Clues for the word "LEAF"
We've had 211 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 415 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 16, 2026.
Definition of leaf
- n. - A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
- n. - A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
- n. - Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- v. i. - To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
Referring Clues
- Word after over or clover
- Flip (through)
- Walking ___ (cleverly camouflaged green insect)
- Table extender
- Two pages
- Riffle
- Table part
- Page
- Thumb (through)
- Browse (through)
- Natural rustler
- Fall faller
- Table section
- Maple ___ (Canada flag emblem)
- Vein site
- Page (through)
- Book part
- Table extension
- Vein holder
- Bit of foliage
- Table expander
- Gold ___ (sheets used for gilding)
- Dining table expander
- One that's stalked
- Table insert
- Browse, with "through"
- This falls in fall
- Caterpillar's snack
- "A New ___" (Elaine May movie)
- Dogwood dropping
- Bit of lettuce
- Bit of greenery
- Page in a book
- Tree growth
- Tobacco unit
- Thin metallic sheet
- See 54-Down
- Fall pile unit
- Foliage
- Look (through), as a book
- Fall floater
- Page of a book
- Book page
- Peruse (through)
- Piece of lettuce
- Canadian flag feature
- Sheet
- Elaine May's "A New ___"
- A new one may be turned over
- Little photosynthesis factory
- Book sheet
- Lettuce layer
- Table or drawbridge section
- Some people turn over a new one
- Canadian flag symbol
- It falls in autumn
- Turn over a new ___
- Sheet of a sort
- Sheet of paper
- It's out on a limb
- What a bud may become
- Lettuce piece
- Symbol on a stoner's shirt
- Elaine May's "A New ___"
- Bit of foilage
- Part eight of our message
- Summer blowers
- Folio
- Maple ___ (Canadian flag emblem)
- Folio part
- Emblem on Canada's flag
- Canada flag feature
- Tree part
- Image on Canada's flag
- Clover piece
- Symbol on Canada's flag
- Canadian emblem
- Read casually
- Frond, e.g.
- Raking targets
- Something that falls in fall
- Foliage bit
- Nissan hybrid
- Canadian flag image
- Faller in the fall
- Biblical cover-up
- It can float during the fall
- Biblical coverup
- Veined wonder of nature
- Tree flutterer
- Nissan electric car
- Removable table section
- Koala's tasty morsel
- Autumn dropper
- High Times centerfold, perhaps
- Fall faller [an avxwords.com subscription makes a great holiday gift]
- Flip through a book
- Pot ___ (stoner's icon)
- Bit of a tree
- Needle
- Blade
- Canada symbol
- Tree product
- One that falls in the fall
- Canadian flag emblem
- Foliage item
- Dining table expansion piece
- Stem's end
- It falls in the fall
- Autumn dropping
- Toronto hockey player, slangily
- Lily pad, e.g.
- Another kind of lettuce
- Grub for a grub
- New thing to turn over?
- Blade or needle
- Tree greenery
- Chlorophyll factory
- Toronto hockeyist
- Chlorophyll repository
- Metaphorical new thing to "turn over"
- Romaine bit
- A new one is a sign of spring
- It's sometimes turned over
- Green piece
- Prominent part of Nestea's logo
- Bud, eventually
- Most of the Air Canada logo
- One of many that fall in the fall
- Petal
- Part of a plant
- Plant part
- Tree dropping
- Maple or oak
- Joaquin Phoenix's first name, once
- Maple ___ (Canada flag emblem)
- Thing to raked in the fall
- October dropping
- Thing that appears in spring
- Flattened structure of a plant
- Carbon ___
- Part of a tree
- Down "Hail the ___"
- Hinged or removable table flap
- Tree part - page
- Sheet of written material
- See 1
- A couple of pages back to back
- Page - part of a plant
- Growth on plant
- Gold contribution to considerable affluence
- Spring appeared this February?
- See 24
- Piece of foliage (to be turned over anew?)
- Meadow with bit of foliage? Bit of foliage!
- Dinner table section
- Frond
- Single sheet
- Paper piece
- Reform, turn over a new ___
- Photosynthesis site
- Turn over a new ___ (reform)
- Maple ___ (symbol on Canada's flag)
- Thing out on a 15-Across
- Electric car from Nissan
- Fall flutterer
- Image in a botanical print
- Part of a tree or a book
- Where photosynthesis occurs
- Part of the foliage of a maple, a fir, etc.
- Kale unit
- Bit of kale
- Part of Apple's logo
- Foliage element
- Four-___ clover
- Faller in fall
- Source of seasonal color
- Tree feature
- Two pages back to back
- Trees may be in this meadow at Flamborough Head
- Dinner party insert
- Part of an autumn pile
- Can be green as a meadow at Flamborough Head
- Lettuce wrap wrapper
- Part of some tables
- Idly look through a book under a tree?
- Part of Poison Ivy's costume
- Dinner table expander
- Bit of romaine
- "The Maple ___ Forever" (Canadian anthem)
- Ssambap wrapper
- Something that falls in the fall
- Preceded by 1-, 9- and 65-Across, what each circled word literally suggests
- Banana ___ (banh tet wrapper)
- Snack for a panda
- One of many beautiful things in the fall
- Symbol over the "i" in the Tropicana logo
- Tree piece
- Scott Joplin's "Maple ___ Rag"
- Part of the Apple logo
- Vegetarian symbol on a menu, perhaps
- Symbol on 62-Across's flag
- Part of a fall pile
- Canadian flag icon
- ___ peeping (fall activity)
- Electric Nissan model
- Faller during fall
- Gutter clogger
- Something that often changes color before it falls
- Tree outgrowth
- Fall pile component
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 16, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 14, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 31, 2025
- LA Times - October 26, 2025
- New York Times - September 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 14, 2025
- New York Times - June 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 18, 2025
- LA Times - May 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 09, 2025
- Mirror Mini - March 31, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 20, 2025
- Daily American - February 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 24, 2025
- New York Times - December 18, 2024
- USA Today - December 18, 2024
- New York Times - December 16, 2024
- New York Times - December 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 23, 2024
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