Clues for the word "BOTCH"
We've had 25 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 82 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on September 13, 2025.
Definition of botch
- n. - A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
- n. - A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
- n. - Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
- n. - To mark with, or as with, botches.
- n. - To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
- n. - To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
Referring Clues
- Bungle
- Muff
- Muck up
- Mess up
- Ruin
- Mismanage
- Blow
- Make a mess of
- Ruin by clumsiness
- Screw up
- Foul up
- Ruin clumsily
- Mangle
- Bungle badly
- Bollix
- Louse up
- Flub
- Washington band that will clumsily ruin something?
- Ruin recording
- Mend clumsily
- Spoil through clumsiness
- Spoil by clumsy workmanship
- Make a hash of
- Mishandle
- Do a bad job on
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - September 13, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 13, 2025
- New York Times - January 24, 2025
- LA Times - January 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 17, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 09, 2022
- New York Times - December 26, 2021
- LA Times - December 15, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - December 06, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 27, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - October 04, 2017
- Netword - July 18, 2017
- LA Times - May 13, 2017
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 09, 2017
- Guardian Quick - April 03, 2017
- New York Times - March 05, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - December 29, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - September 14, 2016
- Universal - August 10, 2016
- Universal - July 12, 2016
- New York Times - May 20, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - April 14, 2016
- New York Times - June 06, 2015
- New York Times - April 10, 2015
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - March 22, 2015
- USA Today - March 18, 2015
- Chronicle of Higher Education - January 09, 2015
- And in 52 more crossword puzzles...