Clues for the word "SMOKE"
We've had 105 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 173 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 15, 2025.
Definition of smoke
- n. - The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
- n. - That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.
- n. - Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
- n. - The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke.
- n. - To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation; to reek.
- n. - Hence, to burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- n. - To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- n. - To draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco burning in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cigarette, etc.; to habitually use tobacco in this manner.
- n. - To suffer severely; to be punished.
- v. t. - To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
- v. t. - To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
- v. t. - To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
- v. t. - To ridicule to the face; to quiz.
- v. t. - To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar.
- v. t. - To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; -- often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow.
Referring Clues
- Fire sign
- It may be secondhand
- Light up
- Burning evidence
- Sign of an engine problem
- Cig
- Enjoy a cheroot
- Content of some rings
- Fire sign?
- Feature of many a 1970s rock concert
- Mirrors' partner
- Treat with mesquite, maybe
- Cigar, e.g.
- Chimney plume
- Have a cigarette
- Secondhand stuff
- Barbecue byproduct
- Havana, informally
- Light up, and word that can precede the last word of answers to starred clues
- Ferret (out)
- Fire tip-off, usually
- Chimney output
- Fire evidence
- Evidence of fire
- Go fast
- Mirrors companion, in deception
- Stack product
- Word that can combine with the starts of the answers to the six starred clues
- Kind of signal
- Camel, e.g.
- Have a cigar
- Fire giveaway
- Leave in the dust
- Mirrors' partner
- See 58-Across
- Sign of engine trouble
- The Big ____ (Ontario metropolis to some)
- Pale blue shade
- Alarm's trigger
- Defeat decisively
- Fire indication
- Kind of screen
- *Fire sign
- "Mirrors" companion
- It might be secondhand
- Mirrors' mate
- With 121-Across, force from hiding
- Pillar from a fire
- With 43-Across, 1973 Deep Purple hit?
- Enjoy a cigar
- "Screen" or "stack" start
- Alarm trigger
- ___ signals
- Defeat resoundingly
- Soundly defeat, informally
- Puff a peace pipe
- Set off an airliner alarm, maybe
- It might be second hand
- Sign of fire
- Production of combustion
- "Up in ___" (Cheech & Chong movie)
- Defeat crushingly
- "Where there's ___, there's fire"
- Drivin' 'N' Cryin' album to listen to on a break?
- Sublime "I ___ two joints in the morning"
- Platters "___ Gets in Your Eyes"
- Arctic Monkeys "Cigarette ___"
- What a screen may be made of
- Vapour
- It obscures some chaos around the weekend
- Cure what many addicts do
- Fireworks-show byproduct
- Give off fumes
- See 18 across
- Fire indicator
- Exhaust emission
- Burn mark?
- Chimney plumes
- Fume
- Vapor from a chimney
- Trigger a lavatory detector, perhaps
- Fire sign?
- Alarm activator
- Go to pot?
- Enjoy a claro
- Commit an in-flight no-no
- Product of combustion
- It may be detected in your eyes
- Harmful factory output
- Evidence of flames
- Bonfire emanation
- Partner of mirrors
- It rises from a pipe
- Fire alarm?
- Bad secondhand thing
- Draw on, in a way
- Puff away
- Sign of a fire
- Soundly defeat
- Deception, metaphorically
- Participate in a joint session?
- Enjoy a pipe
- Fire vapor
- Cook brisket, perhaps
- Tip-off that you've forgotten something in the toaster
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 15, 2025
- LA Times - September 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 06, 2025
- Mirror Mini - May 04, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 30, 2025
- New York Times - October 24, 2024
- Mirror Mini - October 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 16, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 30, 2024
- LA Times - July 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 11, 2024
- Daily American - June 27, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 18, 2024
- LA Times - March 24, 2024
- LA Times - February 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 31, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 27, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 02, 2023
- Mirror Mini - October 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 02, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - September 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 24, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 30, 2023
- New York Times - May 06, 2023
- And in 143 more crossword puzzles...