Clues for the word "SPONGE"
We've had 110 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 158 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on March 07, 2026.
Definition of sponge
- n. - Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.
- n. - The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.
- n. - One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
- n. - Any spongelike substance.
- n. - Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
- n. - Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
- n. - Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
- n. - A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
- n. - The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
- v. t. - To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth.
- v. t. - To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
- v. t. - Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
- v. t. - Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.
- v. i. - To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.
- v. i. - Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.
- v. i. - To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven.
Referring Clues
- Mooch
- Bathroom item
- Kind of cake
- Surgeon's request
- Moocher
- Spill sopper
- Type of bath or cake
- Loofah, e.g.
- Freeloader
- Cleaning aid
- Spot remover
- Perennial borrower
- Counter cleaner
- Spill absorber
- Be parasitic
- Kitchen cleaner
- Water absorber
- Word with bath or cake
- Parasite
- Absorbent cleaner
- Squarepants species
- Anti-baby option
- SquarePants is one
- Quick learner
- Kitchen aid
- Scouring need
- Car-washing aid
- Quick and thorough learner
- Leech
- Squarepants species?
- Drunkard
- Surgeon's aid
- Kind of cake or bath
- Dishwashing aid
- Water soaker-upper
- Super memorizer
- Dish cleaner
- Spill soaker-upper
- Bath need
- Holey reef dweller
- Kitchen item
- Plantlike animal
- Act the moocher
- Car washer's need
- Parasitic sort
- Dishwasher's gear
- Sea creature
- Kitchen or car wash need
- Quick learner, informally
- Dishwashing tool
- Obtain free
- Sink item
- It soaks up liquids
- Clean cake
- Loofah
- Bum - cleaner
- Cadge
- Cake cut out? Rubbish! It's located in 16 11
- Cadge a cake from?
- To cadge causes bad odour in the Home Counties
- Sweet thing with bum to touch
- Absorbent cleaner - cadge
- Absorbing example of marine life
- To be a cadger is an absorbing thing
- Animal that absorbs liquid
- Light cake
- Aquatic creature - cadge
- Marine creature - cadge
- Live on others when drunk
- Beg for cake?
- Sea creature - cleanser - cake
- Cadge - porous object used for washing
- *Animal cleaner
- Absorbent wiper
- Sulphur's the bad smell oriental found in the bathroom
- Ask for money to clean up
- Rely on another for money and cake
- Alcoholic cake
- With which to clean up nasty smell in the Home Counties?
- See 6
- Bum safe when evacuated, stink contained
- See 8
- Mop
- Tosspot
- Sponge
- Cleaning pad
- Bath item
- Reef creature
- Absorbent pad
- Marine animal
- Cake for the mermaid's tea?
- Housecleaning aid
- Bathroom scrubber
- Quick learner, say
- It's absorbing, what a cadger can do
- Fast learner
- Porous cleaning aid
- One soaking things up
- Word before "cake" or "bath"
- Something absorbing to read about in the cookery book
- Squishy scrubber
- Loofah, for example
- Item for washing dishes
- Sinkside scrubber
- Scrounge from, to get something for the bathroom
- Kitchen sink item
- Cake
- Kitchen cleaning aid
- Light cake type
- Freeload
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - March 07, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 04, 2026
- LA Times - January 21, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - September 10, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 26, 2024
- LA Times - August 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 03, 2024
- Your Life Choices - February 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 22, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 05, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 04, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 26, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - November 17, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - September 04, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 23, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 13, 2023
- USA Today - March 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 17, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - January 02, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 16, 2022
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