Clues for the word "PEEL"
We've had 296 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 785 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on December 14, 2025.
Definition of peel
- n. - A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
- n. - A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
- v. t. - To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
- v. t. - To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
- v. t. - To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
- v. i. - To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
- n. - The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Referring Clues
- Rind
- It's out on a lime
- Flake (off)
- Sunburn woe
- Orange discard
- Strip
- Undress
- Sunburn result
- Striptease
- Lose a layer
- Disrobe
- Take off
- Slippery part of a banana
- Drink garnish
- Part of a lemon
- Speed away, with "out"
- Debark?
- Banana waste
- Leave in a hurry, with "out"
- Something to slip on?
- Outer covering
- Burn rubber, with "out"
- Floor it, with "out"
- Zest
- Apple covering
- What strippers do
- Stage after a sunburn
- Banana discard
- Skin
- Result of a day at the beach?
- Orange throwaway
- Marmalade component
- Leave rubber, with "out"
- Emma of "The Avengers"
- Plastic surgeon's procedure
- Suffer from sunburn
- Dis-cover?
- Banana throwaway
- Avenger Emma
- Do KP work
- Banana eater's discard
- Lose one's sunburn
- Lose skin
- Something slipped on
- Orange part
- Shed sunburned skin
- Banana covering
- Exfoliate
- Remove a rind
- Cocktail garnish
- Orange coat?
- Orange juicing discard
- Pizza paddle
- Come off
- Remove the skin from
- Banana skin
- Remove a rind from
- Zest source
- Spa treatment
- Orange covering
- Cosmetic skin procedure
- Thin skin
- Steed's partner
- Facial treatment
- Orange cover
- Lemon rind
- Lemon covering
- Banana part
- Fruit coat
- Tangerine cover
- Pizzeria implement
- Become separated
- Banana protector
- London Police founder
- Baker's shovel-like device
- Do a KP chore
- Baker's implement
- Banana cover
- Remove rind
- Avenging Emma
- Emulate old paint
- Banana danger
- Remove the rind
- Sunburn aftermath
- Pizza parlor tool
- Banana's wrapper
- ___-and-stick labels
- Do a KP job
- Lime cover
- Flake
- Leave in a hurry (with "out")
- Banana's cover
- Remove the surface
- Speed away (with "out")
- One way to lose a sunburn
- Do KP work, stereotypically
- Prepare for cooking, as potatoes
- Marmalade ingredient
- Pare
- Spa option
- It's out on a lime?
- Cause of a slip, perhaps
- Compost deposit
- Bare it all
- Zest in a cocktail
- Skin treatment
- Lemon coat
- Come off, as paint
- Fruit cover
- Kind of rind
- Take a coat off
- Lemon's coat
- Marmalade tidbit
- Respond to sunburn, a couple days later
- New Brunswick community
- Facial procedure
- Orange protector
- Orange coat
- Tangerine throwaway
- Ready an orange
- Zest, as from an orange
- Twist in some drinks
- Role for Rigg
- See 54-Down
- See 6-Down
- Orange outside
- Rid of rind
- Banana residue
- Steed's co-Avenger
- Orange castoff
- Orange coating
- Banana castoff
- Banana holder
- One of the Avengers
- Prepare a banana
- Potato skin
- Spud skin
- Lime waste
- Coat of a kind
- Orange exterior
- Lemon zest source
- Day spa treatment
- Zest, essentially
- Outer banana
- Inedible skin
- Prepare to eat a banana
- Come off, as paint from walls
- Banana wrap
- Banana leftover
- Take your clothes off
- Unwrap
- Orange rind, e.g.
- Final step in leg waxing
- Lemon skin
- Fruit coverer
- Leg-waxing step
- Natural wrap enclosing the answer at 50-Across
- Lose a sunburn
- Shed a sunburn
- Unwrap fruit
- Steed's companion
- Result of a burn
- Apple skin
- Compost item
- Skin treatment at a spa
- Lemon zest, e.g.
- Riggs on "The Avengers"
- Fruit rind
- Strip off
- Banana feature
- Part of a banana
- Banana wrapper?
- Take it all off
- Orange skin
- Emma, the Avenger
- Take one's clothes off
- Exfoliation
- It may be out on a lime?
- Lose a tan, say
- Outer cover
- Twist, in a bar
- Shuck
- Chemical ___ (skin treatment)
- Citrus rind
- Eponymous British bobby
- Orange's covering
- Mandarin discard
- Remove the skin of a fruit
- Lime coat
- Prepare an orange
- Strip a banana
- Prepare a banana for eating
- Banana shell
- Potato outside
- Remove an orange rind
- Fruit skin
- Famous English DJ John
- Iconic jockey John
- In '90 Buffalo Tom did the John ___ Sessions
- Days of the New "Touch, ___ and Stand"
- See 4
- Shed skin
- No 1 left island town
- Conservative PM to go Liberal?
- Bobby's named after him
- Take off for somewhere in the Isle of Man
- Remove skin from fruit
- Strip off like a soft-headed swimmer!
- Remove skin of vegetable or fruit
- See 4 and 22
- Spa offering
- Remove skin from
- Prime minister said to be candid
- A thick-skinned PM?
- Take off old prime minister
- Citrus coat
- Offering at 1-Down
- Zest, for example
- Certain spa treatment
- British P.M. who repealed the Corn Laws
- Murphy's jacket?
- Orange rind
- Take off a ring, we hear
- Strip off on the Manx shore
- 19th century British prime minister
- Remove protection from 18
- Lime covering
- Cover of an orange
- Spa procedure
- Lemon cover
- Something you might slip on
- Discarded part of a banana
- Get over a sunburn, maybe
- Spa skin treatment
- Fruit's cover
- Banana's skin
- Lemon discard
- Word uttered when a player runs out of letters in Bananagrams
- Murphy's jacket
- ___ Park, public space in Salford
- Source of lemon zest
- Remove rind from
- React to too much sun, perhaps
- Remove, as a rind
- Robert ___-, British prime minister, 1834-5; 1841-6
- Hightail it away, with "out"
- Outside of a lime
- Robert, Bobby's inspiration
- Thurman's role in "The Avengers" (1998)
- Treatment offered at a 51-Across
- Get rid of a rind
- Start coming off, as wallpaper
- Fruit covering
- Potato exterior
- Lemon zest, essentially
- Zester's target
- Strip off like a swimmer, on the quiet
- Source of zest
- Chemical ___
- Prepare to eat, perhaps
- Sumo orange cover
- Certain fruit skin
- Fruit exterior
- Apple pie recipe verb
- Word shouted in Bananagrams
- Lime's exterior
- Bananagrams shout
- Spa service
- Bananagrams cry
- Skin treatment at a 33-Across
- Plantain protector
- Fibrous part of a potato
- Banana's exterior
- Cucumber part
- Orange's exterior
- Orange's skin
- Fruit's skin
- Emma ___
- Outside of an orange
- Leave quickly, with "out"
- Bit of kitchen waste
- Tangerine's skin
- Plantain covering
- Part usually thrown away
- Negroni garnish
- Citrus skin
- Discarded banana part
- Uneaten banana part (usually)
- Facial treatment at a spa
- Come off like old paint
- Kumquat coat
- Plantain's skin
- Banana part seen in Mario Kart
- Lemon's protector
- Strip of rind
- What old paint might do
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - December 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 07, 2025
- Daily American - December 05, 2025
- LA Times - December 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 27, 2025
- LA Times - November 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 10, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 24, 2025
- Daily American - October 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 04, 2025
- New York Times - August 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 20, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 17, 2025
- Daily American - August 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 15, 2025
- Mirror Mini - July 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 13, 2025
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