Clues for the word "FOIL"
We've had 107 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 217 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of foil
- v. t. - To tread under foot; to trample.
- v. t. - To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
- v. t. - To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
- v. t. - To defile; to soil.
- n. - Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- n. - A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
- n. - The track or trail of an animal.
- n. - A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
- n. - A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.
- n. - Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
- n. - A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
- n. - The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.
Referring Clues
- Thwart
- It's a wrap
- Aluminum sheet
- Patsy
- Frustrate
- Abbott, to Costello, e.g.
- Stooge
- Wrap for leftovers
- Straight man, for a comedian
- That's a wrap
- Thin sheet
- Shiny wrap
- Dueling weapon
- Wrap in the freezer
- Counterpart, in drama
- Baking sheet
- Reynolds wrap
- Sabotage
- Sheet metal?
- Deter
- Gold leaf, essentially
- Straight man, e.g.
- Flexible sword
- Aluminum wrap
- Fencing blade
- Aluminum product
- Scotch
- Metal wrap
- Comedic straight man
- Straight man
- Prevent
- Food wrap
- Wrap in sheets
- Fencing weapon
- Duel tool
- Flexible weapon
- Leftover holder
- Stymie
- Microwave no-no
- Keep from happening
- Fencing tool
- Comic's sidekick
- Kitchen roll
- Straight man in comedy
- Roast wrap
- Keep from succeeding
- Épée relative
- Duel-purpose tool
- Kitchen wrap
- pe relative
- Fencing sword
- Wrap for leftover food
- Aluminum product in the kitchen
- Impede, as a plot
- Alternative to saran wrap
- Aluminum sheet in the kitchen
- Covering for leftovers
- Odie, to Garfield
- Aluminum ___ (kitchen wrap)
- What booze can do to a singer's performance
- Urge Overkill "Tin ___"
- Canucks Tin ___ Phoenix
- Shiny song off "Mandatory Fun"?
- Thin flexible metal sheet
- Frustrate - sword
- Prevent from succeeding
- Hinder - prevent
- Thwart - sword
- Scotch sword
- Sword giving enemy cut to one leg
- Sword of thin aluminium?
- Frustrate - light sword
- Thwart - contrasting thing - sword
- Metal sheet used for fencing
- Thin sheet metal used for fencing
- Thin metal sheet
- Aluminium kitchen wrap
- Thin metal sword
- Fellow to lubricate sword
- Scotch is a weapon
- Fine lubricant for sword
- Leaf used in fencing
- Metal sheet
- Chocolate kiss wrap
- Tin wrap
- Saber relative
- Olympic weapon
- Kiss wrapping
- Hershey's Kiss covering
- Aluminum wrap for leftovers
- Parry a sword
- The creature, to Dr. Frankenstein
- Covering for a Kiss
- Sheet a fathead gets oil on
- Shiny kitchen wrap
- Aluminum wrapper
- Tin ___
- Sword of thin aluminium?
- Wrap that shouldn't be microwaved
- Hat material for the paranoid
- Aluminum stuff
- Fencing option
- Thwart, like an evil plot
- Prevent, like an evil genius's plans
- Aluminum product that sparks in the microwave
- Hershey's Kiss wrap
- Leftovers wrap
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 22, 2025
- Daily American - December 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 16, 2025
- Daily American - October 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 18, 2025
- New York Times - April 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 23, 2025
- Daily American - March 11, 2025
- Daily American - February 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 01, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 01, 2025
- Daily American - December 01, 2024
- USA Today - November 08, 2024
- LA Times - October 16, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 09, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 05, 2024
- USA Today - September 22, 2024
- LA Times - September 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 22, 2024
- USA Today - August 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 16, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 26, 2024
- USA Today - April 23, 2024
- USA Today - April 18, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 06, 2024
- Family Time - March 03, 2024
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