Clues for the word "STAINS"
We've had 68 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 106 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 26, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Spots
- Some are made with chocolate
- Walnut and others
- Discolorations
- Dyes for wood
- Blemishes
- Tide targets
- Soiled spots
- Spill marks
- Blots
- Besmirches
- Shout targets
- Washday woes
- Carpet concerns
- Wood treatments
- Marks
- Sloppy eaters' problems
- Deck treatments
- Dry cleaner's challenges
- Sloppy eater's problem
- Reasons to presoak
- They get taken to the cleaners
- Wood applications
- Splotches
- Bad marks
- All targets
- They may come out when the Tide goes in
- Laundry problems
- Dry cleaner's targets
- Cleaner's targets
- Red-wine woes
- Deck treatment
- Smudges
- Dry cleaning challenges
- Sofa cushion concerns
- Bookcase coatings
- Adds color to
- Laundry woes
- Tarnishes
- Wood dyes
- Launderer's challenges
- Painters' work stuff
- Sloppy eater's leftovers
- Laundry challenges
- Dry cleaning targets
- Wood-surface applications
- Dry cleaner's concerns
- Treats wood
- Ink spots and wine splashes, for two
- Stubborn spots
- Discolors
- Marks heard in Surrey
- Challenges for dry cleaners
- Marks it as potentially two points
- Spots Hector Sants with leading industrialists
- Marks to remove
- Used bibs' features
- Jobs for Wisk
- Sullies
- Maybe black marks, thanks to being caught in wrongdoing
- Spray 'n Wash targets
- White shirt woes
- The satin's spoiled by the marks
- Spots to remove
- Inkblots on shirts, for example
- Wood finishes
- Coffee rings, e.g.
- Trouble spots?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2025
- New York Times - June 14, 2025
- New York Times - June 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 21, 2025
- USA Today - January 07, 2025
- LA Times - December 05, 2024
- Family Time - October 06, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 16, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 07, 2024
- LA Times - September 06, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 24, 2023
- USA Today - April 06, 2023
- Your Life Choices - March 13, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 13, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 23, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - December 11, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 18, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - October 18, 2022
- USA Today - July 08, 2022
- New York Times - June 02, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 05, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - December 19, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 02, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - August 02, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - June 05, 2017
- Universal - March 10, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - December 23, 2016
- Universal - May 24, 2016
- And in 76 more crossword puzzles...