Clues for the word "SMUDGE"
We've had 58 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 91 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on July 26, 2025.
Definition of smudge
- n. - A suffocating smoke.
- n. - A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
- n. - That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
- v. t. - To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
- v. t. - To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
Referring Clues
- Soil
- Photo marrer
- Fingerprint, say
- Artist's goof
- Printing goof
- Target for a gum eraser
- Finger mark
- Messy mark
- Dark mark
- Dirt stain
- Eraser mark
- Ink spot
- Mark from dirty fingers
- Makeup mishap
- Polisher's target
- Blurry spot
- Dirty streak
- Dirty smear
- Lipstick mark, e.g.
- Smear
- Mark that might be left with greasy fingers
- Greasy fingerprint, e.g.
- Mark from an old eraser
- Mascara mark, maybe
- Calligraphy goof
- Smear mark
- Mascara mishap
- Erasure remnant
- Dirty mark
- Window cleaner's target
- Indistinct fingerprint, e.g.
- Blotch
- Ink stain
- Soot mark
- Smeary mark
- Complacent about a bit of dirt, earl makes a grubby mark
- Blurred mark
- Smeared blot
- Mark
- Printer's goof
- Dirty mark on reverse, for example, of the French manuscript
- Blur
- Soil - daub
- Spot date wearing self-satisfied smile finally
- Spot found in bogs/mud generally
- Target for a 44-Across
- Streak across mud, getting immersed
- Writing back to university, thank God 'e's got a mark
- Muddy
- Mark left by buttery fingers
- A fingerprint can leave one
- Mark made by rubbing
- Dirty spot
- Photocopy flaw
- Streak
- Greasy fingerprint, maybe
- Mascara goof
- What mascara might do
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - July 26, 2025
- New York Times - July 02, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 06, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 11, 2023
- LA Times - December 01, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 05, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - July 15, 2022
- New York Times - March 09, 2022
- USA Today - February 02, 2018
- Universal - October 21, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 13, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 31, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 11, 2017
- Netword - June 20, 2017
- LA Times - June 19, 2017
- Universal - April 18, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 04, 2017
- USA Today - April 03, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - February 21, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - February 21, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - December 21, 2016
- Family Time - November 14, 2016
- LA Times - November 10, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 24, 2016
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