Clues for the word "BARE"
We've had 174 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 588 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on January 07, 2026.
Definition of bare
- a. - Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
- a. - With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- a. - Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- a. - Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
- a. - Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
- a. - Threadbare; much worn.
- a. - Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
- n. - Surface; body; substance.
- n. - That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
- a. - To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
- - Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
- - of Bear
Referring Clues
- Like a streaker
- In the buff
- Undecorated
- Show fully
- In the raw
- Not clothed
- Reveal
- Like a skinny-dipper
- Plain
- "My Heart Laid ___" (Charles Baudelaire poem)
- Unadorned
- Au naturel
- Empty
- Expose
- Stripped
- Prepared to streak
- Unvarnished
- Uncovered
- Like Mother Hubbard's cupboard
- Bobby with the country hit "(Margie's at) the Lincoln Park Inn"
- Not decent
- In the altogether
- In one's birthday suit
- Like streakers
- Featured in Playboy?
- Nude
- Open to public view
- Like Hubbard's cupboard
- Unfurnished
- Naked
- Like a dangerous wire
- Exposed
- Denuded
- Like Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard
- Word before bones or minimum
- Like one in a Penthouse?
- Without a stitch
- In need of resupply, maybe
- Like undecorated walls
- ___-knuckle (not wearing boxing gloves)
- Show
- Devoid of duds
- Like Godiva, famously
- Like many trees in winter
- Unclad
- Unornamented
- Unconcealed
- Expose to view
- Unembellished
- Uncover
- Stark
- Unadorned, as facts
- Reveal, as the soul
- Utterly unstocked, as shelves
- Stark naked
- Make public
- Like 31-Across
- Unvarnished, as wood
- Without duds
- Like a nursery rhyme cupboard
- Word with back or knuckle
- Desolate
- Type of necessities
- In desperate need of resupply
- Open to view
- Undressed
- Display
- Word before fisted and bones
- Buck naked
- Divulge
- Like some walls
- Unveiled
- Without a stitch on
- Expose or reveal
- Not decorated
- -
- Far from ornate
- Balls-out, say
- Unclothed
- Like lawn spots in need of reseeding
- Spartan
- Undraped
- Not 33-Across
- Like some essentials
- Word with bulb or bones
- Word with bulb or bones
- Exposed to the elements
- Lacking embellishment
- Expose, as skin
- Undisguised
- Like some necessities
- Kind of truth
- Uncovered, as floors
- Unveil
- Word with bones or minimum
- Word before bones or fisted
- Like some life class models
- Ready for a shower
- Like one in a shower
- Like Lady Godiva, on horseback
- Unpainted, say
- Devoid of artwork, as walls
- Like Lady Godiva
- Lacking adornment
- Wearing nothing
- Lead-in to bones or knuckles
- "___ essence"
- Like floors without rugs
- See 22-Across
- Sans decorations
- Expose, as the soul
- ___ bones
- Minimally sufficient
- Disclose
- Ready to skinny-dip
- With no decoration
- Unfinished, as some furniture
- Like athletes in ESPN's "The Body Issue"
- Pure and simple
- Vacant
- Ready for the shower
- Bear rearranged
- Ready for the showers?
- Naked animal we hear
- Butt naked
- Without leaves
- Like some minimums
- Like leafless trees
- Anthrax song for the buff?
- Some rockers' chests, in concert
- Stripped Matt Nathanson song?
- Uncovered - unfurnished - unadorned
- Ready for skinny-dipping
- Ready for streaking
- Unadorned - naked
- Out of gear?
- Like Godiva
- Like some artists' models
- How ecdysiasts finish their act
- Like a kickboxer's feet, typically
- 3 checkout strip stripped
- See 2
- The ___ essentials (only the most necessary things)
- Like an empty cupboard
- Lacking decoration
- Like feet in karate class
- Word before bones or knuckles
- Naked animal, reportedly
- Exposed and inwardly vulnerable when retreating
- Lacking vegetation
- Stripped down
- Not adorned
- Unfinished, as furniture
- Empty, as a closet
- Lacking cover
- Nekkid
- Word before "bones" or "knuckle"
- ___ minimum
- Like feet in a yoga class
- Show, as one's teeth
- Free of foliage
- Homophone of "bear"
- Uncarpeted
- Show all
- Like a shelf that desperately needs restocking
- ___ your soul
- Not covered
- Like a cupboard with nothing in it
- The ___ necessities
- Austere
- Like a shelf that needs restocking
- Not covered by clothes
- In a natural state, but only just
- Without adornment
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - January 07, 2026
- LA Times - December 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 25, 2025
- LA Times - November 18, 2025
- LA Times - October 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 04, 2025
- Daily American - September 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2025
- New York Times - August 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 23, 2025
- Daily American - July 20, 2025
- Daily American - July 19, 2025
- LA Times - July 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 16, 2025
- LA Times - June 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 15, 2025
- Daily American - May 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 10, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 13, 2025
- LA Times - February 17, 2025
- USA Today - January 27, 2025
- New York Times - January 18, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 27, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 15, 2024
- USA Today - October 24, 2024
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