Clues for the word "BLOOM"
We've had 73 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 149 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on December 23, 2025.
Definition of bloom
- n. - A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
- n. - The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
- n. - A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
- n. - The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
- n. - The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
- n. - A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- n. - A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
- v. i. - To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
- v. i. - To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.
- v. t. - To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
- v. t. - To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
- n. - A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.
- n. - A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.
Referring Clues
- Rarity for a century plant
- Gardener's pride
- Rose's beauty
- Blossom
- Flower
- Flourish
- Bud, in time
- 48-Across's partner
- Burst into flower
- Come into one's own
- Bud's promise
- Burst into blossom
- Part of a bouquet
- "___ County" (Opus's comic strip)
- Open in the garden
- Start to blossom
- "Ulysses" protagonist
- Produce flowers
- Thrive
- Joyce character
- Joyce's Molly
- Gardener's pride, often
- "The Producers" role
- Century plant's rarity
- Open up
- "Ulysses" protagonist
- Achieve beauty
- Mature, in a way
- A flower is pretty when it's in this
- Open, as a flower
- Come to fruition
- Become a flower
- Actor Orlando
- What century plants do only once
- Daffodil or tulip
- Begin to flower
- Leopold ___, "Ulysses" protagonist
- Boutonniere part
- Bialystock's partner in "The Producers"
- Joyce's Leopold
- Sign of spring
- What a flower will do
- Become best buds?
- Thin Lizzy "Little Girl in ___"
- Flower's sudden growth around lake
- Flourish, due to return of low pound
- Bachelor can go to McDonalds, it's opened
- Come out in the garden?
- Does it give lenses a floral tint?
- It promises fruitfulness, perhaps, with expansion just around the corner
- Mostly blue flower, one hears
- Flower said to be blue on the first of May
- Come into flower
- Stop for a honeybee
- Be in flower
- Flourish with Orlando
- Open, in a way
- Leopold and Molly ___, characters in Joyce's Ulysses
- Liberal in profitable times may flourish
- Flower employs second spinner
- Large mushroom found outside, possibly pink
- Flower's achievement
- Flower getting large in period of prosperity
- Become full-flower
- The beauty of a rose
- Bear flowers
- What fire poppies do after a wildfire
- Supermodel Leyna
- Come out in the garden?
- Does it give lenses a floral tint?
- In full ___ (flowering)
- Nursery sight
- Bouquet element
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - December 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 25, 2025
- Daily American - July 01, 2025
- LA Times - June 25, 2025
- Daily American - June 23, 2025
- New York Times - April 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 10, 2025
- USA Today - December 27, 2024
- Daily American - November 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 11, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 13, 2024
- Daily American - February 14, 2024
- LA Times - December 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 03, 2023
- USA Today - October 20, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 25, 2023
- LA Times - July 19, 2023
- Daily American - July 01, 2023
- LA Times - June 30, 2023
- Daily American - June 23, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 06, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 05, 2022
- Daily American - November 15, 2022
- USA Today - July 18, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - November 14, 2017
- And in 119 more crossword puzzles...