Clues for the word "SCARLET"
We've had 69 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 171 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on January 17, 2026.
Definition of scarlet
- n. - A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.
- n. - Cloth of a scarlet color.
- a. - Of the color called scarlet; as, a scarlet cloth or thread.
- v. t. - To dye or tinge with scarlet.
Referring Clues
- Like a tanager
- Blood-red
- Bright red
- Color similar to poppy
- Flagrantly offensive
- Tanager's tone
- Miss ___ (Clue suspect)
- Red shade
- Like an infamous "A"
- Vivid red
- Miss ___ (Clue suspect)
- You don't want to get an A in it
- Bright hue
- Red
- Like Hester's 'A'
- Red hue
- Shade of red
- Paint color
- Like the "A" in a Hawthorne classic
- "The ___ Ruse"
- Miss in the game of Clue
- Reddish color
- Showing deep embarrassment
- Kind of letter
- Like Hester's letter
- Hawthorne title word
- Claret's changed colour
- Claret's odd colour
- Brilliant red
- Rutgers team color
- Vivid orange-red colour
- Red alert - revolution succeeds, say Communist leaders
- Southern refined claret is a brilliant red
- Immoral shade like 5 across?
- New cartels in the red?
- Colour of embarrassment?
- Colour of Sherlock's study?
- Red mark that's deadly, not half
- Being Red, set out to imitate Marx
- Bright red mark, half lethal
- Colour left traces, perhaps
- Claret's rough colour?
- 12 linked with 22 is far from 2
- The ___ Pimpernel
- Immoral lady, ___ woman
- Notorious robber finally captured in ruins of castle
- Another time for Miss O'Hara in the shade?
- Will Robin's man become bright red?
- Immoral boy in group
- Miss O'Hara appearing briefly in brilliant red
- Red small Mini?
- A wound mark permitted to be red!
- Miss ___ (Clue character in a red dress)
- Red revolution's beginning in Newcastle?
- Very embarrassed, clumsily alters a figure in it
- Lets slip about the vehicle and is very embarrassed
- Put the man's name in red
- Mark with permitted colour
- A ruddy blemish, that's admitted
- Like Hawthorne's letter
- Like Hester Prynne's "A"
- Ruddy fishy cartels!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's letter; Baroness Orczy's pimpernel?
- Vivid red colour
- Hester Prynne's letter color
- With 38-Across, symbols of a scandal ... or what 16-, 23-, 47- and 58-Across consist of (in their entirety)?
- Red as clarets maybe
- Color of a literary "A"
- Shameful tone?
Last Seen In
- LA Times - January 17, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 09, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 24, 2025
- New York Times - November 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 25, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 09, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 29, 2024
- Daily American - December 02, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 06, 2024
- Daily American - September 10, 2024
- And in 141 more crossword puzzles...