Clues for the word "PAPAW"
We've had 60 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 90 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on July 06, 2025.
Definition of papaw
- n. - A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.
- n. - A tree of the genus Asimina (A. triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself.
Referring Clues
- Tree also called a custard apple
- Tree with oblong leaves
- Tree with large, oblong leaves
- Oblong yellowish fruit
- Fleshy fruit
- Sweet fruit
- Custard apple
- Relative of the custard apple
- Large oval fruit
- Melonlike tropical fruit
- Melonlike fruit
- "Poor man's banana"
- Purple-flowering tree
- Tropical melon tree (Var.)
- Tree with purplish flowers
- Melonlike fruit apt for this theme
- Elongated fruit (Var.)
- Melonlike tropical fruit (Var.)
- Yellow-fleshed fruit (Var.)
- Custard apple cousin
- Yellowish fleshy fruit
- Green-skinned fruit
- Fruit tree with purplish flowers
- Another name for papaya
- Purple-flowered tree
- Yellow tropical fruit
- Wild banana
- Tree of the southeast
- Oblong yellow fruit
- Tree related to the ylang-ylang
- Bananalike fruit
- Elongated fruit from a tree
- Yellow fruit
- Southern fruit tree
- Eastern U.S. fruit tree
- Custard apple kin
- Fruit also known as a prairie banana
- Tree with oblong leaves and fruit
- Fruit tree with purplish flowers (var.)
- Tropical melon tree
- Tree with purple flowers
- Large edible fruit
- Yellow-fleshed fruit
- Yellow North American fruit
- Fruit with yellow flesh
- Fruit tree with three-petaled flowers
- Largest indigenous American fruit
- Fruit tree
- "Poor man's banana" (var.)
- Fleshy fruit (var.)
- The governor with fruit
- Parent with fruit
- Fruit father wanted to start with
- Tropical fruit, as it's sometimes known
- Fruit in the custard apple family
- Tree of the custard apple family
- Fruit also called a custard apple or prairie banana
- Nickname for a grandfather
- Green-skinned tropical fruit
- Tree with oblong yellow-green fruit
Last Seen In
- LA Times - July 06, 2025
- New York Times - March 16, 2025
- New York Times - October 21, 2024
- New York Times - November 19, 2023
- New York Times - November 13, 2022
- Family Time - June 20, 2022
- Guardian Quick - February 03, 2018
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 17, 2017
- New York Times - March 26, 2017
- Universal - February 22, 2017
- Universal - December 05, 2016
- Universal - November 24, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 23, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 21, 2016
- Family Time - February 22, 2016
- USA Today - February 02, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 13, 2015
- Universal - September 26, 2015
- Universal - August 24, 2015
- LA Times - August 11, 2015
- Universal - June 29, 2015
- Universal - February 01, 2015
- Wall Street Journal - January 23, 2015
- Family Time - January 18, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 05, 2015
- Universal - November 30, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 16, 2014
- USA Today - May 16, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 08, 2014
- Universal - February 18, 2014
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