Clues for the word "OLIVE"
We've had 340 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 836 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on April 09, 2025.
Definition of olive
- n. - A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.
- n. - The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.
- n. - Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See Oliva.
- n. - The oyster catcher.
- n. - The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
- n. - One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.
- n. - An olivary body. See under Olivary.
- n. - A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.
- a. - Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
Referring Clues
- Popeye's sweetie
- Ocher-green
- Place for a pimento
- Martini garnish
- With 63-Across, comics girlfriend
- Greenish
- Kind of branch offered in peace
- Holy oil source
- Martini item
- Fruit on a toothpick
- Martini staple
- Shade of green
- Antipasto morsel
- Item in a Greek salad
- It may be pitted
- Place for a toothpick
- Complexion tone
- Bluto's dream girl
- Martini tidbit
- It could be stuffed
- Oil source
- Popeye's gal
- Rare eye color
- Uniform shade
- Drink garnish
- It may be stuck in a bar
- Tartar sauce ingredient
- Popeye's love
- Drab shade
- Green shade
- Place for pimiento
- Popeye's "goil"
- Stuffed fruit
- Greek salad ingredient
- Uniform color
- Item in a martini
- "Drab" color
- Object of Bluto's affection
- Drab color?
- Cooking oil source
- Kind of drab
- Type of branch
- Green fruit
- Salad ingredient
- Swee'pea's babysitter
- Martini garnishment
- Pimiento surrounder
- Popeye's girl
- Martini fruit
- Mediterranean fruit
- Branch of the United Nations?
- Object of Bluto's advances
- Bar fruit
- Oil-producing plant
- Garnish for a martini
- Drab color
- Martini orb
- Pizza tidbit, perhaps
- Relish tray tidbit
- Hors d'oeuvre tray item
- Antipasto tidbit
- Ovoid fruit
- Lather's wood
- Source of edible oil
- Martini go-with
- Item on a toothpick
- Greek salad morsel
- Mediterranean tree
- Elzie created her
- "Little Miss Sunshine" girl
- "The Other Reindeer" of kiddie lit
- Oyl of cartoons
- Castor Oyl's sister
- ___ branch (peace offering)
- Item stuffed with pimento
- Salade niçoise ingredient
- Pimiento container, possibly
- Item on a cocktail toothpick
- Pizza topping
- Girlfriend of 56-Across
- Greenish shade
- Oyl of fame
- Fruit tree
- "Drab" color
- Place for a pimiento
- Martini add-in
- Antipasto bit
- Cocktail garnish
- Pimiento holder
- Greek-salad item
- Martini extra
- Garnish on a toothpick
- It may be on the end of a toothpick
- Antipasto ingredient, often
- Mixed drink garnish
- Swee'pea's caretaker
- Kind of oil or branch
- Mixologist's staple
- She likes a little salt
- Popeye's "goyl"
- Antipasto ingredient
- Greek salad extra
- Antipasto item
- Martini addition
- Yellowish green
- Martini option
- Greek-salad ingredient
- Fruit favored by Horace
- Animated Oyl
- Bar garnish
- Black or green fruit
- Tapenade ingredient
- Greek-salad morsel
- Salad morsel
- Kalamata morsel
- An oil source
- Mixologist's garnish
- Branch of the U.N.?
- Miss Oyl
- ___ Oyl
- Fruit yielding oil
- Fruit pressed for oil
- Antipasto piece
- Food item often cut into rings
- Martini must
- Martini additive
- Green hue
- Relish tray choice
- Green bar garnish
- With 107-Across Popeye's love,
- Kalamata, e.g.
- Item on a toothpick, maybe
- Greek salad tidbit
- Pizza tidbit
- "Drab" army color
- Popeye's Oyl
- Salad oil source
- Antipasto goodie
- Forsythia cousin
- Oily fruit
- "___ the other reindeer" (common mishearing of a Yuletide lyric)
- One stuck in a bar?
- Antipasto offering
- Popeye's girlfriend
- Fruit in a Greek salad
- Edible little sphere
- Pimento holder
- Popeye's skinny sweetie
- Dull green
- Popeye-Bluto bone of contention
- Martini garnish, perhaps
- Martini feature
- Salade Niçoise tidbit
- Dark complexion
- Peridot color
- Shade like khaki
- Emma in "Easy A"
- Swee'pea's frequent babysitter
- Branch of peace
- Hors d'oeuvre tray tidbit
- With 84-Down, lunchmeat with pimiento
- Cook's oil
- Greenish color
- Salad bar morsel
- "Wimmen is a Myskery" character
- It's often eaten with relish
- Peaceful branch?
- See 36 Across
- Evoo part
- Bar staple
- "Thimble Theatre" name
- Cocktail veggie
- Drab green
- Kind of branch
- Martini insert
- Cured orb
- " ____ Kitteridge"
- Kalamata or black
- Fruit in a martini
- Greenish hue
- Fruit in some salads
- One "O" in EVOO
- Important fruit in the Mediterranean diet
- Garnish on a toothpick, perhaps
- Fruit that's black when fully ripe
- Source of oil
- Ms. Oyl
- Fruit that can be stuffed
- Violet almost changed colour
- Yellowish-green colour
- Pimiento's place
- It may be stuffed in a jar
- Mediterranean Diet fruit
- ___ loaf
- Garnish that soaks up the gin
- Popeye's honey
- "You're Not Alone" trip hoppers
- Snow Patrol "An ___ Grove Facing the Sea"
- Trip-hop group that sang "You're Not Alone"
- Yellowish-green - fruit
- Branch needed for feuding bandmates
- Trip hop "Extra Virgin" group
- Tree - shade of green
- Girl's name - colour
- Duck has to be green
- The girl with nothing to exist for?
- Twist nonstop, squeezing oil from it?
- Second in poll, potentially shocking for green
- Colour
- Evergreen Mediterranean tree
- Miss the green
- Love playing one right into the middle of the green
- The girl I love to distraction!
- Favourite fruit of Popeye the sailor
- It's branch is a symbol of peace
- Fruit giving oil
- Oil the wood
- There's nothing sinful about her
- Vice ring back in the shade
- Nothing's charged for fruit
- OBE for tree!
- Nothing, as it happens, on the green
- Cocktail fruit
- Ring active girl
- Duck breathing in tree
- Girl with bad back after a ball
- There's nothing bad about an oil producer
- Lady-love with bad upbringing
- Ring, quick, it's a girl!
- Fruit starters for office lunch in vegetarian eatery
- Girl with whom there's nothing "switched on"
- Fruit that's all dead?
- Crayon color
- Drab green color
- Salad spheroid
- ___ branch
- See 32-Down
- Common Greek fruit
- Greek oil
- Oil producer under pressure has a heart of stone
- Twist a bit off the tree
- This girl's in love, as it happens
- Tree yielding oil primarily, as it happens
- Tree given poetic entreaty to survive
- Twist all but this fruit
- I love mashed fruit!
- O to be Popeye's girl!
- Oil-yielding fruit
- Love to be a girl
- Nothing charged for fruit
- Fruit, old and turning bad
- Have home next to old green
- Dwell beneath old tree
- One may be stuffed, none survive
- Fruit of love? Not recorded
- Fruit to cook right away
- Green ball, then the brown one of the three?
- Branch needed for squabbling bands
- Greek fruit
- Relish tray morsel
- Fruit in Greek salads
- Salad dressing liquid, ___ oil
- Oval fruit in a Greek salad
- Oil in Caesar salad
- Drab color?
- Pizza garnish
- Friendship branch?
- Relish tray piece
- Female, old, with bad back
- Toothpicked garnish
- It's pressed for oil
- ___ oil
- Drab hue
- Small fruit
- Word with "branch"
- Salade niçoise morsel
- Martini throw-in
- Tall toon toothpick
- One of the Oyls of "Thimble Theatre"
- Party tray tidbit
- 40-Across garnish
- Name of female oil-producer ...
- Murky green
- She has nothing on which to subsist
- ___ drab
- Shiny black fruit
- Popeye's favourite fruit
- Garden of eating?
- Black or green pizza topping
- Kalamata, for one
- "___, the Other Reindeer"
- Word before "branch" or "bread"
- Tree that's one of Athena's symbols
- Morsel in a Greek salad
- Shade akin to army green
- Dirty martini garnish
- Muffuletta morsel
- Round martini garnish
- Extend an ___ branch
- Tree sacred to Athena
- Pizza fruit
- Dark, yellowish green
- See 91 Across
- Kalamata ___
- Pimento-stuffed tidbit
- Salad garnish
- Green fruit with a martini
- Mediterranean evergreen tree
- Dark green
- Topping that sounds like "all of"
- With 65-Down, toon sister of Castor
- Pimiento-stuffed morsel
- Plant family that jasmine and lilac are part of
- Stuffed hors d'oeuvre
- Green food from Castelvetrano
- Salad fruit
- Pitted salad ingredient
- Extra-virgin ___ oil
- "___ Kitteridge": Pulitzer winner by Elizabeth Strout
- Tree that Athena gifted to Athens
- Tree
- Green shade named for a fruit
- Tapenade fruit
- Al Badawi tree's fruit
- Fruit high in fat
- Pimiento-stuffed treat
- Pimento holder, perhaps
- Fruit popular in salads, but not fruit salads
- Often-pitted fruit
- Fruit on a cocktail toothpick
- Popeye's lady
- Mediterranean morsel
- Mediterranean oil source
- Garnish with an ...
- Savory fruit
- Dark shade of green
- Divisive pizza topping
- Castelvetrano or Kalamata fruit
- Grove fruit
- Castelvetrano, for one
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - April 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 02, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 31, 2025
- LA Times - March 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 16, 2025
- LA Times - February 16, 2025
- Daily American - February 09, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 30, 2025
- Family Time - January 26, 2025
- LA Times - January 26, 2025
- USA Today - January 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 24, 2025
- LA Times - January 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 19, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 17, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 25, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 14, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 26, 2024
- Daily American - September 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 09, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 31, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 27, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 18, 2024
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