Clues for the word "GRAFT"
We've had 67 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 128 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on July 20, 2026.
Definition of graft
- n. - A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- n. - A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- n. - A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- n. - To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- n. - To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- n. - To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- n. - To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
- v. i. - To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
Referring Clues
- White collar crime
- Payola
- Add on, as to a plant
- Some corruption
- Firmly add on
- Transplant, of a sort
- Political funny business
- Illegal payoff
- Surgeon's procedure
- Boss Tweed's crime
- It's a white-collar crime
- Replace damaged skin, perhaps
- Plant connection
- Political crime
- Horticultural transplant
- Tree surgeon's concern
- Politician's crime, perhaps
- Chicanery
- Corruption
- Tree surgeon's procedure
- Stick in a tree?
- Political corruption
- Join plants
- Join plants
- Splice in botany
- Extortion
- Tissue transplant
- Political payment
- Ill-gotten booty
- Inserted bud
- Botanical transplant
- Gardener's transplant
- Payola, e.g.
- Tammany Hall problem
- Ill-gotten gain
- Implant plant tissue
- Bribery and such
- Tree surgeon's transplant
- Political payoff
- Horticultural cutting
- Skin transplant, e.g.
- Tree surgeon procedure
- Bribe
- Join plants together
- Corruption is hard work
- Hard work
- Skin replacement procedure
- Hush money, e.g.
- Make parts of different plants grow together
- Bribery
- It's hard work getting a good right back
- Means of propagation - hard work?
- Transplant - hard work
- Hard work - illicit gain
- Hard work - corrupt profit
- Hard work required in high-performance car service
- Good floating platform required hard work
- Illicit profit
- Skin transplant
- Join key platform
- Hard work is great in service? On the contrary
- Hard work, commonly
- Crooked politician's crime
- Do an orchard job
- Arborist's procedure
- Plant procedure
- Obtain illegally
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 20, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 12, 2026
- LA Times - June 23, 2026
- Daily Quick - May 01, 2026
- Daily Quick - April 13, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 25, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 17, 2026
- Daily American - December 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 31, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 03, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - June 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 07, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 16, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 24, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 14, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 30, 2024
- LA Times - April 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 11, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 05, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - January 19, 2024
- Daily American - December 19, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 09, 2023
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