Clues for the word "STEEP"
We've had 209 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 665 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on June 10, 2026.
Definition of steep
- a. - Bright; glittering; fiery.
- v. t. - To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.
- v. i. - To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.
- n. - Something steeped, or used in steeping; a fertilizing liquid to hasten the germination of seeds.
- n. - A rennet bag.
- v. t. - Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.
- v. t. - Difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
- v. t. - Excessive; as, a steep price.
- n. - A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.
Referring Clues
- At quite an incline
- Exorbitant
- Pricey
- Like a bluff
- Brew
- Causing sticker shock
- Awfully high
- Rather inclined
- Not gradual
- Very expensive
- Prepare, as tea
- Hardly cheap
- Tough to climb, perhaps
- Very inclined
- Expensive
- Precipitous
- Soak
- Acclivitous
- Brew, in a teapot
- High-priced
- Big-ticket
- Difficult to scale
- Like the face of El Capitan
- Highly inclined
- Prepare tea
- Pretty pricy
- Cheap's rhyming antonym
- Quite high
- Brew in a teapot
- Likely to cause sticker shock
- Awfully expensive
- Cheap's rhyming opposite
- Not gentle, as a hill
- Like a canyon's sides
- Prohibitive, perhaps
- Extremely high, as prices
- Soak, as a tea bag
- Very costly
- Immerse
- Hard to climb
- Hard to afford
- Like an A-frame roof
- Brew, as tea
- Let sit, as a tea bag
- Declivitous
- Of high elevation
- Like El Capitan's face
- Quite expensive
- Highly sloped
- Ready tea
- Dear, as a price
- Hard to climb, perhaps
- Brew in a teapot, e.g.
- Costly
- Sharply inclined
- Excessive, as prices
- Make tea
- Like some prices
- Exorbitant, as prices
- High, pricewise
- High, as a price
- Costing a pretty penny
- Drench
- Sheer
- Virtually vertical
- What a learning curve may be
- Mountainous
- Almost straight up and down, as a cliff
- Like a cliff
- Like cliffs
- Percolate
- Like some slopes
- Marinate
- Prepare the Oolong
- Rhyming antonym of "cheap"
- Be in hot water
- Overly costly
- Sharply sloped
- Like the fiscal cliff?
- Considerable, as discounts
- Tough to climb
- Nearly vertical
- Exorbitant, as a cost
- High-end
- Awfully high, as a price
- Precipitous slope
- Likely to tax one's budget
- Pickle, e.g.
- Severely inclined
- Unreasonably high
- Approaching vertical
- Tough to climb, in a way
- Adjective for a canyon wall
- Soak, as tea
- Sharply slanted
- Nearly vertical, as a cliff
- Exhorbitant
- Like some learning curves
- Like a mountainside
- Hardly economical
- Exorbitantly priced
- Descriptive of some bills or hills
- Higher than you might have hoped
- Inclined sharply, as a hill
- Dear
- Like some prices or slopes
- Like many roller coaster drops
- Excessive, as a price
- Not worth it, perhaps
- Having a sharp incline
- Excessively high, price-wise
- Uncomfortably pricey
- Almost vertical, as a slope
- Like either main face of El Capitan
- Opposite of cheap
- Like "black diamond" slopes
- High-grade?
- Overpriced
- Like a tough hill to climb
- Pete's stumbling and falling sharply
- Excessive energy in course of action
- Like many San Francisco streets
- Exorbitant, as a price
- Soak in liquid
- Rising or falling sharply
- Pricey "Billy Breathes" Phish song?
- Pricey Phish song off "Billy Breathes"?
- Price of diva's crib
- Like colossal tour price tag
- 12th track on "Billy Breathes"
- Expensive - soak
- Set new record that's very demanding
- Exorbitant, and hard to get over?
- Such a charge will really soak you
- Soak too much
- Such prices really soak people
- Really soak, as with an overcharge
- Unreasonably dear - soak
- Like a precipice
- Expensive marinade
- Abrupt and unreasonable
- Challenging to climbers
- Soak thoroughly - precipitous
- Without the bounds of moderation
- Too dear to soak
- To walk without energy is difficult
- Challenging for climbers
- Quite inclined
- Hard to scale
- Overly inclined to soak
- Dip falling sharply
- Lofty soak
- Almost vertical, like many canyon walls
- Pretty expensive
- Extremely high, price-wise
- Brew via teapot
- Difficult to climb
- Like tough hills to climb
- Like the hillsides scaled by rock climbers
- Sky high, as prices
- Sloping sharply
- Really expensive
- Prohibitively priced
- Very dear
- An abrupt "That's pricey"
- Verb whose middle letters aptly sound like "tea"
- Likely to take a bite out of one's wallet
- Such prices are apt to rise sharply
- Like the sides of a 49-Across
- A lot to pay
- Like a double black diamond trail
- Soak (with an overcharge?)
- Allow to soak, as tea
- Like some bills and hills
- You find such hills as you walk around Middlesex
- Soak for a high price
- Excessively expensive
- Like some ski slopes and prices
- Nearly vertical, as a slope
- Like some cliffs and costs
- Exorbitant, and hard to get over?
- Like some difficult hikes
- Verb on a tea packet
- Brew tea
- At a sharp incline
- Like a black diamond slope
- Like high prices
- Rhyme and antonym of "cheap"
- Pricing word that rhymes with its opposite
- Like indoor climbing walls
- Like a hillside that's tough to climb
- More than one would hope to pay
- So inclined?
- Like some hills and prices
- Like some roller coaster drops
- Too much to pay for the raising of pets out East
- Up a lot?
- Soak, in a way
- Difficult to climb, in a way
- Nearly vertical, like a cliff
- Prepare, as an infusion
- Like a challenging climb
- Getting a high grade?
- Spendy
- Like a hill that's tough to bike up
- Like Pittsburgh's Canton Avenue, famously
- Like some black diamond runs
- Make, as tea
- Like an intimidating climb
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - May 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 13, 2026
- Daily Quick - May 03, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 07, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 07, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 30, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 27, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 20, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 28, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 16, 2026
- Mirror Mini - February 08, 2026
- Daily American - February 08, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 09, 2026
- LA Times - December 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 23, 2025
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