Clues for the word "GRIND"
We've had 78 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 98 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 11, 2026.
Definition of grind
- v. t. - To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
- v. t. - To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
- v. t. - To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
- v. t. - To study hard for examination.
- v. i. - To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
- v. i. - To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
- v. i. - To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
- v. i. - To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- v. i. - To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.
- n. - The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- n. - Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.
- n. - A hard student; a dig.
Referring Clues
- The old nine-to-five
- Tough job
- Rat race
- Laborious routine
- Grate together
- Pulverize
- Prepare, as coffee beans
- 9-to-5 drudgery
- Nine-to-five routine, to many
- Bump's partner
- Monotonous routine
- What molars do
- Daily drudgery
- Burlesque move
- Reduce to dust
- Joyless routine
- Use a whetstone
- Coffee fineness setting
- To crush or pulverize
- Prepare beans for coffee
- Monotonous work
- Rat race, with "the"
- Tedious routine
- Sharpen with friction
- Tedious work
- Dull routine
- Reduce to powder
- Daily routine
- Crush into bits
- Dreary routine
- Laborious stuff
- Make oatmeal from oats
- Commute
- Coffee machine setting
- Drudgery
- Coffee selection
- Work hard and persistently
- What vacationers leave behind
- Monotonous job
- Humdrum routine
- Process coffee beans
- Routine
- Rub harshly
- Daily routine (with "the")
- Smooth
- Steady, dull and laborious routine
- ___ to a halt
- Skid Row "Slave to the ___"
- Crush to powder
- '91 Skid Row album "Slave to the ___"
- Do 4's 8 to get good skin
- Wear down
- Chew pig's tail with crackling
- It's hard work to get name in here
- Hard work, as in mill
- Abrade - laborious task
- Crush into particles
- Pulverise
- It's hard work getting a number in here
- Drudge's drudgery
- Crush gram of peel
- Abrade
- Laborious work, note, filling in crossword diagram
- Crush good part of orange
- Molars do it
- Mince
- Grate
- Pulverize, as pepper
- Daily monotony
- Use a pepper mill
- Pulverize, as peppercorns
- 9-to-5 work
- Make a meal?
- Hard labor
- Gourmet coffee specification
- What pepper mills do
- Do a millworker or barista's job, maybe
- Arduous routine
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 11, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 29, 2026
- Daily Quick - August 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 30, 2025
- New York Times - March 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 07, 2024
- LA Times - June 11, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 29, 2024
- LA Times - October 15, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 18, 2023
- New York Times - January 21, 2023
- USA Today - September 14, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 07, 2022
- Penny Dell Sunday - June 26, 2022
- Universal - January 19, 2018
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 05, 2017
- LA Times - October 22, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 27, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 18, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - June 28, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - May 27, 2017
- Universal - April 12, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - March 21, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - January 29, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 13, 2016
- LA Times - August 07, 2016
- USA Today - June 22, 2016
- Guardian Quick - June 06, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - May 27, 2016
- And in 68 more crossword puzzles...