Clues for the word "EGGPLANT"
We've had 25 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 27 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 16, 2024.
Definition of eggplant
- n. - A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
Referring Clues
- Henhouse products don't grow on this
- Ratatouille ingredient
- Deep purple
- Purple shade
- Ratatouille requirement
- Aubergine
- Shade of purple
- Do its fruits have shells on?
- Fruit producer on a poultry-farm?
- Intensive poultry farm for veggies?
- Vegetable as Easter offering? It's a frame-up
- Tropical vegetable, say, design in high performance car
- Get Humpty Dumpty, perhaps, to sow a moussaka ingredient
- Encourage scheme to start trading in the vegetable
- East German girl initially found something to eat
- Nit cutting vegetable
- Aubergine in, say, good plot at end of allotment
- A vegetable in, for example, good plot close to quickset
- Say "good works producing fruit"
- In food production, does it compete with the chicken?
- Shade of deep purple
- Vegetable the greengrocer sells dozens of?
- Baba ghanoush ingredient
- Parmigiana choice
- Do its fruits have shells on?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 15, 2024
- LA Times - February 22, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 10, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 02, 2016
- Guardian Quick - January 06, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 06, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 06, 2014
- Wall Street Journal - September 20, 2013
- Universal - September 09, 2013
- Guardian Everyman - September 01, 2013
- USA Today - September 04, 2012
- Guardian Quick - March 30, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - June 07, 2011
- Guardian Quiptic - December 08, 2008
- Guardian Quiptic - November 10, 2008
- Guardian Prize - October 25, 2008
- Guardian Everyman - January 13, 2008
- Netword - October 20, 2007
- New York Times - April 28, 2007
- New York Sun - February 28, 2007
- Guardian Quiptic - November 28, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - May 05, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - July 30, 2004
- Guardian Everyman - February 08, 2004
- Guardian Cryptic - April 23, 2001
- New York Times - February 23, 2000