Clues for the word "SEXTON"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 43 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Mini crossword on September 29, 2025.
Definition of sexton
- n. - An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
Referring Clues
- Bell ringer
- Church groundskeeper
- Church bell ringer
- Pew polisher, perhaps
- Church official
- Church's caretaker
- Poet Anne
- Church officer
- Church bellringer
- Church custodian
- Church maintenance officer
- Churchyard gravedigger
- Church caretaker
- Church official in charge of sacred objects
- Blake's bell ringer
- Church bell-ringer or grave-digger
- He arranges the grave stone to be assembled about ten
- He rings bell running through Essex to Norfolk
- Church caretaker, gravedigger
- The other overweight verger
- Congress takes on heavyweight churchman
- Church worker attacked holding cross
- Grave-digger attacked, about ten
- Male or female heavyweight grave digger
- Dead ringer for Blake?
- Maybe male's put on weight - he may 29 a 1
- Poet with the 1967 Pulitzer-winning volume "Live or Die"
Last Seen In
- Mirror Mini - September 29, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 13, 2024
- Mirror Mini - September 29, 2017
- Guardian Quick - June 14, 2017
- Universal - December 01, 2016
- Guardian Quick - September 22, 2016
- Guardian Prize - May 23, 2015
- Guardian Quiptic - May 11, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 13, 2015
- LA Times - August 04, 2014
- New York Times - March 22, 2014
- LA Times - March 06, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 03, 2013
- Jonesin - April 30, 2013
- Universal - April 05, 2013
- Guardian Quick - November 09, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - July 17, 2012
- Guardian Quick - June 09, 2012
- USA Today - March 06, 2012
- LA Times Sunday - July 31, 2011
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 21, 2010
- Universal - January 13, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - July 14, 2009
- Guardian Quick - December 15, 2008
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 02, 2008
- Guardian Speedy - November 30, 2008
- Washington Post - November 10, 2008
- Guardian Everyman - October 05, 2008
- New York Times - July 08, 2008
- New York Times - June 02, 2008
- And in 13 more crossword puzzles...