Clues for the word "STIFFEN"
We've had 23 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 27 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on September 12, 2025.
Definition of stiffen
- v. t. - To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
- v. t. - To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
- v. t. - To make torpid; to benumb.
- v. i. - To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
Referring Clues
- Exhibit stage fright
- Get starched?
- Brace oneself
- Tighten up
- Exhibit fright, in a way
- Become rigid
- Add starch
- Become less flexible
- Brace for a shock
- Become more rigid
- Get tense, if female carries gun around
- Set well back, marsh east of Senegalese capital
- Strengthen dispute in Japanese currency
- Set for lovers' quarrel during broadcast to be curtailed
- Fortify badly-made nest - it's most risky inside
- Become stubborn if force is held by weapon
- Strengthen dispute in foreign currency
- Grow harder
- Reinforce positions backing on to wetland
- Matches turn on flat set
- Set to see attacks when uprising over marsh
- The difference in currency does make things hard
- React to an insult, maybe
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 12, 2025
- Daily American - July 08, 2025
- Daily American - July 08, 2023
- Daily American - July 08, 2017
- Netword - July 13, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 25, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - November 26, 2015
- Guardian Quiptic - August 24, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 30, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - November 13, 2014
- USA Today - September 26, 2014
- Washington Post - June 06, 2014
- Guardian Quick - May 05, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - June 19, 2009
- Universal - April 25, 2008
- Guardian Quick - December 06, 2007
- Guardian Prize - August 11, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - July 16, 2007
- Guardian Speedy - November 12, 2006
- Guardian Prize - August 12, 2006
- LA Times - July 13, 2006
- Guardian Cryptic - October 20, 2005
- New York Times - September 28, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - July 21, 2003
- Guardian Cryptic - March 12, 2002
- Washington Post - December 06, 2001
- New York Times - November 18, 2001