Clues for the word "CRUST"
We've had 81 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 114 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of crust
- n. - The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
- n. - The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
- n. - The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
- n. - The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.
- n. - The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
- n. - The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- n. - A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
- n. - An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
- n. - To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.
- v. i. - To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
Referring Clues
- Pizza feature
- Outer pie part
- Tart part
- Pie part
- The mashed potatoes on shepherd's pie
- Gall
- Earth layer
- Potpie part
- Crisp covering
- Hard cover
- Pizza perimeter
- Pizza part
- Pie edging
- Pumpernickel periphery
- Earth's outer layer
- Pie edge
- Bread border
- PB&J no-no, for some
- Bread end
- Piece of a pie
- It's rolled out at a patisserie
- Pie maker's pride
- PB no-no, for some
- Pizza portion
- Pizza's outer edge
- Sicilian pizza has a thick one
- Pizza dough
- Earth's outside
- Earth's lithosphere
- Pizza part often eaten last
- Sicilian border?
- Pie liner
- Piece of the pie
- Planetary layer
- Pie cover
- Piece of pizza?
- Pizza's perimeter
- Picky kid's peeling
- Edge of a bread slice
- Part of the earth
- Pizza's outer rim
- See 74-Down
- Pastry covering
- Audacity
- Weird Al: "Matter of ___"
- Sadist pizza song?
- Pizza base
- Sarcofago pizza song?
- See rust as the hard outer part
- Bread part
- Something hard to eat outside?
- A piece of the pie?
- Hard outer coating
- Mantle's cover
- Pie covering
- Topmost geological layer
- Surface about to corrode
- Hard exterior
- Leftover pizza part
- Shell
- Layer above the mantle
- Sometimes-uneaten pizza part
- Hard part of bread
- Pie shell
- Pizza pie part
- Hard outer part of bread
- Earth's outermost layer
- Pastry shell
- Credit us with a fast finish, though it's hard
- Dry bread
- Piece of the pie?
- Part of a pie or the earth
- Crispy pizza part
- Flaky part of a pie
- Feature of the inner planets
- It may be found above the mantle
- Pie feature
- Flaky quiche part
- Something hard to eat outside?
- Pizza's bottom layer
- Bread's edge
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - January 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 22, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - October 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 17, 2025
- Daily American - December 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 25, 2024
- USA Today - June 07, 2024
- New York Times - May 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 18, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 12, 2023
- USA Today - June 13, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 05, 2023
- LA Times - March 12, 2023
- Daily American - December 26, 2022
- LA Times - August 14, 2022
- New York Times - January 18, 2022
- New York Times - November 06, 2021
- Daily Quick - January 06, 2018
- USA Today - December 27, 2017
- New York Times - November 26, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 14, 2017
- Netword - August 21, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 06, 2017
- Daily Quick - May 17, 2017
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 14, 2017
- New York Times - April 23, 2017
- And in 84 more crossword puzzles...