Clues for the word "TARPAULIN"
We've had 42 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 52 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on November 08, 2025.
Definition of tarpaulin
- n. - A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc.
- n. - A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
- n. - Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar.
Referring Clues
- Waterproof cloth
- Rainout cover
- A woodpile may be under it
- Waterproof canvas
- Protection for a truck's cargo
- Waterproofed canvas
- Saint boarding moving train to get cover
- Heavy waterproof cover
- Setter at sea, perhaps, wearing something waterproof
- Missionary pursues sailor wearing his hat
- Boatman's cover is partial, unsurprisingly
- Waterproof sheet
- Behind time, setter caught in rainstorm finds something waterproof
- Sailor man in waterproof material
- Sailor - one who wrote letters about train crash
- Waterproofed cloth for common salt
- Exclusive physicist in water needs waterproof
- Old sailor's waterproof sheet
- Jack and myself in waterproof material
- Waterproof for model letter writer in rainstorm
- Common sailor boy in train crash
- Sailor boy in waterproof hat
- Headgear Jack has me wearing
- Saint given 7 Shroud, needing second to change sheet
- Waterproof fabric
- Waterproof cover
- Waterproof for man initially immersed in water
- Para unit deployed around line to provide protection for sailor
- Sailor detailed woman to find cover
- Waterproof cracked urinal tap
- Covering prolific corres-pondent in train crash
- Waterproof for boy caught in awful rain after onset of typhoon
- Sailor, man wearing oilskin hat
- Informer set up boy wearing hat
- Boy on pitch wearing hat
- Jack wants me in durable canvas
- Black stuff put on boy in sheet
- Jack and I wearing heavy-duty cloth
- Protective covering for the man in the train crash
- Cover fool returned, saying it's completely knackered
- Hand the man in a sheet
- Slow roller across the infield
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - November 08, 2025
- LA Times - May 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 12, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 27, 2023
- Daily Quick - April 20, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 02, 2022
- Daily Quick - November 12, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - November 08, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - January 19, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - December 05, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - November 08, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - September 04, 2017
- Washington Post Classic - August 06, 2017
- Daily Quick - April 20, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - May 05, 2016
- Universal - November 06, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - May 08, 2014
- LA Times - March 08, 2014
- Guardian Quick - December 24, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - November 28, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - August 12, 2013
- Guardian Everyman - June 03, 2012
- Guardian Prize - May 19, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - August 23, 2011
- And in 22 more crossword puzzles...