Clues for the word "SHREW"
We've had 100 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 189 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on January 27, 2025.
Definition of shrew
- a. - Wicked; malicious.
- a. - Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.
- a. - Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals.
- a. - To beshrew; to curse.
Referring Clues
- Ill-tempered woman
- Nagger
- Woman with a temper
- Chronic nag
- Nag
- Cousin of a mole
- Nagging sort
- "The Taming of the ___"
- Relative of a mole
- One "tamed" in Shakespeare
- Untamed one?
- Mole's cousin
- Shakespeare's Katharina, for one
- Shakespeare's Katherine, for one
- Termagant
- Tiny carnivore
- Kate, to Petruchio
- Vixen
- Voracious little mammal
- Harpy
- Mouselike insectivore
- Problem for Petruchio
- Mole relative
- Mouselike mammal
- Molelike mammal
- Long-snouted mammal
- Hag
- Henpecking hag
- Wise
- Mole's kin
- Kate, in a play
- Rodent
- Violent-tempered woman
- Creature for taming?
- Virago
- Smallest mammal
- Harridan
- Shakespeare's Kate
- Petruchio's problem
- Shakespeare's Katherine
- Petruchio's challenge
- Ill-tempered one
- Voracious little animal
- Petruchio's Kate, e.g.
- Twittering mammal
- Long-snouted animal
- Kate of "Kiss Me, Kate," e.g.
- Shakespeare's Kate, e.g.
- Headstrong woman, as in Shakespeare
- Shakespearean title character
- Insectivorous mammal
- Kate, before Petruchio's "taming"
- Mouse look-alike
- Scolding woman
- Shakespeare's "The Taming of the ___"
- Kate, before being "tamed"
- Shakespeare's Kate, for one
- Xanthippe
- Mole-like mammal
- Crone
- Mouselike animal
- Shakespeare's "Taming of the ___"
- Bad tempered woman
- Mole kin
- Scolding woman was heartless with her rollicking
- Was she beastly to Petruchio?
- Insectivore - Katharina
- Nag mouse-like creature
- See 1
- Speech containing nothing sounding like regret for following 1
- Mammal with a pointed snout
- Insectivore
- Small insectivore
- Small mammal with a long snout
- Constant nag
- Hedgehog's cousin
- Shakespeare's Kate, notably
- Kate gets her training in Devon, perhaps?
- Scold, termagant
- Bug-eating burrower
- Scolding woman - was her crazy article missing?
- Mouse's kin
- She's bad-tempered and less than astute
- But she will keep quiet for some reward!
- Mousy woman?
- Though difficult, there are ways to hold her, possibly
- On the quiet, Katharine takes half the reward
- Animal related to the vixen
- Animal in a Shakespearean title
- Kate, pre-taming
- Not really a mousy woman
- Molelike animal
- Vixen less than cunning!
- Animal
- Mammal
- Mouse-like animal
- Mammal in the Soricidae family
- Was she beastly to Petruchio?
- Tiny mammal
- Hedgehog relative
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - January 27, 2025
- Daily American - January 27, 2025
- Daily American - December 28, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 12, 2024
- Daily Quick - October 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 17, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 26, 2024
- Family Time - May 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 23, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 25, 2024
- LA Times - January 29, 2024
- Daily American - January 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 29, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 25, 2023
- Daily American - October 21, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 27, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 24, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 04, 2023
- Daily American - March 26, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 14, 2023
- LA Times - February 04, 2023
- Daily American - January 27, 2023
- Daily American - December 28, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 29, 2022
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