Clues for the word "BULB"
We've had 124 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 189 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 16, 2026.
Definition of bulb
- n. - A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.
- n. - A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
- n. - An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.
- v. i. - To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
Referring Clues
- It's often screwed up
- Thermometer part
- Tulip planting
- Gardener's purchase
- Iris's base
- Flower starter
- Onion, for one
- Thermometer's terminus
- Bottom of a lily
- Future tulip
- Future lily
- Symbol of a bright idea
- Cluster of cloves
- Head of garlic
- Narcissus, e.g.
- Filament housing
- Shutter speed setting
- Fall planting
- Light source
- Lamp insert
- GE product
- Annual groundbreaker
- Lily producer
- Tulip-to-be
- It's usually screwed up
- Mercury thermometer part
- Lamp lighter
- Cartoonist's idea?
- Future tulip or onion
- Flower bed planting
- Flower starter, often
- Socket insert
- Tulip or lily planting
- Lily, for instance
- Sylvania product
- Eventual tulip
- Three-way, e.g.
- Young tulip?
- Unopened tulip
- Tulip, at first
- Tulip, to start
- Idea symbol
- Cartoonist's idea
- Tulip's earlier status
- Tulip source
- Tulip source
- Onion or lily
- Lamp light
- Filament container
- 30 Down, for one
- Tulip start
- Closed-up tulip
- Daffodil-to-be
- Lily or onion
- Tulip's start
- Rhizome
- Germ of a geranium
- Shallot, e.g.
- Tulip seed
- *Replaceable part of a lamp
- Hardware store or nursery purchase
- Lamp necessity
- Three-way item
- Putative tulip
- Light ___
- Tulip or onion
- An onion is one
- It may have 40, 60 or 75 watts
- Tulip root
- Daffodil source
- Eyedropper extremity
- Onion or shallot
- Light-fixture insert
- Something screwed into a lamp
- Lamp's light source
- Eyedropper part
- What you put in a lamp
- Something inside a lamp
- Tulip's base
- Item in a joke that starts with "how many"
- Tulip starter
- Idea symbolizer
- What a tulip starts out as
- Garlic unit
- Tulip, eg
- It may have 60 watts
- This goes off when inspiration strikes
- Less Than Jake "The Brightest ___ Has Burned Out"
- Onion or what it makes you do, if brought up
- Weep when coming up with potential bloomer
- From which a tulip or light comes
- Onion, perhaps
- Light fitting
- Bright idea emoji
- Future tulip, say
- Eyedropper end
- Reproductive organ in some plants
- Cry when upset, given onion
- Light in bed?
- Lamp part, light ___
- Tulip may be lit up
- Cry over onion?
- Gladiolus-to-be
- Item rated in watts
- It'll light up a room
- One end of a baster
- Light source that needs occasional replacement
- Chandelier insert
- Onion
- Onion's origin
- It's used in a flash
- Light in a lamp
- Tuber
- Onion, e.g.
- Plant
- Common thing for a common socket
- Chives feature
- Thing of garlic
- Shallot, for one
- Glowing object on a marquee
- Onion or garlic
- Garlic or tulip unit
- Garden bed planting
- Future amaryllis, e.g.
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 16, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 04, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - November 24, 2025
- New York Times - September 24, 2025
- New York Times - August 18, 2025
- LA Times - August 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 27, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 05, 2025
- USA Today - February 01, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 13, 2025
- New York Times - January 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 19, 2024
- LA Times - October 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 10, 2024
- USA Today - June 09, 2024
- LA Times - December 28, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - December 15, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 02, 2023
- Your Life Choices - October 09, 2023
- Mirror Daily - August 21, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 13, 2023
- USA Today - May 29, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 27, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - February 17, 2023
- USA Today - December 09, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - December 06, 2022
- Your Life Choices - November 17, 2022
- New York Times - October 14, 2022
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