Clues for the word "KNOTTY"
We've had 55 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 76 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on October 21, 2026.
Definition of knotty
- superl. - Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
- superl. - Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
- superl. - Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
Referring Clues
- Hard to saw, as some pine
- Problematic
- Stubborn, as a problem
- Intricate
- Like some pines
- Type of pine
- Full of difficulties
- Difficult to solve
- Labyrinthine
- Gnarled, as a tree trunk
- Seemingly unsolvable
- Too complex to solve
- Difficult to disentangle
- Complex, as a problem
- Baffling
- Gnarled
- Hard to figure out
- Kind of pine
- Complex
- Difficult
- Tough to solve
- Tough to figure out
- Complicated, as a problem
- ___ pine: paneling wood
- Very difficult or complex
- Difficult - intricate
- Complicated, like a sandpiper?
- Difficult piece of work? Not typically
- Difficult as a hitch?
- Like Gordius, who once kept wicket for England?
- Difficult - having hard lumps (of wood)
- Wood is often hard
- Complex - hard to solve
- Very difficult – complex
- Tangled up
- Difficult to unravel
- Difficult (like wood hard to chop through?)
- Tangled - snarled
- Tangled
- Kent keeper and Yorkshire opener, like my problem
- Gnarled, like a granny!
- No races in the Bluegrass State - that's awkward
- Troublesome shorebird seen on borders of territory
- Describing a difficult problem
- It's difficult not replacing it in communal funding
- Involved old cricketer at close of play
- Complicated
- Difficult, complex or intricate
- Difficult in a way said to be negative?
- Such a problem as granny might become?
- ___ pine
- Like granny's problem perhaps?
- Tough
- Extremely complicated, as a problem
- Difficult, as a problem
Last Seen In
- New York Times - October 21, 2026
- Your Life Choices - April 11, 2026
- Daily Quick - February 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - November 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 20, 2025
- New York Times - March 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 07, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 22, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 18, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 09, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 09, 2023
- Daily Quick - April 20, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 02, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - July 10, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - February 06, 2018
- New Zealand Herald - November 25, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - November 15, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - October 05, 2017
- Your Life Choices - July 31, 2017
- Washington Post Sunday - May 14, 2017
- Daily Quick - April 20, 2017
- LA Times - March 21, 2017
- Guardian Quick - July 29, 2016
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - June 26, 2016
- Universal - January 11, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 19, 2015
- And in 46 more crossword puzzles...