Clues for the word "MUSCLE"
We've had 60 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 83 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on November 21, 2025.
Definition of muscle
- n. - An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.
- n. - The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
- n. - Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.
- n. - See Mussel.
Referring Clues
- Lifter's asset
- Biceps, e.g.
- It may move you
- Biceps or triceps
- Clout
- It may be pulled or pumped
- Mover or shaker?
- What a bodybuilder builds
- Bodyguard's asset
- The heart is largely this
- Might
- Word before car or fiber
- Hired goons
- With 44-Across, they're found at the ends of 17-, 25-, 49- and 59-Across
- Influence
- Clout, so to speak
- Brawn
- Power, so to speak
- Iron-pumper's pride
- Bodybuilder's goal
- Deltoid, for one
- Bodyguards or bouncers, in slang
- Leverage, so to speak
- Physical strength
- ___ shirt
- Kind of car or tee
- Strength
- Brute strength
- Venom song for flexing?
- Carly Rae Jepsen "Your Heart Is a ___"
- Bodily strength
- Patron of the arts, catching cold, left beef
- Club with a scheme to prepare a strip of beef?
- Power of inspiring person engaging class
- Strength required for first managing cryptic clues
- Power
- Tissue - force
- Might number clues in the wrong order
- Gathered on line as shellfish might
- Power cross round back of defenders before clinical header
- A measure of drink (think about it!) will build strength
- They say seafood gives strength
- Sham US cleric seizing power
- Heart, for example, can be heavy
- Cryptic clues written by spymaster might
- Strength of beast of burden carrying spades about
- 1000 cryptic clues might
- Delt or pec
- To do this in, presumably requires brawn
- Tissue
- Force, to a gangster
- Bodyguards, informally
- Tough guys maybe apt to do it in
- Arm-wrestling asset
- Body part whose name comes from the Latin for "little mouse"
- Clem may be out to get us power
- Brawny figure to think contemplatively about
- Deltoid, e.g.
- Myocardium, e.g.
- Trapezius, e.g.
Last Seen In
- Daily American - November 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 09, 2025
- Daily American - April 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 04, 2025
- LA Times - December 11, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 19, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 11, 2024
- USA Today - March 21, 2024
- Daily American - November 21, 2023
- LA Times - August 06, 2023
- USA Today - June 25, 2023
- Daily American - April 23, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 20, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 18, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 04, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - December 14, 2017
- Daily American - November 21, 2017
- Daily American - April 23, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 21, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 05, 2016
- Guardian Quiptic - August 08, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 20, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 05, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - October 13, 2014
- Guardian Quick - September 03, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 26, 2014
- Rock n Roll Crossword - April 13, 2014
- And in 53 more crossword puzzles...