Clues for the word "SPLEEN"
We've had 62 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 134 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 20, 2026.
Definition of spleen
- n. - A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
- n. - Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
- n. - A fit of anger; choler.
- n. - A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
- n. - Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
- n. - A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
- v. t. - To dislke.
Referring Clues
- Anger
- Petulance
- Ill will
- Peevishness
- Bad temper
- Ill humor
- Irascibility
- Lymphocyte producer
- Rancor
- Ire
- Organic filter
- Anatomical source of ill humor?
- Peevish anger
- Diaphragm neighbor
- Nonessential organ
- Nonessential internal organ
- Organ near the stomach
- Organ that's vented
- Peevish temper
- Certain internal organ
- It may be vented
- It might be vented
- Blood-filtering organ
- Suppressed ill will
- Charles Baudelaire's "Paris___"
- Organ next to the stomach
- Non-essential organ
- "Vented" organ
- Iron-recycling organ
- Inessential internal organ
- Lymphoid organ
- Malice
- Ill temper
- Abdominal organ
- Organ associated with ill temper
- It may be vented in anger
- Ill humour
- Quick temper - body organ
- Bitterness - body organ
- Abdominal organ - bad temper
- Internal organ - irascibility
- Organ associated with ill humour
- Organ of the body - ill temper
- Soft organ near the stomach
- Organ supposedly controlling temper
- Organ producing bile?
- Organ that may be vented
- Bad temper shown when interviewed about page 50
- Organ of old-fashioned melancholy
- Understood about place causing anger
- Spitefulness, ill-humour
- Part of the lymphatic system
- Suppressed anger
- Vascular organ
- Stomach neighbor
- The bitterness we all have
- Organ near the pancreas
- Stomach organ
- Pique
- Internal organ
- Organ that filters blood
- Anatomical filter
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 20, 2026
- LA Times - January 04, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - November 06, 2025
- New York Times - June 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 06, 2025
- Daily American - June 04, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 02, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 18, 2025
- New York Times - December 16, 2024
- Family Time - August 25, 2024
- USA Today - August 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 31, 2024
- USA Today - April 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 04, 2024
- Family Time - January 14, 2024
- LA Times - August 17, 2023
- New York Times - June 08, 2023
- Daily American - June 04, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 03, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 23, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 28, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 13, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 28, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 28, 2022
- New York Times - April 08, 2022
- Guardian Quick - November 20, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - September 27, 2017
- Daily American - June 04, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 16, 2017
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