Clues for the word "STARCH"
We've had 71 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 121 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on April 11, 2026.
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
- Daily Quick - April 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 16, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 02, 2025
- 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
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