Clues for the word "ELABORATE"
We've had 55 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 67 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on May 24, 2026.
Definition of elaborate
- a. - Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
- v. t. - To produce with labor
- v. t. - To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
Referring Clues
- Involved
- Baroque
- Quite complicated
- Better able to speak, add details (9)
- Go on
- Complex
- Add details
- Very detailed
- Rich in detail
- Byzantine
- Give details
- Develop to perfection
- Provide further detail
- Intricate
- Go into detail
- Worked out with great care
- Amplify
- Full of bells and whistles
- Give all the details
- Highly detailed
- Like lavish show
- Freely able to speak with added detail
- Extravagant garnish
- Worry about work in America and Spain being complicated
- English tea break keeps US workers involved
- Ed cut party talk that's complex
- Package returned, give address with added detail
- Unusually able to speak in great detail
- To be a real problem, go into detail
- Complicated to work out
- The Spanish sailor's nil charge is complex(9)
- Package turned up, given address with added detail
- Not at all simple to work out
- Is it eatable or for cooking? Tell me more
- Fancy brewing a beer? A lot!
- Detailed discourse follows return of package
- Ostentatious cheer when wild boar is captured
- Unexpectedly able to speak in a flowery style
- Embellish (the truth)
- Are round table members complicated?
- Fancy backpack with zero charge
- Fancy the parcel being returned with zero charge!
- After rough treatment, are able to give more information
- Revolutionary Basques steal beer? Fancy!
- Doctors are able to add more information
- East wind featuring in rum tale that's involved
- Complicated? Present in further detail
- Develop complex
- Complex lecture by the Spanish sailor
- Expand on complex
- Fancy getting flesh out
- European Union abandoning work worried complex
- "Say more, please"
- "I need more"
- Tell us more about how intricate it is?
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - May 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - October 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 04, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 29, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 14, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 06, 2023
- Your Life Choices - April 11, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - July 15, 2022
- Mirror Daily - June 26, 2022
- Mirror Daily - November 23, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - November 07, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - July 16, 2017
- Your Life Choices - July 05, 2017
- Guardian Quick - May 24, 2017
- Rock n Roll Crossword - April 23, 2017
- Mirror Daily - March 13, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - February 20, 2017
- USA Today - February 20, 2017
- Mirror Daily - November 23, 2016
- LA Times - April 30, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - April 25, 2016
- Mirror Daily - March 13, 2016
- Guardian Prize - August 01, 2015
- Netword - July 02, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - March 03, 2015
- And in 37 more crossword puzzles...