Clues for the word "REED"
We've had 423 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1206 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 14, 2025.
Definition of reed
- a. - Red.
- v. & n. - Same as Rede.
- n. - The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
- n. - A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
- n. - A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
- n. - An arrow, as made of a reed.
- n. - Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
- n. - A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
- n. - One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
- n. - A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
- n. - A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
- n. - Same as Reeding.
Referring Clues
- Swamp thing
- Thatcher's need
- Instrumental piece
- Marsh plant
- Army surgeon Walter
- Pastoral pipe
- Marsh stalk
- Woodwind
- Kind of organ
- Stalk in a swamp
- College in Portland, Ore.
- Bit of thatching
- Stalk by the river
- Rustic pipe
- Epitome of thinness
- Critic Rex
- Symbol of slimness
- Kind of instrument
- Clarinet part
- Hollow-stemmed plant
- Oboe, e.g.
- Feature of some winds
- Marsh growth
- Bulrush, e.g.
- Donna, née Donna Belle Mullenger
- Sax player's buy
- Cattail, e.g.
- Bit of thatch
- Saxophone part
- Mouthpiece attachment
- Film critic Rex
- It may be blowing in the wind
- Clarinet component
- Harmonium part
- Bassoon, e.g.
- Film director Sir Carol ___
- Bagpipe, e.g.
- Oboe, for one
- Many an instrument
- Clarinet, for one
- Wind instrument player's buy
- Bassoonist's buy
- Oregon college
- Oboe or sax
- Hollow plant
- Matting material
- Arrow shaft material, perhaps
- Oboe part
- English horn, e.g.
- Oboist's need
- Rush
- Rush, e.g.
- Saxophone, e.g.
- Portland college
- Clarinetist's purchase
- Fen bender
- Accordion part
- Bit for a basket weaver
- Alternative to "take out"
- Sax player's need
- One of two in a 47-Across
- Woodwind item
- Tall stalk
- Oboist's purchase
- Mouthpiece piece
- Saxophonist's need
- Clarinet or oboe
- Accessory for Kenny G
- Music store purchase
- Robert of "The Brady Bunch"
- Saxophone, for one
- Oboist's buy
- Vibrator in a mouthpiece
- Bassoonist's need
- Woodwind requirement
- Sax mouthpiece
- Henderson's "Brady Bunch" costar
- Donna of "From Here to Eternity"
- Clarinetist's buy
- Marshy grass stalk
- Symbol of thinness
- Clarinetist's need
- Woodwind vibrator
- Swamp stalk
- American revolutionary buried at the Kremlin
- Music shop purchase
- Bagpipe part
- Clarinet player's need
- Certain wind
- Wind element
- Papyrus plant, e.g.
- It flutters in a pit
- Sax object
- Many a wood
- Sarrusophone, for example
- Musical vibrator
- Sax or oboe
- Stalk in a marsh
- Physician Walter for whom an Army hospital is named
- Plant by a bog
- Bagpipes, for one
- A sax has one
- Clarinet or crumhorn
- One of an oboe's pair
- Oboe or bassoon
- Accordion component
- Pond plant
- Swamp growth
- One of two in a bassoon
- 14 Across accessory
- Oboe insert
- Clarinet insert
- Wind-instrument insert
- Cattail, for one
- Beatty's "Reds" role
- Riverbank growth
- Sax attachment
- Bamboo, for instance
- Bassoonist's purchase
- Clarinet feature
- Hollow grass
- Thatching material
- Bassoon accessory
- English horn part
- Woodwind necessity
- Sax vibrator
- Famed army doctor Walter
- Bassoon bit
- Clarinet, or Rex the critic
- Clarinet or bassoon
- Hoops great Willis
- Clarinet need
- Riverbank sight
- Clarinet necessity
- Purchase for Kenny G
- English horn, for one
- Clarinet or oboe, e.g.
- Oboe attachment
- Walter ___ Army Medical Center
- Straight stalk
- Necessity for Kenny G
- Portland, Oregon, college
- Sax player's purchase
- Portland, Ore., college from which Steve Jobs dropped out
- Rex or Walter
- Clarinet attachment
- Oboe or clarinet
- Clarinetist's silver
- Crumhorn, e.g.
- Clarinet accessory
- Woodwind's vibrating attachment
- 16 Across insert
- Bassoon, for one
- Wetlands plant
- Wind instrument vibrator
- Woodwind need
- Papyrus, e.g.
- Plant in a bog
- Type of grass
- Shoot in a swamp
- See 104A
- Beatty's "Reds" role
- Sarrusophone, e.g.
- Wind instrument accessory
- Stalk by a stream
- Part that often breaks in a harmonica
- Lou of The Velvet Underground
- Oliver of "Gladiator"
- Item for 8-Down
- Double-___ (oboe, e.g.)
- Oboe feature
- Bassoon or clarinet
- Saxophone need
- Basket piece
- Marsh grass
- Sax part
- Bassoon part
- Woodwind part
- 14-Across insert
- Oboist's sliver
- 50-Across need
- Exemplar of 24-Across
- Clarinetist's sliver
- Sax player's sliver
- 'Brady Bunch' star
- ... that requires this
- Sitcom housewife Donna
- 'The Brady Bunch' star
- Stewart's 'It's a Wonderful Life' wife
- 'It's a Wonderful Life' actress
- Saxophonist's sliver
- Harmonica part
- Bog plant
- Tall grass
- Sax insert
- Bog grass
- Thatch material
- Legendary Roughie George
- 28-Across, e.g.
- Clarinet or sax
- Pitch pipe part
- Stick by the water?
- Roughrider George
- Action hero's underwater breathing aid
- Bassoon part in two pieces
- "It's A Wonderful Life" star Donna
- Oboe component
- Need for 13-Across
- Mouthpiece element
- Bulrush or cattail
- Swamp plant
- Bassoon insert
- Yellow fever expert Walter
- Bog stalk
- Instrumental tool
- Instrument type
- Sax object?
- Bassoon vibrator
- Clarinet, e.g.
- Part of a bagpipe
- Saskatchewan Roughrider legend
- Oboe accessory
- Cattail
- Grass stalk
- NFL safety Ed
- One of two in an English horn
- Pondside stalk
- Stalk
- ___ instrument
- The oboist makes his a double
- Clarinetist's requirement
- Harmonica piece
- Alaina ___-Hall of "227"
- Sax, e.g.
- Stalk by the swamp
- Plant that's not cultivated
- Vibrating instrument piece
- Exemplar of thinness
- Riverside plant
- Fen growth
- 51-Across need
- Vibrater in a wind
- Clarinetist's item
- College from which Steve Jobs dropped out
- Hautboy, e.g.
- Wind instrument
- Walter ___ hospital
- Roughrider Hall of Famer George
- Insert for a 6-Down
- Lakeside stalk
- English horn insert
- D.C.'s Walter ___ National Military Medical Center
- Musical piece
- Knicks great Willis ___
- Hollow stalk
- Best supporting actress Donna 1953
- George ____ (famed Roughrider fullback)
- Pond grass
- Pond growth
- Name after George and before Larson
- Hollow-stemmed marsh grass
- Wetland plant
- Stalk near water
- Clarinet piece
- Hoops Hall of Famer Willis
- Family name on "Sisters"
- English horn need
- Swamp grass
- Cattail kin
- Bassoon
- Hollow stem
- Bamboo, e.g.
- Oboe's need
- Hollow stemmed grass
- Woodwind's need
- It may be inside a wind instrument
- Liberal arts college in Portland, Ore.
- Bambi, for example, comes back for plant
- Bassoon or clarinet, e.g.
- Woodwind insert
- Woodwind instrument
- Oboist's piece
- Netflix founder Hastings
- Oboe mouthpiece
- Sax player's item
- Critic Rex ___
- Double-___ instrument
- GnR's Dizzy
- Clarinets just have one
- Lou of Velvet Underground
- A saxophone has one
- 11-down is a double one
- Clarinets have a single one
- "Transformer" Lou
- Tall marsh grass
- Tall stiff marsh or water grass
- It's growing in freedom, in bed
- Grass that upsets ruminants
- Oliver, filmed in three dimensions
- Being grassy, is suitable for raising deer
- In bed, perhaps, resented and sent out
- It grows in three directions
- Grass useful in raising an animal?
- Rush animal from below
- Grass
- Grass blown in the wind?
- See 9
- Animals raised on grass
- Buck up, 9?
- NFL tight end Jordan
- Bambi, for example, turning up in tall grass
- Slender grass
- Rex the critic
- Donna Stone, really
- Category of instrument
- Liberal-arts college in Portland
- Oboe mouthpiece part
- Clarinet or oboe, ___ instrument
- Animal on its back in tall grass
- See 13
- Weak thing - buck up!
- John ___, author of Ten Days that Shook the World
- John ___, chronicler of the Russian Revolution
- Animals retreating into grass
- Water plant
- 3 shown to grass
- Something in pond fretted, having activated grenade?
- Marshland inhabitant repulsed beast with club
- Beast backing into grass
- Skinny plant in a marsh
- Saxophonist's accessory
- Item inserted into a clarinet's mouthpiece
- 6-Across player's buy
- Yellow fever researcher Walter
- [10]
- Something that's put into a saxophone
- Bamboo or bulrush
- 2018 Masters champion Patrick
- Woody plant
- Tall grass in which animals turned up
- Clarinet or 37-Down
- Thing placed in an oboe
- Lou who sang "Walk on the Wild Side"
- Clarinet's category
- Woodwind player's buy
- Mouthpiece for an oboe
- Thatching plant
- Woodwind musician's piece
- Bamboo shoot
- Elk, for one / Plant in a bog
- Swampland stalk
- Cane
- Woodwind category
- It was cut to make pens for papyri
- Marshy stalk
- One in a quagmire
- Pipe up "They're herbivores"
- Plant stalk
- Double-___
- Oboist's accessory
- Saxophone mouthpiece attachment
- Clarinetist’s need
- 2018 Masters champ Patrick
- Herbivores raised on grass
- Surgeon Walter ___
- Bulrush
- Oboe vibrator
- Part of many a woodwind
- One growing in greediness?
- Bamboo, for one
- Woodwind piece
- Clarinet or oboe, for example
- Grass that upsets herbivores
- Coarse grass
- Plant by a pond
- Donna of old TV
- Historian Annette Gordon-___
- Plant used in basketry
- Stalk of grass
- Bassoon attachment
- Woodwind accessory
- Oliver or Rex
- Rocker Lou
- Certain mouthpiece attachment
- Plant used for natural fencing
- Homophone of "read"
- Oboe piece
- An oboist may make one
- 61 Down insert
- Plant
- Slender plant
- River plant
- *Did a double-take, say
- Donna or Rex
- Grassy pond plant
- Stalk in the marsh
- Author Ishmael
- Saxophone insert
- 15-Across piece
- Sax accessory
- Plant that's an animal spelled backward
- Plant used for thatching
- Kind of grass
- Oregon college whose mascot is a griffin
- ___ Richards a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic
- Bamboo
- Saxophone piece
- Grasslike wetland plant
- One of a set in an accordion
- Stalk, maybe
- What a bassoon has that a bass doesn't
- Actor Oliver ___
- Wood piece in a woodwind
- Grass useful in raising an animal?
- Easily swayed person, metaphorically
- Mijwiz or clarinet, for example
- Vibrating part of some instruments
- Deer running backwards?
- Part of an oboe
- Slender marsh plant
- Thatch material from a marsh
- Basketry plant
- Marsh stick
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 14, 2025
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- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 26, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 19, 2025
- Family Time - March 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 09, 2025
- LA Times - March 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 28, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 29, 2025
- Family Time - January 27, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 21, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 08, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 16, 2024
- USA Today - December 12, 2024
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