Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

← Crossword PathClues212 clues shown

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

“Absorbent cloth”

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.

Curated database1 possible answers

Often solved by

TOWELING8 lettersopen

Browse by first letter in the clue

A8B17C18D19E1F17G7H7I3J1K1L9M3N2O5P15QR15S27T16UV5W12XY4Z

Answer length

All 1,1642 letters 383 letters 2074 letters 1195 letters 776 letters 1717 letters 1988 letters 2129 letters 161

Topic

All 1,164Short answers 361Several answers 32Curated clues 1,164

Clue library

Most usefulA → Z

Clues starting with A

  1. “Absorbent cloth”1 answers · often → TOWELING
    8 letters
  2. “Airport direction cone”1 answers · often → WINDSOCK
    8 letters
  3. “Andean flute set”1 answers · often → PANPIPES
    8 letters
  4. “Angler”1 answers · often → PISCATOR
    8 letters
  1. “Aromatic root”1 answers · often → GALANGAL
    8 letters
  2. “Aromatic vegetable mix”1 answers · often → MIREPOIX
    8 letters
  3. “Australian food fish”1 answers · often → MULLOWAY
    8 letters
  4. “Avocado”1 answers · often → AGUACATE
    8 letters

Clues starting with B

  1. “Baby's hiding game”1 answers · often → PEEKABOO
    8 letters
  2. “Barnacle relative”1 answers · often → CIRRIPED
    8 letters
  3. “Barnegat craft”1 answers · often → SNEAKBOX
    8 letters
  4. “Beaded molding”1 answers · often → ASTRAGAL
    8 letters
  5. “Blue ornamental stone”1 answers · often → SODALITE
    8 letters
  6. “Bluish-green pigment”1 answers · often → VIRIDIAN
    8 letters
  7. “Board-game piece”1 answers · often → CHESSMAN
    8 letters
  8. “Bog orchid”1 answers · often → ARETHUSA
    8 letters
  9. “Botanist's case”1 answers · often → VASCULUM
    8 letters
  1. “Bow canvas”1 answers · often → FORESAIL
    8 letters
  2. “Bow mooring line”1 answers · often → HEADFAST
    8 letters
  3. “Bowling game”1 answers · often → NINEPINS
    8 letters
  4. “Bread seller's store”1 answers · often → BAKESHOP
    8 letters
  5. “British paper size”1 answers · often → FOOLSCAP
    8 letters
  6. “Burning-bush genus”1 answers · often → EUONYMUS
    8 letters
  7. “Butter substitute”1 answers · often → MARGARIN
    8 letters
  8. “Butterfly bush”1 answers · often → BUDDLEIA
    8 letters

Clues starting with C

  1. “Cabinet timber”1 answers · often → KINGWOOD
    8 letters
  2. “Camera light”1 answers · often → FLASHGUN
    8 letters
  3. “Canvas sneaker”1 answers · often → SANDSHOE
    8 letters
  4. “Carbon-print process”1 answers · often → AUTOTYPY
    8 letters
  5. “Card-hole machine”1 answers · often → KEYPUNCH
    8 letters
  6. “Carpenters brace”1 answers · often → BITSTOCK
    8 letters
  7. “Cascara tree”1 answers · often → BEARWOOD
    8 letters
  8. “Ceremonial makeup”1 answers · often → WARPAINT
    8 letters
  9. “Church song collection”1 answers · often → HYMNBOOK
    8 letters
  1. “Climbing lily”1 answers · often → GLORIOSA
    8 letters
  2. “Clustered on a stalk”1 answers · often → RACEMOSE
    8 letters
  3. “Coastal croaker”1 answers · often → WEAKFISH
    8 letters
  4. “Cone pigment”1 answers · often → IODOPSIN
    8 letters
  5. “Corn sugar”1 answers · often → DEXTROSE
    8 letters
  6. “Cover lining sheet”1 answers · often → ENDPAPER
    8 letters
  7. “Cross-shaped board game”2 answers · often → PARCHESI
    8 letters
  8. “Curtain material”1 answers · often → CRETONNE
    8 letters
  9. “Curved furniture leg”1 answers · often → CABRIOLE
    8 letters

Clues starting with D

  1. “Daily prayer book”1 answers · often → BREVIARY
    8 letters
  2. “Dampland shrub”1 answers · often → CORKWOOD
    8 letters
  3. “Daphne bark”1 answers · often → MEZEREUM
    8 letters
  4. “Deck cleaner”1 answers · often → SQUILGEE
    8 letters
  5. “Deck-seam tool”1 answers · often → RAVEHOOK
    8 letters
  6. “Decorative planter”1 answers · often → CACHEPOT
    8 letters
  7. “Delicate wirework”1 answers · often → FILAGREE
    8 letters
  8. “Desert forage shrub”1 answers · often → SALTBUSH
    8 letters
  9. “Desert screwbean tree”1 answers · often → TORNILLO
    8 letters
  10. “Design palette”1 answers · often → COLORWAY
    8 letters
  1. “Dictionary”1 answers · often → WORDBOOK
    8 letters
  2. “Dolphinfish”1 answers · often → MAHIMAHI
    8 letters
  3. “Doorway curtain”1 answers · often → PORTIERE
    8 letters
  4. “Dot painter”1 answers · often → STIPPLER
    8 letters
  5. “Dragon fruit”1 answers · often → PITAHAYA
    8 letters
  6. “Drift fin”1 answers · often → LEEBOARD
    8 letters
  7. “Drink”1 answers · often → POTATION
    8 letters
  8. “Drinking revel”1 answers · often → CAROUSAL
    8 letters
  9. “Dye additive”1 answers · often → COLORANT
    8 letters

Clues starting with E

  1. “Easy-release pan”1 answers · often → NONSTICK
    8 letters

Clues starting with F

  1. “Farm-market devotee”1 answers · often → LOCAVORE
    8 letters
  2. “Fellow sailor”1 answers · often → SHIPMATE
    8 letters
  3. “Fillet hazard”1 answers · often → FISHBONE
    8 letters
  4. “Fine silk lining”1 answers · often → SARCENET
    8 letters
  5. “Fireplace supply”1 answers · often → CORDWOOD
    8 letters
  6. “Flashy fuss”1 answers · often → FOOFARAW
    8 letters
  7. “Flat-trained tree”1 answers · often → ESPALIER
    8 letters
  8. “Fleece bale”1 answers · often → WOOLPACK
    8 letters
  9. “Flowering maple”1 answers · often → ABUTILON
    8 letters
  1. “Folding-top carriage”1 answers · often → BAROUCHE
    8 letters
  2. “Food emulsifier”1 answers · often → LECITHIN
    8 letters
  3. “Forest worker”1 answers · often → WOODSMAN
    8 letters
  4. “Forward canvas”1 answers · often → HEADSAIL
    8 letters
  5. “Fragrant shrub”2 answers · often → STYRAX
    6 letters
  6. “Fried turnover”1 answers · often → PIROZHKI
    8 letters
  7. “Frog larva”1 answers · often → POLLIWOG
    8 letters
  8. “Fruit sugar”1 answers · often → LEVULOSE
    8 letters

Clues starting with G

  1. “Glittery fabric”1 answers · often → DIAMANTE
    8 letters
  2. “Glossy silk”1 answers · often → LUSTRING
    8 letters
  3. “Gourd vessel”1 answers · often → CALABASH
    8 letters
  4. “Green color”1 answers · often → VIRIDITY
    8 letters
  1. “Greenhouse flower”1 answers · often → GLOXINIA
    8 letters
  2. “Griddle round”1 answers · often → FLAPCAKE
    8 letters
  3. “Gum sweetener”1 answers · often → SORBITOL
    8 letters

Clues starting with H

  1. “Habitual player”1 answers · often → GAMESTER
    8 letters
  2. “Handled infant basket”1 answers · often → CARRYCOT
    8 letters
  3. “Hanging scroll”1 answers · often → KAKEMONO
    8 letters
  4. “Harbor area”1 answers · often → DOCKSIDE
    8 letters
  1. “Heavy wool cloth”1 answers · often → MACKINAW
    8 letters
  2. “Horse-drawn vehicle”1 answers · often → EQUIPAGE
    8 letters
  3. “Hot meals”1 answers · often → COOKSHOP
    8 letters

Clues starting with I

  1. “Ice spike”1 answers · often → CRAMPOON
    8 letters
  2. “Iron pigment”2 answers · often → HEMATIN
    7 letters
  1. “Ironweed genus”1 answers · often → VERNONIA
    8 letters

Clues starting with J

  1. “Jointed-stem plant”1 answers · often → KNOTWEED
    8 letters

Clues starting with K

  1. “Kettle drum”1 answers · often → TYMPANUM
    8 letters

Clues starting with L

  1. “Lacelike tooling”1 answers · often → DENTELLE
    8 letters
  2. “Lead monoxide”1 answers · often → LITHARGE
    8 letters
  3. “Leather flask”1 answers · often → WINESKIN
    8 letters
  4. “Legless lizard”1 answers · often → SLOWWORM
    8 letters
  5. “Light-filled style”1 answers · often → LUMINISM
    8 letters
  1. “Lilylike flower”1 answers · often → MARIPOSA
    8 letters
  2. “Limp book”1 answers · often → SOFTBACK
    8 letters
  3. “Links vehicle”1 answers · often → GOLFCART
    8 letters
  4. “Lowering rope”1 answers · often → DOWNHAUL
    8 letters

Clues starting with M

  1. “Medieval animal book”1 answers · often → BESTIARY
    8 letters
  2. “Monastery steward”1 answers · often → CELLARER
    8 letters
  1. “Mostly harmless snake”1 answers · often → COLUBRID
    8 letters

Clues starting with N

  1. “Napped wool fabric”1 answers · often → ZIBELINE
    8 letters
  1. “Nine-point casino game”1 answers · often → BACCARAT
    8 letters

Clues starting with O

  1. “Old auto”1 answers · often → MOTORCAR
    8 letters
  2. “Old oboe”2 answers · often → HAUTBOY
    7 letters
  3. “Old World lizard”1 answers · often → LACERTID
    8 letters
  1. “Orchard yield”1 answers · often → FRUITAGE
    8 letters
  2. “Ornamental plasterwork”1 answers · often → PARGETRY
    8 letters

Clues starting with P

  1. “Pale meadow bloom”1 answers · often → ASPHODEL
    8 letters
  2. “Palette expert”1 answers · often → COLORIST
    8 letters
  3. “Patterned foliage plant”1 answers · often → CALADIUM
    8 letters
  4. “Penmanship model”1 answers · often → COPYBOOK
    8 letters
  5. “Pirate cover”1 answers · often → EYEPATCH
    8 letters
  6. “Pit layer”1 answers · often → ENDOCARP
    8 letters
  7. “Pivot pin”1 answers · often → KINGBOLT
    8 letters
  8. “Playground mound”1 answers · often → SANDPILE
    8 letters
  1. “Plume ornament”2 answers · often → AIGRET
    6 letters
  2. “Pocket wallet”1 answers · often → NOTECASE
    8 letters
  3. “Ponytail elastic”1 answers · often → SCRUNCHY
    8 letters
  4. “Port clearance”1 answers · often → PRATIQUE
    8 letters
  5. “Postal vessel”1 answers · often → MAILBOAT
    8 letters
  6. “Primary canvas”1 answers · often → MAINSAIL
    8 letters
  7. “Publishers emblem”1 answers · often → COLOPHON
    8 letters

Clues starting with R

  1. “Rain footwear”1 answers · often → OVERSHOE
    8 letters
  2. “Raw veggie platter”1 answers · often → CRUDITES
    8 letters
  3. “Red dye compound”1 answers · often → ALIZARIN
    8 letters
  4. “Red garden shrub”1 answers · often → JAPONICA
    8 letters
  5. “Redwood dye”1 answers · often → BRAZILIN
    8 letters
  6. “Renaissance dance”1 answers · often → GALLIARD
    8 letters
  7. “Renaissance stringer”1 answers · often → ARCHLUTE
    8 letters
  8. “Rescue craft”1 answers · often → SURFBOAT
    8 letters
  1. “Ribbed cotton cloth”1 answers · often → WHIPCORD
    8 letters
  2. “Ribbed dress fabric”1 answers · often → BARATHEA
    8 letters
  3. “River theater vessel”1 answers · often → SHOWBOAT
    8 letters
  4. “Roofing roll”1 answers · often → TARPAPER
    8 letters
  5. “Rowlock peg”1 answers · often → THOLEPIN
    8 letters
  6. “Rum-lime cocktail”1 answers · often → DAIQUIRI
    8 letters
  7. “Rummy ancestor”1 answers · often → CONQUIAN
    8 letters

Clues starting with S

  1. “Sailor's stew”1 answers · often → LOBSCUSE
    8 letters
  2. “Seafood patty”1 answers · often → FISHCAKE
    8 letters
  3. “Servant's cord”1 answers · often → BELLPULL
    8 letters
  4. “Serviceberry shrub”1 answers · often → SHADBUSH
    8 letters
  5. “Ship window”1 answers · often → PORTHOLE
    8 letters
  6. “Showy nonsense”2 answers · often → FALDEROL
    8 letters
  7. “Showy orchid”1 answers · often → CALANTHE
    8 letters
  8. “Showy trinkets”1 answers · often → TRUMPERY
    8 letters
  9. “Silvery annual”1 answers · often → SATINPOD
    8 letters
  10. “Small aquarium”1 answers · often → FISHBOWL
    8 letters
  11. “Small candle”1 answers · often → TEALIGHT
    8 letters
  12. “Small pamphlet”1 answers · often → CHAPBOOK
    8 letters
  13. “Small stool”1 answers · often → TABOURET
    8 letters
  14. “Small tender”1 answers · often → COCKBOAT
    8 letters
  1. “Soft leather footwear”1 answers · often → MOCASSIN
    8 letters
  2. “Soft silk”1 answers · often → SARSENET
    8 letters
  3. “Soft-wing kite”1 answers · often → PARAFOIL
    8 letters
  4. “Sour grape extract”1 answers · often → VERJUICE
    8 letters
  5. “Special-deck card game”1 answers · often → PINOCHLE
    8 letters
  6. “Spinning top”1 answers · often → TEETOTUM
    8 letters
  7. “Spoilage toxin”1 answers · often → PTOMAINE
    8 letters
  8. “Steamed chair material”1 answers · often → BENTWOOD
    8 letters
  9. “Sticky insect sheet”1 answers · often → FLYPAPER
    8 letters
  10. “Sticky tomato relative”1 answers · often → JAMBERRY
    8 letters
  11. “String pick”1 answers · often → PLECTRON
    8 letters
  12. “Stringed zither”1 answers · often → DULCIMER
    8 letters
  13. “Subtle art style”1 answers · often → INTIMIST
    8 letters

Clues starting with T

  1. “Takeaway meal”1 answers · often → CARRYOUT
    8 letters
  2. “Tent cover”1 answers · often → FLYSHEET
    8 letters
  3. “Thistlelike flower”1 answers · often → KNAPWEED
    8 letters
  4. “Thorium mineral”1 answers · often → MONAZITE
    8 letters
  5. “Three-panel artwork”1 answers · often → TRIPTYCH
    8 letters
  6. “Tin vessel”1 answers · often → PANNIKIN
    8 letters
  7. “Toy pistol”1 answers · often → SQUIRTER
    8 letters
  8. “Translucent album sheet”1 answers · often → GLASSINE
    8 letters
  1. “Travel guidebook”1 answers · often → BAEDEKER
    8 letters
  2. “Tropical fiber tree”2 answers · often → MAHOE
    5 letters
  3. “Tropical fruit plant”1 answers · often → MONSTERA
    8 letters
  4. “Tropical hanging plant”1 answers · often → COLUMNEA
    8 letters
  5. “Tropical orchid”1 answers · often → ONCIDIUM
    8 letters
  6. “Tropical palm”1 answers · often → PANDANUS
    8 letters
  7. “Tropical shrub”1 answers · often → DILLENIA
    8 letters
  8. “Two-wheeled trap”1 answers · often → CURRICLE
    8 letters

Clues starting with V

  1. “Velvety fabric”1 answers · often → MOQUETTE
    8 letters
  2. “Viking vessel”1 answers · often → LONGSHIP
    8 letters
  3. “Violin chamber”1 answers · often → SOUNDBOX
    8 letters
  1. “Vision pigment”1 answers · often → RETINENE
    8 letters
  2. “Vodka bouillon cocktail”1 answers · often → BULLSHOT
    8 letters

Clues starting with W

  1. “Wagon shaft”1 answers · often → AXLETREE
    8 letters
  2. “Warm fabrics”1 answers · often → WOOLLENS
    8 letters
  3. “Waterproof table cover”1 answers · often → OILCLOTH
    8 letters
  4. “Waterproof wrapping”1 answers · often → OILPAPER
    8 letters
  5. “Whiskey soda”1 answers · often → HIGHBALL
    8 letters
  6. “Wild olive”1 answers · often → OLEASTER
    8 letters
  1. “Winter footgear”1 answers · often → SNOWSHOE
    8 letters
  2. “Without provisions”1 answers · often → FOODLESS
    8 letters
  3. “Woody-based plant”1 answers · often → SUBSHRUB
    8 letters
  4. “Wool lining fabric”1 answers · often → SHALLOON
    8 letters
  5. “Wordplay game”1 answers · often → ANAGRAMS
    8 letters
  6. “Writing tray”1 answers · often → INKSTAND
    8 letters

Clues starting with Y

  1. “Yarrow genus”1 answers · often → ACHILLEA
    8 letters
  2. “Yellow cell-sap pigment”1 answers · often → XANTHEIN
    8 letters
  1. “Yellow lead oxide”1 answers · often → MASSICOT
    8 letters
  2. “Yellow pigment”1 answers · often → AUREOLIN
    8 letters

Search directly

Already have a few letters?

Open pattern search →

Tip

Let answer length and crossing letters decide which suggestion fits.

Read solving tips