Clues for the word "LUTE"
We've had 167 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 455 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 07, 2026.
Definition of lute
- n. - A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.
- n. - A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- n. - A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
- v. t. - To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
- n. - A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
- v. i. - To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
- v. t. - To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Referring Clues
- Guitar relative
- Fretted instrument
- Pear-shaped instrument
- Cousin of a bandore
- Mandolin's ancestor
- Instrument shaped like a 69-Across
- Long-necked instrument
- Cousin of the banjo
- Relative of a mandolin
- Madrigal accompaniment
- Vermeer's "Woman With a ___"
- String instrument
- Guitar forerunner
- Renaissance instrument
- Mandolin kin
- Minstrel's instrument
- Renaissance musicmaker
- Cousin of a mandolin
- Balladeer's aid
- Old instrument that's strummed
- It has strings attached
- Accompaniment for a madrigal
- Old balladeer's instrument
- It has a low bridge
- Instrument that's plucked
- Ancestor of a banjo
- It's featured in two Vivaldi concertos
- Troubadour's instrument
- Instrument of Elizabethan ballads
- Instrument featured in some Shakespeare plays
- Mandolin relative
- Minstrel's accompaniment
- Instrument with a long neck
- Balladeer's instrument of yore
- Mandolin's cousin
- Madrigalist's accompaniment
- Theorbo's cousin
- Sitar, e.g.
- Tamboura's cousin
- Bard's instrument
- Guitar granddaddy
- Strings for a minstrel
- Guitar ancestor
- Instrument with a pear-shaped body
- Bouzouki or mandola
- Instrument for Julian Bream
- Stringed instrument
- Troubadour accompanier
- Ancient stringed instrument
- Minstrel's strings
- Mandolin cousin
- Baroque instrument
- Instrument for 19-Across
- Elizabethan instrument
- Boy's instrument in a Hals painting
- Guitar's kin
- Madrigal accompaniment, perhaps
- One with a long neck and a rounded body
- Mandolin's forerunner
- Balalaika or bouzouki
- Instrument for a minstrel
- Old strings
- Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew"
- Pear-shaped stringed instrument
- Sitar kin
- Ancient guitar cousin
- Troubador prop
- Mandolin cousin of old
- Two Vivaldi concertos feature it
- Guitar of old
- Medieval instrument
- Sitar's cousin
- Mandolin's kin
- Guitar's ancestor
- Troubadour's accompaniment
- Troubadour's prop
- Guitar kin
- Serenade accompaniment
- Pear-shaped instrument of old
- Minstrel's instrument, perhaps
- Zither's kin
- Stringed instrument for a madrigal
- Renaissance music staple
- Plucked Renaissance instrument
- Balladeer's accessory
- Pipe sealant
- Relative of a zither
- Stradivari specialty
- Troubador's instrument
- Guitar's older relative
- Elizabethan strings
- Musical instrument
- Madrigal's instrument
- Shakespearean instrument
- Medieval guitar
- Troubadour's stringed instrument
- Elizabethan stringed instrument
- Instrument with a bent neck
- Renaissance Faire instrument
- Ancient cousin of the guitar
- Henry VIII played it
- Banjo ancestor
- Accompaniment for a pavane
- Mandolin ancestor
- Old instrument
- Pear-shaped, fretted instrument
- It covers Miami, Montpelier and Montreal
- Guitar relative of old
- Pear-shaped classical guitar
- Old plucked instrument
- Old stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body
- Instrument
- Old stringed instrument
- Not loud, or it would have been in the wind section
- Fellow leaves one instrument for another
- Old musical instrument
- One instrument or another needing no introduction
- Instrument left with Victorian pick-up
- Early guitar
- Old guitar-like instrument
- Type of stringed instrument
- Plucked, pear-shaped instrument
- Subject to drugs
- It can be riven
- Ancient guitar
- Old pear-shaped instrument
- Troubadour's strings
- Balladeer's instrument
- Guitar predecessor
- Instrument for Alan-a-Dale in "Robin Hood"
- Minstrel's item
- Instrument broken over Hortensio's head in "The Taming of the Shrew"
- Old 'guitar'
- Caravaggio's "The ___ Player"
- Minstrel's stringed instrument
- Stringed instrument with a deep rounded sounding cavity
- Pear-shaped instrument of yore
- It becomes another instrument when "F" is added
- One with a neck and a round body
- Mandolin’s relative
- Early string instrument
- Instrument similar to the oud
- Serenade need, perhaps
- Instrument that becomes another instrument if you add an F at the beginning
- Instrument akin to an oud
- String instrument spelled by removing the first letter from a woodwind instrument
- Ukulele forebear
- Gentileschi's "Self-Portrait as a ___ Player"
- Has it a plucky player?
- Instrument originally played with a quill
- Ren faire instrument
- Renaissance fair instrument
- Stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body
- Medieval instrument with a pear-shaped body
- Ancient stringed instrument sometimes made from a turtle shell
- Ye olde string instrument
- Instrument once plucked with a quill
- Instrument for a troubadour
- Ancient instrument
- It becomes a different instrument by adding "f" to the front
- Chordophone popular in medieval times
- Sitar, technically
- Instrument depicted in Caravaggio's "The Musicians"
- Instrument with a deep, rounded back
- Guitarlike instrument
- Primary instrument of English Renaissance composer John Dowland
- Instrument depicted in paintings by Hals and Caravaggio
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 07, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 30, 2026
- LA Times - January 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 04, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 25, 2025
- LA Times - November 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 26, 2025
- Daily American - November 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 15, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 08, 2025
- New York Times - July 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 10, 2025
- Daily American - July 06, 2025
- New York Times - June 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 21, 2025
- Mirror Mini - June 13, 2025
- Mirror Mini - June 08, 2025
- LA Times - June 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 13, 2025
- LA Times - May 08, 2025
- Daily American - April 11, 2025
- USA Today - March 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 25, 2025
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