Clues for the word "STIFF"
We've had 89 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 155 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on August 21, 2026.
Definition of stiff
- superl. - Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
- superl. - Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
- superl. - Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
- superl. - Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
- superl. - Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
- superl. - Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
- superl. - Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
- superl. - Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
Referring Clues
- Leave without paying
- Blotto
- "You lucky ___!"
- Poor dancer
- Avoid tipping
- Not flexible
- Working ___
- Creaky
- Unreasonable, pricewise
- Starchy
- Unbending
- Not flexible, as muscles
- Graceless
- Dead body, in slang
- Fail to tip
- Like a double at a bar
- Hardly limber
- Like starched collars
- Inflexible
- Standoffish
- Lucky one?
- Tip zip
- Potent, as a potable
- Far from flexible
- Past tense
- Wooden
- Resolute
- Unyielding
- Rigid
- Shortchange
- Strong, drinkwise
- Leave no tip for
- Formidible
- Harsh, as a prison sentence
- Constrained
- Not relaxed
- Completely unlike a wet noodle
- Not pay what's due
- Like a board
- Not at all flexible
- Difficult to bend
- Rigidly formal
- Unable to bend
- Leave no tip to
- Not tip
- Joe Blow
- Leave nothing behind?
- Working joe
- Suffering from stage fright
- Formal
- It's difficult, being inflexible
- Not readily bent on getting sozzled
- For the arthritic, it's hard
- Primly formal, yet somehow breezy?
- Are there such penalties for being difficult?
- In return, fits the fellow in, though it's hard
- To resolve tiffs can be difficult
- It's difficult to be hard and inflexible
- Difficult subject for a pathologist
- Severe - conventional - dead body
- Challenging body
- Hardly relaxed
- Female suits made up to be formal
- Firm, unyielding
- Harsh, as a penalty
- Person who is late starts silly quarrel
- Dead thick, I won't tip
- Difficult son wants pet
- Difficult son spat
- Small argument becoming difficult
- Body suits the wrong way round, facing initially to the rear
- It's difficult for a motherless dog!
- Starched
- Being inflexible is difficult
- Starched, say
- Needing to loosen up
- Far from relaxed
- Not at all limber
- Like a good board
- Leave nothing behind?
- Leave zip for a tip
- How many like their collar
- Primly formal, yet somehow breezy?
- Word after scared or bored
- Such a price as is charged for a strong drink?
- Light as a feather, ___ as a board
- Tough and unbending
- Mary Roach book subtitled "The Curious Life of Human Cadavers"
- Like some upper lips and drinks
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 21, 2026
- Daily American - August 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 13, 2026
- LA Times - August 01, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - July 28, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 28, 2026
- Daily Quick - June 26, 2026
- Your Life Choices - June 08, 2026
- Daily Quick - May 30, 2026
- Daily American - March 03, 2026
- Daily Quick - February 07, 2026
- New York Times - February 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 02, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 08, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 22, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 31, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 03, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 21, 2024
- Daily American - August 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 17, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 16, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 29, 2024
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