Clues for the word "PEARL"
We've had 230 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 458 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 13, 2026.
Definition of pearl
- n. - A fringe or border.
- v. t. - To fringe; to border.
- n. - A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
- n. - Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
- n. - Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
- n. - A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
- n. - A light-colored tern.
- n. - One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
- n. - A whitish speck or film on the eye.
- n. - A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
- n. - A size of type, between agate and diamond.
- a. - Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
- v. t. - To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
- v. t. - To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
- v. i. - To resemble pearl or pearls.
- v. i. - To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
Referring Clues
- Precious one
- Oyster's center
- Necklace item
- Modern June birthstone
- Oyster's prize
- June birthstone
- Stickpin head
- Unit of wisdom?
- Small treasure
- Gem of an oyster
- Masterpiece
- It may start as a grain of sand
- Shade of gray
- ___ onion
- Treasure in an oyster
- Rock's ___ Jam
- Minnie of "Hee Haw"
- Oyster formation
- ___ Harbor
- Oyster's creation
- Necklace gem
- Only gem made by an animal
- Janis Joplin's nickname
- Oyster's offering
- Thirtieth anniversary gift
- Oyster prize
- Prize in an oyster
- Oyster's treasure
- Oyster's gem
- Precious object in a Steinbeck novella
- Organic gem
- Bit of wisdom
- Bead from an oyster
- ___ Jam (Eddie Vedder's band)
- Oyster find
- 30th anniversary gift
- Wisdom unit?
- Find in an oyster
- Steinbeck opus, with "The"
- It may be cultured
- Gem on a strand
- Something precious
- Oyster product
- Sea discovery
- Gem from an oyster
- 30th anniversary
- Strung thing
- Spheroid gem
- Hester Prynne's daughter
- Pale gray
- Cultured bauble
- It may be stranded
- Buck or Bailey
- Underwater treasure
- Necklace item, perhaps
- One of a strand
- Cultured gem
- Wisdom unit
- Unit of wisdom
- Gem that's often strung
- Beauty
- Porous gem
- Word before Jam or Harbor
- Hester's daughter
- Steinbeck title sphere
- 30th wedding anniversary gift
- Mount ______ , Newfoundland
- Kind of onion
- Bead on a string, perhaps
- Mollusk's creation
- Necklace element
- Gem for a 30th anniversary
- Strand unit
- With 14-Across, attack site of 1941
- Oyster's gift
- Lustrous gem
- June's gem
- Oyster bead
- Nugget, as of wisdom
- Gift from an oyster
- Traditional 30th anniversary gift
- Gem on a necklace
- [30]
- Tone similar to eggshell
- "The Good Earth" novelist Buck
- Sea gem
- Opalescent ocean find
- Gem
- Mount ______ , Newfoundland
- Shucker's discovery, at times
- Birthstone in a shell
- Diver's find
- "Cultured" gem
- Certain diver's objective
- Precious oyster discovery
- Black ___ ("Pirates of the Caribbean" ship)
- Form beads
- Round gem
- Author Buck or Hawaiian harbour
- Gem from the sea
- Shade of white
- Necklace item, often
- Fine example
- Steinbeck story (with "the")
- Iridescent gem
- Buck who won a nobel prize
- Historic harbor
- Only animal-produced gem
- Onion in cocktails
- Gem whose authenticity can be checked by rubbing it against the teeth
- Mount ___ necklace
- Author Buck
- Singer Bailey
- Necklace item, sometimes
- With 28-Down, Oahu feature
- Abalone yield
- Nugget of wisdom
- Oyster gem
- Off-white color
- Oyster catch?
- Oyster's jewel
- 5 point type
- Ocean gem
- Sea jewel
- Fruit with large stone
- Precious stone
- Word after Pink or black
- Posthumous Janis Joplin album
- '71 Janis Joplin album
- White - jewel
- Much loved and valued person
- Nominally, she's not without grey matter
- Gem from oyster
- Girl who handled a revolver?
- She's beautiful, like her mother, but perhaps expensive
- She hasn't a single apple left!
- See 12
- She's soft on an aristocrat
- Can she handle a revolver?
- Like her mother, she's grey
- She's like stone to a soft-headed aristocrat
- She has grey matter _ beauty, too
- Like mother, she's a beauty
- She's a beauty, but not without grey matter
- It looks as though the frost has got this bulb
- Tapioca unit
- Precious stone from shellfish
- Gem quietly given to nobleman
- Lustrous globule prized as a gem
- Harbour something of value?
- The fruit left is the finest
- Hesters willful child
- Diving find
- Type of attention found in Public Library
- A gem looks right in the ring
- It's a gem of a conference, perhaps with fifty in attendance
- Quiet and noble type, one of great worth
- Smooth lustrous round structure of calcium carbonate
- Girl, pretty small type
- Pawn nobleman's precious stone
- Gem in pawn taken by nobleman
- Toll to import rare gem
- She's presumably come out of her shell
- She's got the right angle on fruit
- Gem on a string
- Sea shell find or Alberta MLA Calahasen
- Off-white shade
- Oyster jewel
- She's grey, and may turn paler
- She's quiet, noble, and related to '4 Down'
- Gem of the ocean
- Precious jewel
- Dived-for gem
- Creamy gem
- Gem, specifically or in general
- Gem of the sea
- Gem strung on a necklace
- Her mother's beautiful, too
- She's soft on a nobleman
- Necklace gem, sometimes
- Gem that may be farmed
- Lustrous bit of wisdom
- Stranded item
- She's pigheaded yet noble
- Diver's gem
- Cultured ___
- Gemini's birthstone
- One of the birthstones
- Has she a certain amount of wisdom?
- Like her mother, she's beautiful
- She's soft on a chap with a title
- Jewel
- She's a delicate grey and could be paler
- She has beauty as well as grey matter
- Literary Buck
- Gem in an oyster
- Her beauty derives from her grey matter
- Necklace part
- She makes a promising start with a nobleman
- Gemstone
- Bead on a string
- She's greyish and may turn paler
- Quiet noble paragon
- One shade of gray
- Comic Minnie ___
- Precious person
- Just the sort of necklace for a girl
- White gemstone
- Curse of the Black ___
- Gem created by an animal
- Black ball in bubble tea
- No lack-lustre girl
- She has a certain lustre
- Gem made in an oyster
- Small ball on a string
- Girl who handled a revolver?
- One hanging around Queen Elizabeth?
- Earring in a Vermeer painting
- See 4-Down
- She provides fruit by the pound
- Can she handle a revolver?
- Gem from a mussel
- 31-Across found in an oyster
- Fruit left, being of great price?
- Gem from a mollusk
- Gem made by some mollusks
- She has grey matter - beauty, too
- She's soft and noble
- Gem in a clam
- Gem that may be natural or cultured
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 13, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 11, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 25, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 17, 2026
- Mirror Mini - March 14, 2026
- Daily Quick - February 28, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 25, 2026
- New York Times - February 01, 2026
- LA Times - January 25, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 02, 2026
- New York Times - December 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 26, 2025
- LA Times - November 17, 2025
- LA Times - November 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 03, 2025
- LA Times - August 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 14, 2025
- Daily American - August 10, 2025
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