Clues for the word "OUNCE"
We've had 227 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 507 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 30, 2026.
Definition of ounce
- n. - A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 437/ grains.
- n. - The twelfth part of a troy pound.
- n. - Fig.: A small portion; a bit.
- n. - A feline quadruped (Felis irbis, / uncia) resembling the leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back. The ounce is pale yellowish gray, with irregular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asia. Called also once.
Referring Clues
- Pound part
- Postal scale unit
- Post office unit
- Precious metal unit of weight
- Light weight
- 16 drams
- Cup fraction
- Small portion
- Perfume quantity
- Cup part
- Tiny bit
- Prevention measure?
- Shot glass capacity, roughly
- Scale mark
- Scale unit at the post office
- Postal scale marking
- Postal unit
- Troy ___
- Snow leopard
- Bit
- 1/16 of a pound
- Measure of prevention or strength?
- Small measure
- 1/8 cup
- Light weight?
- Pound portion
- Gold dealer's unit
- Postage meter unit
- Part of a pound
- Gold measure
- Pound piece
- Proverbial prevention portion
- One of eight in a cup
- 437 1/2 grains
- "An ___ of prevention ..."
- Wee bit
- Prevention amount?
- Little bit
- Small amount
- Liquid measure
- Liter fraction
- Small quantity
- Pound fraction
- Fraction of a pound
- Postal-scale marking
- Slightest amount
- Shot-glass quantity
- Fluid measure
- Slightest bit
- Unit of prevention
- About 28 grams
- Modicum
- One-eighth of a cup
- Precious metal unit
- Smallish weight measurement
- Avoidupois unit
- Kitchen scale marking
- One of 16 in a pound
- 28.35 grams
- Prevention unit?
- Bit of prevention?
- Measure of prevention
- Fluid pint part
- Pint part
- Sixteen drams
- Perfume unit
- 1/16 pound
- Small weight
- Perfume measure
- Gold unit
- Prevention dosage?
- 44-cent limit
- Prevention measure
- Cup division
- Weight unit
- Little amount
- Little amount
- Gold buy
- Mixologist's unit
- Gram's predecessor
- Pint fraction
- Postal measure
- Pound division
- Preventive measure?
- Not a heavy weight
- See 19-Across
- Dope quantity
- One of a cup's eight
- Gold-trading unit
- Scale unit
- Fraction of a 44 Down
- 'An ___ of prevention ...'
- Post office scale unit
- Part of a pint
- An ___ of prevention ...
- 1/16 of a 17-Across
- Perfume bottling unit
- Prevention measurement
- A measure of common sense, at times
- Liquid measurement
- Two tablespoons
- Perfume bottler's unit
- Common sixteenth
- Pound unit
- Perfumery measure
- Shred
- Bit of prevention
- Tiny weight
- See 48 Down
- Gold in a Krugerrand
- Apothecaries unit
- Avoirdupois unit
- Smidgen
- Iota
- A bit of prevention?
- Eighth of a cup
- Perfume bottle amount, often
- Small amount of liquid
- Postal rate unit
- Prevention amount, in a saying
- Weight
- 1/16th of a pound
- Weight not right on cue
- Weight revealed with no uncertainy? Not entirely
- Weight formerly revealed outside university
- Unit of weight
- Imperial unit
- Imperial unit of weight
- One of Sublime's "40"
- Oz
- Small quantity - weight
- This animal under study could lead to grass
- Cat to jump off piano
- Ring relative who's missing lost cat
- Mass unit, formerly about turn
- Cat for far less than a pound
- Old fool defaced cat
- Leopard attack not begun
- Sixteenth of a pound
- Small quantity - snow leopard
- Game that you can pick up easily?
- Small amount (of old pound)
- Imperial cat?
- Weight - cat
- In no uncertain terms ... a little bit
- Animal, one of many in the pound
- What's the weight of this animal?
- No longer unit to be included?
- Weight that's white with spots
- Cat found in a pound
- A lightweight cat
- Tell everyone Ann lost weight
- Weight with which man outside club keeps extreme characters away
- Cat doesn't start to jump
- This cat is not heavy
- In spring there's loss of black cat
- Cat required? There are quite a few in the pound
- Very small amount of uranium not duplicated outside
- Narcotics unit
- Capacity of some shot glasses
- 16-dram unit
- 1/16 of pound
- Old weight measure
- Animal once seen circling university
- Cat to jump with no small power
- Initially lost vitality and weight
- 28.3495 grammes
- Doorman skinned cat
- Egg on relative to lose pound in weight
- Oz feline
- Snow leopard, one of sixteen in a pound
- A wild cat's light weight
- Wild cat, on one occasion seen round Uzbekistan's capital
- The snow leopard, at one time around for all to see
- Wild animal needing power to make sudden swoop
- Formerly storing uranium, tiny amount
- Cat's weight
- Cat in part of pound
- The full measure of Australia
- Formerly 11 shortened down under
- Cat and what it will do on seeing mouse with no head
- Cat attack not kicking off
- A little weight
- Small quantity for cat
- Small unit of imperial weight
- Come back without second part of 9
- About 142 13-Downs
- Postal scale gradation
- Krugerrand's weight
- Gold quantity
- Caviar quantity
- No uncertainty bottling small measure
- Post-office measure
- Cologne unit
- Imperial weight
- Scale division
- Unit of measure with the same Latin origin as "inch"
- Postage pricing unit
- Mixologist's measure
- Fraction of a pint
- Animal of which there are many in the pound
- A jigger is bigger than this
- Unit in a baby announcement
- Beverage unit
- Kitchen scale unit
- Chocolate unit in a recipe
- Prevention measure?
- Imperial weight measure
- Cat that will jump on the piano
- Weight whose abbreviation ends in a "z," oddly
- Unit of courage?
- Bit of prevention, in a proverb
- One-sixteenth of a pound
- Trifling amount
- Unit of perfume
- Dispensary unit
- Once about a fifth of a pound, it's actually less
- Unit in a birth announcement
- Someone might order cannabis by this
- Unit on eye cream packaging
- Dispensary measure
- Unit of measure that has a shared etymology with "inch"
- Mass unit
- One of 32 in a quart
- Measure of regret?
- It might be fluid
- Small scale amount
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 12, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 06, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 31, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 31, 2025
- New York Times - March 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 02, 2025
- New York Times - February 23, 2025
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