Clues for the word "CREOSOTE"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 25 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of creosote
- n. - Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.
- v. t. - To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.
Referring Clues
- Chimney wall deposit
- Coat on a tie
- Wood preservative
- Flue deposit
- Flue residue
- Wood perservative
- Piling coating
- Tucson shrub
- Chimney cleaner's target
- Oily wood preservative
- Wood preserver made from coal tar
- Oil broken-down scooter with last of lube
- Oily liquid for preserving timber
- Wood preserver
- Protector of wood that's vast and old in part of Greece
- Oily liquid makes engine start in faulty scooter
- ... Tarry - stuff could be in the post
- Liquid wood preservative
- Coat on a tie?
- Spray trees with carbon dioxide as a wood preservative
- Preservative Rose spilled in shelter
- A wood preservative Rose applied in shelter
- Island holds nothing so useful for preservation
- Legendary bull's home pumped with oxygen thus, as preservative
- Fence preservative
- Black liquid, supplied by Native American, old drunk swallowed
- Flue buildup
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - December 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 02, 2023
- Guardian Cryptic - May 12, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - May 12, 2017
- LA Times - July 27, 2016
- Guardian Quiptic - September 21, 2015
- Guardian Quick - August 19, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - January 21, 2015
- LA Times Sunday - December 07, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 25, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - February 10, 2014
- Guardian Quick - September 28, 2013
- LA Times - February 17, 2013
- Guardian Quick - January 21, 2013
- Guardian Everyman - November 18, 2012
- Guardian Quick - April 08, 2012
- Chronicle of Higher Education - November 04, 2011
- LA Times - November 12, 2010
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 13, 2010
- New York Sun - January 05, 2007
- Guardian Quick - January 11, 2006
- Guardian Everyman - February 13, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - October 10, 2002
- Washington Post - November 05, 2000