Clues for the word "SARDINE"
We've had 49 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 91 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on March 13, 2026.
Definition of sardine
- n. - Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.
- n. - See Sardius.
Referring Clues
- Fish in a can
- Fish in a tin
- Subway rider during rush hour, metaphorically
- Certain rush hour commuter, metaphorically
- Piscine symbol of overcrowdedness
- Catch crammed in a can
- Canned item
- Tightly packed pilchard
- Little fish in a tin
- Small fish
- Rush-hour subway rider, metaphorically
- Oily fish
- Tightly-tinned fish
- Rush-hour subway rider, facetiously
- Tightly packed item
- One in a tight spot?
- Very small fish
- Rush-hour subway rider, figuratively
- Fish said to be named for a Mediterranean island
- Little fish
- Fish typically preserved in olive oil
- Herring's kin
- Fish name derived from an Italian island
- Tightly packed fish
- Canned fish
- Sandier sort of fish
- Rinsed a (anag) - fish
- No great swimmer, especially when canned!
- A diner's battered fish
- (Cramped?) fish
- Fish
- Young pilchard
- A diner's ordered fish
- One's tight, well-oiled
- Item in a tight tin
- Short game fish
- Fish to eat by river while lying back
- Leaders in South American republic eat fish
- Small marine food fish
- Metaphor for density
- Rise and go out for fish
- Rider of a packed subway, metaphorically
- Tinned seafood
- While going back by river eat fish
- Rush-hour subway commuter, metaphorically
- Metaphorical rush-hour subway rider
- Fish in stargazy pie
- Fish tightly packed in a tin
- Cannery catch
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - March 13, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - February 03, 2026
- Daily American - January 31, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - December 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 28, 2025
- Daily American - February 27, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 23, 2025
- Daily American - January 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 14, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 13, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 03, 2024
- Daily American - January 31, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 01, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 04, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 20, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 28, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 27, 2023
- Daily American - February 27, 2023
- Daily Quick - January 23, 2023
- Daily American - January 17, 2023
- USA Today - January 14, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 14, 2022
- And in 61 more crossword puzzles...