Clues for the word "CLOY"
We've had 57 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 156 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on October 11, 2025.
Definition of cloy
- v. t. - To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
- v. t. - To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
- v. t. - To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
- v. t. - To spike, as a cannon.
- v. t. - To stroke with a claw.
Referring Clues
- Fill to excess
- Pall
- Be too much
- Satiate
- Be too sweet
- Become boring from overindulgence
- Overwhelm with sweetness
- Overwhelm, as with kindness
- Oversatisfy
- Weary by excess
- Sate
- Be super-syrupy
- Kill with kindness
- Gorge
- Jade
- Surfeit
- Be overly sweet
- Feed to surfeit
- Annoy with sweetness
- Overdo the sweetness
- Sicken with sweetness
- Cause a surfeit
- Over-satisfy
- Surfeit with excess
- Annoy via sweetness
- Overfill: gorge
- Be just too sweet
- Become tiresome
- Be too syrupy
- Provide too much of a good thing
- Get old
- Overdo the saccarine
- Become overdone
- Be sickeningly sweet
- Grow tiresome
- Sicken with sentiment
- Become boring
- Satiate to the point of disgust
- Become over-sweet
- Cause distaste by excessive sweetness
- Playfully modest about 50? It can be a bit much
- Annoy through excessive sweetness
- Make weary through over-sentimentality
- Make weary through being overly sweet
- Retiring about fifty, weary
- Be a bit much
- Become too sweet after a while, say
- Become unpleasant through excess
- Glut
- Please too much
- Sicken with excessive sweetness
- Be too sweet, possibly
- Bring weariness when pleasure is past
- Be saccharine
- Sickly sweet
- Supply to excess
- Be overly maudlin
Last Seen In
- LA Times - October 11, 2025
- Daily American - September 14, 2025
- Daily American - May 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 06, 2024
- Daily American - September 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 08, 2024
- Daily American - June 24, 2024
- Daily American - April 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2023
- Daily American - September 14, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 10, 2023
- LA Times - June 29, 2023
- Daily American - May 26, 2023
- New York Times - March 26, 2023
- LA Times - November 18, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2022
- Daily American - September 29, 2022
- USA Today - August 24, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 11, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 28, 2022
- Daily American - June 24, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 17, 2017
- Daily American - September 14, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 30, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - July 29, 2017
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 23, 2017
- Netword - July 06, 2017
- Netword - June 24, 2017
- Family Time - June 04, 2017
- And in 126 more crossword puzzles...