Clues for the word "STEM"
We've had 493 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1702 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 30, 2026.
Definition of stem
- v. i. - Alt. of Steem
- n. - Alt. of Steem
- n. - The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
- n. - A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
- n. - The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- n. - A branch of a family.
- n. - A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
- n. - Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- n. - Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
- n. - That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
- n. - The entire central axis of a feather.
- n. - The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
- n. - The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
- n. - The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
- v. t. - To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
- v. t. - To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
- v. t. - To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
- v. i. - To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
Referring Clues
- Check
- Rose part
- Part of a rose
- Part of a musical note
- Fruit/tree connector
- Pipe piece
- Plant part
- Pipe part
- Ship's front
- Main part of a word
- Flower supporter
- Fruit holder
- Stalk of bananas
- Flute part
- Supporter of botany
- Cut flower
- Opposite of 61-Across
- Flower holder
- Spoon handle
- Stern's opposite
- Florist's unit
- Forward part
- Banana stalk
- Watch part
- Dam up
- Florist's cutting
- Pipe or watch part
- Wineglass part
- Hold back
- Iris part
- Stalk
- Goblet feature
- Cut off
- It may be thorny
- Originate (from)
- Originate
- Bud holder
- Half note feature
- Thorn site
- Goblet part
- Faucet part
- Kind of cell
- Flower part
- Leaf holder
- Arise (from)
- Flower stalk
- Leaf's support
- ___ cell research
- Brain part
- Restrain
- Supporter of nature
- Caudex, in botany
- Part of a flower or wineglass
- Derive (from)
- Glass bottom
- ___ to stern
- Bring to a standstill
- Cherry throwaway
- The brain has one
- Staunch
- Brain component
- Fruit waste
- Skier's turn
- Morel morsel
- What an inflectional ending is added to
- Plant stalk
- Long, slender part
- Champagne glass part
- Most of a rose's length
- Watch winder
- Mushroom part
- Glass part
- Section cut by a florist
- Sunflower supporter
- Leaf stalk
- Tobacco pipe part
- Tobacco pipe tube
- Wine glass feature
- Parfait glass feature
- Wine glass part
- Wineglass feature
- Meerschaum piece
- Flower support
- Main part of a flower
- Prepare, as cherries for cooking
- Piece of the brain
- Apple topper
- Flower part attached to a lapel
- Rose supporter
- Bouquet unit
- Part of a wine glass
- Blossom holder
- Winding need
- Blossom supporter
- Underlying form of a word
- Musical note feature
- Part of a mushroom
- Part of many musical notes
- Long part of a rose
- Quarter note part
- Whole note's lack
- Part of a champagne flute
- Vertical line on a musical note
- Cherry holder
- Half note half
- Stern's counterpart
- Wine charm holder
- Apple projection
- Floral part
- Stop
- Floral support
- Flower feature
- From ___ to stern
- Halt
- Thorn site, on a flower
- Pipe section
- Snifter feature
- Hold off
- Quarter-note part
- Flute feature
- ___ cell research
- Bloom holder
- Put a stop to
- Blossom support
- Word root
- Apple part
- Prepare cherries for cooking
- Have roots in (with "from")
- Botanical support
- Banana top
- Part of a flower
- Cherry part
- Bow to the ship?
- Arrest
- Rosebud support
- Plant support
- Pansy prop
- Stop the flow of, as a liquid
- Cordial glass feature
- Apple attachment
- Something that may get tongue-tied?
- Stern's opposite?
- Bush supporter?
- Root, wordwise
- It's on the watch
- Slow down, on the slopes
- Curb
- Rose holder
- Snifter part
- Boat's bow
- Cherry discard
- Spring (from)
- Sunflower stalk
- Mushroom piece
- Long part of a flower
- Cherry leftover
- 31-Down opposite
- Cherry handle
- Champagne glass feature
- Pipe handle
- Daisy supporter
- ___ the tide
- Tulip part
- Branch
- Part cut by a florist
- From ___ to stern
- Pocket watch winder
- Stern counterpart
- Watch projection
- Champagne flute part
- Supporter of the cosmos?
- Cell type
- Keep from flowing
- Part of 54-Down
- A snifter has a short one
- Peony part
- Garden support
- ___ cell
- Beanstalk, basically
- Beanstalk, basically
- Stanch
- Figurehead location
- Sunflower support
- Somewhat less potent part of a psychedelic mushroom
- Emanate
- Quell
- Winesap or wineglass feature
- Bloom support
- Derive, with "from"
- Old watch part
- Rose feature
- Cherry feature
- Fruit discard
- Apple waste
- Pear part
- Pear waste
- Ornamented part of a gondola
- Pinch off
- Greenhouse supporter
- Petunia part
- Apple connection
- Stalk in the garden
- Fruit protrusion
- One may be picked out of a stash
- Stop from spreading
- Musical note part
- Arise
- Apple's apple logo lacks one
- Leaf part
- Green part of a flower
- Fruit stalk
- Grip for a goblet
- Part of a goblet
- Mushroom stalk
- Mushroom feature
- Corncob pipe part
- Stalk in a garden
- Mushroom component
- Leaf support
- Winder on a watch
- Discarded apple part
- Wine glass holder
- Part of a wineglass
- Cordial glass part
- Piece of a pipe
- Flower's support
- Come (from)
- Slender support
- Bloom's support
- Plant prop
- Word base
- Winding device
- Prepare, as cherries
- Flower bud holder
- Poppy prop
- Flute section
- Result (from)
- "victory garden" item
- Half-note feature
- Bud support
- It leads to a rose
- Stern's other end
- Part of 60-Across
- A cherry may be served with it
- ___ fields
- Throwaway part of an apple
- Banana part
- Check, as a flow
- Fruit support
- Hold back, as the tide
- Rose stalk
- Rose support
- Part of a plant or a wineglass
- Blossom's support
- Rose's stalk
- Stick in the ground?
- Wristwatch part
- Frond holder
- Pocket watch part
- Stave off
- Part of a plant
- Slow, as the flow
- Non-humanities acronym
- Thorn's site on a rose
- Pear discard
- Flower's holder
- Thorn's place
- Champagne flute feature
- Subj. group with a noted gender imbalance
- Slender stalk
- Apple feature
- Mushroom or marigold part
- Thorn locale
- What to grab when this bud's for you
- Apple's projection
- Cherry eater's discard
- Modern education acronym
- Component not found on a digital watch
- Part of Apple Records' logo
- Florist's trimming
- Part of a quarter note
- Wind-up watch part
- Feature of the items in the first parts of 21- and 49-Across and 3- and 29-Down
- Petal pusher?
- Modern educational acronym
- Mushroom morsel
- Word with ware or winder
- Asparagus, mostly
- Fruit throwaway
- Stop, as a flow
- Derive
- Trunk
- Green stalk
- A rose's has thorns
- Thorned part of a rose
- Backwards METS?
- Bouquet part
- Check front of ship
- Backward METS?
- Part of a cherry
- Broccoli bit
- Boat part furthest away from the bow
- Place for a wine charm
- Supportive flower part
- Certain flute part
- '80s Perth rocker
- Static-X song for cells?
- Hayden song for cells?
- Static-X song off "Wisconsin Death Trip"
- Static-X song about a plant?
- Static-X song about plant?
- Restrict - part of a plant
- Hayden cell song off "Everything I Long For"?
- Static-X song for cell research?
- Grabbed at celebratory toast, post-tour
- Basic skiing turn
- Stop New York baseball team getting turned over
- Keep back support
- Supporting structure
- Stop! It's a hold-up!
- Check incomplete caste mark
- Stop a flow
- The front and the base
- Proceed to arrest
- Stay upright?
- Support the front
- Upright supporter of the Knights Templar
- Stop using a heartless stratagem?
- Stop giving support
- Stop at the base
- Hinder the continuity of one's main ancestral line
- Stop and shoot
- Type of cell
- Stay in south, returning satisfied
- Staunch - stalk
- Check part of wineglass
- Rose's mainstay is staunch
- Check support
- Stop a police forces rising
- Stalk - check
- Supporter upset New York players
- Staunch stock
- Spring associated with flowers
- Stop and stalk
- Check - part of a plant
- Stock check
- Check stock
- Check, or what the starred answers all have
- Thorn setting
- Bloom supporter
- Flower spine
- Part of a flower below the petals
- Education-policy acronym for the four fields featured in this puzzle
- Staunch supporter
- Shoot a good man with me looking up
- London police force's about to make arrest
- Check, hold back
- Far from stern stalk
- Check front of boat
- Dam with a cut in power
- Halt baseball team's rise
- Iris holder
- Stop and bow
- Part of a flute
- Part of a sunflower that can be more than 10 feet tall
- Where the thorns on a rose are
- Check in a systematic way
- Place for a rose's thorns
- Bud supporter
- Plant's stalk
- Part of a flower that goes inside a vase
- It has a thorny issue?
- Pipe feature
- Education acronym for four fields of study
- Brain or watch part
- Curtail
- Part of a wind-up watch
- Come out of Met's production - bad form
- Apple stalk
- Nonhumanities subjects, for short
- Rose stabilizer
- Daisy part
- One might rise out of a bed
- Staunch supporter?
- Pipe or plant part
- Zinnia stalk
- Academic acronym
- Dandelion support
- Part of a martini glass
- Daisy feature
- Academic acronym associated with female under-representation
- Big acronym in education
- Forward part of a boat
- Holder of leaves
- Part of a daisy
- Education acronym touted by Obama
- What a prefix or suffix gets added to
- Pipe part clenched in the teeth
- Supporter in a spray
- Botanical ascending axis
- Source
- Wine flute part
- Topic in education policy
- Part of a flower or a glass
- Check, as the tide
- Educational acronym hidden in 17-, 25-, 42- and 56-Across
- Narrowest part of a champagne flute
- Fruit part that's thrown away
- Place for a thorn
- Support for a sunflower
- Flower bud propper-upper
- Wineglass support
- Part of a dandelion
- Major part of a flower
- Flower's spine
- Shoot
- Originate, with "from"
- Dandelion holder
- Acronym for fields such as physics
- Dandelion part
- Florist's discard
- Acronym in education
- Root/blossom connector
- Support for a flower bud
- Subjects in which women have traditionally been underrepresented, for short
- Thorny rose part
- Acronym that rhymes with "chem"
- Support for a rose
- Throwaway part of a cherry
- Part of a cherry you don't eat
- Education acronym that encompasses geometry
- Acronym for some academic grants
- Part of a wineglass or watch
- Enoki part
- Sunflower part
- Poppy part
- Stay upright?
- Thorny part of a rose
- Edible part of asparagus
- Part of a flower or watch
- Part of a lily
- Thorned rose part
- It might come attached to a fresh orange
- Education acronym
- Water spinach part
- Lychee part
- Tough broccoli part
- Much of a sunflower
- Marijuana discard
- Daffodil part
- Apple feature not found on the Apple logo
- Stop using a heartless stratagem?
- Flower bud support
- Education category that aptly includes botany
- Grow (from)
- Part of a winesap or a wineglass
- Focus of the National Girls Collaborative Project
- Broccoli part
- Inedible part of most fruit
- Inedible part of a cherry
- Branch out (from)
- Flower part you might hold between your teeth
- Thin wineglass part
- Part of a rose or a glass of rosé
- Cherry part that some people can tie with their tongue
- Acronym whose "E" stands for "engineering"
- Tulip's support
- Part of most musical notes
- Part of some wineglasses
- Women in ___: educational advocacy org.
- Green part of a strawberry
- Broccolini part
- Often-discarded part of a fruit
- Dahlia part
- Part of a rose or wineglass
- Acronym to which an "A" is sometimes added
- Woody part of 55-Down
- Spot for a wineglass charm
- It may have thorns
- Women in ___ (org. addressing a gender gap)
- Nashi pear part
- Morel support?
- Shiitake part
- Thing in a flower vase
- Focus of some magnet schools
- Broccoli feature
- Red part of rhubarb
- One might be cut at an angle
- Cherry picker's target
- A flute might have a short one
- Acronym on some educational toys
- Thorn's spot
- Brain ___
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 30, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 26, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 25, 2026
- LA Times - January 24, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 14, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 23, 2025
- LA Times - December 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 08, 2025
- New York Times - December 05, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 23, 2025
- Daily American - November 15, 2025
- LA Times - November 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 07, 2025
- LA Times - November 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 19, 2025
- New York Times - October 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 22, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 22, 2025
- New York Times - September 20, 2025
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