Clues for the word "HOTBED"
We've had 38 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 59 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on October 28, 2025.
Definition of hotbed
- n. - A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
- n. - A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
Referring Clues
- Greenhouse area
- Rapid growth area
- Thermostat site, maybe
- Place of rapid growth
- Breeding ground
- Incubation site, of a kind
- Environment that favors rapid growth
- Environment conducive to rapid development
- Area of rapid development
- Environment favoring rapid growth
- Center of activity
- Site of rapid development
- Site of rapid growth
- Active place
- Rapid-growth environment
- Bed of rich soil
- Breaking ground
- Fertile plot
- Trouble spot
- Fomenting ground
- Place of rapid growth - with an electric blanket?
- Wherein things grow heated?
- Place with ideal conditions for development
- Scene of rapid growth, as of intrigue
- Place with ideal conditions for rapid growth
- Place where dangerous plot may be hatched
- Breeding ground with bottle?
- House gets money owing back for nursery
- Where the action is
- Place of rapid growth - with an electric blanket?
- Area of rapid growth
- One warmly encouraging vegetable production
- Breeding environment
- A cause of growing heatedness
- Place for fast growth
- Wherein things grow heated?
- Area where things are growing heated
- Place of rapid development
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - October 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 01, 2025
- LA Times - May 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 06, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 07, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 28, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 06, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - March 28, 2023
- New York Times - September 24, 2021
- Netword - January 03, 2018
- LA Times - December 11, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 07, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - October 28, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - April 06, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 02, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 01, 2016
- USA Today - September 12, 2016
- LA Times - August 26, 2016
- Universal - December 17, 2015
- Guardian Quick - October 30, 2015
- Netword - October 22, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 16, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 22, 2014
- Washington Post - March 24, 2014
- USA Today - November 14, 2013
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 13, 2012
- Universal - August 11, 2012
- Washington Post - August 04, 2012
- And in 29 more crossword puzzles...