Clues for the word "SPILL"
We've had 87 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 136 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on June 09, 2026.
Definition of spill
- n. - A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
- n. - A slender piece of anything.
- n. - A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- n. - A metallic rod or pin.
- n. - A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
- n. - One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- n. - A little sum of money.
- v. t. - To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- v. t. - To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
- v. t. - To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- v. t. - To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
- v. t. - To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
- v. t. - To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- v. i. - To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
- v. i. - To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
Referring Clues
- Let slip
- Ecodisaster
- Coastline calamity
- Diner accident
- Reason to use a paper towel
- Tell, as secrets
- Floor covering?
- Bounty target
- Mop's target
- Milk mishap
- Highchair hazard
- Tanker disaster
- Tumble
- Oil mishap
- Downhill goof
- Exxon Valdez mishap
- Tanker mishap
- Drinker's accident
- Tell, slangily
- Bar mishap
- Glass mishap
- Slop over
- Drinker's mishap
- Divulge a secret
- Cause a stain
- Equestrian's mishap
- Wipeout
- Oil tanker mishap
- Diner mishap
- Bistro mishap
- Dinner accident
- "Tell me the details!"
- Splosh
- Overturn, as milk
- Kitchen mishap
- Serious oil problem
- Divulge
- Cafeteria mishap
- Exxon Valdez calamity
- A biker may have a nasty one
- It gets mopped up
- Overturn milk
- Tanker trouble
- Fire lighter
- Have a milk mishap
- Slayer: "___ the Blood"
- Built to ___
- What Slayer will do to "The Blood"
- Allow to overflow 7
- Thin piece of wood used to light a fire
- Upset son's medication
- Let fall accidentally - lighter
- Run out of paper to light fire
- Something to do with the beans, relevantly
- An upsetting accident
- Cause to overflow
- Accidentally cause to overflow
- Let (liquid) fall from container
- Allow to drop - fire lighter
- Leak from a lighter
- Upset, needing second capsule
- An accident to make light of
- Lose liquid in lighter
- Tip
- Sloppy floor covering?
- Overflow
- Accident with lighter
- Taper
- Slosh
- Upset
- Mop target
- Topple
- "Tell. Me. Everything!"
- Nasty fall
- Reveal some juicy details
- Liquid mishap
- Tea mishap
- Abuse of pills by accident
- Liquid mess
- Accident that can start a fire
- Drop liquid
- Tell all
- "I need details!"
- Kitchen table mishap
- "___ it!" ("Tell me already!")
- Accident prevented by a sippy cup
- "___ the tea!"
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - June 09, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 09, 2026
- Daily American - January 29, 2026
- LA Times - January 12, 2026
- LA Times - October 03, 2025
- Daily American - February 28, 2025
- LA Times - February 25, 2025
- Daily American - January 09, 2025
- USA Today - January 01, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 05, 2024
- Mirror Mini - July 07, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 31, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 22, 2024
- Daily American - January 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 29, 2023
- Mirror Mini - July 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 26, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 26, 2023
- USA Today - May 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 16, 2023
- USA Today - April 06, 2023
- Daily American - February 28, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 21, 2023
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