Clues for the word "RAG"
We've had 427 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1032 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 25, 2026.
Definition of rag
- v. t. - To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
- n. - A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
- n. - Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
- n. - A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
- n. - A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
- n. - A ragged edge.
- n. - A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- v. i. - To become tattered.
- v. t. - To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- v. t. - To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
Referring Clues
- Musical piece
- Maid's cloth
- Joplin piece
- Tabloid, maybe
- Tatter
- Piano piece
- Joplin composition
- Paparazzo's paper, perhaps
- Tease
- Upbeat tune
- Make fun of
- Sleazy paper
- Toe-tapping tune
- Contemptible newspaper
- Aid for a maid
- Joplin specialty
- Dustcloth
- Not the most prestigious publication
- Unprestigious paper
- Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf ___"
- Cleaning need
- Scott Joplin tune
- Duster
- Dust remover
- Old cloth
- Scott Joplin piece
- Hardly the most prestigious paper
- Disreputable paper
- Scandal sheet
- Sleazy newspaper
- Fast-moving piano piece
- Cleaning cloth, often
- Shoddy news source
- Dipstick wipe, often
- Car wash sight
- Newspaper with hardly the highest journalistic standards
- Item in a mechanic's hip pocket
- Tattered cloth
- Tease, with "on"
- Dirt-dishing publication
- Bootblack's need
- Chew the ___ (have a gabfest)
- Car wash item
- Car wash aid
- Not the most authoritative journalism source
- Low-grade paper
- Scott Joplin composition
- Scrap of cloth
- "Maple Leaf ___"
- Molotov cocktail fuse
- ___ trade (fashion industry)
- Peppy piano piece
- Word with bag or tag
- Disreputable publication
- Old T-shirt, maybe
- Old jazz style
- Molotov cocktail "fuse"
- Joplin music
- Scott Joplin's style of music
- Poor periodical
- Dusting cloth
- Checkout counter newspaper, perhaps
- Kind of trade
- Dishcloth
- Old t-shirt, perhaps
- Tease mercilessly
- Tabloid
- Cleaning cloth, perhaps
- Kind of doll or rug
- Use for a torn T-shirt
- Paper with a bad rep
- Yellow journalism practitioner
- Worthless piece of cloth
- Scott Joplin music
- Kind of doll
- Newspaper, to a rival
- Cleaning item
- Paper that dishes dirt
- Tease mercilessly, with "on"
- Wiper
- Gossip sheet
- Smear-sheet
- "The Entertainer," e.g.
- Word before paper or doll
- "The Michigan ___" (song from "One Froggy Evening")
- Scott Joplin creation
- Old tee, maybe
- Syncopated musical work
- Joplin piano piece
- Harass, with "on"
- Joplin work
- "Maple Leaf ___": 1899 piano work
- Syncopated opus
- Doll material, maybe
- Dust collector
- Fine stationery
- "Elite Syncopations," e.g.
- Cleaning cloth
- Cloth scrap
- Dusting need
- Fine writing paper
- With 60 Down, top-10 tune of 1950
- Doll stuffing
- Unprestigious publication
- Second-rate newspaper
- Disdained newspaper
- Old piano tune
- Poor publication
- Newspaper, derogatorily
- Worthless cloth
- Disreputable newspaper
- Less-than-prestigious publication
- Yellow journalism purveyor
- Dusting aid
- Word with doll or mop
- Music from "The Sting," e.g.
- Dust collector?
- Certain piano piece
- Low-class publication
- Joplin forte
- Give a hard time
- Tasteless newspaper
- Car wash cloth
- "The Sting" music
- Disreputable tabloid
- Title word after "Pineapple" or "Maple Leaf"
- Inferior newspaper
- Gossipy gazette
- Joplin product
- Recycled T-shirt?
- Car-wash cloth
- Cloth in the garage
- Old tee
- "Elite Syncopations," e.g.
- Something stored in a garage
- "The Entertainer," for one
- "The Sting" number
- Worn-out piece of cloth
- "Maple Leaf ___": 1899 piano work
- "Maple Leaf," e.g.
- Paint-stained piece
- Crappy newspaper
- Dust cloth
- It's filled with dirt
- Tease annoyingly
- Something to chew?
- Use for an old T-shirt
- Bit of cloth
- Many an old T-shirt, now
- Oil-changing need
- Car wash need
- T-shirt that's worn, maybe
- Dish or dust add-on
- Low-quality paper
- Ex-garment
- Joplin tune
- Joplin's music
- Cloth tatter
- Cloth piece
- Piece by 25-Down
- Scott Joplin's genre
- Erstwhile garment
- Scott Joplin's music
- Scott Joplin's style
- Old garment
- Dust cloth, maybe
- Joplin creation
- Trash paper
- Trash paper
- Scott Joplin genre
- Lousy newspaper
- Catchy tune
- Recycled towel, perhaps
- Dirt-dishing newspaper
- Taunt
- Sponge alternative
- Discarded T-shirt, maybe
- Recycled T-shirt, maybe
- Scorned paper
- Yellow journalist's paper
- Use for an old shirt
- Low-class newspaper
- Cleaning closet item
- Scott Joplin tune, e.g.
- Cleaning aid
- Inferior paper
- Throwaway publication
- Shoeshine cloth
- Unsavory paper
- Scrap
- Scott Joplin melody
- Mechanic's cloth
- Joplin offering
- Car-waxing aid
- Cloth for a car wash
- Grease monkey's pocket item
- Many a tune in "The Sting"
- Lurid paper
- Joplin's genre
- Harass
- Shoeshine aid
- Syncopated piece
- Tattered tee, maybe
- Bar wiper
- Sleazy tabloid
- Car-cleaning cloth
- Substandard newspaper
- Car washer's need
- Hardly highbrow reading
- One-time towel, perhaps
- Tabloid paper, slangily
- Household cleaner
- Recycled t-shirt, e.g.
- Syncopated work
- Gershwin's "Rialto Ripples," e.g.
- Cloth remnant
- Motley
- Torn cloth
- Piece of Tin Pan Alley music
- Joplin's "Maple Leaf ___"
- Repurposed T-shirt, perhaps
- Barkeep's cleaner
- Most every tune from "The Sting"
- Doll stuffing, maybe
- Item in a mechanic's back pocket
- Pricey writing paper
- Dry cleaner?
- Scold
- Dipstick wiper
- Remover of dirt ... or spreader of dirt?
- Handle a puck
- It may collect dust
- Tattered T-shirt, perhaps
- Car-washer's need
- Time for a grease monkey
- Lively piano tune
- Old shirt, perhaps
- Cheap cleaning item
- Disreputable periodical
- Repurposed T-shirt, maybe
- Joplin piece "Maple Leaf ___"
- Garage find
- Cloth that's not worth anything
- Type of doll
- Good thing for an oil spill
- Joplin song
- Worthless cleaning cloth
- Word after dust or do
- Syncopated tune
- New use for many a torn T-shirt
- What an old shirt may be used as
- Peppy musical piano piece
- Tease relentlessly
- Piece of cloth
- Cloth shred
- ___ doll
- Joplin output
- Fabric remnant
- Shred
- Dustcloth, for one
- Dustcloth, perhaps
- Old cleaning cloth, for example
- Ripped cloth
- Old dusting cloth
- Something used for dusting
- Old cleaning cloth
- Cheap cleaning cloth
- Scott Joplin song
- Scrap of cloth used in garage
- Cheap cloth
- Early 1900s music style
- Shirt that's seen better days
- Use for old clothes
- Kind of "Doll" for Aerosmith
- Aerosmith "___ Doll"
- Kind of "Doll" to Aerosmith
- Carly Simon "From ___ dolls through brassieres"
- Joan Baez "Time ___"
- Aerosmith "___ doll, livin' in a movie"
- "Doin' That ___" Grateful Dead
- Publication that raises funds for charity
- Scott Joplin composition, for example
- It's chattily chewed
- Is it printed on cloth?
- An urchin has it with a muffin
- Light-hearted student newspaper?
- Take a muffin from an urchin, just to tease
- Part of the musical fabric?
- Outrageous bit of behaviour?
- Somewhat disparaged paper
- Outrageous piece of music?
- Constable for one needs good cloth
- Low-quality newspaper
- Newspaper
- In the dress trade, but not all the rage
- Disreputable news source
- Window cleaner
- "Elite Syncopations" and others
- Lively tune
- Torn piece of material
- Paper read in Prague
- Newspaper in Nicaragua
- Mock paper
- Jazzy piano piece
- Car mechanic's wiper
- Trashy newspaper
- Tease an urchin for not having a muffin
- Inexpensive wiper
- Old washcloth
- Worn, tattered cloth
- Cloth that's used to wash a car
- Car cleaner
- Dis, with "on"
- Dust collector?
- Worthless newspaper one may read in Prague?
- Torment
- Cloth for a spill
- Singular clothing can never be all the rage!
- Fabric scrap
- Duster's need
- Piece of old cloth
- To tease doesn't take very much courage
- Dipstick wipe
- Threadbare coat, e.g.
- A student paper?
- Cloth
- Waste cloth
- Cloth or paper
- Dust-mop alternative
- Remnant
- Old sheet music?
- As music, not all the rage
- Poor paper, or fine paper
- Mechanic's wiper
- Off-the-beat exemplar
- Use for a tattered towel
- Tabloid paper
- New use for an old T-shirt
- Scott Joplin's forte
- A mechanic usually keeps one handy
- 77 Down collector
- Somewhat outrageous publication?
- Clothing scrap
- Disparaging thing to call a newspaper
- Shred of old cloth
- A musical time for gunners at Gateshead
- Publisher of yellow journalism
- Worthless cleaner
- Can be chewed and tattered
- Spare piece of cloth
- Tease somewhat outrageously?
- Torn piece of music?
- An old T-shirt might be used as one
- Newspaper held in low esteem
- Tune with syncopated rhythm
- Spill grabber
- Sensationalist newspaper
- A joke, maybe, but it's old material
- Cleaner's cloth
- Newspaper, disparagingly
- Carwash cloth
- Recycled T-shirt, perhaps
- ___ paper (fine stationery)
- Mechanic's cleaning cloth
- Part of a homemade doll, maybe
- Rip (on)
- What gathers dust?
- Tease constantly, with "on"
- Spare cloth piece
- ___ and bone
- Old washcloth, say
- Piano tune
- Jaunty piano tune
- Tease tigerishly maybe?
- Criticize constantly, with "on"
- It collects dust
- Cloth for cleaning
- Shoe polish applicator
- Castoff clothing
- Unreliable source of news
- Piano performance in an old music hall
- Cleaning crew item
- Is it printed on cloth?
- Dish towel, maybe
- Common cleaning supply
- Scrap cloth
- Cloth for cleaning up
- Torn old shirt, perhaps
- Cloth for wiping muddy shoes
- Clean-up cloth
- Old piece of cloth used for cleaning
- Car-cleaning object
- Aid at a carwash
- Untrustworthy paper
- Ride (on)
- Light-hearted student newspaper?
- Old tee, perhaps
- Cloth you don't throw away yet
- Old piece of cloth
- Reusable kitchen wipe
- Ellington composition
- Part of the musical fabric?
- Tease in outrageous fashion
- Outrageous bit of behaviour?
- Makeshift towel
- Wick for a Molotov cocktail
- Cloth you clean with
- Many an old tee
- Old wiping tool
- Repurposed tee, maybe
- Worn-out cloth
- Worthless cloth for cleaning
- Cheap dust cloth
- Outrageous piece of music?
- Unreliable news source
- Cloth for dusting
- Tune often in 2/4 time
- Cloth used for cleaning
- Cloth for a garage
- Old dustcloth, e.g.
- Aid in washing a car
- Useless cleaning cloth
- Cloth at a car wash
- Staple at a car wash
- Low-quality paper?
- Sensational newspaper
- Final use for an old T-shirt
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 25, 2026
- New York Times - February 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 05, 2026
- Mirror Mini - January 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 06, 2026
- Daily American - December 30, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 17, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 22, 2025
- New York Times - September 07, 2025
- New York Times - August 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2025
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