Clues for the word "POISON"
We've had 50 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 85 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on December 19, 2025.
Definition of poison
- n. - Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
- n. - That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
- n. - To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
- n. - To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
- n. - To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
- v. i. - To act as, or convey, a poison.
Referring Clues
- Corrupt
- Pesticide
- Kind of pen
- Skull-and-crossbones stuff
- Arrow application
- It may feature Mr. Yuk on its label
- Exterminator's option
- Negative influence
- Murder method in Christie's "A Pocket Full of Rye"
- Something harmful
- "Name yer ---"
- Whodunit staple
- Venom
- Bane
- Arsenic, for one
- Whodunit item
- Toxic substance
- Toxic stuff
- Contaminate
- Hemlock, for one
- Toxin
- "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" monster-balladeers
- Staple of Agatha Christie mysteries
- What Mr. Yuk labels
- Lethal substance
- Cause of Romeo's death
- Weapon alternative in mysteries
- As a drinker, what's yours?
- Harmful substance one gets in a spoon, possibly
- Like prison, you may not see it as a good thing!
- I snoop around to discover cause of death
- Deadly substance
- Another man's meat is dangerous stuff
- Spoil gutted fish in Paris
- Nasty stuff first accepted by flower boy
- It's toxic
- Bret Michaels band
- Toxic thing
- What will you have if you name yours?
- Arsenic, e.g.
- One of the nine weapons in 2008's expanded version of Clue
- Downfall in many an Agatha Christie novel
- 1990 song known for its snare beat
- Arsenic
- "That girl is ___" (Bell Biv DeVoe lyric)
- Bottle marked with a skull and crossbones
- Substance symbolized by a skull and crossbones
- As a drinker, what's yours?
- Cause of death in some cozy mysteries
- Feature of many a whodunit
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - December 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 16, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 06, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 13, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 27, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 09, 2024
- Mirror Mini - January 07, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 17, 2023
- LA Times - November 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 13, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 16, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 17, 2023
- USA Today - January 09, 2023
- Mirror Mini - January 07, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 30, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 25, 2022
- USA Today - June 28, 2022
- New York Times - January 23, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - February 01, 2018
- Daily Quick - December 19, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 08, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - September 11, 2017
- And in 55 more crossword puzzles...