Clues for the word "MUMPS"
We've had 41 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 69 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 23, 2025.
Definition of mumps
- n. - Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
- n. - A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
Referring Clues
- Kind of vaccine
- Doctors call it parotitis
- Common childhood illness, once
- Illness that is a swell time?
- Malady with swelling
- Swelling malady
- Childhood malady
- One target of the MMR vaccine
- Swell reason to stay in bed?
- Childhood illness
- Childhood ailment
- Childhood disease
- Swollen cheek ailment
- Swollen glands cause
- Childhood ailment, typically
- Vaccination target
- Complaint from mothers about parking
- Mother has second thoughts after contagious disease
- Infectious childhood disease
- Ma has an afterthought - a complaint
- Mother has an afterthought by way of complaint
- Epidemic parotitis
- One's carrier? Something more to say? It's a disease
- Viral disease
- Childhood infection
- Viral disease, dangerous to adult males
- Disease once common in children
- Infectious glandular disease
- One of the M's in the MMRV vaccine
- Childhood swelling disease
- Condition of many headless nodules
- Acute viral disease, often in children
- Complaint that is ma and pa's initially
- Contagious viral disease
- What a certain vaccine can prevent
- One target of a childhood vaccine
- Mother has an afterthought - a complaint
- Disease with swollen glands
- A complaint when mother's about to finish up
- Disease
- Swell illness?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 11, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 08, 2025
- Family Time - March 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 25, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 31, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 18, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - January 12, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 31, 2023
- Your Life Choices - October 28, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 02, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 11, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - October 31, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - October 23, 2022
- Your Life Choices - August 30, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 01, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - December 11, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - November 13, 2017
- Your Life Choices - September 03, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - September 02, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 29, 2017
- Netword - April 06, 2017
- Chronicle of Higher Education - August 05, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 24, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 10, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 07, 2015
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