Clues for the word "STAPLE"
We've had 139 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 253 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer crossword on February 10, 2025.
Definition of staple
- n. - A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
- n. - Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
- n. - The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
- n. - The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
- n. - Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- n. - The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
- n. - A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
- n. - A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- n. - A small pit.
- n. - A district granted to an abbey.
- a. - Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
- a. - Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
- a. - Fit to be sold; marketable.
- a. - Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- v. t. - To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
Referring Clues
- Basic commodity
- Paper clip alternative
- Clip alternative
- Alternative to a paper clip
- Bread or butter
- Mainstay
- Bread, for one
- Chase scenes, in action films
- Sugar or flour
- Swingline item
- Paper fastener
- U-shaped wire
- Office fastener
- Necessary food
- Fasten with a click
- Fasten together, as papers
- Basic food item
- Bread is one
- Basic food
- Principal commodity
- Flour or sugar
- Basic need
- Use a Swingline
- Sugar or flour, e.g.
- Important commodity
- Type of gun
- Bread or milk
- Swingline fastener
- Bread, milk or eggs
- Pantry or office item?
- Rice, for many
- Essential
- General store item
- Fasten sheets
- Paper-clip alternative
- Document holder?
- Corner item
- Basic ingredient
- Fasten, in a way
- Basic element
- Newsletter feature
- Fastener shot from a gun
- Office holder?
- Paper holder
- Certain gun projectile
- Paperclip alternative
- Put together, in a way
- Main component
- Gun projectile, perhaps
- Essential commodity
- Ammunition for a certain gun
- Paper binder
- Flour, for instance
- Kind of gun
- Office joiner
- Office binder
- Fastener in a gun
- Metal fastener
- Swingline insert
- Fastener that looks like U?
- Bent item in an office products logo
- Comic book fastener
- Gun insert
- Rice
- Item used to attach papers together
- It can attach papers together
- Fastener in the corner
- It keeps pages from flying everywhere
- Rock mainstay
- Set list mainstay
- Paper fastener - basic foodstuff
- Priest tucking into old important part of diet
- Chief
- Basic connector
- A pinhead embedded in an old piece of wire
- Principal
- The food one normally eats
- Principal - fastener
- Basic requirement of an office machine
- Secure a basic commodity
- Principal way to core fruit
- Principle - fixer
- Food past its sell-by date contains source of pandemic
- Principle - metal fastener
- A joiner's raw material
- Main element
- Means of securing textile fibre
- Main type of fastener
- Fastening device
- Fastener's main element
- Fastener - principal
- Principal fixer
- Market town for pastel reproduction
- Main fastening
- Prince enters flat of major
- Bread or rice, e.g.
- Is such a diet rich in iron?
- Principal can make a good man turn pale
- Bit of wire in bread?
- Main way to keep leaves from getting scattered
- Chief fixer
- Main fastener
- Prepare plates of essential food
- Paper-fastening device
- Paper fastening
- Fastener of prime importance
- Principal way to fasten
- Power in old chief
- Food basic
- Basic
- Principal food
- Such a diet presumably has iron in it
- Dietary mainstay
- Page link
- Taro, in Hawaiian cuisine
- Fasten
- The main thing holding papers together?
- Fastener
- Fix broken plates together?
- Rice, in Chinese cuisine
- Such a diet involves various plates
- Binding part of some legal documents?
- Rice, e.g.
- Principal element
- Can it fix broken plates?
- Metal fastener for paper
- Important food
- Jump scares, in horror movies
- Affix, in a way
- What may connect the parts of a school assignment?
- Readers may flip over it
- Object for binding contracts
- Fish sauce, e.g., in Vietnamese cuisine
- It unites sheets of paper
- Rice, in some cuisine
- Means of fixing broken plates?
- Basic necessity
- Wire fastener
- Bread, e.g.
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 03, 2025
- USA Today - January 28, 2025
- LA Times - January 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 05, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 24, 2024
- USA Today - September 23, 2024
- Daily American - September 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 28, 2024
- USA Today - June 29, 2024
- USA Today - June 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 03, 2024
- Daily American - April 27, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 03, 2024
- LA Times - March 22, 2024
- Daily American - February 29, 2024
- LA Times - February 29, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 21, 2024
- Family Time - February 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - February 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 30, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 23, 2023
- Mirror Daily - December 08, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 08, 2023
- Daily Quick - September 25, 2023
- Daily American - September 16, 2023
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