Clues for the word "COTTON"
We've had 73 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 81 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 05, 2025.
Definition of cotton
- n. - A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
- n. - The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
- n. - Cloth made of cotton.
- v. i. - To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
- v. i. - To go on prosperously; to succeed.
- v. i. - To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
- v. i. - To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
Referring Clues
- OPRAH
- T-shirt material
- Onetime Southern "king"
- Like, with "to"
- Word with gin or candy
- Big crop in the South
- King of the old South
- "King" crop
- Tee-shirt material
- Natural fabric
- Ginned product
- Brief composition?
- Kind of candy
- T-shirt fabric
- Plantation crop
- Plantation crop
- Textile
- Calico material
- Denim, e.g.
- Joseph of "Citizen Kane"
- Futon filling
- Futon filler
- Word before boll or Bowl
- Preacher Mather
- Word with "gin" or "candy"
- Weevil's target
- Weevils target
- Lightweight, cool material
- Common undershirt material
- ___ State (Alabama's nickname)
- Soft substance
- Boll contents
- ___ candy (sweet carnival treat)
- Many t-shirts are made from it
- Material for some shirts
- Material
- Caught German with new material
- Substance like fine wool
- Natural fibre
- Would such sheets seem very heavy on the bed?
- Cloth made from fine hairs of seed pod
- Fibre from plant
- Bed not turned, but the sheets may be
- It's on twig?
- Material ridiculous in blue
- Soft white downy fibre
- Work of slaves, damned
- Material exaggerated, gatecrashing party
- See 1
- Fabric in small bed with weight
- Plant for spinner and golfer
- See 12 across
- Feeding kid, too much material (with a mouth for 23)
- Bed time with touching yarn
- Baby's bed needing heavyweight fabric
- Fabric you take a liking to
- Plantation product
- Not to get caught up with the thread
- Q-tip material
- Word with boll or Bowl
- Tee fabric
- Fabric
- The firm to race ahead with a textile product
- It's bed-time - get on with the yarn
- Gin product
- The stuff is not to be taken up to bed
- Southern crop
- Word with candy or ball
- Henry has not gone back to bed
- Would such sheets seem very heavy on the bed?
- "The fabric of our lives," per an ad slogan
- Second wedding anniversary material
- Part of many a linen blend
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 05, 2025
- LA Times - July 16, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 26, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 15, 2024
- LA Times - July 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 23, 2024
- LA Times - April 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 02, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 13, 2024
- LA Times - November 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 21, 2023
- Daily Quick - March 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 17, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 26, 2022
- Daily Quick - October 15, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 11, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 29, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 01, 2022
- New York Times - December 23, 2021
- Evening Standard Easy - January 18, 2018
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 30, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 30, 2017
- Guardian Quick - August 14, 2017
- New York Times - August 06, 2017
- Guardian Weekend - July 08, 2017
- Universal - April 09, 2017
- Daily Quick - March 31, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 12, 2017
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