Clues for the word "REEK"
We've had 157 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 562 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on January 23, 2026.
Definition of reek
- n. - A rick.
- n. - Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
- v. i. - To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
Referring Clues
- Offend olfactorily
- Stench
- Smell
- Raise a stink
- Smell bad
- Stink to high heaven
- Really smell
- Cause a stench
- Smell strongly
- Smell something fierce
- Effluvium
- Smell horrible
- Need a bath badly
- Stink
- Intolerable smell
- Really need to bathe
- Noisome smell
- Be offensive, in a way
- Stink up the joint
- Need a bath desperately
- Smell to high heaven
- Really stink
- Stink up the place
- Elicit a wrinkled nose, maybe
- Be a stinker
- Make a stink?
- Smell terrible
- Cause nose-holding
- Smell really bad
- Exude
- Some skinheads
- Cause a stink?
- Offend the olfactories
- Cause wrinkled noses, perhaps
- Smell awful
- Emit a 2-Down, perhaps
- Unpleasant aroma
- Offend the nose
- Be hard on the nose
- Carry a stench
- Emit fumes
- Offend a sense
- Give olfactory offense
- Really need a shower
- Be a real stinker
- Elicit a wrinkled nose
- Emit effluvium
- Raise a stink?
- It's down in the dumps
- Be malodorous
- More than smell bad
- Smell, as a dump
- Emit a foul stench
- Make a stink
- Raise a big stink?
- Stink like a skunk
- Strong odor
- Sense offense
- Horrible smell
- Make a big stink
- Strong smell
- "You ___ to high heaven!"
- Be ripe
- Need a shower
- Be mephitic
- Smell worse than bad
- Smell skunky
- Bad aroma
- Have an offensive odor
- Put up a stink
- Be really ripe
- Stink big-time
- Give off, with "of"
- Cause wrinkles, in a way
- Smell like Pig-Pen [***avxwords.com has good, weekly indie xwords***]
- Excel's opposite, colloquially
- Have a high rank?
- Be foul
- Exude a stench
- Foul smell
- Smell and then some
- Have a strong smell
- Badly need a bath
- Give off, as an odor
- Smell like limburger
- Smell, to put it mildly
- Offend, in a way
- Powerful stink
- Need a bath in the worst way
- Malodor
- Cause some nose-holding
- Be tough on the nose
- Unpleasant smell
- Strong, unpleasant smell
- Assault the nostrils
- Offense to a sense
- Fetor
- Smell like old cigars
- Desperately need a bath
- Stink and then some
- Cause a big stink?
- Do more than just smell
- What city dumps do
- Have a repulsive 56-Across
- Smell horrifically
- Need ban
- Cause serious nose-wrinkling
- Terrible smell
- Smell horribly
- Smell real bad
- Stink bad
- Stink up the room
- Have an awful smell
- Pong
- Hum Gluck's overture out of Iphigenia, say
- Smell smoke
- Smell detected from 3 km?
- Smell offensively
- Smell badly?
- Emulate a rotten egg
- Give off fumes
- Cause olfactory offense
- Not the first Grecian smell
- Hum, while doing the backstroke in Lake Erie?
- European doesn't have good smell
- Scream at seeing mouse after first recognising smell
- Smell pungently
- Smell river with cry of surprise
- Smell reportedly followed by vengeance?
- Inlet loses initial smell
- Overdo it with the aftershave, say
- Have a foul smell
- Have a bad 57-Across
- Not smell good at all
- Be harsh on the nose
- Emit a stench
- Emit strong smells
- Smell really, really bad
- Smell something awful
- What junkyards do
- Give a strong impression (of)
- Seriously need a bath
- Smell horribly bad
- Smell horrifically bad
- Strongly suggest, with "of"
- Stink badly
- Kind of sense offense
- Smell like sweaty sneakers
- Smell like rotten cabbage
- Raise a big stink?
- Smell like garbage
- Smell so bad
- Have a strong 52-Down
- Assault the nose
- Stink SO bad
- Be very funky
- Overdo the aftershave, say
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - January 23, 2026
- Daily American - December 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 19, 2025
- LA Times - July 17, 2025
- New York Times - June 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 13, 2025
- New York Times - June 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 17, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 27, 2025
- LA Times - March 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 24, 2025
- USA Today - February 23, 2025
- USA Today - February 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 02, 2025
- And in 532 more crossword puzzles...