Clues for the word "ESOTERIC"
We've had 66 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 108 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on January 21, 2026.
Definition of esoteric
- a. - Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.
Referring Clues
- Arcane
- Abstruse
- Secret
- Incomprehensible
- Shrouded in mystery
- Understood by few
- Indecipherable
- Rarefied
- For initiates only
- Inscrutable
- Intended for a select few
- Way out there
- Difficult to understand
- Not widely known
- Known by few
- Just for a few
- Not clear to most
- Obscure
- Enigmatic
- Understood by a select few
- Only for certain tastes
- Only for certain taste
- Recondite
- Like most philosophy dissertations
- Odd, as a range of knowledge
- Not for the masses
- Known only to few
- Intelligible only to the initiated
- Inner - secret
- Obscure boozer between centre of Cleveleys and Morecambe?
- Inscrutable Tories assembled in the City
- Description of strange coteries?
- Secret coteries broken up
- I set core cryptic!
- Understood by very few
- Mysterious
- Might 26 be so?
- Oriental boy holding drunkard's secret
- Broken toes boy keeps secret
- Boy on toes, perhaps, sees secret
- Like coteries, perhaps?
- Secret process to store ice
- Boy on toes about to discover secret
- Private escort that is arranged
- Coterie's wicked secret
- Store ice produced in secret
- Obscure man goes round twiddling toes
- Mysterious Eastern drunkard cooked rice
- Occult coteries looking silly
- Other-worldly
- Abstruse, obscure
- Abstruse; secret
- Tie score (anagram)
- Secret, private
- Out of this world
- Private, confined to a select group
- Mysterious man, holding up boozer, is after key
- Mysterious coteries formed
- See special instructions
- Drug and drink taker - boy's secret
- Mysterious coteries in disguise
- Mystic recites impromptu about love
- Secret drinker reaches end of line in Morecambe?
- Requiring rare knowledge
- Like much tax law or ancient philosophy
- Like the study of the kabbalah
Last Seen In
- New York Times - January 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 09, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - October 27, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 29, 2025
- New York Times - April 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 11, 2023
- LA Times - August 29, 2023
- New York Times - November 21, 2022
- USA Today - November 09, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - August 31, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - October 18, 2017
- Daily Quick - October 11, 2017
- Guardian Quick - August 25, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - June 20, 2017
- Guardian Speedy - November 27, 2016
- Family Time - September 18, 2016
- Netword - September 13, 2016
- LA Times - September 04, 2016
- Guardian Prize - July 16, 2016
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - August 30, 2015
- LA Times - April 16, 2015
- Universal - February 03, 2015
- Family Time - November 23, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - November 20, 2014
- New York Times - September 13, 2014
- Family Time - June 30, 2014
- Guardian Prize - May 10, 2014
- And in 78 more crossword puzzles...