Clues for the word "RIDDLE"
We've had 70 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 137 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on July 10, 2026.
Definition of riddle
- n. - A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- n. - A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- v. t. - To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
- v. t. - To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
- n. - Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
- v. t. - To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
- v. i. - To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Referring Clues
- Sphinx's offering
- Enigma
- Mind twister
- Mind teaser
- Turandot's test
- It doesn't have an obvious answer
- Fill with holes
- Conundrum
- The Sphinx had a famous one
- "When is a door not a door?," e.g.
- Permeate
- Stumper
- Puzzling question
- Certain brainteaser
- Fill full of holes
- Mind-teasing question
- Vexing question
- Sphinx's poser
- "You break it by saying its name," e.g.
- Clue for batman, maybe
- Baffler
- Poser
- "Lost" question about snowmen
- Puzzle
- You figure it out
- Tricky question
- Judges 14:14 has the only one in the Bible
- "What has hands but can't clap?" is one
- Puzzler
- Word puzzle
- Brain stumper
- Coarse sieve
- Enigma of Cook not opening
- You'll find a lot of holes in this cryptic puzzle
- How to perforate it thoroughly is the question
- Religious leader died, resurrected around the end of April; it's an enigma
- Sieve
- Having a brain like a sieve, can you solve it?
- Sphinx's conundrum?
- Pervade conundrum
- The question of a trip being about five hundred pounds!
- Its entertainment value is questionable
- Shoot a lot of bullets into the screen
- Eliminate clods with intellectual challenge
- Crossword clue with holes in it?
- Spread throughout puzzle
- It may be used to sort out a difficult problem
- Perforate with gunshot - poser
- Strain to suggest a brain-teaser
- Poser taken in hand by forty-niner?
- The problem with pepper
- Problem with sieve
- Make many holes in puzzle
- Jimmy's jocular follower, a bit of a poser?
- Shoot through puzzle
- Puzzle that's full of holes?
- Leak, as Jimmy's overlooked sieve
- '84 Nik Kershaw album "The ___"
- Puzzle, cooker not opening
- Large meshed sieve
- Brain teaser
- A screen mystery
- A mystery for the big screen
- The question did somehow figure in again
- A question that's full of holes?
- Having a brain like a sieve, can you solve it?
- Brainteaser
- Brain-breaking question
- Brain twister
- A puzzle full of holes?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 12, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 29, 2026
- Daily American - January 26, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 04, 2025
- New York Times - August 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 22, 2025
- New York Times - April 20, 2025
- Daily American - January 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 23, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 28, 2024
- LA Times - March 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 15, 2024
- Daily American - January 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 06, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 25, 2023
- And in 107 more crossword puzzles...