Clues for the word "FLAX"
We've had 53 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 117 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on February 22, 2026.
Definition of flax
- n. - A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.
- n. - The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
Referring Clues
- Linseed oil source
- Fine fiber
- Raw material for Rumpelstiltskin
- Linen fiber
- Source of linen
- Source for 32-Across
- Whence linseed oil and linen
- Linen source
- Fiber made into thread
- Certain plant or fiber
- Spun fiber
- Source of linseed oil
- Spinning wheel material
- Grayish yellow
- Fiber-yielding plant
- Linseed oil and linen source
- Pale grayish yellow
- Linen fiber source
- Plant prized for its fiber and seeds
- Something that's spun
- Oil source
- Raw material for Rumpelstiltskin
- Linen plant
- Seed source of omega-3
- Cigarette paper source
- Field crop
- Omega-3 fatty acid source
- Fibre used in linen
- Source of linseed
- Textile fibre
- Textile fibre from a blue-flowered plant
- Plant cropped for linen
- Blue flowering plant cultivated for its seeds and fibre
- Fibre woven to make linen
- Fibre from a plant with blue flowers, used to make linen
- Plant that's loud and loose
- Plant initially lost in transmission
- Plant Latin in modern communication
- Message about large fibres
- Linen eventually loose on female
- Healthy-bread seed
- Linseed oil seed grown on the Canadian prairies
- Fiber that's spun
- Plant from which linen is made
- Important Colonial America crop
- Source of 129 Across
- Raw material for linen
- Plant that rhymes with 19-Across
- Neutral paint color
- Where linseed oil comes from
- Plant that symbolized purity in ancient Egypt
- It grows careless at the welfare centre
- ___ egg (vegan substitute)
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - February 22, 2026
- New York Times - December 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 30, 2025
- Daily American - September 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 24, 2025
- Daily American - May 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 10, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 26, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 30, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 28, 2023
- Daily American - September 15, 2023
- USA Today - May 29, 2023
- Daily American - May 02, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - April 13, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - February 11, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 10, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 23, 2022
- Your Life Choices - September 21, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 20, 2022
- New York Times - July 02, 2022
- Washington Post Classic - December 10, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 18, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 21, 2017
- Daily American - September 15, 2017
- And in 87 more crossword puzzles...