Clues for the word "SKEIN"
We've had 78 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 167 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 18, 2025.
Definition of skein
- n. - A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.
- n. - A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
- n. - A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).
Referring Clues
- Length of yarn
- Entanglement
- Tangle
- It's all wound up
- Knitter's buy
- Yarn buy
- Knot
- Sewing shop purchase
- Yarn unit
- Coil of yarn
- Unit of yarn
- Ball of yarn
- Flying geese
- Flock in flight
- Knitter's purchase
- Yarn quantity
- Ball of yarn, e.g.
- Unit of wound thread
- Yarn coil
- Flock of geese
- Flying flock of geese
- Hank of yarn
- Knitting purchase
- Amount of yarn
- Geese in a group
- Geese in a group
- Geese in a group
- Yarn purchase
- Cat's plaything
- Bundle of yarn
- Yarn bundle
- Wool quantity
- Flying flock
- Flying gaggle
- Yarn coil
- Flock of wild fowl
- Coil of 92-Across
- Antlers
- Notions store purchase
- Hank
- Yarn spinner's product
- Knitter's coil
- Flying V
- Quantity of yarn
- Goose flight formation
- Yarn measure
- Group of flying geese
- Knitter's unit
- Tangled mass
- V-formation group
- Crocheter's purchase
- Fabric store purchase
- Coil of thread
- Geese in flight
- Flock of geese in flight
- Group of geese in flight
- Airborne gaggle of hidebound English
- Hank's geese?
- Coil of wool - flock of geese
- A gaggle of high-fliers
- Film about Spain's Flight of the Wild Geese
- Woolly lot of wild geese
- Hide! Hide drug for Hank!
- Coil of yarn - group of flying geese
- Twitcher's almost last in hide to see birds flying
- Wild goose yarn?
- Hide concealing the end of the yarn
- Geese you simply have to look up to
- Yarn shop buy
- Package of yarn
- Coil
- Geese to look up to?
- Yarn amount
- Geese flying for cover around mid-September
- Group of fibers or flyers
- Hank's geese?
- V-shaped flock of geese in flight
- Yarn ball
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 18, 2025
- Daily American - October 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 20, 2025
- Daily American - March 31, 2025
- Family Time - March 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 01, 2025
- Mirror Mini - January 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2023
- Family Time - November 12, 2023
- Daily American - October 24, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 10, 2023
- Mirror Daily - July 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 11, 2023
- Daily American - March 31, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 22, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 06, 2022
- New York Times - July 07, 2022
- New York Times - February 01, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 06, 2018
- Netword - January 21, 2018
- Mirror Mini - January 12, 2018
- And in 137 more crossword puzzles...