Clues for the word "SIFT"
We've had 128 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 232 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on February 11, 2026.
Definition of sift
- v. t. - To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
- v. t. - To separate or part as if with a sieve.
- v. t. - To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
Referring Clues
- Screen
- Separate, as flour or ashes
- Refine, as flour
- Separate
- Go (through)
- Go (through), as evidence
- Search (through)
- Sort (through)
- Sort through
- Remove particles from
- Separate with a sieve
- Process flour
- Use a sieve
- Put through a sieve
- Look through laboriously
- Process, as flour for baking
- Separate, as flour
- Examine closely
- Winnow
- Scatter, as confectioners' sugar
- Work with flour
- Baking instruction
- Look through
- Prepare flour
- Cake-recipe direction
- Pan for gold
- Search through sand
- Look for evidence
- Analyze, as evidence
- Examine closely, as evidence
- Sprinkle, as sugar on a cake
- Recipe direction
- Sort through, as for clues
- Look (through) closely
- Scrutinize, with "through"
- Look closely (through)
- Put through a strainer
- Go through thoroughly
- Search carefully (through)
- Prepare, as flour
- Strain, as flour
- Use a strainer
- Make finer
- Go through carefully
- Examine carefully
- Sort (out)
- Make fine, in a way
- Free of coarseness, in a way
- Pan for gold, say
- Separate out
- Baker's verb
- Processes as flour
- Smooth out lumps, in a way
- Run through small holes
- Comb (through)
- Scrutinize
- Cookbook direction
- Cake recipe word
- Strain
- Filter
- Recipe directive
- De-lump, as flour
- Process, as flour
- Strain, in a way
- Search (through), as evidence
- Break up the lumps
- Go (through), as clues
- Make fine, as flour
- Use a sieve on
- Search
- ___ through (pore over)
- Refine flour
- Sieve
- Remove lumps from flour
- Examine (eg evidence) discriminatingly
- Riddle
- Pass though a sieve
- Riddle provided in a way
- Examine minutely
- Carefully examine a broken fist
- Allow to trickle through one's fist?
- Investigate fellow found stowing away in hold
- Separate out - examine closely
- Distinguish as with a riddle
- Riddle involves Kipling poem, in a way
- Separate by passing through fine mesh
- Separate if in the way
- Filter provided in street
- Make finer, in a way
- Free of coarseness
- Cake recipe instruction
- Filter flour
- Carefully analyse Kipling's work, in a way
- Examine condition in street
- Separate with a strainer
- Search for gold, old-style
- Analyse
- Scrutinise
- Free of lumps
- Put through a screen
- Look carefully (through)
- Remove lumps from, as flour
- Make flour finer
- Examine thoroughly
- Do a flour task
- Riddle solvable in fits?
- Remove coarse particles
- Remove lumps from, say
- Pan for gold, e.g.
- Make airier, as flour
- ___ through (search)
- Put through a strainer, as flour
- Sort through, as evidence
- Prep flour
- De-clump, as flour
- Comb
- Get the lumps out of flour
- Allow to trickle through one's fist?
- Filter (through)
- Remove lumps in flour
- Flour instruction
- Fits, perhaps, when you sort out what's too big
- Make finer, as flour
- Aerate, as flour
- Verb in a bread recipe
- De-lump flour
- Separate flour
- Verb in flour-y language
Last Seen In
- New York Times - February 11, 2026
- LA Times - January 21, 2026
- Daily American - July 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 18, 2025
- LA Times - March 15, 2025
- Daily American - December 25, 2024
- Daily American - December 22, 2024
- Family Time - November 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2024
- Family Time - October 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 22, 2024
- LA Times - July 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 13, 2024
- Family Time - May 27, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 11, 2024
- LA Times - April 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 29, 2024
- USA Today - January 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 06, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - November 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 17, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 12, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 08, 2023
- Daily American - July 26, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 15, 2023
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