Clues for the word "RUBY"
We've had 98 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 188 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 06, 2026.
Definition of ruby
- n. - A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
- n. - The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
- n. - That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
- n. - See Agate, n., 2.
- n. - Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
- a. - Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
- v. t. - To make red; to redden.
Referring Clues
- Lip shade
- Color of some hummingbird throats
- Tiny type size
- Red shade
- Color of some hummingbirds' throats
- Red gem
- Slippers' color in "The Wizard of Oz"
- Like some lips
- July birthstone
- 40th-anniversary symbol
- Deep red hue
- Deep red
- Laser crystal
- July's stone
- Like Dorothy's slippers in "The Wizard of Oz"
- July's birthstone
- 40th anniversary gift
- Red variety of corundum
- Red precious stone
- Lipstick hue
- Like Dorothy's slippers
- Gem
- Red gemstone
- Shade of Dorothy's slippers
- Gem mined in Myanmar
- Birthstone for some Leos
- July stone
- Red color
- Red rock
- Red corundum
- Scabbard adornment
- Crimson corundum
- [40]
- Shade of red
- Rich red
- Certain birthstone
- Gemstone
- It's a 9 on the Mohs scale
- Color of Dorothy's slippers
- Dorothy's slippers material
- Ossie's wife
- July gem
- Deep-red
- ___ Tuesday
- Red color hidden backward in nine answers in this puzzle
- A gemstone
- Red stone
- Place for chalk drawings
- Fortieth anniversary stone
- Girl's name - colour
- Centre dismissed in game - red!
- The Stones' Tuesday stone?
- Deep red - transparent gemstone
- Type of wine
- Fag's rear struck in public school, becoming red
- Precious stone
- What frotteur does with unknown girl
- School expelling good girl
- Game using stone
- Girl used in 11 across
- Old city set up beside a stone
- Wax cheaper than Job's wisdom?
- Gemstone - shade of red
- Polish your initial letter *
- Gemstone comprising mainly aluminium oxide
- Vivid red
- It's a drawback having yen for precious stone
- Wax is a heartless game
- Buy a rusty Datsun estate, initially repaired for a song
- Stone that killed Oswald
- Gem of a centre taken out of game
- Stone's no good in ball game
- Stone put in ground, the odd bits moving
- See 21
- Precious stone displayed in Warwickshire town (not the centre)
- Girl in public school, losing heart
- Polish last of jewellery, a precious stone
- Girl Guide's first absence from school
- 11 in sport getting through ___
- How 40s celebrate Burns week ending giddy with excitement
- The assassin's assassin in a shade of red
- Red jewel
- She's anything but worthless!
- Name something the jewel thief is after
- Carmine
- Lipstick shade
- Is she ruddy beautiful
- Cardinal gemstone, usually red in colour
- Girl from Bury?
- Certain gemstone
- The girl from Redstone
- Color that comes from the Latin for "red"
- Precious gem
- Color of Dorothy's shoes in "The Wizard of Oz"
- Raspberry relative
- She's stony
- 40th anniversary gem
- Is she ruddy beautiful?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - October 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 18, 2025
- LA Times - May 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 02, 2025
- Daily American - February 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 13, 2025
- LA Times - February 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 23, 2024
- Family Time - October 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 17, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 19, 2024
- New York Times - December 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 18, 2023
- USA Today - June 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 20, 2023
- New York Times - March 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 24, 2023
- LA Times - February 20, 2023
- Daily American - February 16, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - February 09, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 20, 2023
- And in 158 more crossword puzzles...