Clues for the word "CLAY"
We've had 169 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 307 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on November 16, 2025.
Definition of clay
- n. - A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
- n. - Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
- v. t. - To cover or manure with clay.
- v. t. - To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
Referring Clues
- Brick material
- Modeling material
- Kind of court
- Like some pots
- Sculptor's purchase
- It might crack after getting fired
- Potter's supply
- Kind of pot
- *Trapshooting ... Ali ... kiln
- Grass alternative
- Modeler's need
- Pot composition
- Potter's medium
- Adobe material
- Sculpting medium
- Word preceding pipe or pigeon
- It's used for modeling
- Potter's purchase
- Orator Henry
- Modeler's material
- Polk's 1844 Whig Party opponent
- Feet of ___ (weak point)
- Statesman Henry
- Glob on a potter's wheel
- Modeling medium
- French Open surface
- It's molded
- Pottery medium
- Kiln raw material
- China, essentially
- Pottery material
- Animation medium
- "The Great Compromiser"
- Earthenware material
- Potter's material
- Sculptor's material
- Molder's medium
- Shapeable material
- Clump on a wheel
- Type of pigeon
- Golem guts
- Moldable substance
- Brick material, sometimes
- Ali, before he was Ali
- Makeup of Martha's Vineyard's Gay Head Cliffs
- Ali, originally
- Like some pigeons
- Tandoor material
- Ali, before
- Kind of pot or pigeon
- "The Great Compromiser"
- Some pigeons' makeup
- Clump on a potter's wheel
- Pottery base
- Nursery school item
- Potter's need
- Sculpture medium
- Potter's stuff
- Modeling stuff
- Singer Aiken
- Sculptor's medium
- Ali's old name
- Aiken of 'American Idol'
- Terra-cota
- Model material
- Type of soil
- 1844 presidential also-ran
- Medium for some animators
- 23-Down's old name
- Molding material
- Potter's base
- Stuff to mold
- Court material, perhaps
- Art medium
- Comedian Andrew Dice
- Medium for cuneiform writing
- Body, metaphorically
- Henry or Cassius
- Modeler's medium
- Tennis court surface
- Tennessee county
- Modeler's handful, often
- Ocarina material
- Soil component
- Earthy material
- Kindergarten sculpture material
- 66-Across, originally
- Material on a pottery wheel
- Ali, formerly
- Sculpting material
- Material on a potter's wheel
- Potter's raw material
- Boxer Cassius
- Pottery stuff
- Art school material
- Modeler's moldable medium
- Sticky earth
- American Idol Aiken
- "If I Could Make a Living" Walker
- Cook of Zac Brown Band
- Country's Walker
- "A Few Questions" Walker
- "Live Until I Die" Walker
- Earth healing heart?
- Soft wet earth that can be fired
- Moulding material
- Such pigeons are released from traps
- Basis of pottery
- Earthenware
- Earth for pottery
- Material for idol's feet?
- Soil used for pottery
- Material used for bricks, ceramics etc
- Earth's best fighter once
- Material for ceramics
- Gumby's makeup
- Type of soil used in ceramics
- Old fighter beginning to clout with left always
- Boxing great's name, until 1964
- Soil used in pottery
- Plastic material for Cassius
- ___ court
- ___ pigeons
- Soil
- Pot-making supply
- Feet of ___
- See 17 Across
- Surface that tennis's French Open is played on
- Modelling material
- Geological deposit found in Jurassic layer
- Modeling substance
- Ali, when he dethroned Liston
- Ceramics material
- Potter's wheel lump
- Modeling compound
- Tennis surface
- Preschooler's sculpting need
- Medium for a model
- Loam
- 6-Across sculpting need
- Stuff on a potter's wheel
- Pottery source
- Art class medium
- Potter's material associated with the end of 17-, 27-, 49- and 64-Across
- Pottery supply
- Brickmaking material
- Potter's buy
- Metaphor for the body
- Stop-motion medium
- Model's makeup, maybe
- Ali, once
- Sculpting substance
- "I have a little dreidel, I made it out of ___"
- Many a song is earthy
- "The Great Pottery Throw Down" material
- Court material
- Taboon oven material
- Ceramic art material
- Golem material, often
- Roland Garros playing surface
- Singles material, say
- Modeling ___ (art supply)
- Such pigeons are humanely shot
- What the tennis courts at Roland-Garros are made of
- Material used to make the object "illustrated" here, in a seasonal song
- Fine-grained soil
- Court surface for the French Open
- Playing surface that favors topspin
- Court option
Last Seen In
- LA Times - November 16, 2025
- Daily American - October 20, 2025
- LA Times - October 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 18, 2025
- New York Times - June 09, 2025
- LA Times - June 01, 2025
- LA Times - March 28, 2025
- Daily American - March 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 25, 2025
- Daily American - January 30, 2025
- New York Times - January 01, 2025
- Daily American - December 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 22, 2024
- USA Today - November 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 11, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 30, 2024
- USA Today - August 29, 2024
- USA Today - August 22, 2024
- Daily American - August 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 02, 2024
- Daily American - June 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 04, 2024
- Family Time - May 19, 2024
- New York Times - May 04, 2024
- Daily American - March 20, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2024
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