Clues for the word "BROWN"
We've had 92 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 97 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on September 16, 2026.
Definition of brown
- superl. - Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
- n. - A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.
- v. t. - To make brown or dusky.
- v. t. - To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
- v. t. - To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
- v. i. - To become brown.
Referring Clues
- Coffee or cocoa
- Fry a bit
- UPS shade
- Toast
- Shade that defines 17-, 27-, 49- and 65-Across
- Oakland mayor Jerry
- Ivy League school
- Sauté
- Common eye color
- Like UPS trucks
- The Godfather of Soul
- Ivy locale for Bears
- Word that can precede the starts of 17- and 62-Across and 11- and 35-Down
- Ecru
- Fry lightly
- Christmas song parson
- Father of confederation or lady of the left
- Da Vinci Code author Dan
- Chocolate color
- Ivy League university
- "Peanuts" family name
- UPS color
- Ivy League member
- "The Girl in the Plain ___ Wrapper"
- Labourist Rosemary
- Toast shade
- Reddish
- A ____ study
- George ______ ( Founder of The Toronto Globe)
- Charlie's Family name in "Peanuts"
- Red and green
- Coffee or cocoa color
- UPS truck color
- See 57-Across
- Hair or eye colour
- Hair colour
- Labour PM, b. 1951
- Kind of sweetener
- Prime Minister, 2007-2010
- Toast US abolitionist
- See 25
- Empty bar to have coffee?
- Top politician's back as PM
- Livery colour?
- Toasted William the Just!
- Dead good source of fibre
- Dark - tanned - successor to Blair?
- Colour (but not that of his box!)
- Sort of study to follow 16
- It is used for wrapping
- Something that may be mopped at back of kitchen
- See 17
- Brunette, possibly with daily application for Jack's sore top?
- Baron with line in chocolate?
- Gravy hue
- Colour (of the PM?)
- Colour - grill lightly
- (Of a site) previously built on
- See 1
- See 22
- Brother has personal camel
- Colour in which one's knitted cardigan, finally
- Yes-man enters two names and round figure in Internet Explorer?
- Snoopy's pal, Charlie ___
- See 19
- Capability of Chesterton's father?
- Wife taken in by Eleanor's colour
- British have Scottish Chancellor
- See 20
- "Iron Chef Showdown" host Alton
- Chocolate, perhaps, for Chesterton's father
- Coffee four in 24
- Just William's colour
- Last name of the fictional people at the ends of 17-, 27-, 50- and 65-Across
- Eye colour
- Providence campus
- Tanned
- Capability colour
- Cook on the outside
- Forehead with new tan
- Colour
- Colour possibly worn by a bighead
- *Kind of building seen on "Sesame Street"
- Livery colour?
- See 33-Across
- "If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life ..." orator
- Toasted marshmallow color
- One of the Ivies
- Most common eye color
- Lightly fry
- & 8 At Wembley Central, possible wrapper on a parcel
- Color of chocolate
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - August 21, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 10, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - May 03, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 30, 2024
- New York Times - October 06, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 10, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 09, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - May 14, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 28, 2024
- Family Time - March 18, 2024
- New York Times - May 09, 2023
- USA Today - January 19, 2023
- Your Life Choices - December 15, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - October 27, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - October 13, 2022
- USA Today - October 13, 2022
- New York Times - October 07, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - June 09, 2022
- Mirror Quick - November 27, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 09, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 25, 2017
- Mirror Quick - October 14, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - October 07, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 13, 2017
- And in 67 more crossword puzzles...