Clues for the word "MINCE"
We've had 85 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 194 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on December 18, 2025.
Definition of mince
- v. t. - To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
- v. t. - To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
- v. t. - To affect; to make a parade of.
- v. i. - To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- v. i. - To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
- n. - A short, precise step; an affected manner.
Referring Clues
- Prepare garlic, perhaps
- ___ words
- Not say directly
- Kind of pie
- Chop finely
- Cut into tiny pieces
- Not use plainly
- ___ Pie
- Cut into tiny bits
- Walk daintily
- Chop into small pieces, à la Emeril
- Chop into little bits
- Temper, as words
- Prepare pork for sausage
- Chop up
- Cut into small pieces
- Chop into little pieces
- Chop into tiny pieces
- Word before "words"
- Recipe direction
- Recipe instruction
- Slice and dice
- Pie ingredient, perhaps
- Make hash
- Chop into tiny bits
- Chop into pieces
- Chop into small pieces
- Prepare garlic
- Word before "words"
- Cut up finely
- "Don't ___ words!"
- Chop into bits
- Shredded meat
- Cut into teeny bits
- Chop well, as garlic
- Chop to bits
- Finely prepare
- Make a certain pie filling
- Recipe directive
- Dice
- Hash up
- Pulverize, almost
- Walk with affected nicety
- With 45-Across, not be direct ... or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do?
- Pie type
- Cut to bits
- ___ meat pie
- Ground meat
- Processed meat
- Rodents eating last bit of rotten food
- Finely cut meat
- Setter's devouring cold chop
- Chop up a number among 6 victims
- How to walk with it, from the butcher's?
- Walk like little beasts having a bit of fun?
- Food that brings the mice round for a bit of a snack
- Chop up, making many a nice mess
- Cut up, making many a nice mess
- Cat food, including last of luncheon meat
- Ground meat - walk affectedly
- Shy people round the North take tiny steps
- Be affected by meat that isn't?
- Be affected by food from a runcible spoon
- Piece of coal in colliery cut into small pieces(5)
- Appear affected, as meat
- Lasagne ingredient
- Chop into small bits
- Pit filled with cold meat
- A fine cut of meat
- Chop in a kitchen
- Food for mice around central Greenford
- Meat in pie fillings
- Prepare, as garlic
- Hash
- Chop fine
- Something to do with words (anagrammatically?)
- Chop
- What you might do to meat or words
- Cut finely
- Shred
- Soften the effect of, as words
- Cut very finely
- Dice finely
- Chop chop!
- Chopped meat
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - December 18, 2025
- LA Times - December 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 07, 2025
- Mirror Mini - May 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 28, 2025
- New York Times - February 21, 2025
- LA Times - January 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 18, 2024
- Daily American - November 17, 2024
- New York Times - October 31, 2024
- Mirror Mini - September 21, 2024
- Daily American - September 10, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 04, 2024
- LA Times - June 21, 2024
- Daily American - April 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 01, 2023
- Mirror Mini - September 21, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 07, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 24, 2023
- And in 164 more crossword puzzles...