Clues for the word "SOIL"
We've had 208 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 489 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 06, 2026.
Definition of soil
- v. t. - To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
- n. - The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
- n. - Land; country.
- n. - Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
- v. t. - To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- n. - A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- n. - To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
- n. - To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- v. i. - To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
- n. - That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
Referring Clues
- Where the worm turns
- Loam
- Earth
- Sully
- Stain
- Dirty
- Free-___ Party (slavery opposers)
- Potting need
- Victim of erosion
- Make dirty
- Potter's purchase
- Smudge
- Potting material
- It can be seedy
- Potter's buy
- Make messy
- Terra firma
- Potter's need
- It's not needed in hydroponics
- Garden surface
- The good earth
- Get dirty
- Agronomist's sample
- Erosion loss
- Bedrock's covering, perhaps
- Transplanting need
- Free-___ Party (opponents of slavery)
- Agronomy concern
- It gets eroded
- Bed of roses?
- Taint
- Gardener's bagful
- Tarnish
- Gardening must-have
- Planting medium
- Land
- Agrarian concern
- Gardener's purchase
- Disgrace
- Dirt
- Pollute
- Dirt that might be dug up?
- Smirch
- Flowerpot filler
- Growing medium
- Muddy
- Farmer's earth
- 4-H Club concern
- Farmer's foundation
- Nursery buy
- Where the worm turns?
- Loam, e.g.
- Agronomist's concern
- Pot filler
- Besmirch
- Defile
- It covers a lot of ground
- Gardener%C2%92s dirt
- Earthworm's habitat
- Plant Anchor
- The good earth?
- Earth in the garden
- Farm ground
- Garden center purchase
- County agent's concern
- Earthworm environs
- Potting requirement
- Gardeners dirt
- Upper crust?
- Terra farma?
- Poop on
- Befoul
- Bed layer
- Target of some pH tests
- Growth area?
- Farming medium
- Muddys up
- Ground
- Planting dirt
- Make grimy
- Tilled stuff
- Terrarium foundation
- It makes a bed
- Contents of some beds
- Bed with bugs
- Earthworm habitat
- Sovereign territory, synecdochically
- Earth, in the garden
- pH test specimen
- Potter's dirt
- Gardener's dirt
- Flower pot filler
- Nursery supply
- Bed covering?
- Farmland
- Root spot
- Foundation of farming
- Bed covering
- Potting medium
- Potting ___
- Farming ground
- Gardener's need
- Gardening medium
- Planting ground
- Garden store supply
- Where plants grow
- Detergent target
- Worm's home
- Field material
- Organic compound
- Dirt for planting
- Gardening concern
- Dirt for a garden
- Dirt in a pot
- Garden center bagful
- Nitrogen source for plants
- Garden dirt
- Dirt, to a gardener
- Nursery dirt
- Farmer's ground
- Window box dirt
- Dirt for plants
- Fill planting pots with this
- Where plants are planted
- Earth or dirt
- Rich dirt
- Planter's purchase
- Earthly dirt
- Agrologist's study
- Top layer of earth
- "Halo" rockers that garden?
- Dreadful Shadows song about earth (with "The")?
- "Redefine" band
- Dirty - dirt
- "Scars" band that gardens?
- Dirty pictures finish on top
- Oil's obtainable from the earth
- What the farmer needs is a new silo
- It makes the bed
- One would have the Sun going round the Earth
- Farmer's concern
- Leave a stain
- Top layer of land
- "Halo" rockers that garden?
- Agronomist's study
- Agricultural ground
- Plant bed
- Flower bed fill
- Potting bagful
- Where to put down roots
- What tillers till
- Rooting section?
- Agronomists study it
- Potter's bagful
- Growth medium
- Discredit
- Nursery staple
- Ground for planting
- Contaminate
- Terrarium bed
- Flower bed filler
- Bed cover
- It forms Earth's pedosphere
- Agronomy focus
- Window box filler
- Bed filled with bugs
- "Old Farmer's Almanac" topic
- Garden center stock
- Corrupt
- Garden store bagful
- Garden bed
- Where roots take hold
- Bed foundation?
- Bed of roses?
- Place for seeds
- Dirt in a window box
- Dirt, or dirty
- What fertilizer improves
- Seed's bed
- What orchids may grow without
- Potted plant's base
- Gardener's supply
- Seedy area?
- Concern in geomorphology
- Dirt in an herb pot
- Place for roots
- Potter's substance
- Dirt in a planter
- Lowe's bagful
- Sovereign land, so to speak
- Source of nutrients for plants
- Good garden dirt
- Slapping the bags of ___ at Home Depot
- Repotting need
- Planter fill
- Garden need
- Need when repotting plants
- What goes to pot?
- Dirt for a potted plant
- Planter contents
- It makes up a garden's bed
- Flowerpot dirt
- Worm's habitat
- Product of composting
- Garden necessity
- Garden shop purchase
- Bed component?
- Something added to a plot
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 10, 2025
- Daily American - July 29, 2025
- Daily American - July 28, 2025
- Daily American - July 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 26, 2025
- Daily American - June 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 05, 2025
- New York Times - April 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 19, 2025
- New York Times - February 18, 2025
- Daily American - February 09, 2025
- LA Times - January 28, 2025
- LA Times - January 01, 2025
- Daily American - December 23, 2024
- Daily American - December 22, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 18, 2024
- USA Today - December 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 03, 2024
- LA Times - November 29, 2024
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