Clues for the word "EBONY"
We've had 154 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 374 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 18, 2026.
Definition of ebony
- n. - A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
- a. - Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
Referring Clues
- Black
- Wood from India and Sri Lanka
- Like some piano keys
- Key material
- Key color
- Tropical wood
- Black, on a piano
- Companion magazine to Jet
- Carving medium
- Hard wood
- Chicago-based monthly since 1945
- ___ Awards (annual prizes for African-American achievement)
- Jet black
- Durable wood
- Piano key wood
- Sister magazine of Jet
- Key shade
- Chicago-based magazine with one-million-plus circulation
- Like 36 piano keys
- Violin fingerboard wood
- Black wood
- Dark hardwood
- Dark wood
- Dark black hardwood
- Magazine with an African-American audience
- Ivory companion, in song
- Wood that sinks in water
- Heavy black wood
- Deep, lustrous black
- Cabinet wood
- Key stuff
- Black board
- Piano key material
- Black key material
- Heavy wood
- "___ and Ivory" (#1 hit of 1982)
- Deep black
- Ivory's partner, in song
- Tree with black wood
- Ornamental wood
- Piano-key material
- Black hardwood
- Violin peg material
- Piano-key wood
- Black-key material
- Ivory's counterpart
- "___ and Ivory"
- Key wood
- Dark-colored heartwood
- "___ and Ivory"
- Cherished wood
- Durable dark wood
- Jet rival
- Ivory neighbor?
- Wood for black piano keys, once
- Fine wood
- Dark black wood
- Wood for black piano keys
- Furniture wood
- Sharp or flat material
- "___ and Ivory" (McCartney/Wonder song)
- Certain wood
- Black board?
- Key component
- Ivory partner
- Wood for 36 keys
- Sri Lankan export
- Black piano key material
- Dense black wood
- Paint color
- Wood so dense it doesn't float
- Jet-black
- Like flats on a piano
- Magazine that has celebrated "Black Cool"
- Keyboard wood
- Tropical tree
- Noted magazine since 1945
- Black shade
- Lustrous black
- Magazine with Barack and Michelle Obama on a 2007 cover with the caption "America's Next First Couple?"
- African sculpture material
- Monthly magazine
- Metaphorical title word in a McCartney-Wonder hit
- Dark wood that sinks in water
- Fine furniture wood
- Hard, dark wood
- Popular magazine
- Dark wood from Ceylon
- Material for some keys
- Magazine first published in 1945
- Partner with ivory
- Ivory's opposite
- Wood from Ceylon
- What "ivory" lives with in perfect harmony
- Goes with "Ivory," to McCartney/Wonder
- Hard dark-coloured wood
- Hard, black wood
- Very dark black
- Wood - Boyne (anag)
- Timber reordered by one
- It's not easily carved by one in a confused state
- Wood has award sent back to New York
- Magazine since 1945
- Boyne (anag)
- Wood is damaged by one
- Heavy hard wood, usually black
- Hard wood used for black piano keys and in cabinetwork
- Bearing spare wood
- Inky black
- Wood with bad smell in East New York
- Very dark wood
- English hardwood
- Be up to working with young wood
- Joanna Blackwood?
- Point to thin hardwood
- Waistline finally slim and dark ...
- Dense hardwood
- Like 36 piano keys, traditionally
- Material for some keys turned by one
- Wood may be damaged by one
- U-turn from ivory
- Magazine that featured "Black Panther" star Danai Gurira on its June 2018 cover
- Bone damaged by unknown in a dark wood
- Dense wood
- Dark, durable wood
- Former England cricketer and current Test Match Special pundit
- Traditional black piano key wood
- Fine black wood
- "___ and Ivory" (Wonder-McCartney song)
- Ivory's partner, on a keyboard
- Black 58-Down
- Hardwood known for its dark grain
- Opposite of ivory
- Magazine that named Barack Obama its first-ever Person of the Year (2009)
- A dense black hardwood known for being more dense than water
- Black key wood, traditionally
- Very dark, sometimes black, wood
- Magazine celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2020
- Magazine focused on African-American culture
- Wood for old piano keys
- Ivory's partner
- Magazine that has had Lena Horne and Michelle Obama on its cover
- Wood
- Traditional piano key wood
- Magazine with a Power 100 list
- Magazine whose 60th anniversary issue had the cover line "Denzel, Halle & Jamie"
- Hard, heavy wood
- Wood for piano keys, once
- Sister publication of Jet magazine
- Wood in old piano keys
- Publication with an annual "Power 100" list
- Magazine whose archive was purchased by a consortium that includes the Smithsonian
- Part of some musical keys
- Piano key wood, traditionally
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 29, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 02, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 31, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 15, 2025
- Daily American - October 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 02, 2025
- New York Times - September 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 20, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 28, 2025
- Mirror Mini - June 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 04, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 16, 2025
- Daily American - March 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 12, 2025
- LA Times - March 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 13, 2025
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