Clues for the word "POLISH"
We've had 81 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 107 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on January 30, 2026.
Definition of polish
- a. - Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
- n. - The language of the Poles.
- v. t. - To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
- v. t. - Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
- v. i. - To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
- n. - A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.
- n. - Anything used to produce a gloss.
- n. - Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.
Referring Clues
- Beeswax
- Buff
- Shoeboy's offering
- Like Chopin
- Elegance
- Put the finishing touches on
- Knock (off)
- Make shiny
- Refinement
- Nail covering
- Spit's partner
- Sausage type
- Like kielbasa and pierogi
- *Shine
- Make shoes shine
- Shine
- Shine
- Kind of sausage
- Touch up, like a candidate for office?
- Language of Warsaw
- Language of Warsaw
- Smoothness
- Shoeshine offering
- Lodz language
- Shoe shiner
- Gloss
- Spiff up
- Shine up right good
- Buff from Gdansk, possibly
- Shine, as furniture
- Shine or buff
- European - gloss
- European language
- Lustre
- Burnish
- Buff up - foreign language
- Beeswax, for example
- Refinement of manners
- European semblance of urbanity?
- See 12
- A continental urbanity
- The language for a buff?
- European may be French
- Language
- Refinement of language, apparently
- The suaveness of those Slavs
- Language - buff
- Substance used to produce shine
- Rub - refinement
- Foreign language could be French
- Language (linked to spitting?)
- Gloss - refinement
- Rub - European
- Nationality could be French
- Finish, though not Finnish?
- European's elegance
- Refinement in one of classy speech, on the surface about fifty
- European finesse
- Clean finish
- Make glossy
- Brush up
- Refinement in language
- European refinement
- European resembling pond life, if a tad over the top?
- An un-English suavity
- These people can set a shining example
- Refined manner
- Make smooth and shiny by rubbing
- The language could be French
- Language in which "crossword" is "krzyowka"
- If French, belies itself
- Remove roughness from
- Surprisingly, perhaps, it may be French
- A race finish?
- Shine maker
- European semblance of urbanity?
- The language for a buff?
- Manicurist's application
- Smoothness, so to speak
- Rub to a shine
- Make perfect
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - January 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 27, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 09, 2025
- Mirror Mini - July 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 07, 2024
- Daily American - July 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 24, 2024
- Mirror Mini - May 13, 2024
- New York Times - April 13, 2024
- LA Times - January 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 28, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 27, 2023
- Mirror Mini - May 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 24, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 03, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 04, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 02, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - August 26, 2022
- Daily American - July 28, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - December 22, 2017
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