Clues for the word "SPADE"
We've had 180 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 477 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on July 19, 2026.
Definition of spade
- n. - A hart or stag three years old.
- n. - A castrated man or beast.
- n. - An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
- n. - One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
- n. - A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
- v. t. - To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
Referring Clues
- One in a black suit
- Digger
- Garden tool
- Black playing card
- Bogart's sleuth
- Gardener's need
- Deck figure
- Part of a black suit
- Hammett sleuth
- One in a suit
- Ditch digger's tool
- Black card
- Ditchdigger's tool
- Bogart's sleuth Sam
- Gardener's tool
- Digging tool
- Club alternative
- Heart beater in bridge bidding
- David of "Just Shoot Me"
- Sleuth played by Bogart
- One of thirteen cards
- Bogart role
- Gardening tool
- Bridge column symbol
- Black suit
- Sturdy hand shovel
- Bogart part
- Hammett's detective
- Sam played by Bogart
- Card in a black suit
- Trench-making tool
- Hole thing?
- Comedian David
- Bogart's "Maltese Falcon" role
- Symbol on a black ace
- Garden shovel
- Prospector's tool
- One in a dark suit
- Fictional sleuth Sam
- Part of a deck
- Card symbol
- Bogart sleuth
- Miles Archer's partner
- Archer's partner
- "Maltese Falcon" detective
- Hammett detective
- Earth mover
- Card with black pips
- Suit symbol
- "The Maltese Falcon" sleuth
- Diamond alternative
- One of 13 in a deck
- Hammett's private eye
- Gardener's implement
- One of 13 of 52 in all
- Digging implement
- Dark suit item?
- Small garden shovel
- "Black bird" pursuer of fiction
- Hammett hero
- Fictional falcon seeker
- Trench tool
- Soil lifter
- "Maltese Falcon" detective
- Black suit
- One may take your heart
- Card of a certain suit
- Designer Kate nee Brosnahan
- Sleuth Sam
- Club relative
- Member of one of four suits
- Black suit component?
- Aid for breaking new ground
- Shovel's cousin
- Classic Bogart role
- Shovel's kin
- Card-suit symbol
- '8 Simple Rules' cast member
- One in a black suit?
- 'SNL' alum David
- 'Maltese Falcon' sleuth
- Trench maker
- Hammett's hard-boiled sleuth
- Garden digging tool
- Tool for this puzzle's title
- Gardener's shovel
- Jack that's one-eyed and lacks a heart
- See 17-Across
- Groundbreaking tool
- Garden implement
- Mover of earth
- It might turn up some dirt
- Trench maker's tool
- Gardening shed item
- 'Maltese Falcon' hero
- Trowel's big brother
- Sam the detective
- Hammett gumshoe Sam
- Suit of cards
- Thing to dig with
- One of four common suits
- Suit unit
- Actor David
- Garden aid
- Hand shovel
- Small shovel
- Certain card suit
- Part of a suit
- Dark suit card
- Figure in a dark suit
- Member of a suit you play with
- Fictional falcon finder
- Soil mover
- Shovel, to a card player?
- One in four face cards
- Garden tool for digging
- Example of 47- and of 83-Across
- Ground breaker
- Gardener's groundbreaker
- Trench-digging tool
- Shovel
- Comic David ___
- Tool for the garden
- Tool for digging
- Diamond, heart, club and ___
- "The Showbiz Show" host David
- Type of black card in the deck
- Trench-digger's tool
- Marilyn Manson song about a playing card?
- Marilyn Manson song about playing cards?
- Ani DiFranco song about gardening (with "A")?
- Solver as pack member
- A card that's useful in digs
- Digger's home in the southeast
- Tool with unusual pads on the end of the handle
- Object of calling with 18
- In fiction, Sam has a cushy place in the southeast
- One may turn over in bed
- 1941 Bogart role
- Gardening tool (maybe so called)
- Part of suit that is found in the garden
- Digger's tool
- Card in a black-card suit
- Literary Dick, one in a black suit
- Groundbreaking invention?
- One's home in the Kent area's good for gardening
- Part of a dark suit
- Sam ___ (detective in "The Maltese Falcon")
- Gardening tool given its correct name?
- 1 of 13 in a deck
- See 115 Down
- Hole digger's tool
- Deck suit member
- One of four ... and of thirteen
- Heart beater, in bridge
- Gardener's digging tool
- Certain black card
- Powerful queen, in hearts
- Aid for making a sand castle
- Shovel kin
- Heart topper, in bridge
- Picked up sterilised tool
- Bogart detective role
- Shovel relative
- Garden shed item
- Falcon-finding sleuth Sam
- Hole maker
- Hole-digging tool
- That Sam character's home in the southeast
- Part of a 13-piece suit?
- Tool used for digging
- Ground-breaking tool
- Garden digger
- Tool
- Fashion designer Kate
- Black suit in a deck
- Gardener's ground breaker
- Comic actor David
- It might turn up a turnip
- Ditch digger
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - July 19, 2026
- Daily Quick - July 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 28, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 07, 2026
- Your Life Choices - May 14, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 19, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - April 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 06, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 04, 2026
- LA Times - March 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 24, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 04, 2026
- Daily American - February 05, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 22, 2026
- New York Times - January 03, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2025
- LA Times - October 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 28, 2025
- Daily American - August 19, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 13, 2025
- LA Times - August 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 06, 2025
- Daily American - June 24, 2025
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