Clues for the word "ESSENTIAL"
We've had 35 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 91 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on March 13, 2026.
Definition of essential
- a. - Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
- a. - Hence, really existing; existent.
- a. - Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
- a. - Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
- a. - Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
- a. - Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
Referring Clues
- Hardly extraneous
- Hardly necessary
- Chief point
- Indispensible
- Key
- Sine qua non
- Needed
- Must-have
- Necessary
- Required
- Like many nutrients
- Integral
- Absolutely required
- Most important
- Absolutely necessary
- Crucial
- Like some oils
- Wrought steel, as in key
- Critical of lateness, I blow up
- Head off in temper - it's over a lost key
- Vital
- Indispensable
- European city that is, at least initially, indispensable
- Required to be moved - in the wrong aisle!
- Unnatural tails seen to be fundamental
- Entail alteration to stern of oriental ship - that's vital
- All-important sale is rearranged to include e-books
- Vital city on the Ruhr - one featured during most of talk
- Key German city - lecture mostly about one
- Renewal of lease isn't necessary
- See 26
- It's so important to be seen partying with A-list
- Pasture ultimately silent, as ground needed
- Vitally important
- Imperative
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - March 13, 2026
- Daily American - November 19, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 13, 2025
- Daily American - October 16, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 24, 2025
- Daily American - April 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 30, 2025
- Daily American - March 05, 2025
- Daily American - February 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 21, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - August 01, 2024
- Daily American - November 19, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 18, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - November 11, 2023
- Your Life Choices - October 27, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 24, 2023
- Daily American - October 16, 2023
- Mirror Daily - October 04, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 03, 2023
- Mirror Daily - July 19, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - June 28, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - June 01, 2023
- Your Life Choices - May 16, 2023
- Daily American - April 17, 2023
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