Clues for the word "CAUSTIC"
We've had 29 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 30 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on September 29, 2022.
Definition of caustic
- a. - Alt. of Caustical
- a. - Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- a. - A caustic curve or caustic surface.
Referring Clues
- Acid
- Tart
- Hardly conciliatory
- Biting
- Having a bite
- Scathing
- Severely critical
- Like Don Rickles
- Having many barbs
- Corrosive
- Like a sharp sense of humor
- Acid, as criticism
- Harsh or corrosive in tone
- Like some corrosives
- Trivium "___ Are the Ties That Bind"
- Bitter
- A cut is nasty, cut initially stinging
- Able to burn - cutting
- Burning - cutting
- Corrosive - cutting
- Bitter little element cuts one badly
- Stinging bill rises and is cut, perhaps
- Corrosive agent, ___ soda
- Sarcastic, cutting
- Biting, as humor
- Like Don Rickles' humor
- Scathingly sarcastic
- Biting, sarcastic
- Incisively sarcastic
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - September 29, 2022
- Your Life Choices - August 11, 2022
- LA Times - October 21, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - May 31, 2017
- Universal - May 24, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - October 25, 2016
- Guardian Quick - June 03, 2016
- New York Times - August 24, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 21, 2015
- Rock n Roll Crossword - July 12, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - June 27, 2014
- Guardian Quick - May 09, 2014
- USA Today - February 20, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 02, 2013
- Jonesin - March 26, 2013
- Guardian Quick - October 23, 2012
- Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2012
- Wall Street Journal - March 02, 2012
- USA Today - January 30, 2012
- Post Puzzler - January 16, 2011
- Guardian Quick - July 06, 2010
- New York Times - June 06, 2010
- Guardian Quick - November 15, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - October 13, 2009
- Guardian Quick - June 07, 2009
- New York Times - June 06, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - May 26, 2008
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 29, 2007
- LA Times - April 14, 2007
- Washington Post - May 14, 2006