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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Most usefulA → ZClues starting with A
- “abdominal muscle”1 answers · often → AB2 letters
- “Above the clouds”1 answers · often → SKY3 letters
- “Admirer”1 answers · often → FAN3 letters
- “advertisement”1 answers · often → AD2 letters
- “African fruit tree”1 answers · often → DIKA4 letters
- “African wildebeest”1 answers · often → GNU3 letters
- “Alkaline solution”1 answers · often → LYE3 letters
- “and, in Latin”1 answers · often → ET2 letters
- “Anger”1 answers · often → IRE3 letters
- “Angry crowds”1 answers · often → MOBS4 letters
- “Animal lairs”1 answers · often → DENS4 letters
- “Asian conifer”1 answers · often → NAGI4 letters
- “Asian evergreen tree”1 answers · often → DITA4 letters
- “Atlantic bream”1 answers · often → SCUP4 letters
- “Atlantic game catch”1 answers · often → CERO4 letters
- “Atmosphere”1 answers · often → AIR3 letters
- “Australian bird”1 answers · often → EMU3 letters
- “Australian runners”1 answers · often → EMUS4 letters
- “Automobile”1 answers · often → CAR3 letters
Clues starting with B
- “Baby cloths”1 answers · often → BIBS4 letters
- “Balkan circle dance”1 answers · often → KOLO4 letters
- “Ballet steps”1 answers · often → PAS3 letters
- “Barrel stopper”1 answers · often → BUNG4 letters
- “Baseball official”1 answers · often → UMP3 letters
- “Be indebted”1 answers · often → OWE3 letters
- “be quiet”1 answers · often → SH2 letters
- “Be victorious”1 answers · often → WIN3 letters
- “Bean-based food”1 answers · often → SOY3 letters
- “Beer barrels”1 answers · often → KEGS4 letters
- “Bill”1 answers · often → TAB3 letters
- “Black road material”1 answers · often → TAR3 letters
- “Blend”1 answers · often → MIX3 letters
- “Blue bird”1 answers · often → JAY3 letters
- “Blue pigment”1 answers · often → BICE4 letters
- “bone, Latin”1 answers · often → OS2 letters
- “born as”2 answers · often → NE2 letters
- “British bar”1 answers · often → PUB3 letters
- “British sheet size”1 answers · often → DEMY4 letters
- “British toilet”1 answers · often → LOO3 letters
- “Buddhist temple”1 answers · often → WAT3 letters
- “Bullion weight”1 answers · often → TOLA4 letters
- “Bundle of money”1 answers · often → WAD3 letters
Clues starting with C
- “Cabinet inlay”1 answers · often → BUHL4 letters
- “Cake-like”1 answers · often → CAKY4 letters
- “Camp beds”1 answers · often → COTS4 letters
- “Canine”1 answers · often → DOG3 letters
- “Caribbean spirit”1 answers · often → RUM3 letters
- “Carry all”1 answers · often → BAG3 letters
- “Cassava granules”1 answers · often → GARI4 letters
- “Catch a criminal”1 answers · often → NAB3 letters
- “Cease to live”1 answers · often → DIE3 letters
- “Center point”1 answers · often → HUB3 letters
- “Cereal grain”1 answers · often → OAT3 letters
- “Cheap trinket”1 answers · often → GAUD4 letters
- “Chew persistently”1 answers · often → GNAW4 letters
- “Chewing substance”1 answers · often → GUM3 letters
- “Chinese cooking pan”1 answers · often → WOK3 letters
- “Chinese unit of distance”1 answers · often → LI2 letters
- “Clear spirits”1 answers · often → GINS4 letters
- “Climbing plant”2 answers · often → IVY3 letters
- “Coal basket”1 answers · often → CORF4 letters
- “Coconut fiber”1 answers · often → COIR4 letters
- “Codlike swimmer”1 answers · often → CUSK4 letters
- “Color fabric”1 answers · often → DYE3 letters
- “Conclusion”1 answers · often → END3 letters
- “Container”1 answers · often → BOX3 letters
- “Convent member”1 answers · often → NUN3 letters
- “Cook in oil”1 answers · often → FRY3 letters
- “Cover”1 answers · often → LID3 letters
- “Covered in ice”1 answers · often → ICY3 letters
- “Cow sound”1 answers · often → MOO3 letters
- “Crafty”1 answers · often → SLY3 letters
- “Creative work”1 answers · often → ART3 letters
- “Cricket tool”1 answers · often → BAT3 letters
- “Crow cries”1 answers · often → CAWS4 letters
- “Cry”1 answers · often → SOB3 letters
- “Cured meats”1 answers · often → HAMS4 letters
- “Cured pork leg”1 answers · often → HAM3 letters
- “Curse”1 answers · often → HEX3 letters
- “Cut branches”1 answers · often → LOP3 letters
- “Cut grass”1 answers · often → MOW3 letters
Clues starting with D
- “Damp”1 answers · often → WET3 letters
- “Decorative knob”1 answers · often → KNOP4 letters
- “Dipping morsels”1 answers · often → SOPS4 letters
- “Distant”1 answers · often → FAR3 letters
- “Do something”1 answers · often → ACT3 letters
- “Domesticated animal”1 answers · often → PET3 letters
- “Dove sounds”1 answers · often → COOS4 letters
- “Drinking toast”2 answers · often → SKOL4 letters
- “Drinking vessel”1 answers · often → CUP3 letters
- “Droop”1 answers · often → SAG3 letters
Clues starting with E
- “Eastern sacred image”1 answers · often → IKON4 letters
- “Edgar Allan ___”1 answers · often → POE3 letters
- “Edge”1 answers · often → RIM3 letters
- “Edge of the mouth”1 answers · often → LIP3 letters
- “Egyptian life symbol”1 answers · often → ANKH4 letters
- “elevated railway”1 answers · often → EL2 letters
- “Embrace”1 answers · often → HUG3 letters
- “Enemy”1 answers · often → FOE3 letters
- “Energy”1 answers · often → VIM3 letters
- “Enjoyment”1 answers · often → FUN3 letters
- “Exercise room”1 answers · often → GYM3 letters
- “Expert”1 answers · often → ACE3 letters
Clues starting with F
- “False hair”1 answers · often → WIG3 letters
- “Fantasy creature”1 answers · often → ORC3 letters
- “Farm animal”1 answers · often → PIG3 letters
- “Faucet”1 answers · often → TAP3 letters
- “Feline”1 answers · often → CAT3 letters
- “Female pig”1 answers · often → SOW3 letters
- “Female principle”1 answers · often → YIN3 letters
- “Female sheep”2 answers · often → EWE3 letters
- “Filipino skewer”1 answers · often → ISAW4 letters
- “Fish's swimming organ”1 answers · often → FIN3 letters
- “Fishing hook”1 answers · often → GAFF4 letters
- “Fizzy drink”1 answers · often → POP3 letters
- “Flat flower cluster”1 answers · often → CYME4 letters
- “Flat-topped cap”1 answers · often → KEPI4 letters
- “Flood boats”1 answers · often → ARKS4 letters
- “Floor cleaners”1 answers · often → MOPS4 letters
- “Floor mat”1 answers · often → RUG3 letters
- “former partner”1 answers · often → EX2 letters
- “Frozen treats”1 answers · often → ICES4 letters
- “Fruit preserve”1 answers · often → JAM3 letters
Clues starting with G
- “Garden tool”2 answers · often → HOE3 letters
- “Garden tools”1 answers · often → HOES4 letters
- “Garment edge”1 answers · often → HEM3 letters
- “Geographical chart”1 answers · often → MAP3 letters
- “Glossy reads”1 answers · often → MAGS4 letters
- “Government levy”1 answers · often → TAX3 letters
- “Grain for dark bread”1 answers · often → RYE3 letters
- “Gratuity”1 answers · often → TIP3 letters
- “Greatest possible amount”1 answers · often → MAX3 letters
- “greeting”1 answers · often → HI2 letters
- “Groove in road”1 answers · often → RUT3 letters
- “Group”1 answers · often → SET3 letters
Clues starting with H
- “Hair pests”1 answers · often → LICE4 letters
- “Hair styling substance”1 answers · often → GEL3 letters
- “half an em”1 answers · often → EN2 letters
- “Happiness”1 answers · often → JOY3 letters
- “Hard-shelled seed”1 answers · often → NUT3 letters
- “having two”1 answers · often → BI2 letters
- “Hawaiian feast”1 answers · often → LUAU4 letters
- “Hawaiian garland”1 answers · often → LEI3 letters
- “Hawaiian paste”1 answers · often → POI3 letters
- “Head covering”2 answers · often → HAT3 letters
- “Head movement of agreement”1 answers · often → NOD3 letters
- “Heavy drinker”2 answers · often → ALKY4 letters
- “Hebrew letter”1 answers · often → PE2 letters
- “hesitation”1 answers · often → UM2 letters
- “Historical period”1 answers · often → ERA3 letters
- “Hole in the ground”1 answers · often → PIT3 letters
Clues starting with I
- “Iberian dance”1 answers · often → JOTA4 letters
- “In good shape”1 answers · often → FIT3 letters
- “Indian coastal state”1 answers · often → GOA3 letters
- “Indian fruit”1 answers · often → BAEL4 letters
- “Indian lentil dish”1 answers · often → DAL3 letters
- “Indian weaverbird”1 answers · often → BAYA4 letters
Clues starting with J
- “Japanese cedar”1 answers · often → SUGI4 letters
- “Japanese sash”1 answers · often → OBI3 letters
Clues starting with K
- “Korean currency”1 answers · often → WON3 letters
Clues starting with L
- “Large basin”1 answers · often → TUB3 letters
- “large bovine”1 answers · often → OX2 letters
- “Large deer”1 answers · often → ELKS4 letters
- “Large flightless bird”1 answers · often → EMU3 letters
- “Large tank”1 answers · often → VAT3 letters
- “Lateen-rigged vessel”1 answers · often → DHOW4 letters
- “laugh sound”1 answers · often → HA2 letters
- “Legal rule”1 answers · often → LAW3 letters
- “Lentil dish”1 answers · often → DAL3 letters
- “Lice eggs”1 answers · often → NITS4 letters
- “life force”1 answers · often → QI2 letters
- “Lightweight timber”1 answers · often → POON4 letters
- “Limb”2 answers · often → ARM3 letters
- “Lime-rich soil”1 answers · often → MARL4 letters
- “Line”1 answers · often → ROW3 letters
- “Lively dance”1 answers · often → JIG3 letters
- “Lively dances”1 answers · often → JIGS4 letters
- “look, archaic”1 answers · often → LO2 letters
- “Low islands”1 answers · often → CAYS4 letters
- “Lower wall panel”1 answers · often → DADO4 letters
- “Lyric poem”1 answers · often → ODE3 letters
Clues starting with M
- “Males”1 answers · often → MEN3 letters
- “Man, informally”1 answers · often → GUY3 letters
- “Marry”1 answers · often → WED3 letters
- “Marshlands”1 answers · often → FENS4 letters
- “Marshy ground”1 answers · often → FEN3 letters
- “Marshy spots”1 answers · often → BOGS4 letters
- “Meadow”1 answers · often → LEA3 letters
- “meditative sound”1 answers · often → OM2 letters
- “Mesh material”1 answers · often → NET3 letters
- “Mine finds”1 answers · often → ORES4 letters
- “Mineral rock”1 answers · often → ORE3 letters
- “Misery”1 answers · often → WOE3 letters
- “moment”1 answers · often → MO2 letters
- “Moral wrong”1 answers · often → SIN3 letters
- “Mother, British”1 answers · often → MUM3 letters
- “Mountain goat”1 answers · often → IBEX4 letters
- “Mouth bone”1 answers · often → JAW3 letters
- “Music performance”1 answers · often → GIG3 letters
- “Mythical giant bird”1 answers · often → ROC3 letters
- “Mythical small being”1 answers · often → ELF3 letters
Clues starting with N
- “Neckwear”1 answers · often → TIE3 letters
- “New Zealand bird”1 answers · often → TUI3 letters
- “New Zealand parrot”1 answers · often → KAKA4 letters
- “New Zealand timber”2 answers · often → MIRO4 letters
- “New Zealand tree”2 answers · often → PUKA4 letters
- “Noah's vessel”1 answers · often → ARK3 letters
- “Nocturnal bird”1 answers · often → OWL3 letters
- “Noisy birds”1 answers · often → JAYS4 letters
- “Nonsense”1 answers · often → GUFF4 letters
- “Nonwoody bloom”1 answers · often → FORB4 letters
- “North African wrap”1 answers · often → HAIK4 letters
- “Not wet”1 answers · often → DRY3 letters
Clues starting with O
- “Oatcake quarter”1 answers · often → FARL4 letters
- “Occupation”1 answers · often → JOB3 letters
- “Old casino game”1 answers · often → FARO4 letters
- “One-horse sleigh”1 answers · often → PUNG4 letters
- “Opening”1 answers · often → GAP3 letters
- “Orchid genus”1 answers · often → DISA4 letters
- “Our star”1 answers · often → SUN3 letters
- “Oval breakfast food”1 answers · often → EGG3 letters
- “overdose”1 answers · often → OD2 letters
Clues starting with P
- “Pacific root drink”1 answers · often → KAVA4 letters
- “pain exclamation”1 answers · often → OW2 letters
- “Painted metalware”1 answers · often → TOLE4 letters
- “Pair of performers”1 answers · often → DUO3 letters
- “Passing crazes”1 answers · often → FADS4 letters
- “Pastry dish”1 answers · often → PIE3 letters
- “Pastry dough”1 answers · often → FILO4 letters
- “Peace”1 answers · often → PAX3 letters
- “Peace (Latin)”1 answers · often → PAX3 letters
- “Pen points”1 answers · often → NIBS4 letters
- “Perfume oil”1 answers · often → ATAR4 letters
- “Period of time”1 answers · often → AGE3 letters
- “Pickle kin”1 answers · often → CUKE4 letters
- “Pig”1 answers · often → HOG3 letters
- “Pig pen”1 answers · often → STY3 letters
- “Pigeon sound”1 answers · often → COO3 letters
- “Pitcher”1 answers · often → JUG3 letters
- “Plaything”1 answers · often → TOY3 letters
- “plural of letter E”1 answers · often → ES2 letters
- “Pop song”1 answers · often → HIT3 letters
- “Possess”1 answers · often → OWN3 letters
- “printer's unit”1 answers · often → EM2 letters
- “Pub brews”1 answers · often → ALES4 letters
- “Pueblo chamber”1 answers · often → KIVA4 letters
- “Pull hard”1 answers · often → TUG3 letters
- “Purchase”1 answers · often → BUY3 letters
Clues starting with Q
- “Quick dodge”1 answers · often → JINK4 letters
- “Quick punch”1 answers · often → JAB3 letters
- “Quilt stuffing”1 answers · often → BATT4 letters
Clues starting with R
- “Resistance units”1 answers · often → OHMS4 letters
- “Ribbed fabric”1 answers · often → REPP4 letters
- “Ribbon knot”1 answers · often → BOW3 letters
- “Risky delicacy”1 answers · often → FUGU4 letters
- “River barrier”1 answers · often → DAM3 letters
- “Rodent”1 answers · often → RAT3 letters
- “Roman numeral 12”1 answers · often → XII3 letters
- “Roman numeral 14”1 answers · often → XIV3 letters
- “Roman numeral 16”1 answers · often → XVI3 letters
- “Roman numeral 3”1 answers · often → III3 letters
- “Roman numeral 7”1 answers · often → VII3 letters
- “Rouge the cheeks”1 answers · often → FARD4 letters
- “Route”1 answers · often → WAY3 letters
- “Rowing paddle”1 answers · often → OAR3 letters
Clues starting with S
- “Sail”1 answers · often → JIB3 letters
- “Sail close-hauled”1 answers · often → LUFF4 letters
- “Scold repeatedly”1 answers · often → NAG3 letters
- “Scottish cap”1 answers · often → TAM3 letters
- “Scrappy small dog”1 answers · often → FICE4 letters
- “Seed container”1 answers · often → POD3 letters
- “Shade of color”1 answers · often → HUE3 letters
- “Shell bead”1 answers · often → PEAG4 letters
- “Sick”1 answers · often → ILL3 letters
- “Side bone”1 answers · often → RIB3 letters
- “Signal to act”1 answers · often → CUE3 letters
- “Sixties dance”1 answers · often → FRUG4 letters
- “Slightly open”1 answers · often → AJAR4 letters
- “Slow run”1 answers · often → JOG3 letters
- “Small barrel”1 answers · often → KEG3 letters
- “Small child”1 answers · often → TOT3 letters
- “Small devil”1 answers · often → IMP3 letters
- “Small hotel”1 answers · often → INN3 letters
- “Small river swimmer”1 answers · often → DACE4 letters
- “Small sewing case”1 answers · often → ETUI4 letters
- “Small shelter”1 answers · often → HUT3 letters
- “Small spot”1 answers · often → DOT3 letters
- “Smoked salmon”1 answers · often → LOX3 letters
- “Snoop”1 answers · often → PRY3 letters
- “Snow runner”1 answers · often → SKI3 letters
- “sound of thought”1 answers · often → HM2 letters
- “South African flower”1 answers · often → IXIA4 letters
- “South American rodent”1 answers · often → PACA4 letters
- “Spanish stew”1 answers · often → OLIO4 letters
- “Spathe flower”1 answers · often → ARUM4 letters
- “Sphere”1 answers · often → ORB3 letters
- “Spider's trap”1 answers · often → WEB3 letters
- “spirit in Egyptian belief”1 answers · often → KA2 letters
- “Spirit with juniper”1 answers · often → GIN3 letters
- “Splitting tool”1 answers · often → FROE4 letters
- “Spring month”1 answers · often → MAY3 letters
- “Sprout bean”1 answers · often → MUNG4 letters
- “Stage pickups”1 answers · often → MICS4 letters
- “Stare openly”1 answers · often → GAWK4 letters
- “Steersman”1 answers · often → COX3 letters
- “Stick out”1 answers · often → JUT3 letters
- “Stitch”1 answers · often → SEW3 letters
- “Strike”1 answers · often → HIT3 letters
- “Striped grazer”1 answers · often → GUIB4 letters
- “Strong hardwood tree”1 answers · often → OAK3 letters
- “Study room”1 answers · often → DEN3 letters
- “Styling goops”1 answers · often → GELS4 letters
- “Summit”1 answers · often → TOP3 letters
- “Sun-bronzed color”1 answers · often → TAN3 letters
- “Swampy ground”1 answers · often → BOG3 letters
- “Sweet fruit”1 answers · often → FIG3 letters
- “Sweet potato”1 answers · often → YAM3 letters
- “sweetheart, Scottish”1 answers · often → JO2 letters
Clues starting with T
- “thanks, British”1 answers · often → TA2 letters
- “the letter R”1 answers · often → AR2 letters
- “the unconscious self”1 answers · often → ID2 letters
- “Three-player trick game”1 answers · often → SKAT4 letters
- “three-toed sloth”1 answers · often → AI2 letters
- “Tibetan ox”1 answers · often → YAK3 letters
- “Tool handle”2 answers · often → HAFT4 letters
- “toward”1 answers · often → TO2 letters
- “Tree frog genus”1 answers · often → HYLA4 letters
- “Tropical pulse”1 answers · often → DHAL4 letters
- “Tropical shade tree”1 answers · often → INGA4 letters
- “type of lava”1 answers · often → AA2 letters
Clues starting with U
- “Unit of resistance”1 answers · often → OHM3 letters
- “Untruth”1 answers · often → LIE3 letters
Clues starting with V
- “Vase”1 answers · often → URN3 letters
- “Vietnamese currency”1 answers · often → XU2 letters
- “Vietnamese noodle soup”1 answers · often → PHO3 letters
- “Vietnamese soup”1 answers · often → PHO3 letters
- “Vision organ”1 answers · often → EYE3 letters
Clues starting with W
- “Wages”1 answers · often → PAY3 letters
- “Watch-chain charms”1 answers · often → FOBS4 letters
- “Water (French)”1 answers · often → EAU3 letters
- “Weight unit”1 answers · often → TON3 letters
- “Western neckwear”1 answers · often → BOLO4 letters
- “What person”1 answers · often → WHO3 letters
- “what?”1 answers · often → EH2 letters
- “Wheel nuts”1 answers · often → LUGS4 letters
- “White fish”1 answers · often → CODS4 letters
- “woe, archaic”1 answers · often → WO2 letters
- “Wooden pin”1 answers · often → PEG3 letters
- “Wooden sandal”1 answers · often → GETA4 letters
- “Wordplay”1 answers · often → PUN3 letters
- “Wrinkled citrus”1 answers · often → UGLI4 letters
- “Writing instrument”1 answers · often → PEN3 letters
Clues starting with Y
- “Yellow bloom tree”1 answers · often → TIPU4 letters
- “you, archaic”1 answers · often → YE2 letters
- “you, informal”1 answers · often → YA2 letters
- “Young dog”1 answers · often → PUP3 letters
- “Young horse”1 answers · often → FOAL4 letters
Clues starting with Z
- “Zero”1 answers · often → NIL3 letters