Clues for the word "RIDDLE"

We've had 70 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 132 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on December 31, 2025.

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.