Clues for the word "BLACK"
We've had 103 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 115 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on September 30, 2026.
Definition of black
- a. - Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
- a. - In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
- a. - Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
- a. - Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
- adv. - Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
- n. - That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
- n. - A black pigment or dye.
- n. - A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
- n. - A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
- n. - Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
- n. - The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
- n. - A stain; a spot; a smooch.
- a. - To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
- a. - To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
Referring Clues
- With 42-Across, a famous pirate
- African-American
- Ravenous?
- ___ cow (root beer float)
- Forbidding, as 25-Down
- Coffee order
- Served without milk or cream
- Even-money roulette play
- Enveloped in darkness
- Panther color
- Jet
- Beginning of a transformation
- Like coffee sans cream
- Supreme Court justice for 34 years
- Crow's color
- Sans cream
- ___ belt
- With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle
- _ belt
- ___ belt
- Roulette bet
- ______ maple
- Publishing tycoon or CBC Radio host
- ____ Spruce (Nfld's tree)
- Conrad, for one
- ____ Lake, Quebec
- Halloween hue
- Chess side
- ______ Christmas (2006 horror movie)
- Jack of Tenacious D
- Coffee preference
- Ebony
- Magic color?
- ___ comedy
- Night vision?
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- Jack of "School of Rock"
- *Stephen Hawking subject
- Chess board colour or Quebec lake
- Like storm clouds
- With "and" and 67-Across, what 17-, 29-, 45- and 59-Across are
- *Comic actor / *Card game ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues
- *One side of a 23-Across piece
- Poe title color
- Arthur ____ ( Host of CBC's Basic Black )
- Dark color
- Killer whale's color
- Like some piano keys
- Darkest color
- Want to follow Branson's first jet?
- Extremely dark
- Grimly funny champion (outside left)
- Gone to the dogs, walk behind cat like Felix?
- Highball on the snooker table?
- What's written on in the classroom
- Sort of guard, panther, jack or pudding...
- Like 8 but not 25 in one game, it follows 8 and 25 in another
- Like a novel tulip, often potted
- Credit given to 24's a disgrace
- Sullen from a vitamin deficiency?
- Pudding could be said to anticipate shortage
- Very gloomy game opponent
- 14 wrote this line, following shortage in pub
- Dark and criminal lord?
- Bad mark is creditable and 3
- Illuminated character of 28
- See 15
- Moby Dick anal? Not the current version, one dated 19/10/87
- Polish the most valuable pot
- One wouldn't be pleased to give them Jet Air South
- Flight recorder, ___ box
- Deficiency in Broad-casting House leads to troubles in 26
- Jet - to get hence to 24 via 5 down, 7 etc, 18 across, 15?
- Boycott left sponsor on the boundary
- The ___, CLR James's study of the Haitian revolt of 1791–1804
- 2's champion without league
- Want to take pride initially in developing traditional dish
- Book - book, to be plain then?
- Number in reverse like operator in 9
- Old group ending in tub can't get c-clean?
- 14 created in response to police violence in Ferguson and elsewhere
- Colour
- *Hypothetical object that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation
- Conrad and Barbara ___
- Jet seven in 24
- ___ Berry , or notorious tycoon Conrad
- Dark colour
- Choice in chess
- Snooker ball colour
- One side in 70-Down
- Want to follow Branson's first jet?
- Darkest colour
- Jet color?
- Hugo ___, longtime Supreme Court justice
- The circled letters in the first shaded area
- With 34-Down, regions that can only be entered ... and a hint to the starred answers
- Highball on the snooker table?
- Word with tie or belt
- Color of squid ink pasta
- One way to order coffee
- and 6 She has a consuming interest in the opposite sex
- How things may look when there's a noted shortage
- One of the hues in a Crayola eight-pack
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2026
- Your Life Choices - May 28, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - May 19, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - November 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 11, 2025
- New York Times - July 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 10, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 19, 2025
- New York Times - June 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 20, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 26, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 20, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 09, 2023
- USA Today - December 18, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - December 09, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - July 13, 2022
- New York Times - February 26, 2022
- Mirror Classic - February 05, 2018
- Guardian Weekend - February 03, 2018
- Guardian Prize - January 13, 2018
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 19, 2017
- Guardian Weekend - November 11, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - November 06, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - September 20, 2017
- Your Life Choices - August 15, 2017
- And in 85 more crossword puzzles...