Clues for the word "MOSSY"
We've had 47 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 72 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on November 17, 2025.
Definition of mossy
- superl. - Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
- superl. - Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
Referring Clues
- Sphagnous
- Like some tree trunks
- Antiquated
- Outdated
- Unlike a rolling stone?
- Unlike a rolling stone, proverbially
- Like some tree trunk areas
- Unlike the proverbial rolling stone
- Covered with a matted, moist growth, as a forest floor
- What a rolling stone can never be
- What a rolling stone will not be
- Velvety, as a tree trunk
- Old-fashioned
- Like some forest ground
- Like a damp rock
- Like forest rocks
- Unlike rolling stones?
- Like fallen logs
- Velvety, like some tree trunks
- Very conservative
- Like the north sides of some trees
- Lichen-covered
- Lichen-filled
- Stodgy
- Like the north side of some rocks
- Like a forest glade
- Mat-covered, as moist ground
- Like poorly drained rock gardens
- Like the north side of a tree
- Unlike rolling stones
- Unlike rolling stones, supposedly
- Unlike a rolling stone?
- Overgrown, as a tree trunk
- Like some woodland rocks
- Like some forest floors
- Green and soft, say
- Like some shaded spots
- Like some lawns
- Covered in some green growth
- Covered with a moist, green growth
- Like some stream banks
- Like forest stones
- Overgrown, in a way
- Covered with lichen
- Like some green forest floors
- Like a cloud forest
- Being green, not exactly bossy
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 17, 2025
- LA Times - November 14, 2024
- USA Today - June 28, 2024
- LA Times - November 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 24, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - March 19, 2023
- LA Times - March 06, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 09, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 30, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 29, 2022
- New York Times - December 09, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 05, 2022
- Netword - December 24, 2017
- New York Times - September 07, 2017
- New York Times - June 13, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 17, 2017
- Universal - February 17, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - January 25, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 10, 2016
- Netword - June 11, 2016
- Netword - April 20, 2016
- Universal - December 16, 2015
- LA Times - September 08, 2015
- LA Times Sunday - March 08, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 02, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 04, 2014
- New York Times - October 29, 2013
- Universal - June 26, 2013
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 22, 2013
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - June 16, 2013
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