Clues for the word "STAPLE"
We've had 140 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 273 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on May 19, 2026.
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.
- Corner piece
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 19, 2026
- Daily American - April 28, 2026
- Daily Quick - April 25, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 15, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 12, 2026
- Daily American - March 01, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 18, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - February 02, 2026
- Daily Quick - January 30, 2026
- New York Times - January 03, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 25, 2025
- Daily American - September 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 03, 2025
- Daily American - July 26, 2025
- Daily American - June 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 23, 2025
- Daily American - May 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2025
- LA Times - April 27, 2025
- 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
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