Clues for the word "SLOUGH"
We've had 20 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 31 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on August 19, 2025.
Definition of slough
- a. - Slow.
- n. - A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
- n. - A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
- - imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
- n. - The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
- n. - The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
- v. i. - To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
- v. t. - To cast off; to discard as refuse.
Referring Clues
- Jettison
- Swamp
- Shed, with "off"
- Cast (off)
- Stagnant swamp
- Bog, marsh
- Shed (with "off")
- Discard
- Homonym for slew
- Cast off
- Muddy area
- Swamp in which ghouls wander
- Discard - bog
- Berkshire town and local authority
- Cast off depression!
- Source of despondency, nowhere near completing Shed
- Shed in mud-filled hollow
- Mud-filled hollow in Berkshire
- Ghouls wandering somewhere in Berkshire
- Berkshire town, where, according to Betjeman, there "isn't room to graze a cow" - but Wernham Hogg has an office
Last Seen In
- Daily American - August 19, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 26, 2024
- Daily American - August 19, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 01, 2023
- New York Times - December 12, 2021
- Daily American - August 19, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - April 01, 2017
- Netword - December 31, 2016
- Guardian Quick - November 15, 2016
- Canadiana - May 23, 2016
- Guardian Quick - May 02, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 09, 2015
- Universal - January 22, 2015
- LA Times - April 15, 2014
- New York Times - December 09, 2013
- New York Times - February 21, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - December 26, 2012
- Thinks Daily - January 19, 2011
- Universal - November 14, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - February 23, 2010
- LA Times - February 21, 2010
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 14, 2009
- USA Today - October 17, 2006
- LA Times - July 12, 2006
- Family Time - May 29, 2005
- Family Time - April 04, 2005
- Guardian Prize - January 15, 2005
- New York Times - June 27, 2004
- Guardian Cryptic - September 11, 2000
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