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.
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“African dye tree”
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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- “African dye tree”1 answers · often → CAMWOOD7 letters
- “Aftermost lower canvas”1 answers · often → SPANKER7 letters
- “Ancient galley”1 answers · often → TRIREME7 letters
- “Animal chow”1 answers · often → PETFOOD7 letters
- “Aquarium swimmer”1 answers · often → GOURAMI7 letters
- “Armed vessel”1 answers · often → GUNSHIP7 letters
- “Australian shrub”2 answers · often → HOVEA5 letters
Clues starting with B
- “Ballroom dancer”1 answers · often → WALTZER7 letters
- “Barbed spear”1 answers · often → FISHGIG7 letters
- “Baroque suite”1 answers · often → PARTITA7 letters
- “Bearing metal”1 answers · often → BABBITT7 letters
- “Book's outer margin”1 answers · often → FOREDGE7 letters
- “Branched flower cluster”1 answers · often → PANICLE7 letters
- “Brazilian cherry”1 answers · often → PITANGA7 letters
- “Bridal wreath shrub”1 answers · often → SPIRAEA7 letters
- “Bridle-bit maker”1 answers · often → LORIMER7 letters
- “Brown skin spot”1 answers · often → LENTIGO7 letters
- “Built-in furnishing”1 answers · often → FITMENT7 letters
Clues starting with C
- “Carved molding”1 answers · often → GODROON7 letters
- “Coal pan”1 answers · often → BRASIER7 letters
- “Coarse floor covering”1 answers · often → DRUGGET7 letters
- “Coarse linen”1 answers · often → DRABBET7 letters
- “Coarse weave”1 answers · often → HOPSACK7 letters
- “Cold cover”1 answers · often → EARMUFF7 letters
- “Covered with knobs”1 answers · often → BUTTONY7 letters
- “Cross-shaped race game”1 answers · often → PACHISI7 letters
- “Curtain holder”1 answers · often → TIEBACK7 letters
- “Curved Gurkha blade”1 answers · often → KHUKURI7 letters
Clues starting with D
- “Decorated head band”1 answers · often → CIRCLET7 letters
- “Display case”1 answers · often → VITRINE7 letters
- “Doll seller's store”1 answers · often → TOYSHOP7 letters
- “Dressy hat”1 answers · often → CHAPEAU7 letters
Clues starting with E
- “Early poker cousin”1 answers · often → PRIMERO7 letters
- “Eaves ornament”1 answers · often → ANTEFIX7 letters
- “Endorsement slip”1 answers · often → ALLONGE7 letters
- “Engine cover”1 answers · often → COWLING7 letters
- “Engravers tool”1 answers · often → POINTEL7 letters
- “Entry viewer”1 answers · often → SPYHOLE7 letters
- “Evergreen shrub”1 answers · often → SHALLON7 letters
- “Explorer's ship”1 answers · often → CARAVEL7 letters
Clues starting with F
- “Fat substitute”1 answers · often → OLESTRA7 letters
- “Feathery”1 answers · often → PLUMOSE7 letters
- “Fiber grass”1 answers · often → ESPARTO7 letters
- “Flag rope”1 answers · often → HALYARD7 letters
- “Flat stringer”1 answers · often → ZITHERN7 letters
- “Flax tool”1 answers · often → SWINGLE7 letters
- “Floral wreath”1 answers · often → CHAPLET7 letters
- “Flower ornament”1 answers · often → FLEURON7 letters
- “Flower stalk”2 answers · often → PEDICEL7 letters
- “Fob loop”1 answers · often → KEYRING7 letters
- “Folding carriage hood”1 answers · often → CALECHE7 letters
- “French blade”1 answers · often → COUTEAU7 letters
- “French carriage”1 answers · often → VOITURE7 letters
- “Fried meat patty”1 answers · often → RISSOLE7 letters
- “Front alley target”1 answers · often → HEADPIN7 letters
- “Full goblet”1 answers · often → BRIMMER7 letters
Clues starting with G
- “Glossy cotton cloth”1 answers · often → SATINET7 letters
- “Gothic foliage ornament”1 answers · often → CROCKET7 letters
Clues starting with H
- “Habitual drinker”2 answers · often → TOPER5 letters
- “Harbor supply craft”1 answers · often → BUMBOAT7 letters
- “Heathlike shrub”1 answers · often → EPACRIS7 letters
- “Heavy chopping blade”1 answers · often → MATCHET7 letters
- “Hibiscus relative”1 answers · often → PAVONIA7 letters
Clues starting with I
- “Imprint tool”1 answers · often → STAMPER7 letters
- “Indonesian ensemble”1 answers · often → GAMELAN7 letters
- “Instrument mute”1 answers · often → SORDINE7 letters
- “Instrumental piece”1 answers · often → CANZONA7 letters
- “Intoxicating amount”1 answers · often → SKINFUL7 letters
- “Iron pigment”2 answers · often → HEMATIN7 letters
- “Italian court sport”1 answers · often → PALLONE7 letters
Clues starting with J
- “Japanese banjo”1 answers · often → SAMISEN7 letters
- “Jointed desert shrub”1 answers · often → EPHEDRA7 letters
Clues starting with L
- “Laundry roller”1 answers · often → WRINGER7 letters
- “Laundry time”1 answers · often → WASHDAY7 letters
- “Library worker”1 answers · often → SHELVER7 letters
- “Light sandal”1 answers · often → SCUFFER7 letters
- “Light wool cloth”1 answers · often → DELAINE7 letters
- “Living stone plant”1 answers · often → LITHOPS7 letters
- “Love potion”2 answers · often → PHILTER7 letters
Clues starting with M
- “Mail carrier's pouch”1 answers · often → POSTBAG7 letters
- “Mallow genus”1 answers · often → ALTHAEA7 letters
- “Meld-making game”1 answers · often → COONCAN7 letters
- “Misty-road light”1 answers · often → FOGLAMP7 letters
- “Mortise cutter”1 answers · often → TWIBILL7 letters
- “Multiple fruit”1 answers · often → SOROSIS7 letters
- “Muzzle pouch”1 answers · often → FEEDBAG7 letters
Clues starting with N
- “Noble coach”1 answers · often → CAROCHE7 letters
- “Nonflat swimmer”1 answers · often → FINFISH7 letters
- “Notice tack”1 answers · often → PUSHPIN7 letters
Clues starting with O
- “Octavo format”1 answers · often → EIGHTVO7 letters
- “Oily mackerel”1 answers · often → ESCOLAR7 letters
- “Old guitar cousin”1 answers · often → BANDORE7 letters
- “Old oboe”2 answers · often → HAUTBOY7 letters
- “One-horse gig”1 answers · often → CARIOLE7 letters
- “One-seed-leaf plant”1 answers · often → MONOCOT7 letters
- “Opaque paint”1 answers · often → GOUACHE7 letters
- “Open-mesh fabric”1 answers · often → ETAMINE7 letters
- “Opening pages”1 answers · often → PRELIMS7 letters
- “Orange plant pigment”1 answers · often → CAROTIN7 letters
- “Outer fruit layer”2 answers · often → EPICARP7 letters
Clues starting with P
- “Paint solvent”1 answers · often → TOLUENE7 letters
- “Pastry shell”1 answers · often → TIMBALE7 letters
- “Pendant ornament”1 answers · often → EARDROP7 letters
- “Pink garden shrub”1 answers · often → WEIGELA7 letters
- “Platform footwear”1 answers · often → CHOPINE7 letters
- “Playground dig site”1 answers · often → SANDPIT7 letters
- “Plush fabric”1 answers · often → VELOURS7 letters
- “Porcelain clay”1 answers · often → KAOLINE7 letters
- “Porridge stirrer”1 answers · often → SPURTLE7 letters
- “Printer mask”1 answers · often → FRISKET7 letters
- “Private eye, slangily”1 answers · often → GUMSHOE7 letters
- “Produce-prep device”1 answers · often → STEMMER7 letters
- “Public coach”1 answers · often → AUTOBUS7 letters
Clues starting with R
- “Rail coach”1 answers · often → TRAMCAR7 letters
- “Rapid musical turn”1 answers · often → MORDENT7 letters
- “Rear car compartment”1 answers · often → TONNEAU7 letters
- “Red ocher”3 answers · often → SINOPER7 letters
- “Red pigment”1 answers · often → PONCEAU7 letters
- “Ribbon rosette”1 answers · often → COCKADE7 letters
- “Rigging disk”1 answers · often → DEADEYE7 letters
- “Rower”1 answers · often → SCULLER7 letters
- “Rubber shrub”1 answers · often → GUAYULE7 letters
- “Russian carriage”1 answers · often → DROSHKY7 letters
Clues starting with S
- “Sailor”1 answers · often → MATELOT7 letters
- “Sailors work song”1 answers · often → CHANTEY7 letters
- “Salmon spear”1 answers · often → LEISTER7 letters
- “Samba-like dance”1 answers · often → CARIOCA7 letters
- “Sandal strap”1 answers · often → LATCHET7 letters
- “Scottish gathering”1 answers · often → CEILIDH7 letters
- “Scraping tool”1 answers · often → STRIGIL7 letters
- “Sea cucumber”1 answers · often → TREPANG7 letters
- “Sea debris”1 answers · often → FLOTSAM7 letters
- “Sea lavender”1 answers · often → STATICE7 letters
- “Seam sealer”1 answers · often → CAULKER7 letters
- “Sewing kit holder”1 answers · often → WORKBOX7 letters
- “Shallow carrier”1 answers · often → FLASKET7 letters
- “Shelling tool”1 answers · often → NUTPICK7 letters
- “Shoelace loop”1 answers · often → BOWKNOT7 letters
- “Short-lived bloom”1 answers · often → DAYLILY7 letters
- “Shoulder ornament”1 answers · often → EPAULET7 letters
- “Side projection”1 answers · often → SPONSON7 letters
- “Single-mast craft”1 answers · often → CATBOAT7 letters
- “Skink-family lizard”1 answers · often → SCINCID7 letters
- “Skittles target”1 answers · often → NINEPIN7 letters
- “Small anchor”1 answers · often → GRAPNEL7 letters
- “Small bouquet”1 answers · often → NOSEGAY7 letters
- “Small iceberg”1 answers · often → GROWLER7 letters
- “Smelted metal mass”1 answers · often → REGULUS7 letters
- “Smoothing tool”1 answers · often → ABRADER7 letters
- “Soft photo print”1 answers · often → BROMOIL7 letters
- “Soft woolen cloth”1 answers · often → DOESKIN7 letters
- “Soft-edge technique”1 answers · often → SFUMATO7 letters
- “Solo flourish”1 answers · often → CADENZA7 letters
- “Spanish hunting cap”1 answers · often → MONTERO7 letters
- “Square-rigger spar”1 answers · often → YARDARM7 letters
- “Squat bowling target”1 answers · often → DUCKPIN7 letters
- “Starch adhesive”1 answers · often → DEXTRIN7 letters
- “Stiff silk blend”1 answers · often → GROGRAM7 letters
- “Storm canvas”1 answers · often → TRYSAIL7 letters
- “Striped satin fabric”1 answers · often → TABARET7 letters
- “Sunflower variety”1 answers · often → MIRASOL7 letters
- “Sunken ceiling panel”1 answers · often → LACUNAR7 letters
- “Swimmeret”1 answers · often → PLEOPOD7 letters
- “Swing musician”1 answers · often → JAZZMAN7 letters
Clues starting with T
- “Table card game”1 answers · often → CASSINO7 letters
- “Table centerpiece”1 answers · often → EPERGNE7 letters
- “Tall coarse plant”1 answers · often → HOGWEED7 letters
- “Tanning light”1 answers · often → SUNLAMP7 letters
- “Tea ceremony”1 answers · often → CHANOYU7 letters
- “Thickly painted”1 answers · often → PASTOSE7 letters
- “Thorny shrub”2 answers · often → CHANAL6 letters
- “Tiny craft”1 answers · often → SKIPPET7 letters
- “Titanium mineral”1 answers · often → ANATASE7 letters
- “Tough cloth”1 answers · often → RIPSTOP7 letters
- “Trawl boat”1 answers · often → DRAGGER7 letters
- “Trawling extra”1 answers · often → BYCATCH7 letters
- “Tropical flowering plant”1 answers · often → GAMBIER7 letters
- “Tropical lizard”1 answers · often → IGUANID7 letters
- “Twill cotton cloth”1 answers · often → GALATEA7 letters
- “Two-panel artwork”1 answers · often → DIPTYCH7 letters
- “Two-player card game”1 answers · often → BEZIQUE7 letters
Clues starting with U
- “Umbrella palm”1 answers · often → TALIPOT7 letters
- “Unlicensed tavern”1 answers · often → SHEBEEN7 letters
- “Upper deck area”1 answers · often → TOPSIDE7 letters
- “Uppermost canvas”1 answers · often → SKYSAIL7 letters
Clues starting with V
- “Valved brass”1 answers · often → SAXHORN7 letters
Clues starting with W
- “White-cluster shrub”1 answers · often → CYRILLA7 letters
- “Wicker basket”1 answers · often → HANAPER7 letters
- “Wild-color painter”1 answers · often → FAUVIST7 letters
- “Woolly-leaved herb”1 answers · often → MULLEIN7 letters
- “Woven edge”1 answers · often → SELVAGE7 letters
- “Wrapped coin roll”1 answers · often → ROULEAU7 letters
- “Writing flask”1 answers · often → INKHORN7 letters
- “Writing point”1 answers · often → BALLPEN7 letters
Clues starting with Y
- “Yellow cotton cloth”1 answers · often → NANKEEN7 letters
- “Yellow plant compound”1 answers · often → FLAVONE7 letters
- “Yellow wildflower”1 answers · often → RAGWORT7 letters
Clues starting with Z
- “Zesty, on menus”1 answers · often → PICANTE7 letters