Answer: HELL
HELL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 104 times.
Referring Clues:
- Site of 7-Down
 - High water alternative
 - "War is ___"
 - What partyers raise
 - Alternative to high water
 - Hot spot
 - Paradise's opposite
 - Scratch pad?
 - Living ___
 - Something to pay?
 - Fiery place
 - Extreme torment
 - Something to catch or raise
 - The pit
 - What may be raised at celebrations
 - "I'm mad as __ ..." (classic line from "Network")
 - It may be raised at a party
 - "A place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself": Shaw
 - Hades
 - Satan's domain
 - Fire down below?
 - War, to Sherman
 - ___ week (pre-initiation time for a frat)
 - It's sometimes raised
 - ___ week (frat initiation period)
 - Dante's inferno
 - High water's partner
 - "Like a bat out of ___"
 - Handbasket rider's destination?
 - "___ hath no fury ..."
 - It might be raised
 - __ week: frat initiation period
 - Inferno
 - Sherman's word for war
 - Beelzebub's bailiwick
 - It has a fire down below?
 - Dante setting
 - Misery
 - Sherman's equivalent of war
 - See 9-Down
 - Fiery fate
 - Lucifer's realm
 - ___ week: frat initiation period
 - *Fire down below? (and the end of the word ladder)
 - "Paradise Lost" locale
 - "aradse lost" locale
 - War, as they say
 - War, to Gen. Sherman
 - Sherman's opinion of war
 - Sherman's analogy of war
 - Sherman's war comparison
 - The pits
 - Fire place?
 - The devil's playground
 - Word after raise or catch
 - Something to catch from scolding parents
 - Locale for 10-Down
 - Subject of Dante's "Inferno"
 - Epitome of hotness
 - Heaven it's not
 - "A half-filled auditorium," to Frost
 - Dante's "Inferno"
 - Word sometimes spelled with "double hockey sticks"
 - "Other people," to Sartre
 - "'___ is empty / And all the devils are here'": "The Tempest"
 - Heaven's opposite
 - Pluto's domain
 - It's divided into nine circles
 - Utter agony
 - 29-Down's milieu
 - Where to go "for the company," per Mark Twain
 - Frequent Bosch setting
 - "drat!" magnified
 - Satan's place
 - Setting of Sartre's "No Exit"
 - Groening strip setting
 - "Other people," per Sartre
 - Land down under?
 - "___ is other people": Sartre
 - Nether regions
 - "___ come around"
 - Setting of many a "Far Side" comic
 - Severe criticism
 - Word spelled with "double hockey sticks"
 - Satan's realm
 - Classic AC/DC song represented by the falling circled letters and this answer
 - Tartarus, by another name
 - Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of ___"
 - Place with nine circles, per Dante
 - "I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to ___ in his own way": Robert Frost
 - Where 95-Down's Wild Ride ends, at Disneyland
 - Setting of Dante's "Inferno"
 - "Raise ___" (Brandi Carlile song)
 - "Good as ___" (Lizzo bop)
 - Billie Eilish's "All the Good Girls Go to ___"
 - Alternative to high water, in an idiom
 - "Good as ___" (Lizzo hit)
 - "It's ___ on earth to be heavenly"
 - Frequent Bosch subject
 - "___ was the journey but it brought me heaven"
 - "___ if I know!"
 - Setting for Dante's "Inferno"
 - "What the ___, bro?"
 - A half-filled auditorium, per Robert Frost
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 03, 2025
 - USA Today - August 26, 2025
 - USA Today - August 07, 2025
 - New York Times - June 03, 2025
 - USA Today - March 05, 2025
 - LA Times - December 14, 2024
 - USA Today - August 30, 2024
 - LA Times - July 19, 2024
 - New York Times - February 04, 2024
 - New York Times - December 21, 2023
 - New York Times - October 22, 2023
 - LA Times - October 12, 2023
 - USA Today - July 14, 2023
 - USA Today - June 20, 2023
 - USA Today - February 13, 2023
 - New York Times - January 23, 2023
 - New York Times - January 08, 2023
 - New York Times - December 03, 2022
 - LA Times - October 02, 2022
 - LA Times - May 16, 2022
 
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