Clues for the word "PENCIL"
We've had 93 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 114 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on March 13, 2026.
Definition of pencil
- n. - A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
- n. - A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.
- n. - Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
- n. - An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
- n. - A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
- n. - A small medicated bougie.
- v. t. - To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
Referring Clues
- Cosmetics applicator
- Tentatively schedule, with "in"
- Quip, part 4
- Sharpener insertion
- Plan tentatively, with "in"
- Writer with a point?
- An editor's may be blue
- *Eyebrow cosmetic applicator
- Writing instrument
- "Mechanical" device
- Tentatively schedule (with "in")
- Number 2, for one
- Word with grease or eyebrow
- Puzzle solving aid
- Writing implement
- Tentatively schedule (with "in")
- Cylindrical drawer
- "Mechanical" device
- Sudoku solver's tool
- Putt-Putt freebie
- Sketching tool
- Scribble in
- Writing tool
- Solving aid
- Schoolbag item
- It may be lead or grease
- Sometimes it's pointless
- Item with an eraser
- Number 2, e.g.
- One may be seen behind an ear
- Paper's complement
- Low-tech recording device
- Test taker's need
- Paper's partner
- Doodler's need
- Pentel product
- Golf course freebie
- Drafting implement
- Puzzle-solving choice
- Solving tool
- Eye cosmetic
- Remember the pen and ____
- Sharpener insert
- Tentatively add to the schedule, with "in"
- Drawing tool
- Something to write with
- It's used in school
- Pen alternative
- Writing utensil for tour dates
- One doing boring clerical work?
- American bureaucrat - purple niches (anag)
- Graphite writer
- Line 15 might take with writer
- Write figures that can be rubbed out
- The instrument for a little light writing?
- Starting with a lead, one could go on to draw
- Drawer with graphite in
- Writer with lead part in sketch
- Type of skirt, but where is the point of it?
- Implement for writing, drawing etc
- It holds the lead throughout
- Its lead decreases and it often draws
- Writing or drawing implement
- Originally, Patsy Cline could have been a writer
- Money and the like shortly found in drawer
- A leaden writer?
- Puzzle solver's aid
- Composer's instrument?
- Eyebrow raising writer
- If Cato had one, was it blue?
- Short change the Italian for writing
- Something 11, with leaden heart
- Writer with state reportedly more veiny
- Coppers, nearly one pound, in drawer
- Lead writer
- Crossword solver's choice
- SAT taker's implement
- Draw with this
- Crayon
- Drawing implement
- #2, for one
- What a doodle might be in
- Eyeliner applicator
- Write (in) tentatively
- What a sharpener sharpens
- Miniature golf course freebie
- Writing utensil for some crossword solvers
- Erasable writing utensil
- The instrument for a little light writing?
- Makeup kit item
- A No. 2 one is more widely popular than a No. 1
- In which to write numbers?
- Author's tool, perhaps
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - March 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 31, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 03, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 07, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 07, 2024
- Daily American - June 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 18, 2024
- Mirror Mini - December 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 06, 2023
- New York Times - June 27, 2023
- New York Times - March 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 19, 2023
- Mirror Mini - December 01, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 12, 2022
- Daily American - June 10, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - February 04, 2018
- USA Today - January 21, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - September 23, 2017
- New York Times - July 13, 2017
- Washington Post Sunday - April 30, 2017
- Rock n Roll Crossword - March 26, 2017
- Netword - January 11, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 30, 2016
- Guardian Quick - November 10, 2016
- Canadiana - August 15, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 20, 2016
- And in 84 more crossword puzzles...