Clues for the word "STARCH"
We've had 71 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 108 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer crossword on March 06, 2025.
Definition of starch
- a. - Stiff; precise; rigid.
- n. - A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
- n. - Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- v. t. - To stiffen with starch.
Referring Clues
- Calorie category
- Laundry supply
- Photosynthesis product
- Stiffness
- Laundry stiffener
- Boldness
- Shirt stiffener
- Option at the launderer's
- Pasta has it
- Collar stiffener
- Possible laundry request
- Corn product
- Rice has it
- Cleaner's spray
- Carbs
- Fabric stiffener
- Resolute vigor
- Excessive formality
- Formality
- Pasta or potato, e.g.
- Dry cleaner's supply
- Potato or rice, e.g.
- Laundry-day spray
- Pressing need
- Stiffener used by most architects
- Stiffener for leading player going to church
- Stiffen
- Dry cleaning substance
- Charts (anag) - formality
- Reunion rocker cuts it out of diet
- Stiffening preparation used in laundering
- Formality - give stiffness
- Stiffening agent
- Carbohydrate found in potatoes, wheat, and rice
- Food constituent that can make a saint roguish!
- For a celebrity, a drop of Scotch serves as a stiffener
- Brilliant companion has a stiffener
- Stiffener
- Carbohydrate consumed makes clothes hard to wear
- Stiffening used for charts?
- Charts (anag)
- The way master shows formality
- Stiffness of celebrity at church
- Celebrity going to Switzerland for a stiffener
- Formality of leading performer at church
- Stiffness of circular crown in hats
- Formality of a celebrity going to church
- Formality observed when celeb goes to church
- Gifted child shows stiffness of manner
- Stop King replacing a foreign word for "formality"
- Stiffener for celebrity before church
- Celebrity attending church ceremony
- Stiffness shown by Amber leaving arbitrary tribunal
- Stiffness shown by celebrity at church
- Formality shown - find a way to bend
- Formality seen in most architecture
- Potato product
- Laundry request
- Symbol of stiffness
- Yam yield
- Formal manner
- Most of cornmeal
- Rice or potatoes
- Usable for stiffening charts, perhaps?
- Shaken by a crash outside the Turk's Head, you need a stiffener
- It lends inflexibility to a leader at church
- Stuff in potatoes
- Murphy's main dietary ingredient
- Make stiff
- Carb in rice and potatoes
- Stiffening used for charts?
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 06, 2025
- Family Time - February 16, 2025
- Daily American - December 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 30, 2024
- LA Times - September 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 24, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 17, 2024
- LA Times - January 15, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 30, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 13, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 12, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 29, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 02, 2023
- Daily American - December 08, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - November 30, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 30, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 04, 2018
- Daily Cryptic - November 30, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 16, 2017
- Daily Quick - October 13, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 23, 2017
- Netword - September 18, 2017
- New York Times - September 16, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - September 12, 2017
- Family Time - September 11, 2017
- Family Time - August 28, 2017
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - August 27, 2017
- Daily Quick - June 29, 2017
- And in 78 more crossword puzzles...