Clues for the word "NUCLEUS"
We've had 22 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 41 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on February 24, 2026.
Definition of nucleus
- n. - A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
- n. - The body or the head of a comet.
- n. - An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.
- n. - A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.
- n. - A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division.
- n. - The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.
- n. - The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.
- n. - A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks.
Referring Clues
- Chromosome home
- Kernel
- Central part
- Core
- Quark's home
- Core group
- Center of a cell
- Star's upset over cryptic clue's focus
- Core of an atom
- Heart of uncle, possibly Uncle Sam
- Central core
- Centre of 16 across following Dutch uncle
- The heart of the matter is that uncle is out to get us
- Centre of growth
- American uncle first represented the centre
- Integral part of anagrammatical clue in up-and-coming paper
- Central mass - kernel
- Uncle Dud and Uncle Sam essential to cell
- Cell centre
- Core, centre
- The heart of the matter
- Crucial core
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - February 24, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 28, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 08, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 07, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - January 28, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 26, 2022
- Your Life Choices - September 02, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - January 22, 2018
- Mindfood Daily - January 03, 2018
- Your Life Choices - December 29, 2017
- Daily Quick - December 07, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - November 21, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 31, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - May 26, 2016
- Universal - December 18, 2015
- Guardian Quick - June 04, 2015
- Guardian Quick - February 07, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - December 19, 2013
- Guardian Quick - September 08, 2013
- Guardian Speedy - September 01, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - October 15, 2012
- Guardian Quick - August 19, 2012
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 22, 2011
- Washington Post - March 25, 2009
- LA Times Sunday - December 14, 2008
- And in 11 more crossword puzzles...