most successful ___ seldom pays for its losses": Thomas Jefferson
2020-04-13Mindless card game for two
2020-01-25"What happens when language fails," per Margaret Atwood
2019-09-15Major operation?
2018-12-27Newspaper headline of 12/8/1941
2018-09-03Subject for "Dunkirk" or "Apocalypse Now"
2018-04-05"___ has no use for free speech": Julius Caesar
2018-03-30"God created ___ so that Americans would learn geography" (line attributed to Mark Twain)
2018-01-30"___ is hell"
2018-01-14Topic for Sun Tzu
2017-10-23Strategy-free card game
2017-08-09Word in 12/8/41 headlines
2017-06-08Called for
2016-09-14Subject of 12/8/1941 headlines
2016-08-31Cabinet department until 1947
2016-07-17"This means ___!"
2016-06-10"... let slip the dogs of ___": Shak.
2016-05-16Card game that can go on and on
2016-04-10Card game for two
2016-03-09What polemology is the study of
2015-06-17Word with cry or crime
2015-06-09Man-o'-___ (old battleship)
2015-04-16Like some deals
2015-03-29Vietnam ___
2015-01-12"This means ___!"
2014-11-01It's conducted in a theater
2014-10-11Game of pure chance
2014-07-16Cabinet department until 1947
2013-09-17Combat
2013-09-06"A defeat for humanity," per Pope John Paul II
2013-08-15Hostilities
2013-07-23Card game for two
2013-07-01The second "W" of W.W. II
2013-04-03Cabinet department until 1947
2013-03-24See 111-Down
2012-11-27Card game for two
2011-10-06Card game for two
2011-04-28___ of the Roses
2011-04-08See 9-Across
2011-02-17What's broken out of the answers to the starred clues?
2011-01-24One of the W's in W.W. I
2010-12-05See 48-Across
2010-12-01Something played out in a theater
2010-09-08Collect-all-the-cards game
2010-07-22*Edwin Starr, 1970
2010-06-06It's good for "absolutely nothing" according to a 1970 hit
2010-05-21Simple card game
2010-05-03Vietnam ___
2010-04-15Classic one-word headline
2010-03-23Hell, to General Sherman
2009-12-23Card game for 11-Down
2009-10-20It was hell, to Sherman
2009-10-11Declaration of 1941
2009-09-28___ of 1812
2009-09-09Former cabinet department
2009-07-14See 3-Down
2009-07-03Campaign setting
2009-04-03___ Emblem (2002 Kentucky Derby winner)
2009-04-02Drug ___
2009-01-21Cabinet department until 1947
2008-09-28Sun Tzu's "The Art of ___"
2008-09-11"That mad game the world so loves to play," to Jonathan Swift
2008-06-10Realm of Ares
2007-10-01"This means ___!"
2007-06-23"The trade of kings": Dryden
2007-01-21"The child of Pride," according to Jonathan Swift
2007-01-09Realm of Ares
2006-11-28Realm of 3-Down
2006-08-07With 59-Across, battle planning site
2006-07-241970 #1 hit with the lyric "huh, yeah, What is it good for?"
2006-06-08Subject in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution
2005-10-16___ powers
2005-09-06Congressional declaration
2005-08-21Kind of cabinet
2005-04-07Declaration of Congress
2004-12-29Conflict
2004-11-11More than a brawl
2004-06-01Easy card game
2004-05-18___ correspondent
2003-12-18"The blood-red blossom of ___ ...": Tennyson
2003-09-10Word before cry or baby
2003-02-12"This means ___!"
2003-01-04Reason for restrictions
2002-12-24"This means ___!"
2002-12-22Combat
2002-11-26Kids' card game
2002-10-26Kind of cloud
2002-10-02Children's card game
2002-09-25Failed negotiation result
2002-08-18Part of 46-Down
2001-12-13Word that can follow the start of 15-, 18-, 34-, 48- or 55-Across
2001-10-14General Assembly topic
2001-10-07Simple card game
2001-07-19Dove's aversion
2000-04-02Area of Mars
2000-02-29Dull card game
2000-02-08Kind of dance or bride
2000-01-20Former Cabinet department
1999-09-21"This means ___!"
1999-06-21"Saving Private Ryan" subject
1998-10-20Kind of chest or paint
1998-06-30Gulf ___
1998-02-15"This means ___!"
1997-08-17"This means ___!"
1996-12-30Card game for two
1996-11-16Wouk topic
1996-09-11Tolstoy topic
1996-07-05Headline with an exclamation point
1996-05-26Simple card game
1996-05-19"The Red Badge of Courage" topic
1996-05-02Tolstoy subject
1996-02-13Children's card game
1996-01-22All-out fight
1995-08-10Card game for two
1994-09-23Type of paint
1994-06-29Conflict
1994-05-29Jihad
1994-05-20Disturber of the peace
1994-05-05West Point subject
1994-03-21Revolutionary, e.g.