Clues for the word "CARVE"
We've had 91 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 112 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 31, 2025.
Definition of carve
- v. t. - To cut.
- v. t. - To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
- v. t. - To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.
- v. t. - To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
- v. t. - To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
- v. t. - To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- v. t. - To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- v. i. - To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
- v. i. - To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
- n. - A carucate.
Referring Clues
- Perform a Thanksgiving task
- Work on a pumpkin, perhaps
- Do a Thanksgiving chore
- Cut up
- Sculpt
- Work with soap or ice
- Start on the Thanksgiving turkey
- Craft a totem pole, e.g.
- Cut, as a turkey
- Cut into slices
- Make a bust?
- Have turkey-serving duty, say
- Cut the bull?
- Do intaglio, e.g.
- Slice
- Officiate at Thanksgiving
- Work on the turkey
- Create, as a jack-o'-lantern
- Slice, as a turkey
- Do the honors on Thanksgiving
- Do the honors at Thanksgiving
- Whittle while you work?
- Do a holiday chore
- Slice up, as a turkey
- Make a cameo
- Cut with precision
- Tend a turkey
- Get ready to have a bird?
- Work with jade
- Officiate on Thanksgiving
- Transform for Halloween, as a pumpkin
- Do a whittle work
- Do the honors
- Cut to pieces
- Chisel
- Make jack-o'-lanterns
- Work on a totem pole
- Cut into pieces
- Do the honors, at dinner
- Prepare a jack-o'-lantern
- Create, as a canyon
- Rough-hew
- Do a Thanksgiving duty
- Cut the turkey
- Use a pocketknife, perhaps
- Slice a turkey
- Cut, as a pumpkin
- Do sculpting
- Do the honors at a roast
- Slice up a turkey
- Work on a turkey or pumpkin
- Turn into a jack-o'-lantern
- Get to the turkey
- Cut, as a piece of turkey
- Do a Thanksgiving job
- Slice meat
- Cut
- Cut number in custody
- Slice the turkey with five in mind?
- Cut (meat)
- Number feel concern about cut
- Slice, as a Thanksgiving turkey
- Cut right into hole underground
- Do a Thanksgiving dinner job
- Showing concern without opposing cut
- Five in mixed race group are cut up
- Slice a joint
- Have a cameo role?
- Cut right in middle of grotto
- Work on one's whittling
- Do scrimshaw, say
- Whittle
- Cut thinly
- Cut cooked meat into slices
- Determine what the joint share-out will be
- Create jack-o'-lanterns
- Cut meat into slices
- Do the Thanksgiving honors
- Do the honors with the turkey
- Etch
- Sculpt the figure you have in mind
- Sculpt the figure, taking pains about it
- Make a jack-o'-lantern, say
- Create for oneself, with "out"
- The figure you have in mind to sculpt
- Pumpkin verb
- Slice the turkey
- Turn a pumpkin into a jack-o'-lantern
- Cut like a Thanksgiving turkey
- Slice, like a turkey
- Create a totem pole
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 18, 2025
- USA Today - February 15, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 31, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 04, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 09, 2024
- USA Today - December 07, 2023
- USA Today - November 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 15, 2023
- USA Today - January 13, 2023
- USA Today - October 07, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 29, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - January 24, 2018
- Mirror Quick - November 29, 2017
- USA Today - November 24, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - October 28, 2017
- Mirror Quick - September 01, 2017
- New York Times - August 09, 2017
- Guardian Quick - May 20, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 31, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 05, 2016
- USA Today - November 23, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 06, 2016
- Guardian Quick - August 13, 2016
- And in 82 more crossword puzzles...