Clues for the word "DUST"
We've had 165 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 234 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on December 30, 2025.
Definition of dust
- n. - Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
- n. - A single particle of earth or other matter.
- n. - The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
- n. - The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- n. - Figuratively, a worthless thing.
- n. - Figuratively, a low or mean condition.
- n. - Gold dust
- n. - Coined money; cash.
- v. t. - To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.
- v. t. - To sprinkle with dust.
- v. t. - To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
Referring Clues
- Problem for Sneezy?
- Run a cloth over
- Do some housework
- Composition of some clouds
- Do some housecleaning
- Sneeze inducer
- It looks bad on the surface
- It settles indoors
- Saw stuff?
- Bite this and die
- Do some cleaning
- Check for fingerprints
- Indoor settler
- Do some light housekeeping
- Word with bin or mop
- Clean the furniture
- Exemplar of dryness
- Look for fingerprints
- Common allergen
- Do some light house cleaning
- "Bunnies" under the bed
- Do some light housework
- Dry mop's target
- Furniture buildup
- Bunny makeup?
- Do a housekeeping chore
- Bookshelf buildup
- Housekeeper's bane
- Bunny bits?
- Sprinkle, as with sugar
- Motes
- Check for prints
- Look for prints
- Sprinkle, as with flour
- Fine powder
- Do a household chore
- Use a dry mop
- Neatnik's bane
- Bunnies under the bed?
- Process for fingerprints
- Bunnies under the bed
- Sign of poor housekeeping
- Collection in the attic
- Pledge target
- Common settler
- Make clean ... or dirty
- Common settler?
- Its something to sneeze at
- Housekeeper's quarry
- Pixie powder
- Objects may collect it; people, probably less often
- ______ storm
- Housekeeper's concern
- Allergy trigger, often
- "Heat and ___" ('83 film)
- Make dirty ... or clean
- Furniture buildup
- Attic collection
- Maid's target
- Dirt
- White-glove discovery
- White-glove find
- Maid's concern
- Do a bit of housework
- Powder
- Particles in some storms
- Frequent settler
- Gold deposit
- Powdery residue
- Debris
- White-glove detection
- Tidy up, in a way
- Attic buildup
- Attic accumulation
- Wipe the woodwork
- Air particles
- What collections might collect
- Sign of neglect
- Settler in the attic
- Protect the crops
- Do some housekeeping
- Furniture collection?
- Clean with a rag
- Pick up fingerprints
- Polish furniture
- Fine, dry particles
- Clean with Pledge
- Covering on attic items
- Do a housekeeping job
- Household dirt
- Clean furniture
- '96 Screaming Trees album
- It's "in the Wind" to Kansas
- "Another One Bites the ___"
- Powdery material blown about in the air
- Hoffman not at home to clean
- Stud (anag)
- See 24
- We come to it, getting up for a row
- Powdery matter
- Form of gold used in industry
- Clean - dirt
- 21 bite it
- Do a cleaning job for gold, perhaps
- See 25
- Gold, maybe, from Hindustan
- Powdered dirt
- Tiny particles of dirt, skin flakes etc
- What we all come to
- Fine particles
- Do some housework - we all come to it!
- *Particles in a storm called a haboob
- ... and, after a 1 across, Springfield to suffer fool badly
- See 2
- It becomes us all and, ungrammatically, on the contrary!
- See 27
- Stuff collected in an attic
- Sign of disuse
- Sprinkle
- Clean with a Swiffer
- Use a Swiffer, say
- Clean
- Small specks
- Much of the lunar surface
- Prep to find fingerprints
- Diamond-cutting debris
- Possibly gold stud?
- Do a chore
- Surface collection
- Powdery dirt
- Fine dirt
- Wipe clean, as furniture
- Ashes
- The earth, ground
- If gold, you wouldn't bin it
- Stuff that settles
- Do a little tidying
- Shelf accumulation
- Household accumulation
- Word before "bunny" or "devil"
- Airborne soil
- Vacant shelf's accumulation
- Robert who was the subject of the 2003 true crime book "A Deadly Secret"
- Cover lightly, as snow
- Tidy up a bit
- The earth
- Tidy up ... or make less tidy
- It settles on furniture
- Word before "bunny" or "jacket"
- Roomba target
- Earth particles
- Powder that might cause a sneeze
- Makeup of some "bunnies"
- Gold, perhaps, as used in industry?
- "Bunnies" under a bed
- Storm cloud?
- Allergy trigger in an attic
- Clean with a feathery wand
- ___ bunny
- Fine particles of matter
- Old book collection?
- Sneeze trigger, often
- Debris that can form into "bunnies"
- Clean up, in a way
- Dry mop target
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - December 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 26, 2025
- New York Times - September 29, 2025
- Daily American - August 20, 2025
- LA Times - June 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 15, 2025
- New York Times - January 24, 2025
- USA Today - January 03, 2025
- LA Times - December 25, 2024
- LA Times - December 05, 2024
- LA Times - October 12, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 25, 2024
- Daily American - September 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 01, 2024
- Daily American - April 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 12, 2024
- Family Time - March 04, 2024
- New York Times - February 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 08, 2023
- LA Times - October 20, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 03, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 31, 2023
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