Clues for the word "NETTLE"
We've had 58 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 162 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on December 29, 2025.
Definition of nettle
- n. - A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
- v. t. - To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.
Referring Clues
- Irritate
- Rub the wrong way
- Irk
- Bug
- Green stinger
- Annoy
- Prickly plant
- Plant with stinging leaves
- Get under the skin of
- Plant with stickers
- Exasperate
- Get to
- Vex
- Really irritate
- Sting source
- Provoke
- Annoy greatly
- Stinging plant
- Plant with a sting
- Get under one's skin
- Try to rile
- Source of irritation
- Noxious weed
- Herb with stinging hairs
- Aggravate
- Weed with jagged leaves and stinging hairs
- Stinging weed
- One might sting you in bed
- Bug in trap will, as you can hear
- Clear the French weed
- Stinging weed - pester
- Weed
- Nark gets clear before legal eagle starts
- Growing anger
- Sting(er) - annoy
- A dead one can't sting
- It's hairy, the way it can sting you!
- Stinger
- Annoy - stinger
- Wild plant - annoy
- Incense might be in the soup
- Irritate - weed
- See 1
- Rash Hotspur's danger?
- Annoy with stinging words?
- Irritate, annoy
- The web let fly, a cause of some irritation
- Annoy the Parisian after final
- Weed catcher let out
- Catcher let off
- Stinging herb
- Really get to
- Something that stings in bed
- Decide to have new leader for plant
- Sharply annoy
- Really bug
- Plant with stinging hairs
- Could it sting you in bed?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - December 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 28, 2025
- New York Times - November 10, 2025
- LA Times - October 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 28, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 08, 2024
- Daily American - August 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2024
- New York Times - July 17, 2024
- Daily American - May 29, 2024
- LA Times - May 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 05, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 31, 2024
- Daily American - March 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 08, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 20, 2023
- USA Today - September 18, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 01, 2023
- USA Today - August 24, 2023
- And in 132 more crossword puzzles...