Clues for the word "SOW"
We've had 175 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 550 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 16, 2025.
Definition of sow
- v. i. - To sew. See Sew.
- n. - The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
- n. - A sow bug.
- n. - A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
- n. - The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
- n. - A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
- n. - A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
- v. t. - To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
- v. t. - To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
- v. i. - To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
Referring Clues
- Farm mother
- Implant
- Promulgate
- Boar's mate
- Propagate
- Animal going to market, maybe
- Female hog
- Plant
- Farm female
- Scatter
- Scatter, as seeds
- Female pig
- Spread
- Piglet's mother
- Mother hog
- Broadcast
- She's a pig
- Miss Piggy, for one
- Mama bear, for example
- Mama porker
- Piglet parent
- Miss Piggy, e.g.
- Den mother
- Boar belle
- Babe's mom, for one
- Madame of the sty
- Pen mother
- Boar adorer
- Piglet's parent
- "Queen" of 51-Across
- Get growing
- Spread for growth
- Strew seed
- Barnyard mother
- Piglet producer
- Porky female?
- Disseminate
- Piglet's mom
- Put in the ground
- Farm mom
- Miss Piggy, for example
- Sty dweller
- Sty denizen
- Female badger
- Pig's mother
- Babe's mom
- Sty female
- Boar's counterpart
- Belle of the boar
- Sty matriarch
- Seed
- Gal with a snout
- Shoat's mom
- Pig with little piggies
- What to do before you reap
- Female in the pen
- Sty resident
- Barnyard female
- Use a seed drill
- Porker's parent
- Porker parent
- Sty mother
- Ms Piggy
- Boar's bride
- Miss Piggy
- Work in the field
- Start a garden
- Plant seeds
- Spread seeds
- Female swine
- Lay the groundwork for
- Boar's beloved
- Pigsty dweller
- Piglet's mama
- Scatter seed
- Scatter seeds
- Emulate Johnny Appleseed
- Piglets' parent
- Boar's companion
- Spread seed
- Make like Johnny Appleseed
- Ms. piggy?
- Petunia Pig, for example
- Scatter, as seed
- She-pig
- Miss piggy?
- Pen pal?
- Disperse
- Strew or sprinkle about
- ... and another
- Start the growing season
- See 31-Across
- Mother bear
- She's a real hog
- Fat farm female
- Porcine mama
- Litter bearer
- An adult female hog
- Spread on a farm
- Farmyard female
- Pen dame
- Do a farm chore
- Plant, as seed
- Plant, as seeds
- "You reap what you ___"
- What Johnny Appleseed did
- Barnyard mom
- Grunting female
- Fat farm creature
- Female bear
- Start a future crop
- Mother in a pen
- Inculcate, as suspicion
- Certain boar or bear
- Female Tamworth
- Pig
- Scatter seeds for planting
- Opposite of reap
- She-swine
- Big mama on the farm
- What Tears for Fears will do to "The Seeds of Love"
- What Tears for Fears will do to "Seeds of Love"
- Female of the cassowary
- Plant by scattering
- Piglets nurser
- She lives in a sty
- What the reaper did
- Porcine parent
- Pen mom
- Farmyard mother
- Farm denizen
- Pen resident
- Spread, as discord
- Miss Piggy?
- What a farmer might do to hearten the cassowary?
- Strew, as seed
- Plant seeds for Miss Piggy?
- Mama pig
- Inculcate
- Female adult pig
- This female had to get out of something shady!
- So woolly headed, this female!
- Ms Tamworth
- Promulgate, as distrust
- Female slop eater
- Boar bearer
- 15-Across, in a way
- Frequent grunter
- Spread seeds on a farm
- Broadcast the storm centre's in the Cornish area
- Mother of piglets
- Slop-eating female
- Sty mom
- Bring about, as confusion
- Foment
- Sty wallower
- Mama Bear, e.g.
- To be reaped later
- Use seeds to hearten a cassowary
- Female on a farm
- Mother to piglets
- Broadcast in a manner so pointed!
- Lady sty dweller
- Scatter in earth
- Plant some seeds
- Spread some seeds
- Plant on a farm ... or animal on a farm
- Reap's counterpart
- Piglet's 20-Across
- She-swine in a pen
- Farm noun or verb
- Go to seed?
- Put down seeds
- Farming noun or verb
- Female 35-Across
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 20, 2024
- LA Times - November 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 21, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 07, 2024
- USA Today - September 03, 2024
- Mirror Mini - August 23, 2024
- USA Today - August 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 31, 2024
- USA Today - July 23, 2024
- LA Times - July 19, 2024
- Family Time - July 07, 2024
- Daily American - June 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 06, 2024
- New York Times - June 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 05, 2024
- New York Times - May 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 09, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 02, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - April 25, 2024
- Family Time - April 21, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 26, 2024
- Family Time - March 17, 2024
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