Answer: LEVEE
LEVEE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 156 times.
Referring Clues:
- Army Corps of Engineers construction
 - Flood embankment
 - Waiting area for the Robert E. Lee
 - Bank
 - "Drove my Chevy to the ___..." (1972 lyric)
 - Flood protector
 - It may get high marks
 - A bank may have one
 - Sandbag stack, sometimes
 - Bank that may get in trouble?
 - Embankment
 - River embankment
 - Flood protection
 - "__ Song" ("I've Been Working on the Railroad")
 - Flood insurance of sorts
 - Bank that may be created by the government
 - Sight along the Mississippi
 - River barrier
 - "When the ___ Breaks" (old blues song)
 - It holds water
 - Bank manager?
 - Flood preventer
 - Flood stopper
 - Result of some sandbagging
 - Flood-zone sight
 - Flood prevention
 - Reception, usually in someone's honor
 - Corps of Engineers responsibility
 - Embankment down by the riverside
 - New Orleans embankment
 - Flood prevention measure
 - Flood prevention barrier
 - Embankment designed to prevent flooding
 - Man-made embankment
 - Flood control structure
 - Embankment to ward off floods
 - It'll hold water
 - Wall near a bed
 - Bank that deters flooding
 - Flood insurance?
 - Mississippi bank
 - Water bank
 - Flood barrier
 - Sea wall relative
 - Flood-control structure
 - River-flood preventer
 - River-flood barrier
 - Common lowland sight
 - Dike
 - Mississippi sight
 - Waiting place of song
 - Mississippi restraint
 - Mississippi feature
 - Water container?
 - Place for Don McLean's Chevy
 - "American Pie" destination
 - Robert E. Lee waiting spot
 - Flood guard
 - It rhymes with "Chevy" in a classic song
 - Bank for a rainy day?
 - Water barrier
 - Spillover stopper
 - Water container
 - Flood-control barrier
 - Artificial embankment
 - River blocker
 - Quay
 - Water-level regulator
 - Sea wall's kin
 - It was dry in "American Pie"
 - Bank security feature
 - Protective bank
 - What Don McLean drove his Chevy to
 - New Orleans sight
 - Embarkment
 - New Orleans protector
 - Coastal safety measure
 - Water holder
 - Enbankment
 - Wall of sandbags, maybe
 - Structure destroyed by Katrina
 - Delta dike
 - Water holder-backer
 - Floodplain feature
 - Barrier along a bank
 - Bank support?
 - Flood zone structure
 - Flooding preventer
 - Big Easy protector
 - It might consist of sandbags
 - Corps of Engineers project
 - Led Zeppelin tune, "When the ___ Breaks"
 - Dike's kin
 - Protective river embankment
 - Bad thing to be breached
 - Antiflood structure
 - If it breaks, things get wet
 - Bank protection
 - It's dry in "American Pie"
 - Flood blocker
 - Structure with high-water marks
 - Bad place for a breach
 - Earthen dike
 - Formal reception
 - Breaking point?
 - Flood control
 - Bank security feature?
 - Mississippi River feature
 - Flood inhibitor
 - Kind of embankment
 - Chevy's "American Pie" destination
 - Surge protector?
 - Bank to rely on
 - Flood defense
 - Flood deterrent
 - Flood foiler
 - River's border, sometimes
 - Bank construction
 - New Orleans feature
 - Anti-flood structure
 - Riverside embankment
 - Flood control embankment
 - "Drove my Chevy to the ___": "American Pie" lyric
 - It provides bank security?
 - Anti-flooding embankment
 - Bank insurance?
 - Flood-protection embankment
 - Chevy's destination, in "American Pie"
 - Surge protector of a sort
 - Construction beside some banks
 - "Drove my Chevy to the ___ ..." ("American Pie" lyric)
 - Flood controller
 - Chevy destination, in "American Pie"
 - Dyke
 - Bank built for a rainy day
 - River quay
 - Protective embankment
 - Current inhibitor
 - Riverbank flood blocker
 - Flood-preventing barrier
 - River's flood barrier
 - Bank security option?
 - Flood-preventing structure
 - Bank investment?
 - River restraint
 - Bank barrier
 - Bank regulator
 - New Orleans structure
 - Word rhymed with "Chevy" in "American Pie"
 - Project for the Army Corps of Engineers
 - Embankment for a river
 - Rhyme for "Chevy" in Don McLean's "American Pie"
 - One holding things back?
 - Damlike structure
 - Bank of New Orleans?
 - Flood-protection structure
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - August 31, 2025
 - LA Times - June 18, 2025
 - USA Today - June 17, 2025
 - New York Times - May 19, 2025
 - New York Times - December 04, 2024
 - USA Today - August 15, 2024
 - LA Times - June 26, 2024
 - USA Today - June 26, 2024
 - New York Times - June 10, 2024
 - LA Times - December 24, 2023
 - USA Today - December 19, 2023
 - New York Times - December 13, 2023
 - USA Today - November 21, 2023
 - USA Today - November 20, 2023
 - LA Times - August 25, 2023
 - LA Times - August 20, 2023
 - USA Today - June 28, 2023
 - USA Today - June 15, 2023
 - LA Times - May 22, 2023
 - LA Times - April 04, 2023
 
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