Clues for the word "MISER"
We've had 152 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 408 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 28, 2026.
Definition of miser
- n. - A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
- n. - A despicable person; a wretch.
- n. - A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
- n. - A kind of large earth auger.
Referring Clues
- Scrooge
- Scrooge, e.g.
- No philanthropist
- Cheapskate
- No gleeful giver
- Unlikely grant giver
- Money hoarder
- Saver, and then some
- Tightwad
- Molière comedy, with "The"
- Silas Marner, e.g.
- Scrooge McDuck, notably
- Molière's Harpagon, e.g.
- Silas Marner, for one
- Pinchpenny
- Not exactly Diamond Jim
- Spendthrift's antithesis
- Ebenezer Scrooge, for one
- Penny pincher
- Stingy sort
- Nickel nurser
- Cheap chap
- Tight-fisted person
- Stingy person
- Philanthropist's antithesis
- Silas Marner, for example
- Skinflint
- Marner, for one
- Greedy one
- Avaricious one
- Scrooge McDuck, for one
- Stingy one
- Hoarder
- Jack Benny persona
- Tightfisted type
- No gleeful giver, he
- Tight-fisted type
- Man of rare gifts?
- Big spender's opposite
- No spendthrift, he
- Hardly a philanthropist
- Not a gleeful giver
- Silas Marner, early on
- Cheeseparer
- Cheap so-and-so
- Muckworm
- One least likely to pick up the tab
- Moneygrubber
- Scrooge, notably
- Penny-pincher
- Fagin, for one
- Money-grubbing cheapskate
- Tight type
- Overly tight sort
- Tightfisted sort
- Frugal fellow
- Frugal one
- Churl
- Scrooge, for one
- Skin flint
- El cheapo
- Close one
- Tight-fisted one
- Dough hoarder
- Pocket protector?
- Stingy type
- One who hoards
- Tightfisted one
- Clusterfist
- Hardly a spendthrift
- Unlikely donor
- He's literally a wretch
- Money saver to the extreme
- Person who hoards
- Unpromising target for a charity drive
- Overly frugal one
- Ebenezer (!) Balfour, in "Kidnapped"
- Tight-fisted sort
- "Death and the ___" (Bosch painting in the National Gallery of Art)
- Scrooge, i.e.
- Scrooge McDuck, e.g.
- Scrooge, at first
- Greedy person
- Mean person
- Man with no time but lots of money?
- Many can take a rise out of this penny-pincher
- He's reluctant to pay for faultless service on the motorway
- He's loath to pay for faultless service on the motorway
- Niggard
- The hoarder of Reims?
- Skinflint getting faultless service on the motorway
- Holder of revenue for motorway is the Queen
- For faultless service on the motorway, he doesn't want to pay!
- Hoarder of money
- Work of 18 having spacecraft without directions
- Stingy character of motorway service having lost its grip
- Harpagon's promise remains herein
- In firm I serve a money-grubber
- He keeps on accumulating endless unhappiness
- No time for Mister Scrooge
- Minister's no nit-picker over expenditure
- Shakespeare's Shylock, for one
- Avaricious hoarder
- Economist, if professional, would be one who takes the pledge
- Skinflint causing grief, 22
- Penny-pincher causing endless suffering
- Skinflint causing endless grief
- Tight-fisted type causing endless hardship
- Some caviare simply upset skinflint
- Skinflint lives alone finally in room after retirement
- With Hallowe'en, (Pranksters' game
- Scrooge-like, I'm backing some losers
- Scrooge in film is erratic
- Ungiving sort
- Pocket protector?
- Shylock, for example
- One giving no quarter?
- Many a rise could be taken out of one!
- Unlikely GoFundMe donor
- One that's near title losing time
- Generous one? No, U-turn
- Scrooge or Marner
- His meanness upsets me sir
- Being very close, he may move to Reims
- Endless woe for Scrooge?
- Having half a mind service has been cut, he won't pay
- Unlikely philanthropist
- Has half a mind to reduce service, the pennypincher!
- Greedy hoarder
- Scroogean persona
- Parsimonious person
- Maybe rich, he's able to be very poor
- Extreme penny-pincher
- Skinflint many could take a rise out of
- Dough nut?
- Someone like Scrooge
- Shylock or Scrooge
- Word from the Latin for "wretched"
- Pinchpenny person
- His niggardliness upsets me sir!
- Stingy type ... or, with 36-Across, torn down?
- He doesn't like paying for faultless service on the motorway
- James Bond's boss is royal, but a cheapskate
- Hardly an oversharer
- Fourth circle of hell inhabitant, in Dante
- The hoarder of Reims?
- Wealth hoarder
- For faultless service on the motorway, he begrudges the money
- Heat ___ ("The Year Without a Santa Claus" character)
- His being so close upsets me sir
- Stingy fellow
- His stinginess upsets me sir!
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 28, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 16, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - November 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 05, 2025
- New York Times - October 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 13, 2025
- Daily American - August 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 07, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 06, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - March 02, 2025
- LA Times - March 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 19, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 08, 2025
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