Clues for the word "CREAM"
We've had 169 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 346 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 27, 2026.
Definition of cream
- n. - The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
- n. - The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
- n. - A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
- n. - A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
- n. - The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.
- v. t. - To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- v. t. - To take off the best or choicest part of.
- v. t. - To furnish with, or as with, cream.
- v. i. - To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.
Referring Clues
- Best
- Give a shellacking
- Half-and-half half
- Best part
- Coffee lightener
- Cat's saucerful
- It can follow the first word of 17- and 58-Across and 11- and 28-Down
- It's skimmed off the top
- Drub
- Defeat elite (5)
- Best by far
- Alfredo sauce ingredient
- ___ of mushroom soup
- It rises to the top
- Old Eric Clapton band
- Defeat decisively
- Choice part
- Ivory
- Shellac
- Coffee mate
- Beat by a lot
- Dairy aisle buy
- Trounce
- What Coffee-Mate imitates
- Alfredo ingredient
- Dairy product
- Skin application
- Coffee add-in
- Half of half-and-half
- Off-white shade
- Off-white
- Milk byproduct
- Beat badly
- Clapton, Baker and Bruce
- Coffee additive
- Half-and-half portion
- "White Room" rock group
- Coffee bar offering
- Moisturizer, perhaps
- Elite
- Elite
- Slaughter
- Dairy farm output
- Dairy farm output
- Skim milk's lack
- Treat for Tabby
- Coffee enhancer
- Coffee addition
- Lobster Newburg ingredient
- Stationery shade
- Paint color
- Main ingredient of butter, often
- Additive to coffee
- Single for Prince in 1991 and Wu-Tang Clan in 1994
- Sauce finisher, often
- Coffee enhancement
- Whip ... or something that can be whipped
- "Sunshine of your Love" group
- Dairy department item
- Neutral paint color
- Peaches go-with
- Best of anything
- ___ of the crop
- Sweet filling
- White shade
- Relative of ecru
- Elite group
- It may be sour
- Best of the best
- Beat soundly
- Coffee go-with, sometimes
- Beat handily
- Rich milk
- ___ of mushroom soup
- The best stuff is packed with energy
- Coffeehouse freebie
- Prince hit
- Top of the milk?
- Jack, Ginger, Eric
- Eric Clapton band
- Baker, Bruce and Clapton
- Jack, Ginger and 37-Down
- The best Religious Education received in academic stream
- Terrific comic, not second best
- Worry, dropping a maiden's cosmetic
- The best (of the milk?)
- Colour of the flower
- See a lot of paper as slightly yellowish
- Finest 50,000 sheets of paper in modern terms
- Best colour?
- The very best kind of sherry?
- Top of milk
- Butterfat part of milk
- Flower colour!
- Top of milk or society
- See 16
- 25's not PM after leading close run election
- Best sheets about to be put on
- Best - ointment
- Filling for a doughnut
- Scone topping
- Pulverize
- Peaches & ___
- Best, ___ of the crop
- Irish Coffee topping
- The best stuff available around the East
- Pack a quarter in of the very best
- The best of
- The best ointment
- Drug in pack of dairy product
- Stuff round end of meringue?
- Stuff round end of profiterole?
- See 12
- See 9
- Off-white stuff, single or double ultimately consumed
- Best group Way Back in the 1960s
- Top of the milk
- ___ and sugar (coffee additives)
- Smash
- Crush
- It's "of the crop"
- Strawberry topper
- Yellowish-white colour
- Destroy, as an opponent
- Vichyssoise ingredient
- Pick a dairy product
- Word with "cold" or "ice"
- ... best - care for a trip to McDonald's?
- Being the best, is typically topping
- Earl tucked into stuff that's served with strawberries
- The best
- Something whipped for dessert
- Do you see a lot of paper this colour?
- Wrinkle treatment
- Donut filling
- A yellowish-white
- Dessert topping
- Word after "heavy" or "sour"
- Word before sauce or soda
- "___ or sugar?"
- Addition to coffee
- Demolish in competition
- Shade named for a dairy product
- Coffee shop offering
- Skincare aid
- Defeat soundly
- Destroy
- Many a pack of paper is not exactly white
- Whipped ___
- Milk topper
- Eclair filling
- Band with the first platinum-selling double album
- Twinkie filling
- Best colour?
- Milky coffee add-in
- Sour or whipped ingredient
- Skin care product
- Pummel
- Colour of many a quantity of paper
- Moisturizer form
- Best colour for the topcoat?
- Peaches and ___
- Just the colour for the top coat?
- 24-Down soother
- Bailey's Irish ___
- Best colour for the top coat?
- Mix, as butter and sugar
- ___ of tartar
- Gel alternative
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 27, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 14, 2026
- Daily American - December 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 08, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 21, 2025
- Daily American - August 18, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 08, 2025
- LA Times - March 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 29, 2024
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