Clues for the word "CAKE"
We've had 183 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 241 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on January 15, 2026.
Definition of cake
- n. - A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
- n. - A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
- n. - A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
- n. - A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
- v. i. - To form into a cake, or mass.
- v. i. - To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
- v. i. - To cackle as a goose.
Referring Clues
- Candle holder
- Party centerpiece
- It may be tiered
- Order for a party caterer
- Decorator's base
- Bake sale order
- Set
- It may be upside-down
- Word that can follow the end of 16-, 22-, 31-, 40-, 45- or 56-Across
- Wedding reception centerpiece
- Word that can follow the ends of 17-, 31-, 38-, 50- and 64-Across
- Word that can follow either half of 17-, 25-, 37-, 52- or 62-Across
- Birthday order
- Piece of soap
- Birthday dessert
- Base for some decorations
- Part of a birthday celebration
- Stick together
- Solidify
- Birthday tradition
- Baba au rhum, e.g.
- Wedding dessert
- Bakery buy for a birthday
- Marie Antoinette's dessert?
- Soap piece
- Birthday bakery buy
- Bakery staple
- Harden
- Pastry chef's creation
- Soap unit
- Bake sale item
- Dessert often layered
- Dessert slice
- Wedding reception piece
- Soap shape
- Birthday-party dessert
- "Upside-down" dessert
- Wedding reception sight
- Wedding planner's concern
- Birthday party staple
- Birthday party centerpiece
- Birthday staple
- It tiered up at the wedding?
- Wonderland food for Alice
- Birthday treat
- Doughnut variety
- Last course, often
- Birthday slice
- ___ and 10-Down
- Food for angels or devils?
- Soap bar
- Wedding reception need
- Baba or babka
- Encrust
- Word after pound or patty
- "Upside-down" dessert
- Upside-down, e.g.
- Dessert
- Matrimonial _________
- Common dessert
- Bakery order
- Slice at a party
- Candle holder, perhaps
- Birthday highlight
- Wedding fixture
- Birthday party highlight
- Bakery buy
- Birthday party must-have
- Birthday party necessity
- Dessert choice
- Birthday party must
- Birthday party treat
- Become clumped
- Hunk of soap
- Birthday party essential
- Sweet treat
- Ending with tea or cup
- Part of many an anniversary celebration
- Torte or gateau
- With 58-Across, bakery container
- Clump up
- -
- Wedding staple
- Baked dessert
- Torte, e.g.
- Dessert cart choice
- Decorator's target
- Staple at a wedding reception
- Dessert with icing
- Bar in a shower
- Torte
- Target of icing
- It might be upside-down
- Food to celebrate with
- Wedding tradition
- Birthday party feature
- Bake sale staple
- Wedding reception eye-catcher
- Bake sale buy
- Anniversary item
- Oft-layered item
- Word before walk or mix
- One might say "Happy Birthday"
- "Let them eat ___"
- Celebratory candle holder
- A stripper may jump out of one
- Band that redid "I Will Survive"
- "Let them eat --"
- Birthday ___
- "Motorcade of Generosity" band
- Blue Velvet, for one
- Gateau
- Birthday expectation
- What John and Yoko cut in '69
- It's easy to rouse Irish port, according to Spooner
- Bar opening trap
- Brownie, say, might follow 1
- Marie Antoinette's solution to 8
- Might it taste of soap?
- Angelica kept as cover for this?
- Dundee, Madeira, Christmas or birthday?
- An easy piece?
- Item of food or soap
- Sweet baked pastry
- Something from Dundee, Eccles or Madeira?
- Dessert item
- Patisserie product
- Party treat
- "___ by the Ocean" (platinum single of 2016)
- Bath soap or sponge?
- See 25
- #5
- Form of yeast
- Tasty dessert
- Dessert that has frosting
- Word after cream or crumb
- Bake-Off contest entry, perhaps
- It tiers up at weddings
- Sweet thing in bar
- Birthday food
- See 5-Across
- Devil's food ___
- It's iced and sliced
- Piece of ___
- Hunger remedy wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette
- Birthday party need
- Once-a-year candle holder
- What mud can do
- Traditional wedding serving
- Sponge
- Yeast unit
- Wedding reception staple
- Bar of soap
- It's food, clot!
- "Pineapple upside-down" dessert
- One may be topped with numbers or figures
- What you can't have and eat, too, it's said
- Project for a pastry chef
- Big order for a wedding reception
- Word that can follow either half of the answers to the starred clues
- Birthday candle holder
- Dessert that may be topped with two brides
- Birthday indulgence
- It may be iced for a happy birthday party
- Chocolaty or carroty treat
- Sweet thing on your birthday
- "Well, that takes the ___!"
- Celebratory slice
- One of those easy pieces?
- Dessert that might be upside-down
- Word following "birthday" or "rainbow"
- Might it taste of soap?
- Birthday cut-up?
- Order for a birthday party or wedding reception
- Word with round or pound
- Gooey butter ___ (rich dessert)
- An easy piece?
- "Marble" dessert
- Iced dessert
- Red velvet dessert
- Soap form
- What sfouf is, in Lebanese cuisine
- Word with sponge or fish
Last Seen In
- New York Times - January 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 15, 2025
- New York Times - December 08, 2025
- New York Times - November 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 13, 2025
- Daily American - September 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 07, 2025
- New York Times - May 09, 2025
- Daily American - May 01, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 04, 2025
- LA Times - January 22, 2025
- Family Time - October 20, 2024
- Family Time - October 14, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 31, 2024
- Mirror Mini - June 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 28, 2024
- LA Times - March 19, 2024
- USA Today - February 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 31, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 23, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 18, 2023
- Daily American - September 20, 2023
- LA Times - August 23, 2023
- USA Today - July 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 04, 2023
- Mirror Mini - June 16, 2023
- New York Times - June 10, 2023
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