Clues for the word "HEMLOCK"
We've had 18 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 20 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on February 19, 2025.
Definition of hemlock
- n. - The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
- n. - An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
- n. - The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
Referring Clues
- Drug source for ancient executions
- Poisonous plant
- Socrates' final quaff
- Socrates' last drink
- Socrates' undoing
- Poison drunk by Socrates
- Evergreen tree
- A growing source of border security?
- One last drink
- Poisonous weed
- Highly poisonous relative of parsley
- Border security can be deadly
- Socratic poison
- Piece of a dress, a strand of hair and poison?
- Put some lemon squash in the wine and it could be fatal!
- Just the plant to border part of the canal
- A growing source of border security?
- Toxic plant in the carrot family
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - February 19, 2025
- LA Times - November 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 27, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 19, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 02, 2022
- Guardian Speedy - October 01, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 05, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 14, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 22, 2016
- LA Times - August 19, 2015
- LA Times - August 25, 2013
- Universal - April 28, 2013
- LA Times Sunday - June 24, 2012
- Washington Post - December 26, 2010
- Guardian Quick - December 02, 2009
- Guardian Quick - April 29, 2006
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 09, 2004
- New York Times - May 09, 2003
- Guardian Cryptic - February 10, 2003