Clues for the word "LEAVEN"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 46 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on April 21, 2026.
Definition of leaven
- n. - Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
- n. - Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
- v. t. - To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
- v. t. - To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
Referring Clues
- Get a rise out of?
- Help rise
- Baking powder, e.g.
- Lightener
- It gets the batter up
- Cause to rise
- Raise dough
- Add yeast to
- Make rise, as bread
- Get the batter up?
- It can raise dough
- Use yeast on
- Do what yeast does
- Lighten up
- Use yeast in
- Yeast, e.g.
- Raise
- Cause dough to rise
- With abandon, a motherless man can cause a rising
- Cause bread to rise by adding yeast
- Raising agent
- Quit application, finally causing ferment
- Yeast
- Ferment, raise
- Cause to expand, as bread
- Give rise to?
- Fermented dough
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - April 21, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 04, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 11, 2024
- New York Times - May 19, 2024
- LA Times - February 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 07, 2023
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - December 10, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2017
- Universal - March 28, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - March 09, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 14, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 10, 2016
- New York Times - June 20, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 17, 2015
- Guardian Quick - January 31, 2015
- USA Today - December 12, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - January 02, 2014
- USA Today - October 16, 2013
- Universal - September 10, 2013
- Washington Post - July 02, 2013
- Netword - December 09, 2011
- Universal - May 23, 2011
- Universal - August 30, 2010
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 01, 2009
- And in 16 more crossword puzzles...