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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“Agricultural work”
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
- “Agricultural work”1 answers · often → FARMING7 letters
- “Amount per volume”1 answers · often → DENSITY7 letters
- “At the middle”1 answers · often → HALFWAY7 letters
- “Attached addition”1 answers · often → ADJUNCT7 letters
Clues starting with B
- “Best choice”1 answers · often → OPTIMAL7 letters
- “Bounce a ball”1 answers · often → DRIBBLE7 letters
- “Bowl mixtures”1 answers · often → BATTERS7 letters
- “Brave spirit”1 answers · often → COURAGE7 letters
Clues starting with C
- “Call an assembly”1 answers · often → CONVOKE7 letters
- “Call forth by magic”1 answers · often → CONJURE7 letters
- “Cane sugar”1 answers · often → SUCROSE7 letters
- “Careless mistake”1 answers · often → BLUNDER7 letters
- “Carpenter's cutter”1 answers · often → HANDSAW7 letters
- “Changed to fit”1 answers · often → ADAPTED7 letters
- “Chocolate dessert square”1 answers · often → BROWNIE7 letters
- “Clear understanding”1 answers · often → INSIGHT7 letters
- “Coat a wall”1 answers · often → PLASTER7 letters
- “Create music”1 answers · often → COMPOSE7 letters
- “Crunchy breakfast mix”1 answers · often → GRANOLA7 letters
- “Crunchy oat cereal”1 answers · often → GRANOLA7 letters
- “Cup rest”1 answers · often → COASTER7 letters
Clues starting with D
- “Dark big cat”1 answers · often → PANTHER7 letters
- “Deep revulsion”1 answers · often → DISGUST7 letters
- “Deeply sincere”1 answers · often → EARNEST7 letters
- “Dessert stiffener”1 answers · often → GELATIN7 letters
- “Directs attention”1 answers · often → FOCUSES7 letters
- “Doctor's order”1 answers · often → BEDREST7 letters
- “Drone lute”1 answers · often → TAMBURA7 letters
Clues starting with E
- “Egg-thickened cream”1 answers · often → CUSTARD7 letters
- “Enchanted draught”1 answers · often → PHILTER7 letters
- “Entryway shoe wiper”1 answers · often → DOORMAT7 letters
- “Equivalent term”1 answers · often → SYNONYM7 letters
- “Exact expression”1 answers · often → WORDING7 letters
- “Exertions toward a goal”1 answers · often → EFFORTS7 letters
- “Expecting good news”1 answers · often → HOPEFUL7 letters
- “Explain plainly”1 answers · often → CLARIFY7 letters
- “Extremely poor”1 answers · often → ABYSMAL7 letters
Clues starting with F
- “Fiery pepper sauce”1 answers · often → TABASCO7 letters
- “Final wash-off”1 answers · often → RINSING7 letters
- “Fit for drinking”1 answers · often → POTABLE7 letters
- “Flower arrangement”1 answers · often → BOUQUET7 letters
- “Formal investigation”1 answers · often → ENQUIRY7 letters
- “Fruit-tree grove”1 answers · often → ORCHARD7 letters
- “Fruit's outer skin”1 answers · often → EXOCARP7 letters
- “Fuzzy stone fruit”1 answers · often → PEACHES7 letters
Clues starting with G
- “Garment pouches”1 answers · often → POCKETS7 letters
- “Gastronomy lover”1 answers · often → EPICURE7 letters
- “Gave an answer”1 answers · often → REPLIED7 letters
- “Given instructions”1 answers · often → BRIEFED7 letters
- “Grand residence”1 answers · often → MANSION7 letters
- “Gray-haired”1 answers · often → GRIZZLY7 letters
- “Griddle stack item”1 answers · often → HOTCAKE7 letters
- “Gruesome in mood”1 answers · often → MACABRE7 letters
Clues starting with H
- “Held in esteem”1 answers · often → ADMIRED7 letters
- “Highest point”1 answers · often → OPTIMUM7 letters
- “Holiday toast”1 answers · often → WASSAIL7 letters
Clues starting with I
- “In a marked way”1 answers · often → NOTABLY7 letters
- “Informal helicopter”1 answers · often → CHOPPER7 letters
- “Investigate widely”1 answers · often → EXPLORE7 letters
- “Irregular behavior”1 answers · often → ERRATIC7 letters
- “It or they”1 answers · often → PRONOUN7 letters
- “Italian dumplings”1 answers · often → GNOCCHI7 letters
- “Items placed above”1 answers · often → TOPPERS7 letters
Clues starting with J
- “Juicy citrus spheres”1 answers · often → ORANGES7 letters
Clues starting with K
- “Keep out”1 answers · often → EXCLUDE7 letters
- “Kitchen cold boxes”1 answers · often → FRIDGES7 letters
- “Kitchen instructions”1 answers · often → RECIPES7 letters
Clues starting with L
- “Last-course sweet”1 answers · often → DESSERT7 letters
- “Lawn hoop sport”1 answers · often → CROQUET7 letters
- “Layout patterns”1 answers · often → FORMATS7 letters
- “Least sufficient”1 answers · often → MINIMAL7 letters
- “Looked ahead”1 answers · often → SCOUTED7 letters
- “Lower house, in Britain”1 answers · often → COMMONS7 letters
Clues starting with M
- “Magic love drink”1 answers · often → PHILTRE7 letters
- “Mail or freight firm”1 answers · often → CARRIER7 letters
- “Major traffic route”1 answers · often → FREEWAY7 letters
- “Make less loose”1 answers · often → TIGHTEN7 letters
- “Make more sour”1 answers · often → ACIDIFY7 letters
- “Material inside”1 answers · often → FILLING7 letters
- “Matter science”1 answers · often → PHYSICS7 letters
- “Medicinal garden herb”1 answers · often → VERVAIN7 letters
- “Menu sequence”1 answers · often → COURSES7 letters
- “Messy marks”1 answers · often → SMUDGES7 letters
- “Metric field unit”1 answers · often → HECTARE7 letters
- “Middle places”1 answers · often → CENTERS7 letters
- “Minor delay”1 answers · often → FAFFING7 letters
- “Moved around in liquid”1 answers · often → STIRRED7 letters
Clues starting with N
- “Naturally grown”1 answers · often → ORGANIC7 letters
- “Naval commander”1 answers · often → ADMIRAL7 letters
- “Noisy percussion piece”1 answers · often → CLACKER7 letters
- “Not binding”1 answers · often → INVALID7 letters
- “Not concentrated”1 answers · often → DIFFUSE7 letters
Clues starting with O
- “Old card duel”1 answers · often → BEZIQUE7 letters
- “Old woodwind”1 answers · often → CORNETT7 letters
- “One-leaf seedling”1 answers · often → MONOCOT7 letters
- “Open hosiery”1 answers · often → FISHNET7 letters
- “Ordinary and worldly”1 answers · often → MUNDANE7 letters
- “Original author”1 answers · often → CREATOR7 letters
Clues starting with P
- “Perfumed”1 answers · often → SCENTED7 letters
- “Persisting over time”1 answers · often → CHRONIC7 letters
- “Personal matters”1 answers · often → AFFAIRS7 letters
- “Planned patterns”1 answers · often → DESIGNS7 letters
- “Polished allure”1 answers · often → GLAMOUR7 letters
- “Post dispatch”1 answers · often → MAILING7 letters
- “Productive”1 answers · often → FERTILE7 letters
- “Professional paths”1 answers · often → CAREERS7 letters
- “Put in new sequence”1 answers · often → REORDER7 letters
Clues starting with Q
- “Quietly restrained”1 answers · often → SUBDUED7 letters
Clues starting with R
- “Raging fire”1 answers · often → INFERNO7 letters
- “Rain in bursts”1 answers · often → SHOWERY7 letters
- “Receives willingly”1 answers · often → ACCEPTS7 letters
- “Refined food lover”1 answers · often → GOURMET7 letters
- “Refusal to agree”1 answers · often → DISSENT7 letters
- “Relied upon”1 answers · often → TRUSTED7 letters
- “Remarkable feat”1 answers · often → EXPLOIT7 letters
- “Removes entries”1 answers · often → DELETES7 letters
- “Render void”1 answers · often → NULLIFY7 letters
- “Represent in art”1 answers · often → PORTRAY7 letters
- “Rich in resources”1 answers · often → WEALTHY7 letters
- “Round hat case”1 answers · often → BANDBOX7 letters
Clues starting with S
- “Saucy spiced meals”1 answers · often → CURRIES7 letters
- “Self-playing keyboard”1 answers · often → PIANOLA7 letters
- “Set of straps”1 answers · often → HARNESS7 letters
- “Shallow rapids”1 answers · often → RIFFLES7 letters
- “Shelling spike”1 answers · often → NUTPICK7 letters
- “Shrill cry”1 answers · often → SCREECH7 letters
- “Sightseeing visitor”1 answers · often → TOURIST7 letters
- “Sliding cabinet parts”1 answers · often → DRAWERS7 letters
- “Small quantity”1 answers · often → HANDFUL7 letters
- “Small sample test”1 answers · often → TASTING7 letters
- “Small soft fruits”1 answers · often → BERRIES7 letters
- “Social conduct”1 answers · often → MANNERS7 letters
- “Some person”1 answers · often → ANYBODY7 letters
- “Spends sparingly”1 answers · often → THRIFTY7 letters
- “Spiced relish”1 answers · often → CHUTNEY7 letters
- “Spiky custard-apple fruit”1 answers · often → SOURSOP7 letters
- “Starting points”1 answers · often → ORIGINS7 letters
- “Stewed sweet fruit”1 answers · often → COMPOTE7 letters
- “Storm postponement”1 answers · often → RAINOUT7 letters
- “Strong requests”1 answers · often → DEMANDS7 letters
- “Sugar glazed”1 answers · often → CANDIED7 letters
- “Summon together”1 answers · often → CONVENE7 letters
- “Sweet dessert”1 answers · often → PUDDING7 letters
- “Sweet or hot vegetables”1 answers · often → PEPPERS7 letters
- “Synthetic paint material”1 answers · often → ACRYLIC7 letters
Clues starting with T
- “Table of records”1 answers · often → DATASET7 letters
- “Tart little berry”1 answers · often → CURRANT7 letters
- “Tentacled sea bloom”1 answers · often → ANEMONE7 letters
- “Thin outer layer”1 answers · often → COATING7 letters
- “Tomato condiment”1 answers · often → KETCHUP7 letters
- “Tropical white bloomer”1 answers · often → CYRILLA7 letters
Clues starting with U
- “Urban ring road”1 answers · often → BELTWAY7 letters
- “Usual setting”1 answers · often → DEFAULT7 letters
Clues starting with V
- “Vie for a prize”1 answers · often → COMPETE7 letters
- “Vitamin-rich pod”1 answers · often → ROSEHIP7 letters
Clues starting with W
- “Wanting water”1 answers · often → THIRSTY7 letters
- “Well supplied with money”1 answers · often → WEALTHY7 letters
- “Went over”1 answers · often → CROSSED7 letters
- “White-sprayed shrub”1 answers · often → SPIRAEA7 letters
- “With joy”1 answers · often → HAPPILY7 letters
- “Without ornament”1 answers · often → PLAINLY7 letters
- “Wobbly sweet spreads”1 answers · often → JELLIES7 letters
- “Workout condition”1 answers · often → FITNESS7 letters
- “Worthiness of respect”1 answers · often → DIGNITY7 letters
Clues starting with Y
- “Yellow curved fruit”1 answers · often → BANANAS7 letters