Clues for the word "ELUSIVE"
We've had 25 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 87 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of elusive
- a. - Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Referring Clues
- Hard to describe
- Hard to pin down
- Slippery
- Hard to get
- Hard to grasp
- Not easily caught
- Continually slipping away
- Hard to nail down
- Hard to catch
- Hard to define
- Difficult to grasp
- Hard to understand or identify
- Eely
- Difficult to find
- Shifty
- Evasive
- Difficult to catch
- Mysterious
- Hard to find English not recorded outside America
- It's hard to remember us being in eastern lodge
- Difficult to catch or see
- Use veil wilily, becoming hard to pin down
- Use live explosive that's had to pin down
- European charged outside America is difficult to catch
- Hard to find
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - January 22, 2026
- Daily American - October 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 16, 2025
- Daily American - March 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 09, 2024
- Daily American - August 08, 2024
- New York Times - July 14, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 09, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 24, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 28, 2024
- Daily American - March 22, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 26, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 03, 2023
- Daily American - October 20, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 29, 2023
- Your Life Choices - April 30, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - April 18, 2023
- Daily American - March 18, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 20, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 31, 2022
- Daily American - August 08, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - July 18, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - January 24, 2018
- And in 57 more crossword puzzles...