Clues for the word "LIME"
We've had 239 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 642 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on June 17, 2026.
Definition of lime
- n. - A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
- n. - The linden tree. See Linden.
- n. - A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
- n. - Birdlime.
- n. - Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
- v. t. - To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
- v. t. - To entangle; to insnare.
- v. t. - To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.
- v. t. - To cement.
Referring Clues
- 7-Up ingredient
- Gardener's purchase
- Margarita fruit
- Club soda fillip
- Lemon go-with
- Whitewash ingredient
- Margarita garnish
- Welles's "The Third Man" role
- Citrus fruit
- Many a twist
- Collins juice
- Shade of green
- Gimlet garnish
- Green flavor
- Lawn care product
- Greenish
- Vitamin C source
- Lawn application
- Harry ___ (central character in "The Third Man")
- Kiln output
- Fruit for a twist
- Gimlet flavoring
- Whitewash
- Twist, sometimes
- Pucker producer
- Fruit commonly served with Corona beer
- Wedge in a bottleneck?
- Tom Collins ingredient
- Calcium oxide
- Green fruit drink flavor
- Drink garnish
- CaO
- Green shade
- Lawn additive
- Green fruit
- Mexican beer go-with
- Sno-cone choice
- Cola additive
- Fertilizer ingredient
- It might be added with a twist
- Sprite flavor
- Jell-O flavor
- Foul-line material
- 7-Up flavor
- Twist choice
- Lemon-___ (Kool-Aid flavor)
- Cement component
- Margarita or rickey ingredient
- Margarita flavoring
- Fruit juice used in a gimlet
- Green garnish
- Corona garnish
- Soil additive
- Key pie fruit?
- Life Savers flavor
- Cuba libre ingredient
- Gin and tonic garnish
- Pad thai garnish
- Key fruit
- Soft drink flavor
- Twist in a gimlet
- Greenish shade
- Soil stabilizer
- Yellowish green
- Green citrus fruit
- Lawn treatment
- Cocktail garnish
- Twist fruit
- Daiquiri ingredient
- Sorbet choice
- Gin rickey garnish
- Key ___ pie
- Ingredient in a key pie?
- Fruit-bearing tree
- Lemon's green cousin
- Soil conditioner
- Cement ingredient
- Garnish for many a drink
- Citrus flavor
- Gin Rickey ingredient
- Key pie ingredient?
- Sherbet type
- Mortar ingredient
- Certain citrus
- Ingredient in a rickey
- Green hue
- Sherbet flavor
- Mixologist's fruit
- Rickey flavoring
- Green wedge in a gimlet
- Bar garnish
- See 17-Down
- Scurvy preventer
- Cocktail fruit
- Light green shade
- It's juiced for a gimlet
- Bar twist
- Whitewash ingredient
- Key ___
- "You put the ___ in the coconut ..."
- Gelatin flavor
- Rickey flavor
- Lemon's cousin
- Bar fruit
- Green color
- Rickey ingredient
- Rickey flavorer
- Corona enhancer
- Sour fruit
- Ade flavor
- Bud Light ___
- Certain citrus fruit
- Good vitamin C source
- Wedge in a mojito
- Pie fruit
- Tart fruit
- Paint color
- Garnish for a Moscow Mule
- Scurvy preventive
- Margarita ingredient
- Rickey fruit
- Mojito need
- Gimlet ingredient
- Mojito citrus
- Guacamole ingredient
- Gimlet fruit
- Cuba libre garnish
- Bean type
- Lemon's kin
- Tangy flavoring
- Lawn fertilizer
- One of the two flavors in Sprite
- Tavern garnish
- Lofty in thought or manner
- Gimlet flavor
- Twist, perhaps
- Cuba libre fruit
- Gin-and-tonic garnish
- Margarita citrus
- Acidic citrus fruit
- Tequila garnish
- Longtime shipboard scurvy preventative
- Mojito fruit
- Certain shade of green
- One flavor in Sprite
- Sorbet flavor
- Soil sweetener
- Green-colored fruit
- Lemon ___
- Caustic substance
- Fruit
- Linden tree
- Sour citrus fruit
- Procol Harum "___ Street Blues"
- What she put in the "Coconut"
- Harry Nilsson "She put the ___ in the coconut"
- What some rockers put in their beer
- Goes with Soul Coughing's "Lemon"
- Goes w/Shwayze's "Corona"
- "She put de ___ in de coconut" Harry Nilsson
- Goes with Shwayze's "Corona"
- Light green
- Brand New "Soco Amaretto ___"
- Soul Coughing "Lemon ___"
- "Put the ___ in the Coconut"
- Brand New has a "Soco Amaretto" one
- Citrus fruit - shade of green
- Harry gave me £1
- Citrus tree - non-citrus tree
- A 20 cut up fruit
- Tree, linden or citrus
- Acid fruit
- Colour of gunge after sulphur removed
- Ceviche ingredient
- Color akin to chartreuse
- Soil addition
- Common tequila garnish
- Source of zest
- Caustic substance in tree
- Green manure
- Halt (as they used to say) – that's no way to serve up a lettuce!
- Story about male constituent of 21
- Green-skinned citrus fruit
- Original Skittles flavor
- Tart, green fruit
- Fruit left one extremely morose
- Mojito flavoring
- Flavor of much green candy
- Wedge in a gimlet
- Club soda flavoring
- Classic daiquiri fruit
- Adam finally taken in by falsehood gets fruit
- Bottleneck wedge?
- Mojito wedge
- Pub garnish
- Common salsa ingredient
- Bloody mary garnish
- Zest source
- Certain fruit
- Fruit with a Key variety
- Mojito component
- Ceviche flavoring
- Garnish for a Corona
- Guac ingredient
- A citrus fruit
- Bright green
- Citrus for pico de gallo
- Pad thai ingredient
- See 38-Across
- Lemon relative
- Corona wedge
- Green-packaged seltzer flavor
- One may be juiced for salsa
- Garnish for a gimlet
- Tart sherbet flavor
- Citrus fruit used in Thai dishes
- Suero fruit
- Hang out, in Barbados
- Green fruit in caipirinhas
- Tart sorbet flavor
- Classic margarita flavor
- Garnish on a Moscow mule
- Its juice is used in larb
- Green cocktail garnish
- One small juiced, for citrus notes, and to preserve color
- Garnish for a shrimp taco
- Citrus often served with tacos
- Fruit used to make caipirinha
- Gimlet need
- Margarita flavor
- Shade akin to peridot
- Guacamole fruit
- Color similar to chartreuse
- Choice for a twist
- Citrus fruit juiced for kung chae nampla
- Accompaniment for a tequila shot
- Common guacamole ingredient
- Mojito garnish
- Flavor of green Skittles
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - June 17, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 05, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 03, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - June 01, 2026
- Daily American - May 27, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 27, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 25, 2026
- Daily American - March 12, 2026
- Daily American - March 10, 2026
- LA Times - February 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 13, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 01, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 26, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 11, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 25, 2025
- Daily American - December 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 02, 2025
- LA Times - November 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 17, 2025
- Daily American - October 28, 2025
- New York Times - October 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 29, 2025
- New York Times - July 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 08, 2025
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