Clues for the word "SLUM"
We've had 101 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 203 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on June 22, 2026.
Definition of slum
- n. - A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
- n. - Same as Slimes.
Referring Clues
- Urban blight
- Associate with riffraff
- Pigsty
- Tenement locale
- Take the low road, in a way
- Squalid neighborhood
- Urban renewal target
- Squalid digs
- Run-down area
- Neglected neighborhood
- Ratty area
- Blighted urban area
- Urban eyesore
- Inner-city blight
- Environs in an Upton Sinclair work, usually
- Neglected area
- Inner city concern
- Poor houses
- Visit a run-down neighborhood
- Run-down place
- Inner city eyesore
- Lord's domain?
- Target of urban renewal
- Run-down neighborhood
- Urban-renewal target
- Clearance candidate
- Area of poverty
- Squalid urban area
- Live beneath one's station
- It needs renewal
- Poverty-stricken area
- Kind of lord
- Trenchtown, for one
- Inner city blight
- Jacob Riis subject
- Poor neighborhood
- Run-down residential area
- Seedy area
- Run-down part of town
- Poor area of town
- Run-down part of the city
- Run-down urban area
- Poor part of town
- Skid row
- Renewal candidate
- Hardly a high-rent district
- Gentrification target, maybe
- Gentrification target, maybe?
- Dickensian setting
- Depressed area
- Gentrification target
- Urban renewal candidate
- Candidate for urban renewal
- ___ tourism
- Skid row area
- Not the best part of town
- Wrong side of the tracks
- Very poor community
- Run-down area of city
- Poverty district
- Setting for London's "People of the Abyss"
- Subject of "How the Other Half Lives"
- Urban renewal area
- Tenement site
- UN-Habitat concern
- Place ruled by a lord?
- Ghetto
- Impoverished urban area
- Run-down part of a city
- Rundown part of town
- Seedy housing area
- Extremely run-down neighborhood
- Poor community
- City eyesore
- Squalid part of town
- Squalid neighbourhood
- Squalid, overcrowded dwelling
- Area of bad housing
- Squalid place where many people live, 50 in all
- Run-down city area
- Area of rundown housing
- City woe
- Blighted area
- Blighted locale
- Squalid area of a city
- Squalid district
- Hovel
- Neglected district
- What kind of dog became a millionaire in this 2008 Oscar winner?
- Squalid overcrowded house
- Possible gentrification target
- Area for urban renewal
- Blighted inner city area
- Impoverished area
- Neighborhood neglected by local government
- Wherein the poor total is about a pound?
- Frequent a seedy bar
- Squalid dwelling
- City blight
- Relative of a shantytown
- "___ Virgin" (Gabriela Cabezon Camara novel)
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - February 16, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 10, 2025
- LA Times - November 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 24, 2025
- LA Times - July 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 02, 2024
- USA Today - August 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 25, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 28, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 17, 2023
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2023
- Mirror Daily - March 03, 2023
- Mirror Daily - February 28, 2023
- Mirror Daily - January 31, 2023
- LA Times - July 22, 2022
- Mirror Daily - June 21, 2022
- New York Times - April 05, 2022
- Mirror Daily - January 02, 2018
- Washington Post Sunday - December 17, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 16, 2017
- Universal - November 26, 2017
- Mirror Daily - November 01, 2017
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