Clues for the word "DENSE"
We've had 212 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 728 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 17, 2026.
Definition of dense
- a. - Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.
- a. - Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
Referring Clues
- Thick
- None too bright
- None too brainy
- Not too swift
- Thickheaded
- Impenetrable
- Crowded
- Packed tight
- Blockish
- Not the brightest bulb on the tree
- Doltish
- Unintelligent
- Blockheaded
- Short on sharpness
- Slow on the uptake
- Like osmium, more than any other known element
- Packed
- Hardly suited for Mensa
- Concentrated
- Not the sharpest pencil in the box
- Obtuse
- Not very sharp
- A few bricks shy of a load
- Not exactly a genius
- Like a rain forest
- Tightly packed
- Like pea soup fog
- Not the sharpest tack
- Crammed
- Thick as a brick
- Thickly populated
- Slow-witted
- Hard to penetrate
- Highly concentrated
- Hard to get through
- Jam-packed
- Hardly suited for 57-Across
- Hardly sparse
- Dull
- Slow to catch on
- Hard to get through to
- Not bright
- Not at all sharp
- Like heavy fog
- Like thickets
- Like some fog
- Hard to see through
- Not too bright
- Slow
- None too swift
- Heavy, as fog
- Thickly packed
- Really crammed in
- Closely compacted
- Closely crowded together
- Tough to get through to
- Slow to understand
- Not too astute
- Compact
- Far from 22-Down
- A little on the slow side
- Cement-headed
- Like a thicket
- Overgrown
- Very thick
- Like urban populations
- Crowded together
- Not sparse
- Tough to get through
- Stupid
- Like a dumbbell
- Not Mensa material
- Like a black hole
- Like depleted uranium
- Packed with ideas, as an essay
- Practically impenetrable
- None too smart
- Heavily populated
- Dimwitted
- Not the sharpest tool in the shed
- Packed tightly
- Thick, like fog
- No rocket scientist
- Not so swift on the uptake
- Compacted
- Not getting it
- Bubble-headed
- Like dunderheads
- Thick, as fog
- Like a copse
- Thick in a couple of ways
- Not very bright
- Like pea-soup fog
- A few fries short of a Happy Meal
- Like some populations
- Scarcely bright
- Packed in tight
- Like Archie's pal Moose
- Dumb as a box of rocks
- Like rain forests
- A few bits short of a byte
- A few players short of a team
- Like a neutron star
- Close-packed
- Like a blockhead
- Hard to hack a path through
- Thickset
- Unable to get it, say
- Crammed in
- Complex
- Like urban population
- Like a pea-soup fog
- Difficult to get through
- Not exactly Mensa material
- Populous
- Hard to see through, as fog
- Dumb as a rock
- Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree
- Closely packed
- Not too quick on the uptake
- Heavy for its size
- Like thick fog
- Tightly compressed
- Compact and tight together
- Solid
- Firm
- Firmly packed
- Really thick
- Heavy, like some baked goods
- Thick-headed
- Thick poles in river
- Knuckleheaded
- Guolaugur Ottarsson: "___ Time"
- Sold-out show
- Like thick audience
- Crowd at big show
- Like crowd at big show
- Thick crowd
- Like sold-out audience
- Like sold-out show crowd
- Like crowd during sold-out concert
- Thick - compact
- Obtuse - impenetrable
- To scatter seed around the end of Autumn is stupid!
- Thick scattering of seed around the end of the garden
- Thick part of a wooden seat
- However stupid, one can see that private rooms have a key
- Being thick, needs to change
- Not very bright, but studies English
- Thick wooded valley around the point
- Needs (anag)
- Several rooms with one key? Stupid!
- Not very bright - needs to be properly organised
- Like mercury
- None too quick on the uptake
- Having a high specific gravity
- Jammed
- Compressed
- Dim woman lacks ego
- Needs to be close
- Thick part of wooden seat
- Take bearing in English forest - it's impenetrable
- Study some outsiders crowded together
- Somehow needs to be firm
- Clobber needs to be packed
- Thick and tightly-packed
- Close knit
- Thick part of a garden seat
- Very compact
- Thick poles embedded in water
- No thin scattering of seed around the end of the garden
- A little slow on the uptake
- Heavy, as a fog
- Thick resident in sudden seizure
- Like platinum
- Thick scattering of seed round the end of the garden
- Needs reform, being stupid
- Crowded or tightly packed
- Highly populous
- Like matted growth from garden seed
- Closely clustered
- Well-populated
- Like flourless cakes
- Possibly needs to be thick
- Thick, in more ways than one
- Being stupid, needs revision
- "Infinite" descriptor of black holes
- Many possibly seen as stupid
- ___ fog
- Thick poles set in the river
- Dull part of a wooden seat
- Like some forests and fog
- Packed in like sardines
- Fog word
- Like a thick fog
- To scatter seed around the 1st of November is stupid
- Junglelike
- Fog modifier
- ___ fog advisory
- Like flourless cake
- Hard to get through ... or get through to
- Opposite of fluffy, for a cake
- Like dumbbells
- Pretty thick
- Like the element osmium
- Like flourless chocolate cake
- Mentally slow
- Like a thick jungle
- Like a complex report
- Like pound cake
- Rather thick
- Like tungsten
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 17, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 04, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 30, 2026
- New York Times - January 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 21, 2026
- Daily American - January 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 02, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2025
- Daily American - November 03, 2025
- New York Times - October 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 25, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 09, 2025
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