Clues for the word "HOARY"
We've had 33 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 80 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on November 25, 2025.
Definition of hoary
- a. - White or whitish.
- a. - White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
- a. - remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
- a. - Moldy; mossy; musty.
- a. - Of a pale silvery gray.
- a. - Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
Referring Clues
- Antediluvian
- Long in the tooth
- Ancient
- Grizzled
- Timeworn
- Far from innovative
- Too familiar
- Venerable
- Old as the hills
- Gray with age
- White with age
- White-haired with age
- Showing age
- Gray-haired
- Stale, as a joke
- Old and gray
- Frost-covered
- Frost covered
- Trite
- As old as the hills
- White or grey with age
- Grizzly - ancient
- Like an old and gory rhyme
- Like chestnuts
- Old boring laughter track is ancient
- Such old jokes may get a frosty reception
- White
- Showing characteristics of age
- White with frost
- Stale, as jokes
- Like something grey, or hay, maybe
- White-haired from many birthdays
- Gray
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2025
- LA Times - February 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 20, 2024
- Daily American - October 29, 2024
- Family Time - December 18, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 29, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 25, 2023
- Family Time - May 21, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 10, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 08, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 30, 2023
- Daily American - October 29, 2022
- LA Times - June 10, 2022
- Wall Street Journal - January 27, 2018
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 13, 2018
- LA Times - December 06, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 20, 2017
- LA Times - October 23, 2017
- Universal - September 02, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 19, 2017
- Guardian Prize - January 28, 2017
- Guardian Quick - January 18, 2017
- Universal - January 03, 2017
- New York Times - November 29, 2015
- Family Time - August 09, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 28, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 20, 2015
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