Answer: HAIL
HAIL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 168 times.
Referring Clues:
- Salute
 - Flag down a cab
 - Honor, as a conquering hero
 - Salute with enthusiasm
 - Hard rain?
 - Nasty fall?
 - Hearty hello
 - It's hard on the head
 - It falls hard
 - Come (from)
 - "__, Vermont" (a 31-Across song)
 - It comes down hard
 - Icy pellets
 - Flag down
 - "Huzzah!," e.g.
 - Acclaim
 - Applaud
 - Stones from the sky
 - Precipitation that can leave dents
 - Approve enthusiastically
 - Precipitation that may be the size of golf balls
 - Word to the chief
 - ___ Mary
 - Thunderstorm product
 - Signal, as a cab
 - Call a cab
 - Come down hard?
 - Icy precipitation
 - A hard rain that's a-gonna fall?
 - Hard rain
 - Car-denting precipitation
 - Greet Caesar
 - Welcome
 - Greeting to the chief
 - Frozen rain
 - Flag
 - "Ave" of the Americas?
 - Some precipitation
 - Potentially painful precipitation
 - Golf-ball-sized precipitation, maybe
 - Hard water?
 - Signal, as a taxi
 - Solid precipitation
 - Hard precipitation
 - Welcome warmly
 - Greet with acclaim
 - Summon, as a cab
 - Call to
 - Icy-pellet precipitation
 - Pellet precipitation
 - Signal, as for an 18 Across
 - Storm pellets
 - Word with ''stone'' or ''storm''
 - Damaging precipitation
 - Sleet relative
 - Rare weather forecast
 - ''Ave!''
 - Honor, as a military hero
 - Wave down, as a taxi
 - Praise
 - Cloud output, sometimes
 - Flag Alex Rieger's vehicle
 - Icy shower
 - Word with storm or stone
 - "___ Caesar!"
 - When repeated, exuberant cry
 - Greet with pomp
 - Frozen precipitation
 - Flag down, as a cab
 - Damaging downpour
 - Pellets in a tempest
 - Enthusiastically acclaim
 - Hard downpour
 - Ice show?
 - "___, Caesar!"
 - Greet with enthusiasm
 - Word with "stone" or "storm"
 - "Ave!"
 - It may come down hard on you
 - Farmer's nemesis
 - Call for
 - Crop destroyer
 - Call, in a way
 - Ice pellets
 - Flag, as a cab
 - Stony weather?
 - Greet
 - Crop ruiner
 - Wave to, as a taxi
 - Winter weather
 - Greet loudly
 - Falling ice
 - Balls of ice
 - Pellets of ice and hard snow
 - "___ to the Chief"
 - Salute for Caesar
 - '___ Caesar!'
 - Crop hazard
 - Word repeated before "the gang's all here"
 - Greet enthusiastically
 - Cumulonimbus creation
 - Try to grab, as a cab
 - Icy fall
 - Wave to from the curb, maybe
 - Bane of farmers
 - Part of a shout-out to Satan
 - Thunderstorm formation, perhaps
 - Icy precip
 - It can be golf-ball sized
 - Pelting pellets
 - Precipitation type
 - Icy precipitation in many hurricanes.
 - Weather forecast, perhaps
 - Weather phenomenon that might be compared to golf balls or grapefruits
 - Call to a cabbie
 - Caesar's predecessor?
 - With 37-Across, desperate attempts
 - Frozen raindrops
 - Warmly welcome
 - Chief greeting
 - "____, Caesar!"
 - Falling pellets
 - Weather forecast that's hard to predict?
 - Weather forecast
 - Downpour that can hurt
 - Pellets of precipitation
 - Cold shower?
 - Loudly acclaim
 - Precipitation stones
 - An enthusiastic greeting
 - Spheroids from the sky
 - Precipitation that can cause dents
 - Greet rapturously
 - Extol
 - Multi seasonal Pelter
 - "___, the gang's . . . "
 - Welcome with pomp
 - Gardener's dread
 - ____ Mary
 - "Golf-ball-sized" precipitation
 - Call a taxi
 - Signal, as for a metered vehicle
 - "Golf ball-sized" precipitation
 - Call from the curb
 - Rain hard?
 - Precipitation in pellets
 - Pellets that pelt
 - Commend loudly
 - Get a cabbie's attention
 - Cause of some roof damage
 - Pellets from above
 - Destructive precipitation
 - Greet with fanfare
 - Greet heartily
 - Painful precipitation
 - Give kudos to
 - Noisy precipitation
 - Call, as a cab
 - Bad fall?
 - Pelting precipitation
 - Greet grandly
 - Rare forecast
 - Try to get the attention of
 - "Peas" or "golf balls"
 - Heavy downpour?
 - Precipitation that can be golf ball-sized
 - Precipitation that can hurt
 - Signal to stop, say
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - September 19, 2025
 - USA Today - August 13, 2025
 - USA Today - June 09, 2025
 - New York Times - March 14, 2025
 - USA Today - February 03, 2025
 - New York Times - November 08, 2024
 - New York Times - August 01, 2024
 - LA Times - May 11, 2024
 - USA Today - June 20, 2023
 - USA Today - February 16, 2023
 - LA Times - December 15, 2022
 - New York Times - November 05, 2022
 - USA Today - March 29, 2022
 - New York Times - February 17, 2022
 - LA Times - October 08, 2021
 - LA Times - October 07, 2021
 - New York Times - September 24, 2021
 - New York Times - May 23, 2021
 - Universal - May 22, 2021
 - New York Times - January 22, 2021
 
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