Clues for the word "ORIGINAL"
We've had 70 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 98 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on August 21, 2026.
Definition of original
- a. - Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
- a. - Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
- a. - Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
- a. - Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
- n. - Origin; commencement; source.
- n. - That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
- n. - An original thinker or writer; an originator.
- n. - A person of marked eccentricity.
- n. - The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
Referring Clues
- One of a kind
- Request at KFC
- KFC option
- Something that gets copied
- Fresh
- Unchanged or novel
- First
- Master copy
- Novel
- Imaginative
- Master
- Far from trite
- Distinctive
- Not a fake
- Request at KFC, perhaps
- Nonconformist
- Copy source
- Existing from the beginning
- Innovative
- Intial
- Fresh and new
- Not a copy
- Cover's opposite
- Not trite
- Inventive
- Revolutionary
- Fresh and unusual
- Creative
- Person of marked individuality
- Built an oil rig that's not been done before
- The first exam, I required a drink to go in for
- The first lira Gino counterfeited
- The prototype of an oil rig installation
- Seminal
- The prototype of a girl in love, perhaps
- First dole payment turned up last, not first
- First love, with a girl in torment
- Existing from the start - quite new
- Prototype
- Master said individual spirit is to be stifled
- Master card
- New and unusual
- Master said to have taken a single?
- The very first one to drink in by mouth
- Novel - archetype
- First test impresses one catcher
- First love given drink in Iranian currency
- First description of Manchester appearing as Guardian's leader
- "One drink", said outside, "but it must be new"
- What can be said about one drink that's not already said
- Source aluminium first
- Primitive, earliest
- An oil rig (anag)
- Gold I trap by a lake is not fake
- First said about one with spirit
- Said about one card game that's novel
- Old dress length holding in a model
- First - novel
- Unlike a tribute band's repertoire
- Love the girl in a very funny novel
- Innovative spirit in old rail organisation
- Copier insert
- First exam covers writer with spirit
- With 32-Across, Adam and Eve's transgression
- Never-before-done
- Not seen before
- Not an imitation
- First one made
- Art more valuable than a print
- Never seen before
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 21, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - October 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 23, 2025
- USA Today - February 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 29, 2024
- USA Today - June 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 01, 2024
- LA Times - January 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 23, 2023
- Mirror Daily - June 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 05, 2023
- USA Today - December 28, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - October 24, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - July 25, 2022
- Guardian Quick - February 06, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - November 13, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - September 29, 2017
- Mirror Quick - September 12, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 12, 2017
- Netword - May 13, 2017
- Mirror Daily - February 23, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - November 13, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - October 13, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - August 18, 2016
- Guardian Quick - July 16, 2016
- And in 68 more crossword puzzles...