Clues for the word "MEASLES"
We've had 40 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 121 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on March 10, 2026.
Definition of measles
- n. - Leprosy; also, a leper.
- n. - A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola.
- n. - A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
- n. - A disease of trees.
- n. - The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
Referring Clues
- Discovery made by a spot check?
- It may be spotted in kindergarten
- Red spots
- Children's malady, often
- German ___
- Spots from childhood
- Illness found by a spot check?
- One-time bane of childhood
- Rubeola
- German ___
- Childhood illness
- Spots at a clinic
- Childhood disease
- It may be spotted on kids
- Spotty condition?
- Spots at the clinic
- Vaccine target, often
- Disease that gives red spots
- What might be treated with vitamin A megadoses
- Spotty ailment
- Illness characterized by a red rash
- Rubella
- Viral disease once common in children
- Disease suffered in childhood
- Illness
- Contagious disease
- Highly contagious viral disease
- Contagious disease in children
- Spotty disease
- Spots setter, one without sense, including the French
- Spots Bond's governor issuing new leases
- Setter playing the part of man with disease
- Infectious viral disease
- People with this complaint may easily be spotted
- Viral disease
- The first "M" in the MMR vaccine
- Disease
- Certain vaccine target
- Sore spots for kids?
- One "M" of the M.M.R. vaccine
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - March 10, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 01, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 02, 2025
- New York Times - June 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 17, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 31, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 31, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 21, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 14, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 04, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 11, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 02, 2024
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