Clues for the word "HEDGE"
We've had 150 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 299 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 25, 2026.
Definition of hedge
- n. - A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
- v. t. - To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
- v. t. - To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
- v. t. - To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
- v. t. - To surround so as to prevent escape.
- v. i. - To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
- v. i. - To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
- v. i. - To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
Referring Clues
- Waffle
- Use weasel words
- Common nest locale
- Equivocate
- Alternative to a fence
- Fence alternative
- Property divider
- Intentionally vague statement
- Not be definite
- Landscaping feature
- Hog or hop preceder
- Gardener's pride
- Garden maze wall
- Row of bushes
- Maze wall, sometimes
- Outdoor maze wall
- Line of bushes
- Not commit
- Low-risk strategy
- Investor's insurance
- Be noncommittal
- Bushes forming a fence
- Green fence
- Avoid commitment
- Inflation protection
- Have second thoughts
- Circumvent
- Hem and haw
- Counterbalance, as an investment
- Type of fund
- Kind of clippers
- Give a noncommittal answer
- Be indecisive
- Steeplechase barrier
- Yard enclosure
- Beat around the bush
- Property border, perhaps
- Answer evasively
- Be evasive
- ___ fund (controversial investment)
- Living fence
- Bet both ways
- Yard border
- Maze wall, at times
- Privet
- Yard borderer
- Maze wall, perhaps
- Topiary canvas, maybe
- Loss mitigator
- ___ one's bets
- Organic fence
- Bushy boundary
- Reduce a risk
- Natural fence
- Counterbalance, financially
- Border shrubbery
- Privacy provider, of a sort
- Play both sides, in a way
- Deposit for security
- Stretch of shrubbery
- Word before "fund" or "one's bets"
- Bush boundary
- Yard enclosure, sometimes
- Avoid committing
- Yard divider
- Bushy fence
- Not be definitive
- Lawn boundary
- Boundary bushes
- Line of shrubbery
- Steeplechase obstacle
- Green fence?
- Bush row
- Guard one's bets
- Not give a definitive answer
- Organic barrier
- Property-dividing greenery
- Row of foundation bushes
- Bush fence
- Shrub wall
- Fence of greenery
- Growth around a yard that gets clipped
- ___ funds
- Backyard barrier
- Row of shrubs
- Fence of bushes
- Privacy bush
- Field barrier
- Barrier
- Border
- Barrier of shrubs or bushes
- In the garden, each end has a border!
- For airmen, hopping on this is a low practice
- Boundary
- Bushy barrier
- Put in box, perhaps, to reduce risk of loss
- It grows hot at the border!
- Growing row takes husband to the brink
- Barrier of bushes
- Bound to lay off
- Field division that takes years to train
- Barrier of shrubs etc
- Prevaricate
- Row of linked shrubs
- Pussyfoot around hospital boundary
- Hard border, by the way
- Landscaping element
- ___ fund
- Tree fence
- Shrub fence
- Vegetation that's hard to trim
- Chap finally tripped, jumping the barrier
- Try to avoid answering questions or dealing with issues
- See clues page
- Barrier on the hard side
- Primarily horticultural border
- Shrub used as a fence
- Garden border
- Fence
- Row of shrubbery
- Yard border made of bushes
- Is it peripheral in the field of betting?
- Primarily horticultural border?
- Botanical fence
- In betting, a borderline thing?
- Suburban property line growth
- Plant some privet, perhaps, or some wretched geraniums
- Fence of shrubs
- Betting strategy that reduces risk
- Line of shrubs
- Green boundary
- Something cut with clippers
- Backyard border, sometimes
- Counterbalance, as a bet
- The hospital border?
- Property divider, at times
- Yard boundary, at times
- Fencing alternative
- Evade
- Barrier of shrubs
- ___ your bets
- Over the ___
- Shrub border
- Avoid
- Target of some trimming
- Barrier made of bushes
- Divider of lots
- Target of some clippers
- Wall for an outdoor maze
- Use for a yew
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 25, 2026
- New York Times - February 07, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 10, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - December 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 15, 2025
- New York Times - November 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 09, 2025
- LA Times - October 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 22, 2025
- New York Times - October 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 11, 2025
- LA Times - July 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 08, 2025
- LA Times - April 02, 2025
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