Clues for the word "IRIS"
We've had 609 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1927 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on April 15, 2025.
Definition of iris
- n. - The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.
- n. - The rainbow.
- n. - An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
- n. - The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.
- n. - A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce.
- n. - See Fleur-de-lis, 2.
Referring Clues
- Spring flower
- Pupil locale
- Part of the eye
- Spring bloom
- Tennessee's state flower
- Eye part
- Bit of eye makeup
- Showy flower
- Where a pupil sits
- Blue flag, e.g.
- Colored part of a ball?
- Photographer's diaphragm
- Perfume source
- Garden beauty
- Rainbow goddess
- Pupil's place
- Place for a pupil
- Camera part
- Showy bloom
- Camera diaphragm
- Part of the uvea
- It gives the eye color
- It's in the eye of the beholder
- Rainbow
- Electra's daughter
- Flower with a bulb
- Freesia's relative
- Light controller
- "Bearded" bloom
- Freesia's family
- Flower of one's eye?
- It's usually blue or brown
- Subject for Monet
- Van Gogh flower
- Bearded bloom
- Center of the eye
- Glad family
- 2001 film for which Jim Broadbent was named Best Supporting Actor
- "Bearded" flower
- Writer Murdoch
- Dench/Winslet title role of 2001
- Pupil controller
- It may be blue, brown or green
- See 109-Across
- Corn lily's family
- Pupil's locale
- Something to look through
- Camera component
- It's surrounded by white
- Colored eye part
- It's usually blue, green or brown
- You can see through it
- Pale purple shade
- Goddess of the rainbow
- Van Gogh floral subject
- ___ scan (biometric authentication method)
- Object in a Monet painting
- Bearded flower
- 1998 song by the Goo Goo Dolls that was #1 for 18 weeks
- Pupil surrounder
- Pupil's surrounder
- Flag, horticulturally
- One of Tennessee's state symbols
- Fleur-de-lis
- "The Black Prince" author Murdoch
- Novelist Murdoch
- Source of eye color
- Pupil's structure
- Greek goddess of the rainbow
- Opening for Ansel
- Author Murdoch
- Booker Prize winner Murdoch
- Ms. Murdoch
- Bearded bloomer
- Pupil's surround
- Opening for Ansel Adams
- 2001 Dench/Winslet film
- Colored part of the eye
- Colorful bearded flower
- Movie for which Jim Broadbent won his Oscar
- State flower of Tennessee
- Bearded blossom
- Circle covered by a cornea
- Where to find a pupil
- Spring bloomer
- Crocus cousin
- Plant with showy flowers
- Western blue flag, e.g.
- Body part with a sphincter muscle
- The cornea covers it
- Flag in a garden
- It's light-sensitive
- "Stanley & ___" (1990 film)
- Eye opener?
- Fleur-de-lis component
- Plant family that includes the crocus
- Pupillary sphincter location
- ___ diaphragm (camera part)
- Flower that's also a name
- Jodie's "Taxi Driver" role
- British novelist Murdoch
- Where a pupil sits?
- Ocular sphincter
- Spring blossom
- Tennessee state flower
- Eye color area
- Van Gogh subject
- Spring arrival
- Where the pupil sits?
- Ocular circle
- Pupil's milieu
- Easter bloom
- Flower painted by Van Gogh
- Pupil's spot
- Eye-color area
- Eye-color locale
- Pupil's site
- Ornamental plant
- Garden flower
- The blue of a baby blue
- Visionary flower?
- "A Severed Head" author Murdoch
- "The Good Apprentice" author Murdoch
- "The Black Prince" author Murdoch
- Spring blossom or part of an eye
- Where eye color is
- Colored eye area
- Uvea part
- It controls a pupil's size
- Diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil
- Type of flower
- "Stanley & ___" (1990 Fonda / De Niro film)
- Good name for a florist
- It allows light into the eye
- Camera shutter
- See-through item
- Floral Van Gogh focus
- It may be bearded
- Eye membrane
- You look through it
- Flag in the garden
- Brightly-colored flower
- Fleur-de-lis flower
- The eyes have it
- Pupil environs
- "Under the Net" author Murdoch
- It regulates the size of the pupil
- Colorful ring
- Peeper's part
- Light regulator in the eye
- Garden perennial
- Pupil's colorful place
- Part of an eyeball
- Eye part or flower
- Subject of many Georgia O'Keeffe paintings
- What the white of an eye surrounds
- Where the pupil is
- Blackberry lily, e.g.
- Lens Opening
- Shade akin to lavender
- Cornea neighbor
- Van Gogh's flowery subject
- Bulb output, maybe
- Colorful eye part
- Eye part with color
- Bloom with droopy sepals
- Pigmented eye part
- "Iliad" messenger
- Tennessee state bloom
- Fleur-de-lis, symbolically
- The white of an eye surrounds it
- Eye part containing the pupil
- 1998 Goo Goo Dolls hit
- Where eye color comes from
- Showy spring flower
- Ornamental flower
- Component of many a van Gogh painting
- Colorful diaphragm
- Glad cousin
- Showy, colorful plant
- Romance novelist Johansen
- Romance novelist
- Goddess of rainbow
- Colorful part of the eye
- Tennessee's flower
- Popular bloom in Tennessee
- Crime fiction writer Johansen
- Eye ring
- You might turn it red for Halloween with a contact lens
- Purple perennial
- Pupil setting
- Eye part that contracts
- Middle of the eye
- Fancy flower
- Crocus's cousin
- Tennessee emblem
- Part of 13-Across
- 1998 Goo Goo Dolls song
- The lens is behind it
- Pupil site
- The eye has it
- Purple flower
- Colored portion of the eye
- It might be blue, green or brown
- Pupil's flower?
- Crime and romance writer Johansen
- Purple spring bloomer
- Pupil's surroundings
- "Stanley & ___" (Fonda / De Niro film)
- Blackberry lily's family
- Flower or part of the eye
- It controls the amount of light admitted
- Sword lily
- Pupil's flower
- Part of the eye around the pupil
- Part of a camera lens
- Bulbed flower
- "The Sea, the Sea" author Murdoch
- Showy perennial
- Coloured part of the eye
- "Stanley & ___" (Fonda/De Niro film)
- Colorful flower
- Eye color locale
- 1978 Booker Prize recipient Murdoch
- Crime fiction author Johansen
- Purple bloom
- It controls a pupil
- Scene-closing movie effect
- Spring bulb
- Flower in a van Gogh painting
- Girl's floral name
- Garden dandy
- Attraction for a butterfly
- Rainbow: perf.
- Showy spring perennial
- Color also known as endive blue
- It surrounds the pupil
- Bloom with a beard
- The white surrounds it
- 2001 role for Judi
- Crocus kin
- You can see right through it
- Camera or eye part
- Blue flag
- Georgia O'Keeffe subject
- Cornea and lens neighbor
- Pupil part
- "Elegy for ___": memoir about writer Murdoch
- Flag
- Novelist Johansen
- Wife of Zephyrus
- Blue bloom
- Pupil size regulator
- Body part used in some recognition systems
- See-through item?
- Garden bloom
- Plant worth eyeing?
- Spring harbinger
- Eye piece?
- Spring perennial
- Long-stemmed flower
- Part of the eye with color
- Blue flower
- Aperture : camera :: ___ : eye
- Goddess in "The Tempest"
- It has space for one pupil
- Crime novelist Johansen
- What surrounds an aperture
- Part of the human eye
- It might be baby blue
- Flower or eye part
- Eye piece
- Structure with a pupillary zone
- It gives peepers color
- Camera feature
- Goddess who caused the Trojan women to riot in the "Aeneid"
- Audrey Meadows on "Too Close for Comfort"
- A pupil is in the middle of it
- Camera aperture
- "Iliad" divine messenger
- Commonly purple bloom
- Flower
- Seeing circle
- It's responsible for controlling a pupil
- 31 Across aperture
- It gives the eye its color
- Flower whose name means "rainbow"
- It's all about the pupil
- It has a place for a pupil
- One of Tennessee's two state flowers
- Eye part that's useful in biometrics
- Camera's diaphragm
- Flower with sword-shaped leaves
- Flower from the Greek for "rainbow"
- "The Black Prince" writer Murdoch
- It makes a pupil work
- "Body of Lies" author Johansen
- 2001 Winslet/Dench title role
- It's under the cornea
- Flower girl?
- Camera lens feature
- Type of flower or part of the eye
- Flower resembling a fleur-de-lis
- Controller of the pupil's size
- "Bearded" bloomer
- Showy purple bloom
- Showy spring bloom
- Floral subject for van Gogh
- Flower stylized as a fleur-de-lis
- Bloom in many Van Gogh works
- State flower of Tenn.
- A van Gogh flower
- Fleur-de-lys
- Dench film
- Eye feature
- Bright bloom
- Winslet role
- Winslet film
- Showy bloomer
- Showy flower or part of the eye
- Mythical rainbow goddess
- Greek goddess of the rainbow, in myth
- Spring or early summer flower
- "earded"flower
- 2001 title role for Judi Dench and Kate Winslet
- Rainbow goddess of myth
- Whence eye color
- Eye part that determines color
- It provides eye color
- Eye pupil structure
- Plant type
- "City of Angels" Goo Goo Dolls hit
- "When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am" song
- "I don't think that they'd understand" Goo Goo Dolls song
- "I just want you to know who I am" song
- The eye's light regulator
- The Goo Goo Dolls hit
- Goo Goo Dolls smash
- "City of Angels" soundtrack hit
- "I don't want the world to see me" Goo Goo Dolls song
- "I just want you to know who I am" Goo Goo Dolls
- "When everything's made to be broken" song
- Breeders song about colored eye part?
- Goo Goo Dolls song about eye?
- Split Enz song about camera part?
- Breeders song about eye part?
- Split Enz song about eye part?
- Goo Goo Dolls big hit
- Plant - part of the eye
- Egyptian god dispatched very big Greek goddess
- Flag of Eire shortened
- Girl puts one over teacher being sent up
- Bloomer in which a pupil is involved
- She may open up when the lights are low
- Flag lady
- Part of the eye, usually brown or blue
- She lives on air, partly!
- Part of eye - flag
- Is she less than an eyeful?
- One rejecting a knight's title? It's a bloomer!
- She's four-fifths Hibernian!
- Girl - flower
- The whiskey she's short of isn't Scotch
- Girl in a Fair Isle sweater
- She embraces a pupil
- She's almost Hibernian
- Plant
- She's almost a colleen
- Fairish girl?
- Flag - surrounding pupil
- Flower not entirely like the Taoiseach
- 25's namesake of many colours
- Hazel may describe this other girl
- Garden flower - part of eye
- Flag - part of eye
- Colorful membrane
- Flower - part of eye
- Hungary abandons national flag
- Flower - rainbow
- Film about writer ___ Murdoch
- In which pupil appears to flag
- Garden flower in a kind of stew, nearly
- Eye color supplier
- Flower - eye part
- Girl is to accept religious instruction
- Single teacher's backing required to get control of pupil?
- Detailed national flag
- Flower of seven colours?
- So-called master one set up as pupil's controller
- Hibernian leader lost by goddess
- One teacher raised the flag
- Name of girl, like Bridget without husband
- Flag raised in the garden
- Flower not wholly Hibernian
- Ring around the 105-Across
- Purple blossom
- Jodie, in "Taxi Driver"
- Fitting name for an ophthalmologist
- Purple bloomer
- One of many in an 1889 van Gogh painting
- Flower whose name comes from the Greek for "rainbow"
- Blue or hazel eye part
- Bloom
- She may embrace a pupil
- "Silencing Eve" novelist Johansen
- "Stanley & ___"
- UK novelist, ___ Murdoch
- Girl in a Fair Isle jumper
- Fair Isle's flower
- Flower with pupil
- Murdoch may be a knight on retirement
- Goddess almost completely Hibernian
- Flag of many colours
- A bit of an eye for a girl
- Woman like Molly Malone without husband
- Flower people not hippies, originally
- Plant crowns of imported rhubarb in shrubbery
- Murdoch is all but Irish
- Murdoch's flower
- Tennessee's 23 flower
- Rainbow girl is 80% Irish
- Pupil's place?
- I briefly grow spring flower
- One in the eye for the flag
- Flower in Reims in odd locations
- Retired teacher pursuing setter with flower
- Plant emerges, when it rains regularly
- Girl crushed by satirists
- Girl, one employed by Internal Revenue Service
- Girl is touring Rhode Island
- Flower heads for instance rich in scent
- Colourful film ___
- Almost national flag
- I almost stand for flag
- Murdoch played by Kate Winslet
- "Another World" role
- Eye part or Alberta politician Evans
- Barry's wife on "The Flash"
- It's covered by the cornea
- Apt name for an ophthalmologist
- Light controller in a lens
- Plant with sword-shaped leaves
- Good name for an optometrist
- Purple flower with the same name as a Greek goddess
- Cornea backdrop
- Flower or eye feature
- Eye part that might be green or hazel
- March bloomer, maybe
- Flower in many Van Goghs
- Camera "eye" part
- #1 hit for the Goo Goo Dolls in 1998
- Bluish-purple flower
- She opens up when the lights are low
- Springtime bloom
- Apt name for a florist
- Bulbed bloom
- Bright flower
- Pigmented diaphragm
- Eye part or plant
- It's often brown or blue
- Murdoch portrayed by Winslet and Dench
- "The Killing Game" novelist Johansen
- The rainbow personified
- Early-blooming ornamental
- Crocus's kin
- A lid usually covers it at night
- "Black ___," Georgia O'Keeffe painting at the Met
- Eye component
- Flag girl, a bit of an eyeful
- Digitally scanned eye part
- Female name that's the name of a female assistant backward
- Colorful body part
- Eye diaphragm
- Murdoch who was played by Judi Dench
- Cousin of a crocus
- Crocus's family
- The eye's diaphragm
- Blue or hazel ring
- Structure with melanin
- Part of an eye
- Camera lens part
- She's apt to open up in the dark
- Eye's colored area
- Flower van Gogh painted
- Murdoch played by Dench
- Ocular membrane
- "Blood Game" novelist Johansen
- Murdoch who wrote "The Black Prince"
- "Taking Eve" novelist Johansen
- Bloom drawn by O'Keeffe
- Flower in Van Gogh paintings
- Pupil's controller
- Part of a 33-Across
- The gentleman and I brought her back
- Flower named for a goddess
- Divine messenger
- Blue spring flower
- Flower in Van Gogh works
- Greek rainbow goddess
- Eye part covered by the cornea
- Bulb that blooms
- A plant
- Eye part spelled with two i's
- It controls the size of the pupil
- The flag lady?
- Eye part that may be gray
- Ring-shaped membrane in the eye
- Flower painted by O'Keeffe
- Pupil’s spot
- Murdoch who received the 1978 Booker Prize for "The Sea, the Sea"
- Where a pupil sits?
- Apt name for a botanist
- Jane Fonda role
- Fairish girl?
- Flower that may be purple
- Apt name for an eye doctor
- Its first letter sounds like where it's found
- The flag lady
- The Greek goddess of the rainbow
- A girl I'd take some risks for
- She's a bit of an eyeful!
- Not quite a colleen?
- Author Murdoch played onscreen by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench
- ___ Murdoch, author of Under the Net
- Coloration in the human eye
- Eye part that may be blue
- Sword-leafed flower
- Eye part around the pupil
- ___ West, wife of DC Comics' Flash
- 40 Down's diaphragm
- A viewer's girl?
- Light-regulating eye part
- Michigan's state wildflower is one
- Candice Patton's role on "The Flash"
- What surrounds the pupil
- Sword-shaped bloom
- Good name for an optometrist?
- What helps a pupil grow?
- She may well be blue
- She lets in the light
- Body part that's also a woman's name
- Wild flower in a Louise Gluck title
- Part of your eyeball
- Flower that may be "bearded"
- Blue-violet shade
- She opens up when it's dark
- Floral name
- Eyeball part
- Eye part surrounding the pupil
- Flower that's often purple
- Flower that's 60-Across backwards
- Name hidden in "Gemini rising"
- Flower in Georgia O'Keeffe art
- Flower with standards and falls
- "The Wild ___ " (Louise Gluck poem)
- Tall purple flower
- Ring around a pupil
- Flower that might be bearded
- Eye part that might be hazel
- Flower that shares a name with part of the eye
- Wildflower in a Louise Gluck title
- "The Flash" character West
- Name that's also a flower
- Eye part that controls pupil size
- Embracing a pupil, she's a bit of an eyeful
- Eye part used in biometrics
- Bulbed flower or part of 41-Across
- Mystery writer Johansen
- Showy flower with sword-shaped leaves
- Colorful part of an eye
- It surrounds a pupil
- Good name for an ophthalmologist
- Biometric scan identifier, maybe
- Flower with a Thornbird variety
- Booker Prize-winning author Murdoch
- Messenger for the gods in the "Iliad"
- Grammy-nominated folk singer DeMent
- Fashion icon Apfel
- Purplish blue
- Early spring flower
- Good name for a florist or optometrist
- Bearded ___ (flower)
- "Bearded" spring flower
- Pupil's surrounding
- It surrounds the 2-Down
- 22-Across part that is colorful
- Is she less than an eyeful?
- Part of the eye that shares its name with a rainbow goddess
- "Still Life With ___" (play with a flowery name)
- Flower in some O'Keeffe paintings
- Blue flower in a Van Gogh painting
- Apt name for a florist or optometrist?
- Flower with upright petals called "standards"
- Ring of the human eye
- Spring bloom with a bearded variety
- Flower that's an Apple assistant backwards
- Its muscles control the pupil
- Colored 25-Across part
- Eye part that can be violet
- Body part that may be green
- Eye part, or a name
- Flower that gets its name from the Greek word for "rainbow"
- Flower named for a deity
- Garden bloomer
- Pupil : aperture :: ___ : diaphragm
- Spring flower with sword-shaped leaves
- Eye part found in the 13-Across
- Part of a human eyeball
- Flower in some van Gogh paintings
Last Seen In
- Daily American - April 15, 2025
- LA Times - April 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 25, 2025
- Mirror Mini - March 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 17, 2025
- Family Time - March 17, 2025
- USA Today - March 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 14, 2025
- New York Times - March 13, 2025
- New York Times - March 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 12, 2025
- USA Today - March 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2025
- Family Time - March 03, 2025
- USA Today - March 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 01, 2025
- USA Today - March 01, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 01, 2025
- New York Times - February 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 23, 2025
- Family Time - February 16, 2025
- USA Today - February 16, 2025
- New York Times - February 13, 2025
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