Clues for the word "ADDER"
We've had 164 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 499 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 15, 2026.
Definition of adder
- n. - One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
- n. - A serpent.
- n. - A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
- n. - In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.
- n. - Same as Sea Adder.
Referring Clues
- European viper
- Milk snake
- Viper
- Cousin of 42-Across
- Puff snake
- One who does 23-Across
- Summer
- One working on a column?
- Figurehead?
- Relative of a rattlesnake
- One working on a column
- Venomous snake
- Office machine
- Puff ___
- Abacus wielder
- Abacus user
- Abacus, e.g.
- Venomous viper
- Kind of viper
- Dangerous slitherer
- Common viper
- Pocket calculator, e.g.
- Puff ___ (hognose snake)
- Calculator, at times
- Snake with a puff variety
- Dangerous snake
- One doing sums
- Puff ___
- Columnist?
- Venomous reptile
- Calculator user
- Sum kind of snake?
- Hognose snake: puff ___
- Viper, and a clue to this puzzle's theme
- Snake or calculating person
- Poisonous snake
- Reptile that's really sumthing?
- Terrestrial viper
- Snake that's really sumthing?
- Dangerous reptile
- Relative of 1-Across
- Milk snake, e.g.
- Snake that counts?
- Northern copperhead, for one
- Small snake
- Summer at the office
- Scary snake
- Calculating reptile?
- Snake with venom
- Summer in the schoolroom
- Puff_; african snake
- Small viper
- Summer snake?
- Bill checker
- Accountant, often
- Calculating snake?
- Rattlesnake's cousin
- One doing simple math
- Sum seeker
- Sum finder
- European snake
- Deadly snake
- Waiter, at times
- British snake
- This snake counts?
- Puff ___ (dangerous snake)
- Holmes's "speckled band" was one
- Sort of snake
- Hognose snake
- Kind of snake
- One summing things up
- Relative of an asp
- Deadly viper
- Certain snake in the grass
- Math columnist?
- Scotland's only poisonous snake
- Viperidae family member
- Snake that bears live young
- Snake of the viper family
- Slithery menace
- Puff ___ (snake)
- Snake that puts two and two together?
- One putting two and two together
- Member of the genus Vipera
- Certain venomous snake
- Calculating one, at times
- One using a plus sign
- "Macbeth" brew ingredient
- Dangerous biter
- Asp cousin
- One of the vipers
- Type of snake
- Venomous snake with zigzag markings
- Puff ___ (venomous snake)
- Puff ___ (snake variety)
- Snake
- Does it count as a poisonous reptile?
- Snake seen in summer?
- "The Black ___" (first of a Rowan Atkinson Britcom series)
- Snake variety
- Removing jacket, runs in tights in summer
- Dared to wrestle a snake!
- Dread (anag)
- It would augment the zoo's total exhibits
- Snake - abacus?
- It would bite dad badly with little hesitation
- A counter attraction at the zoo
- Does it augment the zoo stock?
- But this creature can also multiply!
- As a source of dread leading to ophiophobia
- Britain's only venomous snake
- Sliding calculator
- Holmes's "speckled band," e.g.
- A summer danger
- Computer used in the Hickstead Derby
- Computer element finally malfunctioned in middle of read-out
- The "band" in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
- "The wily ___, blithe and glad": "Paradise Lost"
- Snake, death ___
- Snake, puff ___
- A venomous mathematician?
- Viper common in northern Eurasia
- Run, avoiding large snake
- Snake in plant? Make off
- Run to avoid large snake
- Notice colour around snake
- Snake topping its opposite
- Mathematical snake?
- It could give you something extra poisonous
- Dread slithering snake
- Calculating snake?
- A calculating creature?
- Reptile steps out of line
- It slithers around (in summer?)
- Creature nowadays having a red back
- Snake seen in summer?
- Summer snake?
- Snake of the family Viperidae
- Snake that does math?
- Venomous serpent
- A snake in that 'ladders' game
- Calculator
- Does it count as a poisonous reptile?
- Snake that's good with numbers?
- Is the viper putting you on?
- Asp relative
- Snake that anagrams to "dread"
- Certain snake
- Certain viper
- Abacus, at times
- Creature never nonplussed?
- European serpent
- Creature unable to multiply?
- A venomous contributor
- Does it augment the fauna?
- Irrational dread of a snake
- Creature possibly dead by summer's end
- Serpent
- Scotland's only native snake
- Total-itarian?
- Does it augment the zoo stock?
- Venomous cause of possible dread
- Snake that's good at addition?
- One augmenting the reptile population
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 15, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 21, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 07, 2025
- Daily American - September 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 24, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 19, 2025
- Daily American - May 17, 2025
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