Clues for the word "SMELL"
We've had 121 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 307 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 20, 2026.
Definition of smell
- n. - To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.
- n. - To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.
- n. - To give heed to.
- v. i. - To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
- v. i. - To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.
- v. i. - To exercise the sense of smell.
- v. i. - To exercise sagacity.
- v. t. - The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
- v. t. - The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.
Referring Clues
- Nose
- Give off an odor
- Smack (of)
- Common sense?
- It may be picked up in a gym
- Sense-ability
- Enjoy a rose
- One of the senses
- Something in a trash heap
- Scent
- Whiff
- Bloodhound's sense
- Stink
- Appear corrupt
- Ammonia, e.g.
- Sense much used in a bakery
- Something noticed at a fish market
- Suspect
- Something picked up in a locker room
- Detect, in a way
- What skunks do
- Locker room emanation
- Get wind of
- What the nose knows
- Use the olfactories
- Aroma
- Get a whiff of
- Locker room phenomenon
- Detect a fragrance
- "Stop and ___ the roses"
- Nasal appraisal
- What the nose picks up
- Detect, as a rat?
- Dog attractor
- Dumpster emission
- Detect with one's nose
- Certain sense
- Common sense
- Wavy lines, in comics
- It may be picked up in a trash heap
- Skunk's problem
- Olfactory clue
- Olfactory lobe's purpose
- Distinctive new-car feature
- Pick up perfume?
- Catch a whiff of
- Perceive, in a way
- Fido's good sense
- Sense used in a bakery
- Use one's nose
- Bloodhound's asset
- Doggie's acute sense
- Appear suspicious
- Hound's long suit
- Refrigerator or shoe issue
- Detect with a sniff
- It might make the nose wrinkle
- What wavy lines may indicate in a comic strip
- Pick up, as a scent
- Odor
- Bouquet
- Cigar byproduct
- Olfactory stimulus
- Bloodhound's clue
- Fragrance
- Reek
- Test for freshness
- Take a whiff
- Seem fishier and fishier
- What bloodhounds and dead fish do
- Make a stink
- Get a noseful of
- Catch a whiff
- Follow your nose
- Fish market presence
- Sniff
- Detect an aroma
- ___ a rat (be suspicious)
- Canine's keen sense
- Nosy thing to do?
- Test for freshness, in a way
- What's missing from the set of longest answers
- Evidence of decay
- Onion feature
- What the nose can do
- Have B.O.
- Odour
- Olfactory sense
- Need deodorant
- "New car" or "burning tire"
- Sense of intangibility?
- "Oooh, that ___" Skynyrd
- George Clinton "Hey Man ... ___ My Finger"
- Stench
- Spy chief taken in by deception, in a sense
- Perceive through the nose
- Is it to be sniffed at?
- Dispose of about 1,000, in a sense
- Get wind of deception involving money
- See 14
- Hum of large number engaged in trade
- Not seem aboveboard
- Dogs good sense
- Get a noseful
- Common sense?
- "Wake up and ___ the coffee!"
- Dog's keen sense
- Pass the ___ test (have credibility)
- Dog's acute sense
- Need a bath badly
- Perfume to market around Maidenhead
- One sense
- Fragrance to sell around Maidenhead
- New car attraction
- Detect, as an aroma
- Incense-sensing sense
- "Pee-yew!" elicitor
- Is it to be sniffed at?
- "If you ___ what The Rock is cooking!" (old W.W.E. catchphrase)
- Sense that dolphins lack
- Bad thing to discover in the pantry
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 20, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 08, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 03, 2025
- LA Times - November 23, 2025
- LA Times - October 30, 2025
- Daily American - October 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 09, 2025
- New York Times - September 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 05, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 12, 2025
- Daily American - March 03, 2025
- LA Times - February 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 31, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 31, 2025
- LA Times - January 20, 2025
- Daily American - December 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 08, 2024
- New York Times - December 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 29, 2024
- Daily American - November 09, 2024
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