Clues for the word "BIRCH"
We've had 54 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 70 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on June 10, 2026.
Definition of birch
- n. - A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).
- n. - The wood or timber of the birch.
- n. - A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.
- n. - A birch-bark canoe.
- a. - Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.
- v. t. - To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.
Referring Clues
- Hazel's cousin
- Canoe material
- Switch material
- Graceful tree
- Beer ingredient?
- Tree with smooth bark
- Type of beer
- Canoe wood source
- Close-grained furniture wood
- Tree with papery bark
- Its sap is used to make a soft drink
- Canoe wood
- Kind of beer
- Simple-leafed tree
- White or yellow tree
- Yellow ____ (Quebec's official tree)
- ____ Lake, British Columbia
- White-barked tree
- Alder or hazel
- With 38-Down, cousin of sarsaparilla
- Tree whose bark is used in writing paper
- White ___ , Saskatchewan's tree
- Oil of wintergreen source
- Beer or tree type
- Flog
- Switch wood
- Tree used for canoes
- White state tree of New Hampshire
- Source for whipping rods
- Canoe builder's bark source
- Kind of 70-Across
- State tree: white ___
- Tree bearing catkins
- Growing form of punishment
- A striking tree?
- See 1
- Type of tree
- It provides lashings of hard copy in reverse
- Tree (for corporal punishment?)
- Flog what might be silver
- It may be silver but it can hurt
- Canoe-bark tree
- Knock up cradle with hardwood
- Hard copy put up in tree
- Source of bark for canoes
- Flog a tree
- Tree whose sap is used in a soft drink
- It's considerably painful if you break a rib going to church
- Its bark is used in canoes
- Plywood source
- Tree of painful memories?
- A striking tree?
- Hardwood tree
- Female dog
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - June 10, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - February 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 28, 2025
- New York Times - July 30, 2025
- LA Times - June 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 30, 2024
- LA Times - March 31, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 10, 2023
- Family Time - November 13, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 30, 2022
- New York Times - October 13, 2021
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 09, 2018
- New York Times - December 19, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - October 16, 2017
- Guardian Quick - August 24, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 15, 2017
- Washington Post Classic - July 16, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 29, 2017
- Universal - March 25, 2017
- New York Times - December 25, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 24, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 31, 2016
- LA Times - December 08, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 27, 2015
- New York Times - October 02, 2014
- USA Today - October 02, 2014
- LA Times Sunday - February 23, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 02, 2013
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