Clues for the word "FLAKE"
We've had 54 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 72 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on October 27, 2025.
Definition of flake
- n. - A paling; a hurdle.
- n. - A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- n. - A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
- n. - A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
- n. - A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
- n. - A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- v. t. - To form into flakes.
- v. i. - To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Referring Clues
- Eccentric type
- Come off, as paint
- Oddball
- Goofball
- Cereal morsel
- Bit of snow
- Snow fall
- Snow unit
- Bit of a blizzard
- Cereal bit
- Screwball
- Fruitcake
- Speck of cereal
- Cereal piece
- Ditsy sort
- Minimal snow
- Peel, with "off"
- Peel off
- Unreliable Person
- Ding-a-ling
- Scale
- Eccentric
- Blizzard bit
- Chip
- Cereal box remnant
- Bit of dandruff
- Kook
- Bit of snowfall
- Snow crystal
- Snowfall unit
- Speck of snow
- Piece of snow
- Corn bit in a bowl
- Abandon plans, in modern slang
- Corn unit in a cereal bowl?
- Snow particle
- Hostility to English eccentric
- Piece of skin or snow
- Bit of falling snow
- Space cadet
- Peel (of paint) or snow drop
- A little snow beginning to freeze body of water
- Particle of snow
- Tiny bit of snow
- Fail to show up as expected
- Raisin bran tidbit
- Not follow through
- A little snow is mostly dangerous to airmen
- Cereal tidbit
- Frosted cereal bit
- Peel
- Bail on plans, with "out"
- Undependable sort
- Drop out unexpectedly
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - October 27, 2025
- LA Times - August 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 21, 2025
- New York Times - February 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 07, 2025
- New York Times - January 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 11, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - September 23, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 18, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - June 26, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 13, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 09, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 30, 2022
- LA Times - October 26, 2022
- Your Life Choices - September 19, 2022
- USA Today - July 27, 2022
- New York Times - June 07, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 01, 2017
- New York Times - November 13, 2017
- New York Times - October 14, 2017
- Universal - October 11, 2017
- Universal - September 17, 2017
- Mirror Quick - August 12, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - June 05, 2017
- Family Time - May 08, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 24, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - September 13, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - June 30, 2016
- Penny Dell Daily - April 18, 2016
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