Clues for the word "SEX"
We've had 287 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 587 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on April 09, 2025.
Definition of sex
- n. - The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.
- n. - One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
- n. - The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.
- n. - One of the groups founded on this distinction.
Referring Clues
- Kind of symbol
- Census entry
- Questionnaire datum
- Reason for an R rating
- What an "F" may indicate
- Gender
- Perennial talk show topic
- "PG" cause
- Kind of roles
- Censor's subject
- Reason for an X rating
- Census datum
- Application datum
- Birth certificate info
- Driver's license datum
- V-chip target
- Cause for an R rating
- Kind of scene in a movie
- "___ sells" (advertising catchphrase)
- Censor's target
- Source of an androgyne's confusion
- ID information
- F on a questionnaire, e.g.
- Book by Madonna
- Census category
- Make more alluring, with "up"
- James Brown hit "___ Machine"
- Topic for Dr. Ruth
- Box to check on a form
- Reason for a 98-Across
- ___ Ed
- Questionnaire info
- "___ sells"
- It sells in advertising, they say
- Application check box
- Leading cause of birth
- Word next to M or F
- What an M may indicate
- Reason for an NC-17 rating
- Kind of kitten or goddess
- "___ and the City"
- Type of discrimination
- ___ symbol
- It is determined by chromosomes
- Same-___ marriage
- Birth certificate notation
- "Facts of life" subject
- Dr. Ruth's specialty
- Questionnaire question
- Kinsey topic
- Word after fair or opposite
- Application blank datum
- Kinsey subject
- Box on many applications
- Dr. Ruth's topic
- Kitten kind
- Datum on a driver's license
- Safe or fair follower
- Word with fair or safe
- What F or M may indicate
- Alfred Kinsey research topic
- Passport datum
- Topic of "The Hite Report"
- "Kama Sutra" subject
- Manhattan museum topic
- Increase the appeal of, with "up"
- It sells, they say
- Birth certificate datum
- Word with play or act
- See 56-Across
- Kind of kitten
- Basis for discrimination
- Opposite ___
- Talk show topic
- Driver's license info
- First Broadway play to star Mae West
- Controversial education subject
- Chromosome factor
- Item on a driver's license
- Type of education
- Question answered by "M" or "F"
- Word with "appeal" or "symbol"
- What an F may indicate
- Application line
- Survey item
- Kind of appeal
- Dr. Ruth's field
- It separates the girls from the boys
- Kinsey research topic
- Bio datum
- Discrimination basis, on occasion
- Form datum
- Female, e.g.
- Male or female, e.g.
- Topic for Carrie Bradshaw
- Survey check-off
- Topic that makes some blush
- Big seller, supposedly
- M/F determination
- Tell the difference in the field
- Survey check box
- Word with appeal or change
- Opposite ___
- Staple of advertising
- Union known for its health benefits?
- Object of some drives
- Action
- They say it sells (we'll see how this puzzle does)
- Time to come together?
- Taboo topic, sometimes
- Booty, as it were
- Activity with positions
- Group activity, at times
- Cause for a TV-MA rating
- "God's joke on human beings," à la Bette Davis
- The ___ Pistols
- Masters focus
- Scandal subject
- Application form box
- Westheimer topic
- Dr. Ruth's subject
- Westheimer subject
- Male or female
- Census stat
- Male, e.g.
- Survey datum
- Job application datum
- Questionnaire category
- Scandal topic, perhaps
- Question answered by "M" or "F"
- Word next to M or F on a form
- Subject of much magazine advice
- With 24-Down, Rusty Trombone, et al.
- Subject of many a political scandal
- Birth certrificate datum
- What F or M may denote
- Genophobe's fear
- ___ appeal
- Super seller, supposedly
- Word with fair or opposite
- Number between quinque and septem
- It sells, apparently
- It requires you to choose a position
- What an "M" might indicate
- Quinque +1
- Scandal subject, often
- Application checkbox
- Advertisers say it sells
- What an "F" might indicate
- We, as a species, have to have it [Ink Well ends June 25 - sign up at avxwords.com to keep getting great indie xwords!]
- Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second ___"
- It sells, it's said
- Prurient interest
- ___ education
- Census information
- "I can remember when the air was clean and ___ was dirty": George Burns
- Peter noted that 20-across was originally intended to help academics collaborate on projects across distances, but "is now mostly about ___"
- Type of symbol or appeal
- Possible reason for an R rating
- Madison avenue lure
- Congress
- "I don't know the question, but ___ is definitely the answer": Woody Allen
- Masters and Johnson subject
- "___ sells" (advertising maxim)
- "The birds and the bees"
- Application form datum
- Word before appeal or change
- Vital statistic
- X factor?
- See 30-Across
- It sells in advertising
- It sells, in the ad business
- Narrow box on an application
- Female, e.g,
- Survey box, sometimes
- Kinsey research focus
- Birth announcement notation
- Kinsey's field
- Determination in a prenatal exam
- One cause for an R rating
- ___ roles
- What an "F" or "M" may indicate
- Box marked "M," "F", or "Yes, please!"
- 1992 Madonna book released in Mylar
- Word before worker or symbol
- Lovemaking
- It sells
- Touchy subject?
- Masters' mastery
- Marcy Playground: "___ and Candy"
- Rolling Stones "___ Drive"
- ___ Pistols
- "I Want Your ___" George Michael
- Expert in the treatment of coital problems
- Various examples show a certain difference
- Some dangerous experiments involving gender
- The way certain counties finish makes the difference
- License info
- Cause for some TV-MA ratings
- R cause, often
- Certain counties are finished with it!
- Dr. Ruth subject
- Erotica staple
- 1992 book by Madonna
- "God's joke on human beings": Bette Davis
- What X and Y chromosomes determine
- "Let's Talk About ___" (Salt-N-Pepa)
- "___, drugs, and rock 'n' roll"
- M or F
- It shows drug's "up" times
- See 111-Down
- Biological ___
- Box on a questionnaire
- "Think you I am no stronger than my ___": Portia
- With 96 Across, objects discussed by Dr. Ruth
- Health class subject
- Study for Masters and Johnson
- G-rated movie's lack
- Recurring theme in the podcast "My Dad Wrote a Porno" (obviously)
- Word before sells or cells
- Masters study subject?
- Subtext of many an innuendo
- ___-linked trait
- "On the Basis of ___"
- ID datum
- Kinsey study
- Explicit song subject, perhaps
- 1926 Mae West play
- ID info
- ___ object
- ___ ed (often-awkward class)
- Reason for a TV-MA rating, perhaps
- Driver’s license datum
- Subject for Kinsey
- One cause of an "R" rating
- The difference making one hiss at one's former partner?
- Kinsey concentration
- Chromosome determinant
- Dr. Ruth’s field
- Some census info
- Kinsey concern
- Word after "safe" or "same"
- Word on a driver's license
- "___ is an emotion in motion": Mae West
- Basic personal datum
- "On the Basis of ___" (RBG biopic)
- Census checkbox
- Makes excuses about male or female, say?
- Splinter groups*
- Subject for Dr. Ruth
- Single letter on pet adoption papers
- Safer ___
- "The Second ___" (Simone de Beauvoir text)
- Driver's license datum symbolized by a letter
- Kind of hormone
- Identifier that isn't the same as gender
- Quinque follower
- Census info
- Female or male, e.g.
- ___ positive
- Female or male
- Points to unknown biological characteristic
- "The Last Taboo" topic
- "On the Basis of ___" (film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
- ___-positive movement
- "Emotion in motion," per Mae West
- "On the Basis of ___" (2018 legal drama)
- Netflix's "___ Education"
- Romance comes by way of getting a kiss
- Possible reason for a PG-13 rating
- Word with safe or same
- Word before "work" or "life"
- ___ positivity
- Activity that requires consent
- "Relations"
- "___ for One" (Betty Dodson book)
- Reason for some R ratings
- What many 5-Down people forgo
- Undertone of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It"
- "___ Education" (TV series)
- "Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it": Richard Feynman
- Something a prenatal ultrasound can determine
- Health class topic
- Bit of census datum
- Word before "Ed" or "appeal"
- Madonna coffee table book released a day after her 1992 album "Erotica"
- Word after phone or, modernly, Zoom
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 20, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 29, 2025
- New York Times - January 21, 2025
- New York Times - December 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 01, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 19, 2024
- Daily American - October 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 16, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 09, 2024
- USA Today - September 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 15, 2024
- USA Today - August 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 15, 2024
- LA Times - June 20, 2024
- New York Times - May 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 04, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 13, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 29, 2024
- LA Times - February 29, 2024
- USA Today - February 21, 2024
- New York Times - February 20, 2024
- Family Time - February 18, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 16, 2024
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