Clues for the word "SOOTY"
We've had 69 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 100 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on December 18, 2025.
Definition of sooty
- superl. - Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
- superl. - Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.
- v. t. - To black or foul with soot.
Referring Clues
- Like smokestacks
- Like a sweep's uniform
- Like Santa on Christmas morning?
- Like Santa on Christmas Eve?
- Like a chimney sweep
- In need of a sweep
- Black, in a way
- Like Santa's boots
- Like a neglected chimney
- Like a dirty chimney
- Like many chimneys
- Like Santa on Christmas Eve, probably
- Blackened
- Like sweep hands?
- Like Santa's suit after going through the chimney
- Like a well-used chimney
- Flue-stricken?
- Like Santa after his rounds, maybe
- Black
- Fresh from the chimney, perhaps
- Like many flues
- Like a smokestack
- Like Santa's suit on December 26
- Like many old fireplaces
- Black, as a chimney
- Like Santa's suit on December 26th
- Like most chimneys
- Like a blackened chimney
- Like Santa's suit on Christmas morning
- Like a chimney
- Blackened, as a chimney
- Besmirched(5)
- Like 26-Down's suit on Dec. 26
- Like a sweep
- Like Santa's laundry
- Dirty, as a chimney
- Like Santa's laundry?
- Like used fire irons
- Grimy
- Black, as a flue
- Needing a good sweep?
- Like Santa after his rounds, perhaps
- Like Santa's suit
- In need of a sweep, perhaps
- Like Santa's duds
- What Santa gets?
- Like Santa's suit on Christmas day
- Blackish
- Covered with black dust
- Like Santa's suit the day after Christmas
- Like a chimney sweep's clothes
- Fluelike
- So a new toy is a puppet
- Dirty like Santa's suit
- Like chimney sweeps
- Like chimneys
- Needing a chimney sweep
- So, toy could be a glove puppet?
- In need of sweeping
- Like an unswept chimney
- Like a chimney needing sweeping
- Like a flue symptom
- Black, as a chimney flue
- Like the "Step in Time" singers in "Mary Poppins"
- Like a chimney sweep after work
- Like Santa after entering a house, perhaps
- Needing a sweep
- Dirty, like a chimney
- Like a filthy flue
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - December 18, 2025
- LA Times - April 27, 2025
- New York Times - February 27, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 06, 2025
- New York Times - December 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 17, 2024
- New York Times - July 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 30, 2023
- LA Times - July 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 27, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 06, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - January 06, 2023
- New York Times - January 14, 2018
- Universal - November 08, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 27, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 29, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 25, 2017
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 16, 2017
- Chronicle of Higher Education - March 24, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 10, 2017
- Universal - December 29, 2016
- Universal - December 09, 2016
- USA Today - September 12, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 09, 2016
- Jonesin - June 08, 2016
- New York Times - March 29, 2016
- USA Today - February 12, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - January 25, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 25, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 19, 2015
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