Clues for the word "PRUNE"
We've had 76 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 175 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on September 01, 2026.
Definition of prune
- v. t. - To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
- v. t. - To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
- v. t. - To preen; to prepare; to dress.
- v. i. - To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.
- n. - A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.
Referring Clues
- Cut back
- Trim limbs
- Trim
- Rid of the superfluous
- Wrinkly fruit
- Wrinkled fruit
- Danish filler
- Kind of danish
- Bush whack?
- Trim, as branches
- Snip what's superfluous
- Someone who just got out of a long bath, facetiously
- Lop off, as branches
- Dried fruit
- Wrinkly snack
- Dried plum
- Trim, as a topiary
- Cut back, as a branch
- Trim, as a tree
- Wrinkled plum
- Plum form
- Cut short
- Raisin cousin
- Danish fruit
- Plum puckered out?
- Trim, as a the tree
- Danish flavor
- Do some gardening
- Wrinkled snack
- Compote fruit
- Danish fruit?
- Overzealous bather?
- Barber a bush
- Trim the topiary
- Lop
- Lop off branches
- Clip, as trees
- Shape a shrub
- Remove branches
- Trim, as bushes
- Trim back, as a shrub
- Do some lopping
- Cut back on
- Reduce
- Trim tree limbs
- Dried 5-Across
- Trim branches from a tree
- Fruit crop
- Cut dried fruit
- Shrivelled fruit
- Fruit somewhere in 23, about right
- Cut fruit
- Work on the hedges
- Cut off the fruit
- Trim - dried fruit
- Trim, as topiary
- Business that covers northeast to axe branches?
- Quiet old character in trim
- Pare down
- Expired plum?
- Plum, once
- Take a little off
- Danish pastry filling, often
- Make the spruce sprucer?
- Trim back, as a tree
- Dried 11 Down
- Plum, after dehydrating
- Shape a bush
- Shape and trim, as a shrub
- Raisin's kin
- Dehydrated plum
- Dried 1-Across
- Trim trees
- Shrunken snack item
- Lop off
- It's plum dried out!
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - September 01, 2026
- Daily Quick - August 20, 2026
- New York Times - May 17, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 30, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - March 10, 2026
- LA Times - February 14, 2026
- LA Times - January 24, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 12, 2025
- New York Times - November 24, 2025
- New York Times - November 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 14, 2024
- LA Times - October 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 16, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 09, 2024
- LA Times - May 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 11, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 13, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 13, 2024
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