Clues for the word "GAUNT"
We've had 44 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 113 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 28, 2026.
Definition of gaunt
- a. - Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Referring Clues
- Haggard
- Scrawny
- Thin and bony
- Obese's opposite
- Ill-fed
- Very thin
- Thin and angular
- Hardly hearty
- Too skinny
- Too thin
- All bones
- Thin
- All skin and bones
- Overly thin
- Extremely lean
- Lean
- Quite thin
- Extremely thin
- Rawboned
- Emaciated-looking
- Emaciated
- Unhealthily thin
- More than skinny
- Appearing emaciated
- Appearing emanciated
- Of pinched appearance
- Lean and haggard
- A good relationship wasted?
- Grand relative, but looking haggard
- Thin and pinched
- Good family person used in place of John
- Painfully thin
- Drawn-looking
- Spare grand member of the family
- Drawn, relative after onset of gout
- Overly lean
- Haggardly thin
- Too lean
- Lanky
- One of the family appears at midnight, looking haggard
- Good lady relatively haggard
- A good relationship wasted?
- Skinny and angular
- Skin and bones
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 28, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 20, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 20, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 07, 2025
- LA Times - March 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 24, 2024
- Daily American - May 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 12, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 21, 2023
- LA Times - May 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 23, 2023
- LA Times - March 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 22, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - December 31, 2022
- Your Life Choices - October 12, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - September 21, 2022
- Daily Quick - August 25, 2022
- Daily Quick - January 20, 2018
- New York Times - December 17, 2017
- And in 83 more crossword puzzles...