Clues for the word "PEEL"
We've had 295 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 748 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 15, 2025.
Definition of peel
- n. - A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
- n. - A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
- v. t. - To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
- v. t. - To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
- v. t. - To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
- v. i. - To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
- n. - The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Referring Clues
- Rind
- It's out on a lime
- Flake (off)
- Sunburn woe
- Orange discard
- Strip
- Undress
- Sunburn result
- Striptease
- Lose a layer
- Disrobe
- Take off
- Slippery part of a banana
- Drink garnish
- Part of a lemon
- Speed away, with "out"
- Debark?
- Banana waste
- Leave in a hurry, with "out"
- Something to slip on?
- Outer covering
- Burn rubber, with "out"
- Floor it, with "out"
- Zest
- Apple covering
- What strippers do
- Stage after a sunburn
- Banana discard
- Skin
- Result of a day at the beach?
- Orange throwaway
- Marmalade component
- Leave rubber, with "out"
- Emma of "The Avengers"
- Plastic surgeon's procedure
- Suffer from sunburn
- Dis-cover?
- Banana throwaway
- Avenger Emma
- Do KP work
- Banana eater's discard
- Lose one's sunburn
- Lose skin
- Something slipped on
- Orange part
- Shed sunburned skin
- Banana covering
- Exfoliate
- Remove a rind
- Cocktail garnish
- Orange coat?
- Orange juicing discard
- Pizza paddle
- Come off
- Remove the skin from
- Banana skin
- Remove a rind from
- Zest source
- Spa treatment
- Orange covering
- Cosmetic skin procedure
- Thin skin
- Steed's partner
- Facial treatment
- Orange cover
- Lemon rind
- Lemon covering
- Banana part
- Fruit coat
- Tangerine cover
- Pizzeria implement
- Become separated
- Banana protector
- London Police founder
- Baker's shovel-like device
- Do a KP chore
- Baker's implement
- Banana cover
- Remove rind
- Avenging Emma
- Emulate old paint
- Banana danger
- Remove the rind
- Sunburn aftermath
- Pizza parlor tool
- Banana's wrapper
- ___-and-stick labels
- Do a KP job
- Lime cover
- Flake
- Leave in a hurry (with "out")
- Banana's cover
- Remove the surface
- Speed away (with "out")
- One way to lose a sunburn
- Do KP work, stereotypically
- Prepare for cooking, as potatoes
- Marmalade ingredient
- Pare
- Spa option
- It's out on a lime?
- Cause of a slip, perhaps
- Compost deposit
- Bare it all
- Zest in a cocktail
- Skin treatment
- Lemon coat
- Come off, as paint
- Fruit cover
- Kind of rind
- Take a coat off
- Lemon's coat
- Marmalade tidbit
- Respond to sunburn, a couple days later
- New Brunswick community
- Facial procedure
- Orange protector
- Orange coat
- Tangerine throwaway
- Ready an orange
- Zest, as from an orange
- Twist in some drinks
- Role for Rigg
- See 54-Down
- See 6-Down
- Orange outside
- Rid of rind
- Banana residue
- Steed's co-Avenger
- Orange castoff
- Orange coating
- Banana castoff
- Banana holder
- One of the Avengers
- Prepare a banana
- Potato skin
- Spud skin
- Lime waste
- Coat of a kind
- Orange exterior
- Lemon zest source
- Day spa treatment
- Zest, essentially
- Outer banana
- Inedible skin
- Prepare to eat a banana
- Come off, as paint from walls
- Banana wrap
- Banana leftover
- Take your clothes off
- Unwrap
- Orange rind, e.g.
- Final step in leg waxing
- Lemon skin
- Fruit coverer
- Leg-waxing step
- Natural wrap enclosing the answer at 50-Across
- Lose a sunburn
- Shed a sunburn
- Unwrap fruit
- Steed's companion
- Result of a burn
- Apple skin
- Compost item
- Skin treatment at a spa
- Lemon zest, e.g.
- Riggs on "The Avengers"
- Fruit rind
- Strip off
- Banana feature
- Part of a banana
- Banana wrapper?
- Take it all off
- Orange skin
- Emma, the Avenger
- Take one's clothes off
- Exfoliation
- It may be out on a lime?
- Lose a tan, say
- Outer cover
- Twist, in a bar
- Shuck
- Chemical ___ (skin treatment)
- Citrus rind
- Eponymous British bobby
- Orange's covering
- Mandarin discard
- Remove the skin of a fruit
- Lime coat
- Prepare an orange
- Strip a banana
- Prepare a banana for eating
- Banana shell
- Potato outside
- Remove an orange rind
- Fruit skin
- Famous English DJ John
- Iconic jockey John
- In '90 Buffalo Tom did the John ___ Sessions
- Days of the New "Touch, ___ and Stand"
- See 4
- Shed skin
- No 1 left island town
- Conservative PM to go Liberal?
- Bobby's named after him
- Take off for somewhere in the Isle of Man
- Remove skin from fruit
- Strip off like a soft-headed swimmer!
- Remove skin of vegetable or fruit
- See 4 and 22
- Spa offering
- Remove skin from
- Prime minister said to be candid
- A thick-skinned PM?
- Take off old prime minister
- Citrus coat
- Offering at 1-Down
- Zest, for example
- Certain spa treatment
- British P.M. who repealed the Corn Laws
- Murphy's jacket?
- Orange rind
- Take off a ring, we hear
- Strip off on the Manx shore
- 19th century British prime minister
- Remove protection from 18
- Lime covering
- Cover of an orange
- Spa procedure
- Lemon cover
- Something you might slip on
- Discarded part of a banana
- Get over a sunburn, maybe
- Spa skin treatment
- Fruit's cover
- Banana's skin
- Lemon discard
- Word uttered when a player runs out of letters in Bananagrams
- Murphy's jacket
- ___ Park, public space in Salford
- Source of lemon zest
- Remove rind from
- React to too much sun, perhaps
- Remove, as a rind
- Robert ___-, British prime minister, 1834-5; 1841-6
- Hightail it away, with "out"
- Outside of a lime
- Robert, Bobby's inspiration
- Thurman's role in "The Avengers" (1998)
- Treatment offered at a 51-Across
- Get rid of a rind
- Start coming off, as wallpaper
- Fruit covering
- Potato exterior
- Lemon zest, essentially
- Zester's target
- Strip off like a swimmer, on the quiet
- Source of zest
- Chemical ___
- Prepare to eat, perhaps
- Sumo orange cover
- Certain fruit skin
- Fruit exterior
- Apple pie recipe verb
- Word shouted in Bananagrams
- Lime's exterior
- Bananagrams shout
- Spa service
- Bananagrams cry
- Skin treatment at a 33-Across
- Plantain protector
- Fibrous part of a potato
- Banana's exterior
- Cucumber part
- Orange's exterior
- Orange's skin
- Fruit's skin
- Emma ___
- Outside of an orange
- Leave quickly, with "out"
- Bit of kitchen waste
- Tangerine's skin
- Plantain covering
- Part usually thrown away
- Negroni garnish
- Citrus skin
- Discarded banana part
- Uneaten banana part (usually)
- Facial treatment at a spa
- Come off like old paint
- Kumquat coat
- Plantain's skin
- Banana part seen in Mario Kart
- Lemon's protector
- Strip of rind
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 15, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 22, 2025
- Daily American - March 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 10, 2025
- Daily American - January 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 19, 2025
- USA Today - January 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 01, 2025
- New York Times - December 11, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 05, 2024
- Family Time - November 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2024
- USA Today - November 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 20, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 18, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 05, 2024
- USA Today - November 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 25, 2024
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