Clues for the word "SPICE"
We've had 127 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 184 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 29, 2025.
Definition of spice
- n. - Species; kind.
- n. - A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc.
- n. - Figuratively, that which enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of food; that which gives zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief.
- v. t. - To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit.
- v. t. - To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices.
- v. t. - To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous.
Referring Clues
- Enliven
- Tang
- Enliven, with "up"
- Ginger or cinnamon
- With 69-Across, locales for this puzzle's theme
- Jazz (up)
- It might be put on the rack
- Variety, in life, so it's said
- Cinnamon or cloves
- Relish
- Zest
- With 8-Across, business of 55-Across's backers
- Little girl ingredient?
- Sugar's partner in rhyme
- Clove or cinnamon
- Variety, vis-à-vis life
- Kind of rack found in the kitchen
- Piquancy
- Zip
- Heat source
- Part of little girls' makeup?
- Kitchen-rack item
- Cinnamon or ginger
- Mace, for one
- Jar in a rack
- Girls from England?
- Aromatic seasoning
- Sugar partner in rhyme
- Paprika, e.g.
- Sugar partner
- Cook's kicker
- Ginger in the kitchen
- Cumin or coriander
- Zip up?
- Add zest to
- Add kick to
- Word after Old or Scary
- Cook's seasoning
- Add interest to
- Flavor enhancer
- Mace, e.g.
- Nutmeg, for one
- Indies export
- India export
- Cook's additive
- Cook's extra
- Dash
- Variety, to life
- ... enhanced by this?
- Nutmeg, e.g.
- 10-Down, e.g.
- Zesty element
- Add zip to, with "up"
- Add zip to
- Kitchen rack item
- Coriander, for one
- Sugar partner, in a verse
- Rub ingredient
- Herb's cousin
- Ginger or nutmeg
- Liven (up)
- Choice for a rub
- Nutmeg or cinnamon
- Cinnamon or clove
- Ginger, e.g.
- Cardamom or turmeric
- Saffron, e.g.
- Paprika or cumin
- Seasoning
- Type of kitchen rack
- Nutmeg or cinnamon, say
- Substance used to flavour food
- Sporty or Scary
- Variety in life (for girls?)
- A tasteful hospice - no useless house!
- Such girls make for variety in life
- It's girl stuff but not sugary
- It tastes a bit special with something cold
- Cumin or cardamom
- Jelly topped with drug brings excitement
- Make more piquant
- Zesty quality
- To jazz up monster tales, switch start and finish
- Item in a kitchen rack
- Cumin, for one
- Pepper, e.g.
- Posh seasoning?
- Food flavoring
- Cinnamon, for example
- Season
- Pizazz
- Nutmeg, for instance
- Curry or cardamom
- Ginger or Sporty of pop music
- Posh flavouring?
- Pop group formed in 1994
- Rack flavoring
- Sugar's mate
- Rack item
- Saffron or ginger
- Nutmeg, say
- Flavoring
- As used in making pies around Christmas, initially?
- Ingredient from a rack
- Mostly cold, can give a hot effect
- An additive used in hospices
- Flavouring
- Cinnamon is one
- Paprika or pepper
- Food seasoning
- Variety in life (for girls?)
- Saffron, for example
- Cumin, for example
- Cumin or paprika
- Nutmeg, for example
- Chili powder or cinnamon
- Cardamom, e.g.
- Rub component
- Pies can include top flavouring
- Critical resource harvested in "Dune"
- Turmeric, for one
- Cinnamon or cardamom
- Paprika or cinnamon
- Zhuzh (up)
- Much-sought-after commodity in "Dune"
- Add pepper to
- Food enlivener
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 29, 2025
- New York Times - October 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 28, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 20, 2025
- LA Times - March 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 13, 2025
- USA Today - February 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 05, 2025
- New York Times - January 03, 2025
- Daily American - December 21, 2024
- LA Times - November 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 11, 2024
- New York Times - June 17, 2024
- USA Today - May 15, 2024
- New York Times - February 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 08, 2023
- USA Today - September 23, 2023
- LA Times - September 04, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 20, 2023
- LA Times - July 04, 2023
- New York Times - May 10, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 01, 2023
- And in 154 more crossword puzzles...