Index III — Clues
Hints, clues
& likely answers
When you have a clue but no letters. Look up the clue, compare likely answers, and use length and crossings to choose the right word.
Featured clue
“Aftermast canvas”
A good crossword clue is open enough to create options, but precise enough that length and crossing letters narrow the answer. Start with the strongest suggestions, then open the clue page for definitions.
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Most usefulA → ZClues starting with A
- “Aftermast canvas”2 answers · often → MIZEN5 letters
- “Alpine bloom”1 answers · often → DRABA5 letters
- “Arthropod claw”1 answers · often → CHELA5 letters
- “Assayer's bowl”1 answers · often → CUPEL5 letters
- “Australian shrub”2 answers · often → HOVEA5 letters
Clues starting with B
- “Baroque jig”1 answers · often → GIGUE5 letters
- “Basket willow”1 answers · often → OSIER5 letters
- “Bingo-like game”1 answers · often → BEANO5 letters
- “Bookcase”1 answers · often → AMBRY5 letters
Clues starting with C
- “California shrub”1 answers · often → TOYON5 letters
- “Candlewood”1 answers · often → CIRIO5 letters
- “Casino dice game”1 answers · often → CRAPS5 letters
- “Cord tip”1 answers · often → AGLET5 letters
- “Corner-race board game”1 answers · often → HALMA5 letters
Clues starting with D
- “Darkened by vapor”1 answers · often → FUMED5 letters
- “Decorative embroidery”1 answers · often → BREDE5 letters
- “Deep blue powder”1 answers · often → SMALT5 letters
- “Diagonal spar”1 answers · often → SPRIT5 letters
- “Digestive slurry”1 answers · often → CHYME5 letters
Clues starting with F
- “Farrier”1 answers · often → SHOER5 letters
- “Fir genus”1 answers · often → ABIES5 letters
- “Fleshy fruit type”1 answers · often → BACCA5 letters
- “Floating inn”1 answers · often → BOTEL5 letters
- “Floral cluster”1 answers · often → SPICA5 letters
- “Flower oil”1 answers · often → ATTAR5 letters
- “Flower perfume”1 answers · often → ATHAR5 letters
- “Forage plant”1 answers · often → SULLA5 letters
- “Freshwater crayfish”1 answers · often → YABBY5 letters
- “Fruit peels”1 answers · often → RINDS5 letters
Clues starting with G
- “Game ragout”1 answers · often → SALMI5 letters
- “Geum plant”1 answers · often → AVENS5 letters
- “Green gram”1 answers · often → MOONG5 letters
- “Gulp greedily”1 answers · often → SWILL5 letters
Clues starting with H
- “Habitual drinker”2 answers · often → TOPER5 letters
- “Hindu mens wrap”1 answers · often → DHOTI5 letters
- “Homemade brew”1 answers · often → PRUNO5 letters
- “Homespun cotton”1 answers · often → KHADI5 letters
Clues starting with I
- “Inlaid decoration”1 answers · often → BOULE5 letters
Clues starting with J
- “Jai alai basket”1 answers · often → CESTA5 letters
Clues starting with L
- “Large punch bowl”1 answers · often → JORUM5 letters
Clues starting with M
- “Measuring device”1 answers · often → SIZER5 letters
Clues starting with N
- “New World lizard”1 answers · often → TEIID5 letters
Clues starting with O
- “Open, as a gate”1 answers · often → UNBAR5 letters
- “Orange-sized fruit”1 answers · often → JAGUA5 letters
Clues starting with P
- “Paint resin”1 answers · often → ALKYD5 letters
- “Paint thinner”1 answers · often → TURPS5 letters
- “Painter primer”1 answers · often → GESSO5 letters
- “Paper bundle”1 answers · often → QUIRE5 letters
- “Peruvian evergreen”1 answers · often → MOLLE5 letters
- “Peruvian shrub”1 answers · often → PICHI5 letters
Clues starting with Q
- “Quick dance music”1 answers · often → GALOP5 letters
Clues starting with R
- “Reed instrument”1 answers · often → ARGOL5 letters
- “Resonator guitar”1 answers · often → DOBRO5 letters
- “Rice-paper screen”1 answers · often → SHOJI5 letters
- “Ritual drink”1 answers · often → HAOMA5 letters
- “Russian meat patty”1 answers · often → BITOK5 letters
Clues starting with S
- “Scaly tropical fruit”1 answers · often → ANNON5 letters
- “Seam caulking”1 answers · often → OAKUM5 letters
- “Seasoned rice dish”1 answers · often → PILAW5 letters
- “Set-melding game”1 answers · often → RUMMY5 letters
- “Shade garden plant”1 answers · often → HOSTA5 letters
- “Shaft horse”1 answers · often → POLER5 letters
- “Short Japanese blade”1 answers · often → TANTO5 letters
- “Showy extra”1 answers · often → FRILL5 letters
- “Slot machine”1 answers · often → POKIE5 letters
- “Southern food fish”1 answers · often → SNOEK5 letters
- “Southern stew”1 answers · often → POILU5 letters
Clues starting with T
- “Tin shears”1 answers · often → SNIPS5 letters
- “Tool handle”2 answers · often → HAFT4 letters
- “Tossed pole”1 answers · often → CABER5 letters
- “Trick-taking game”1 answers · often → WHIST5 letters
- “Tropical fiber tree”2 answers · often → MAHOE5 letters
- “Two-masted craft”1 answers · often → YAWLS5 letters
- “Two-seed-leaf plant”1 answers · often → DICOT5 letters
Clues starting with W
- “Wild plum”1 answers · often → ISLAY5 letters
- “Woody plant tissue”1 answers · often → XYLEM5 letters
Clues starting with Y
- “Young salmon”1 answers · often → SMOLT5 letters