Clues for the word "CANVAS"
We've had 53 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 77 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 18, 2026.
Definition of canvas
- n. - A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
- n. - A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
- n. - A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.
- n. - Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.
- n. - A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
- a. - Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.
Referring Clues
- Bottom of a ring
- Atelier item
- Sail material
- 9-Down material
- Painting
- Wood work
- John Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence," e.g.
- Painting surface
- Sparring surface
- Boxing surface
- Sailcloth
- Painter's backdrop
- Wall, to a muralist
- Painter's target
- Tent fabric
- Oil painting
- Sail makeup
- Sail makeup
- Painter's surface
- Painting backing
- Fabric of sails
- Fabric for sails
- Artist's fabric
- Wrestling surface
- Artist's surface
- Ring material
- Art store buy
- Tarpaulin
- Tent material
- Start for some art
- Portrait painter's surface
- Heavy cloth
- Blank sheet of paper?
- Cloth used for tents, sails etc
- Heavy cloth for sails
- Tents
- Is able to get five to like the artist's work
- Tent-cloth
- Artist's cloth
- Sail-cloth
- Coarse cloth
- Campaign endlessly for painting
- Cloth (small) removed from doorstep
- Heavy cloth of sails, tents etc
- Coarse cloth for sails, tents etc
- Cloth for painting etc
- Painting - sails
- Heavy material of cotton, hemp or jute
- Preserve Virginia's painting
- Preserve most of immense painting
- With "the," what a boxer doesn't want to hit?
- Cloth
- Tote bag material
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 18, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - August 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - June 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 20, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 12, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 07, 2022
- Daily Quick - June 08, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - November 14, 2017
- Universal - September 03, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - August 28, 2017
- Mirror Quick - August 25, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - May 22, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - April 20, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - April 16, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 13, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 22, 2017
- Netword - December 05, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 22, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - September 01, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 26, 2016
- Guardian Speedy - July 31, 2016
- Guardian Quiptic - June 06, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - October 29, 2015
- And in 47 more crossword puzzles...