Clues for the word "FLEECE"
We've had 91 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 170 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 09, 2026.
Definition of fleece
- n. - The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
- n. - Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- n. - The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
- v. t. - To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
- v. t. - To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
- v. t. - To spread over as with wool.
Referring Clues
- Rip off
- Take to the cleaners
- Bamboozle
- It grows on ewe
- Lamb's cover
- Scam
- Lamb's coat
- Sheep's coat
- Defraud
- Swindle
- Sheep product
- Argo cargo
- Cotswold coat
- Plunder
- Skin, or sheepskin
- Cote coat
- It was 'white as snow'
- Jason's quest
- Take for a ride
- Lining fabric
- Bilk
- Rook
- Deep-pile fabric
- Jason's was golden
- Blanket material
- Nap taken once a year
- Winter coat lining
- Wool
- Rip off coat
- Sheep's coat of wool
- Sheep's wool
- Van Morrison's '74 album "Veedon ___"
- Wool coat
- Charge exorbitantly for a warm woollen coat
- Charge (someone) exorbitantly
- Do run to church
- Woolly coat
- In a woolly coat, run at only half pace
- Animal coat - charge exorbitantly
- Rip off warm garment
- Swindle has outside chance to run
- Do some asset-stripping to run church
- Sheepskin - rook
- Swindle out of a large sum
- Warm clothing for most of the navy going to church
- Swindle - sheepskin
- Swindle - wool removed from sheep
- Rook in sheep's clothing?
- Overcharge for a coat
- Coat to take to the cleaners
- Overcharge
- Leave church in warm clothing
- A coat to take to the cleaners
- Abscond prior to church swindle
- Run across City swindle
- Run church do
- Rob of a woolly coat
- Warm coat
- Rip off sheep's clothing
- Sheep wool
- Swindle and run, having taken in the City
- Uncover swindle
- Rip off clothing item
- Shearer after this cheat
- Rip off a coat
- Jacket to take to the cleaners
- Charge exorbitantly for wool
- Charge way over the odds for wool
- Woolly coat to take to the cleaners
- Top of shaft
- Do take off - Cole's gutted
- Warm sweater material
- Shearling's yield
- Winter jacket lining
- Garment to take to the cleaners
- 16 down's jumper, reportedly extremely cute
- Argonauts' golden treasure
- Shorn wool
- Cool-weather material
- What swindlers do with warm coat?
- Parka lining
- Warm jacket
- Con
- Rob of a coat
- Sheep's fur
- Fuzzy jacket
- Lining on a winter coat
- Woolly jacket
- Cool-weather lining
- Shear
- Warm jacket lining
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 09, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 29, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 19, 2025
- LA Times - April 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 16, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 17, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 04, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 26, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 11, 2024
- USA Today - March 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 07, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 29, 2024
- LA Times - December 22, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 21, 2023
- Your Life Choices - December 02, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 04, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 15, 2023
- LA Times - August 27, 2023
- And in 140 more crossword puzzles...