Clues for the word "HOURGLASS"
We've had 19 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 24 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on December 29, 2025.
Definition of hourglass
- n. - An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.
Referring Clues
- 60-minute drink?
- Shape of a nice figure
- Sand-filled timer
- Early timepiece
- Primitive timepiece
- Sand-filled counter
- It measures time
- Shapely one's comparison
- Shapely timekeeper's gauge?
- Kind of figure
- Sort of rough woman describing a desirable figure
- No middle-aged spread for this old-timer!
- Sand-timer
- Sort of figure that changes with time?
- Porker scoffing curry regularly, girl with such a timely figure?
- Shapely sort of figure for an old timer
- Timekeeper filled with sand
- *Flippable timekeeper
- Primitive timer
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - December 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 05, 2025
- New York Times - December 30, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 05, 2024
- LA Times - January 30, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 27, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - July 18, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - December 27, 2013
- Netword - February 12, 2013
- Universal - January 21, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - March 15, 2011
- Netword - May 10, 2010
- Universal - February 28, 2010
- Universal - February 18, 2008
- Universal - March 08, 2007
- Washington Post - August 30, 2006
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 15, 2005
- Netword - May 30, 2005
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 08, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - September 29, 2003
- Guardian Cryptic - August 17, 2001
- New York Times - June 16, 1999