Clues for the word "LILAC"
We've had 221 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 728 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 21, 2026.
Definition of lilac
- n. - A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.
- n. - A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.
Referring Clues
- State flower of New Hampshire
- Purplish
- Violet shade
- New Hampshire's state flower
- Pale purple
- Shade of purple
- Light purple
- Purple shade
- Whitman's dooryard bloomer
- Spring bloomer
- Sachet scent
- Potpourri scent
- Popular fragrance
- Soap scent
- Air freshener option
- Reddish purple
- Purplish bloom
- Purple bloom
- Pale reddish purple
- Purple ___, New Hampshire's state flower
- Purple bloomer
- Pastel shade
- Flowering shrub
- Fragrant blossom
- Kew bloom in a Noyes poem
- Amethyst shade
- Purple hue
- Pale shade of violet
- Pale purple color
- Fragrant shrub
- One of Whitman's bloomers
- New Hampshire state flower
- Purple plant
- Purplish color
- Perfume fragrance
- Flower in a Walt Whitman poem
- Mauve's cousin
- Color similar to heliotrope
- It's paler than amethyst
- "___ Wine" (Eartha Kitt song)
- Flower in the olive family
- Pale violet
- Color similar to thistle
- Forsythia's cousin
- Color similar to amethyst
- Lavender look-alike
- Flowery perfume scent
- Olive family shrub
- Purplish hue
- Purple flower
- Lavender bloom
- Lavender cousin
- Fragrant bush
- Fragrant flower
- Fragrant spring shrub
- Lavender flower
- Flowery scent
- Door-yard bloomer, in a poem
- Whitman memorial flower
- Lavender shrub
- Flower in a Noyes poem
- Sachet scent, perhaps
- Flower or color
- Sachet scent, sometimes
- Dooryard bloomer, in a poem
- Purple ___ (New Hampshire's state flower)
- The purple one is New Hampshire's state flower
- Not a deep purple
- Eye shadow shade
- Purplish spring bloom
- Color similar to pale plum
- Bath salt fragrance
- Air-freshener scent
- Pastel color
- Spring flower
- Delicate Hue
- New hampshire flower
- Spring Blossom
- Air freshener scent
- Pastel purple
- Flower, or its color
- Popular pastel
- Moderate purple
- Syringa by another name
- Easter egg hue
- Fragrant purple flower
- Lavender
- Light-purple shade
- Purplish shade
- Light purple shade
- Amethyst hue
- Soft purple
- Delicate purple
- Pale purple hue
- Pale purple shade
- Mauve relative
- Purple ___: New Hampshire state flower
- Paint color
- Shrub
- Purple candle scent
- Cousin of Corinthian pink
- Purplish flower
- Spring fragrance
- Lavender bloomer
- Whitman's dooryard flower
- Fragrant bloom
- Common air freshener option
- Scented candle option
- Olive family member
- Spring bloom
- Candle scent
- Flowering bush
- Flower in some fragrances
- Blooming bush
- Color named for a flower
- Early bloomer
- Designer hue
- Color similar to lavender
- Light purple colour
- Whitman's purple bloomer
- Fragrant light purple flower
- Bridesmaid dress shade
- Flowery candle scent
- Ring up about one garden shrub
- Cilla changed colour
- A garden shrub Cilla ordered
- Pale colour
- Jeff Buckley's "___ Wine"
- Jeff Buckley "___ Wine"
- Flower Jeff Buckley would pick with wine
- I call mobile, getting tone
- Shrub or small tree with fragrant blossom
- Plant
- Bloomer made by many a leading aircraftman
- A growing cause for one to call out wildly?
- Cilla changes colour
- When I call out erroneously, it's a bloomer
- Use phone keeping one back for 1 across
- Growing evidence that I'm within call, perhaps
- Tree with purple or white flowers
- Pale purple - flowering tree
- I call for a change of colour
- I call for correction of this bloomer!
- I ring up about the plant
- Pale mauve colour
- Bush in a relapse of critical illness
- Purple
- Light purple - flowering tree
- Tree with pink blossoms
- Kin of mauve
- Light purple - shrub
- Plant in the shade
- Pale pinkish-violet
- Shrub I ring up about
- Syringa, one with label placed outside, lifted up
- I call (anag)
- Flowering tree of the olive family
- Colour I call unusual
- I ring back about the shrub
- Bush has to ring back about one ...
- A bloomer from Cilla?
- Shrub, one that's in rising demand
- The shrub I call exotic
- Pale mauve
- Syringa vulgaris, light purple in colour
- Purplish in colour
- Tree providing shade
- Purple patch regularly follows ill wind
- Bloomer one's seen during return visit to the Old Vicarage
- Phone up about one shrub
- Ring up about one flowering shrub
- Telephone back about one garden ornamental
- Ring up about first of images in colour
- Ring back about one supplying tree
- Ring up about island shrub
- Maybe Cilla White - or Purple?
- Initial of Iris in name that's come up for flower
- One may be within call, as in the garden
- Purple shade named for a flower
- Bath salt scent
- Flower
- I call out for shade
- Pale violet hue
- Cilla makes a bloomer
- Shrub or small tree
- Shade like lavender
- Shade similar to lavender
- Purple pastel shade
- Light purple bloom
- Amethyst kin
- Shrub with fragrant pink flowers
- Shade related to violet
- Shade named for a flower
- Cilla bursts into flower
- Cilla's blossoming form
- Spring scent
- Name incomplete on account of a bloomer
- Shrub that may be light purple
- Fragrant purple bloom
- Floral fragrance note
- Fragrant purple shrub
- Shrub whose flowers are often purple
- Colour
- Pale pinkish purple
- Relative of mauve
- Purple shrub
- Pale purple flower
- A growing cause for one to call out wildly?
- Pinkish violet
- Pale purple shrub
- Shade of purple named after a flower
- Pale shade of purple
- Shade close to lavender
- Symbol of purity or spirituality
- A bloomer from Cilla?
- Lavender kin
- Color similar to periwinkle
- Pastel purple hue
- Shrub in the olive family
- Flower symbolizing early love
- Floral shade
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 21, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 18, 2026
- Daily American - January 17, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 09, 2026
- LA Times - December 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 08, 2025
- LA Times - November 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 21, 2025
- Daily American - October 20, 2025
- LA Times - October 20, 2025
- Daily American - October 19, 2025
- New York Times - October 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 25, 2025
- New York Times - September 08, 2025
- LA Times - September 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 20, 2025
- LA Times - August 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 07, 2025
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