Clues for the word "ALABASTER"
We've had 40 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 50 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on May 27, 2026.
Definition of alabaster
- n. - A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.
- n. - A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.
- n. - A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made.
Referring Clues
- Smooth and white
- Skin tone
- Gypsum variety
- Sculptor's medium, perhaps
- Gypsum variety used in carvings
- White gypsum
- Fine-grained gypsum
- Sculptor's medium
- Snow-white
- Statue material, perhaps
- Smoothly white
- Fine white gypsum
- Sculpture medium
- In brief panic attend to joint - I'm ready to carve
- A graduate's coming in to rework stone
- A place to experiment with a flower used for ornamental purposes
- Welsh lake coming up over flower, smooth and white
- Rate balsa as a smooth material
- Gypsum and basalt are different
- Steal Arab's unusual stone
- A party bloomer - providing mineral!
- Mineral tar as medium of exchange
- White translucent form of gypsum used for statues, vases etc
- Mineral in flower after a party
- A "red" flower becomes white and smooth
- Material mined from blast area
- White stone produced by a research area bloomer
- Cloudy white
- Material taken from a party by Daisy
- Imitating someone cooking meat that's pale
- Gypsum and basalt are pulverised
- Altar base (anagr.)
- Make a change when a qualification's set in stone
- Altar base (anag)
- White stone in altar base, cracked
- Mineral starts to appear blue and silver in turn
- Gypsum for a workshop flower
- Gypsum and basalt are rocky
- Turkey-roasting tool in the Yellowhammer State?
- Soft white mineral
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - May 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 13, 2026
- Daily American - June 29, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 26, 2024
- New York Times - February 26, 2023
- Daily American - June 29, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 20, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - September 03, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - August 19, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 17, 2017
- Netword - February 18, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - February 13, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 06, 2016
- Guardian Speedy - August 14, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - May 29, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - January 22, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - December 08, 2015
- New York Times - September 19, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - September 11, 2015
- USA Today - June 09, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 02, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - April 15, 2013
- Guardian Everyman - April 14, 2013
- Thinks Daily - April 29, 2011
- Guardian Quick - November 13, 2010
- New York Times - July 22, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - May 03, 2010
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 29, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - May 07, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - December 17, 2008
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