Clues for the word "EKING"
We've had 64 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 119 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on September 16, 2025.
Definition of eking
- p. pr. & vb. n. - of Eke
- v. t. - A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.
- v. t. - The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.
Referring Clues
- Making (out)
- Barely making, with "out"
- Squeezing (out)
- Managing, with "out"
- Barely maintaining, with "out"
- Barely managing, with "out"
- Stretching (out)
- Scratching (out)
- Scratching (out), as a living
- Barely getting by, with "out"
- Barely making (out)
- Just managing, with "out"
- Barely managing (with "out")
- Barely making (with "out")
- Getting with great strain (with "out")
- Barely managing (with "out")
- ___ out a living (making do)
- ___ out (barely coping)
- ___ out a living (barely making do)
- ___ by (just managing)
- ___ out (barely achieving)
- ___ out an existence (scraping by)
- Making ends meet
- ___ out (achieving with difficulty)
- Being very thrifty
- Barely making (with "out")
- Getting with great strain (with "out")
- Barely scraping by
- ___ out a living
- ___ out (supplementing)
- Supplementing, with 'out'
- Just managing, with 'out'
- ___ out (barely managing)
- Scraping along
- Barely making it (with "out")
- Just managing (with "out")
- Barely acquiring, with "out"
- ___ by (just getting by)
- out a living
- Squeezing
- Scraping (by)
- Making do, barely
- Augmenting, old-style
- Struggling to earn, with 'out'
- Just making, with "out"
- Getting by, with "out"
- ___ out (managing)
- Having fired leader, former capital's spreading out
- Spinning out a letter to the monarch
- Making it go round Eastern monarch
- Just managing, ___ out a living
- Providing supplement for family inside, for example
- Squeaking by
- Barely earning (with "out")
- ___ out a living (barely managing)
- Lengthening a letter to the monarch
- ___ out a living (barely scraping by)
- ___ out a living (just getting by)
- Barely managing, with "by"
- Scraping (out)
- Spinning out half a week in Gateshead
- ___ by (just barely making it)
- ___ by (just making do)
- Squeezing (by)
Last Seen In
- New York Times - September 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 09, 2025
- LA Times - December 22, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 18, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 19, 2023
- New York Times - July 23, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - July 22, 2023
- USA Today - January 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 23, 2022
- USA Today - August 15, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 11, 2022
- New York Times - July 28, 2022
- Netword - January 30, 2018
- LA Times - November 23, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - September 24, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - July 31, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 16, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 04, 2017
- New York Times - April 29, 2017
- Universal - March 13, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - March 01, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 30, 2016
- Netword - November 24, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 09, 2016
- Universal - July 16, 2016
- LA Times Sunday - July 03, 2016
- New York Times - June 28, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 24, 2016
- USA Today - February 01, 2016
- New York Times - January 23, 2016
- And in 89 more crossword puzzles...