Clues for the word "EXTRACT"
We've had 53 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 83 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on February 22, 2026.
Definition of extract
- v. t. - To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.
- v. t. - To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
- v. t. - To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
- n. - That which is extracted or drawn out.
- n. - A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
- n. - A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
- n. - A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.
- n. - A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
- n. - Extraction; descent.
- n. - A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
Referring Clues
- Get to the root of?
- Pull out
- See 57-Down
- Derive (from) ... or a two-part hint for understanding 17-, 33-, 42- and 58-Across
- Distill
- Take out
- Literary passage
- Pull a tooth
- Pull, as teeth
- Obtain
- Draw out
- Short passage from book
- Remove forcibly
- Vanilla ___
- Selected portion of former publication
- Selected passage from a work
- Passage from old pamphlet
- What's been removed from region
- Selected passage from a book
- Uproot
- Caught after no ball when cutting
- Quote from an old religious pamphlet
- (Piece) take(n) out
- Remove - passage
- Additional empty chest in passage
- Remove(d piece)
- (Piece) remove(d)
- To draw out concentrate
- Get cutting
- Piece of former pamphlet
- Draw for use of spare court
- Passage taken from book etc
- Forcibly draw out
- Uproot by force
- Selected portion of old publication
- Get rid of surplus weight
- Get out, caught off a no-ball, perhaps
- Derive, distil
- On court, minor player shows pluck
- Clipping about TT race includes times
- Separate, in a mining sense
- Clipping from special edition shown to court
- More on court selection
- Remove from other court
- Withdraw from other court
- Passage further north of court
- Pull out when caught from a no ball?
- Remove
- Take out former pamphlet?
- Concentrated essence in a bottle
- Extort
- Draw out, as sugar from lemonade
- With 4-Down, how to make the seven starred clues match their answers?
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - February 22, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 11, 2026
- Daily Quick - October 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 06, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 03, 2024
- LA Times - September 26, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 10, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 06, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 11, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 21, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 26, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 28, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 14, 2022
- Daily Quick - September 15, 2022
- Daily Quick - September 10, 2022
- Daily Quick - September 09, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 27, 2022
- Daily Quick - January 11, 2018
- And in 53 more crossword puzzles...