Clues for the word "RETORT"
We've had 72 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 150 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 16, 2026.
Definition of retort
- n. - To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
- n. - To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- n. - To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
- v. i. - To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
- v. t. - The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.
- v. t. - A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
Referring Clues
- Zinger
- Sharp comeback
- Come back with
- Many a zinger
- Comeback
- "Touché!" elicitor
- "So's your old man!," e.g.
- Snappy comeback
- Verbal zinger
- "Your mother wears army boots!," for one
- Snappy answer
- Wisecrack
- Snap back
- Witty reply
- Sharp reply
- Smart comeback
- "Sez you!" e.g.
- Conversational comeback
- Parting shot, say
- Lab glassware
- Riposte
- Snappy answer to a stupid question
- Clever comeback
- "Your mother wears army boots," e.g.
- "Says who?," e.g.
- Witty comeback
- Counter with a sharp edge
- Shoot back
- Lab vessel
- Snappy reply
- Caustic counter
- Wry reply
- Caustic reply
- Parting shot
- Answer
- Cutting comeback
- Witty come back
- Answer provided by laboratory vessel
- About to get wrong answer
- Rotter's wrong answer
- The answer's in the lab
- Quick answer - laboratory vessel
- Soldier gets wrong answer
- Stand and deliver backchat
- Sharp reply - lab vessel
- Counter is part of chemist's equipment
- Comeback - laboratory vessel
- Still an answer
- Answer to be found in chemistry lab
- Answer is again wrong
- Riposte, reply
- What do I use for distillation? This must be the answer!
- Distiller's answer
- Answer that's found in chemistry lab?
- Sharp or witty reply
- Rejoinder
- Reply
- Sharp answer
- The answer may be found in the lab
- Reply concerning an offence
- Incisive answer
- Snappy reply from a rotter?
- The lab's reply?
- Clever response
- "So's your mama!," for one
- The shaky rotter's rude reply
- "Well, so's your face!," e.g.
- Answer about an offence
- "Are so!" or "Am not!"
- One might begin, "Oh, yeah?"
- Clap back
- Sassy comeback
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 16, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - February 05, 2026
- Mirror Mini - October 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 14, 2025
- Daily American - July 10, 2025
- Daily American - July 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 15, 2025
- USA Today - March 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 28, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2024
- Daily American - October 15, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 05, 2024
- Daily American - August 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 28, 2024
- USA Today - April 11, 2024
- Daily American - March 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 13, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 28, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 26, 2023
- Mirror Daily - August 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 17, 2023
- Daily American - July 10, 2023
- Daily American - July 05, 2023
- And in 120 more crossword puzzles...