Clues for the word "OYSTER"
We've had 141 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 239 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of oyster
- n. - Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.
- n. - A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
Referring Clues
- Kind of fork
- Food in a shell
- The world, according to Pistol, in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
- Bed occupant
- It might be shucked
- Seafood appetizer
- Blue ___ Cult
- Pearl producer
- Pearl harborer
- Raw bar choice
- Source of an advantage, figuratively
- Raw bar item
- Gem holder, maybe
- Off-white color
- Mollusk on menus
- Uncommunicative one
- One in a bed
- Rock-clinging mollusk
- Mollusk with an irregular shell
- Certain stew ingredient
- Pearl harborer?
- Mother of pearl?
- Pearl source
- Seafood in a shell
- Food sometimes eaten with a small fork
- Mollusk
- The world, according to Pistol, in The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Pearl's house?
- Bluepoint
- Bluepoint, e.g.
- It may be in a stew
- Shell fish
- Off-white shade
- Edible shellfish
- Type of cracker
- Type of cracker
- Kind of cracker
- Type of cracker
- Type of cracker
- type of cracker
- Delicacy from the sea
- Seafood snack
- Pearl's home
- Pearl holder
- Marine mollusk
- Meat rich in zinc
- Pearl harborer, perhaps
- Nacre maker
- Bar fare
- Bed occupant?
- Bar food?
- Bed denizen
- The world, to a go-getter?
- Kind of bar
- Word with bar or bed
- Food of love
- Pearl creator
- Pearl maker
- Rock's Blue ___ Cult
- A Rockefeller, sometimes
- With 54-Down, longtime Long Island home of Theodore Roosevelt
- Item in a shucking contest
- Bivalve at a bar
- Metaphorical object of exploitation
- Shellfish in a bed
- Raw-bar delicacy
- Shellfish
- This might contain a pearl
- Seafood with a shell
- The world, for some
- Mollusc providing world of opportunities?
- The world, in metaphor
- Marine mollusc
- Shellfish considered an aphrodisiac
- Seafood in a "shooter"
- Source of natural pearls
- Edible marine mollusc
- Conclusion of narrative in unfolding story, a world of possibilities?
- Start off to destroy wild seafood
- Edible mollusc
- Mollusc sometimes eaten alive
- Native, possibly, in the shade
- Shellfish gobbled by boy's terrapin
- A strange story about the East - bed's the place for it
- Storey (anag)
- Seafood item sometimes eaten alive
- Playboy's terrific cover (one taken on bed)
- Native aphrodisiac?
- Edible bivalve
- World of the fortunate caught by shore bird
- Proverbially reticent shellfish
- Reputed aphrodisiac in the world of proverb
- Onyx set near every other jewel's origin
- Little boy's terrified of shellfish
- Some teddy boys terrorised native
- Seafood
- Taciturn native?
- Whitstable resident making way into hall, topless
- Funny story about Oriental, one spending life in bed
- When man quits monastery abroad he's tight-lipped
- Zinc-rich delicacy
- Pearl-bearer
- Pale grey creature with sealed lips
- Playboy stereotypically gobbling reputed aphrodisiac
- Only select emptier shells for seafood
- Boy's terrapin consumes shellfish
- Eloectronic ticket used on 22's public transport
- Secretive person; bivalve
- Yes, rot destroyed shellfish
- Storey designed with delicacy
- Boy's terse, to some extent a very uncommunicative person
- Involved story about eastern native
- Shellfish in Savoy's terrific
- Raw-bar selection
- Destroy decrepit touring vehicle - use this to get round instead
- East coast fisherman's choice
- The world, per "Merry Wives" ...
- Mollusc providing world of opportunities?
- Creator of a pearl
- Certain shellfish
- May come out of bed to rebuild a storey
- A little boy's terrified by a mollusc
- World metaphor, in Shakespeare
- Offering at a pier restaurant
- The world, to ambitious types
- Shucked shellfish
- Pearl harborer?
- Raw bar mollusk
- Shellfish sometimes swallowed whole
- Clam's cousin
- Shellfish served with mignonette
- Shellfish that's shucked
- Shellfish rich in zinc
- Shellfish that may be served cooked or raw
- Raw bar offering
- Bivalve in a bed
- Peacemaker po'boy morsel
- Shellfish in guljeon
- Grayish-white
- Shellfish in a shooter
- Shellfish sometimes served raw
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 22, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 10, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 04, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 07, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 12, 2025
- USA Today - March 10, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 31, 2025
- USA Today - January 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 30, 2024
- USA Today - December 14, 2024
- USA Today - December 10, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 05, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 20, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 11, 2024
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