Clues for the word "NEEDLE"
We've had 227 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 421 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on June 13, 2026.
Definition of needle
- n. - A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
- n. - See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
- n. - A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
- n. - One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
- n. - Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
- v. t. - To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
- v. i. - To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
Referring Clues
- Compass part
- Thread's partner
- Pine leaf
- What CD players don't require
- Irk
- Knitting tool
- It may be in the groove
- Razz
- One with an eye for fine clothing?
- Pester
- It may get under your skin
- Rib
- Tone arm attachment
- Bug
- Christmas debris
- Christmas tree dropping
- Tease
- Gauge part
- It may be lowered to hear music
- LP spinner's buy
- It gets in the groove
- Hider in a haystack
- Hard-to-find object, perhaps
- *Aid in tailing
- Eye site
- One getting into the groove?
- It's in the groove
- Poke fun at
- Cleopatra's ___
- It may be in a groove
- Tone arm item
- Tone arm insert
- Conifer leaf
- Record player?
- Piece of Christmas debris
- Phonograph part
- Belonephobiac's fear
- Haystack hider
- Object in a haystack?
- It gets poked in the eye
- Conifer's leaf
- Applause meter part
- Object of a doctor's office phobia
- Sewing need
- Phono pickup attachment
- Pole position indicator?
- Tachometer part
- Hypo
- Bit of Christmas debris
- Sewing implement
- Unlikely haystack find
- Proverbial haystack hider
- Kid
- Tailor's implement
- Seamstress tool
- Seamstress' tool
- Tailor's tool
- Phonograph necessity
- Pine piece
- Speedometer part
- Gauge part, often
- Tattooist's tool
- Heckle
- Goad
- It might get under your skin
- Phonograph feature
- Ride
- Thread partner
- You might find one under the Christmas tree
- It's difficult to find in a haystack
- Seattle landmark
- Etui item
- Compass spinner
- Taunt
- Ouch!
- Replaceable part of a phonograph
- Part of a meter
- Acupuncture item
- Thing watched while driving through a speed trap
- Thread transporter
- Item in 52-Across
- See 14-Down
- A sewer has one
- Tease
- Compass pointer
- Irritate
- Unlikely find in a haystack
- Junkie's need
- Record player projection
- Part of an applause-o-meter
- Part of a record player
- You might get stuck with it
- Bug relentlessly
- Compass point?
- Try to rile
- Pointer
- Tattoo tool
- What a haystack may hide
- Necessity for a tailor
- Instigate
- It may leave you in stitches
- Something a trypanophobe fears
- Space ___
- Sewing tool
- Goad, in a way
- Obelisk, informally
- Item for a sewer
- Provoke
- Hard thing to find in a haystack
- Sewing necessity
- You might find one under a Christmas tree
- Need for a working turntable
- Turntable need
- Thread puller
- Hospital sticker
- Stylus
- Vexes
- Haystack find
- Knitting equipment
- Narrow pointed rock
- Have requirement for lace borders - and sewing implement
- Point for a number of patients?
- Sewing item
- What a sewer needs
- Component of a compass
- "___ in the Hay" Elliott Smith
- Gramophone record stylus
- Old record player
- Wind up
- See 6
- Pointer - irritate
- Sewer
- Annoy - syringe
- Does being jabbed in the eye irritate it?
- Has it a piercing eye? Quite the opposite
- Antagonism, to saints, would be unnecessary!
- What a meter may require every half mile?
- A point that was put on record
- Sewing instrument
- Mother may give one a poke in the eye
- Provoke - sewing implement
- Jabber and annoy
- Such a sewer could produce hostility
- Point, point, point, point then led all over the place
- Poverty to the French produces hostility
- Implement with eye
- Dislike injection?
- An old record-player
- Informal name for hypodermic syringe
- The Parisian follows requirement for a sewer
- It's with an eye to requirement by the French
- One with an eye for a poor camel?
- Hostility put on record
- Sewer used for the introduction of drugs
- Indicator of some aggravation
- Shot deliverer
- Pine spine
- Tease relentlessly
- Annoy a number of patients, perhaps?
- Jab that's largely unnecessary
- Sting from this redundant vessel off at last?
- Want the French to be annoying
- Require the French to show intense rivalry
- Must the French be annoying?
- Goad, provoke
- Goad the French want first
- Irritate, goad
- Lend European beginning to embroider faulty sewing equipment
- Irritate with unnecessary loss of two points
- Irritate up to a point
- Rivalry in handicrafts?
- Goad a pointer
- Provoke pointer
- Want the Parisian to give a pointer
- Want the Parisian to show pointer on dial
- Pointer in joint with no lead, led off
- Eyed article on 14
- Irritation only 75% can get along without
- Something required not so much, not half creating anger
- Bodkin
- Acupuncture necessity
- Tailor's pointy tool
- It's for hemming, not hawing
- Wind up part of gramophone?
- Hypodermic syringe
- Phlebotomist's object
- Require extremely large hypodermic?
- Pine dropping
- Require extremely large part of gramophone
- Acupuncture tool
- Pin's kin
- Acupuncturist's item
- Vaccine deliverer
- Tattoo parlor sticker
- Point for a number of patients?
- *One might say "Home Sweet Home"
- Sewing spike
- If it could talk, it might ask "Are you threadening me?!"
- Fir tree's dropping
- "Eye of the ___"
- Badger
- Sort of match at which to hiss is unnecessary
- Knit pick?
- Tease; irritate
- Harass
- Bad thing to lose in a barn
- Item in a metaphorical haystack
- Taunt over the needless loss of a ship?
- Constantly pester
- Tool for a knitter
- ___ in a haystack
- Pointy thing "in a haystack"
- Tool requiring hand-eye coordination?
- Pine ___
- ___ and thread
- Does being jabbed in the eye irritate it?
- Sewist's tool
- Knitting ___
- Such matches have very pointed rivalry
- What a meter may require every half mile?
- K) Injection injector
- Knitter's tool
- Sewer's need
- Pine tree's pointy leaf
- Pine tree feature
- Replaceable turntable part
- One may be hanging by a thread
Last Seen In
- New York Times - June 13, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 08, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - April 16, 2026
- LA Times - March 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 03, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 01, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 19, 2026
- Daily American - February 15, 2026
- LA Times - February 13, 2026
- LA Times - February 09, 2026
- Daily American - February 01, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 31, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 27, 2026
- Mirror Mini - December 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 16, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 21, 2025
- Daily American - June 28, 2025
- Daily American - June 25, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 10, 2025
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