Clues for the word "STING"
We've had 169 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 273 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on November 23, 2025.
Definition of sting
- v. t. - Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
- v. t. - A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
- v. t. - Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
- v. t. - The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
- v. t. - A goad; incitement.
- v. t. - The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
- v. t. - To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
- v. t. - To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
- v. t. - To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
Referring Clues
- Scorpion attack
- Iodine reaction
- Police operation
- Smart
- Prick
- Confidence game
- Entrapment
- Overcharge
- Undercover operation
- It might be involved in a police roundup
- Apiarist's woe
- Kind of operation
- Con game
- Overcharge, slangily
- Hurt bad
- A criminal may be caught in one
- Bee injury
- Police con
- Possible cause of a swelling
- Attack like a bee
- Cause of an allergic reaction, sometimes
- Gordon Sumner, on stage
- Redford-Newman flick, with "The"
- Former Police man
- "Every Breath You Take" singer
- Confidence scheme
- Police man?
- It may make you smart
- Lead singer with The Police
- Jellyfish's defense
- Blender magazine ranked him #1 on its list of 40 worst lyricists in rock in 2007
- Police captain?
- Con that cons a con man
- Setup of a sort
- Bee's defense
- Police trap
- Police leader
- Cause of swelling, perhaps
- Cops' lure
- Police leader?
- "Roxanne" singer
- Jellyfish attack
- Police leader, once
- 10-Grammy artist
- Run-in with a bee
- Bee killer, at times
- Yellow jacket's defense
- Attack, bee-style
- Apiarist's risk
- Con job
- Bee attack
- Rival of 13-Across
- 'Desert Rose' singer
- Elaborate con
- Con
- Wasp attack
- Bee bite
- Wasp wound
- Sharp pain
- Itch
- Undercover op
- Subject of an urban legend about tantric sex
- Undercover police operation
- Scam
- Jellyfish woe
- Police setup
- Abscam, e.g.
- The Police leader
- Hurt
- The Police vocalist
- Hurt like heck
- One-named rock star
- Hurt a little
- Con game, essentially
- Gordon Sumner
- Bee's revenge
- Member of the Police
- It will probably make you smart
- Unpleasant surprise from a worker
- Cops' crook-catching hoax
- Emulate an angry bee
- What angry bees do
- Sharp attack
- Gordon Summer
- Deceptive police op
- Ray's weapon
- Attack, as a wasp
- Deceptive operation
- "O death, where is thy ___?": I Corinthians
- Cop op
- Pungency
- Smart somewhat
- Crime fighters' tactic
- Operation designed to hurt
- Newman-Redford film, with "the"
- Insect bite
- Former Police chief
- "Ten Summoner's Tales" singer
- Rock star's undercover operation
- Sharp tingling pain
- Bee's attack
- Smart - swindle
- Sudden pain - swindle
- Confidence trick
- Overcharge for the Newman-Redford film
- Time in prison reduced by exactly 50% for venomous attack
- Painful wound - confidence trick
- Smart one controlling puppet? Not right
- Mostly tight musician
- Runs out of thread - that's smart
- Gordon Sumner, to music fans
- Do some of your best in goal
- Carefully planned trap - scorpion's weapon
- Fraud: it's contrary and no good
- Conning plan
- A swindle is no good after it's mounted
- Singer's a scam and a pain
- Sharp pain inflicted by ex-policeman?
- Con: leader singer of Police
- Alternative listening that includes one unexpected finale
- Piercing pain from cyst in groin
- Fraud stumped group right away
- Pole with money, grand from fraud
- Smart con trick
- Smart and carefully planned undercover operation
- Attack, like a hornet
- Wasp's weapon
- Bee's protector isn't terribly grand
- Hastings has, on the outside, abandoned incense
- What an angry wasp might do
- Swindle or fraud
- Bee's defence
- Attack, wasp-style
- Sharp discomfort
- Wound
- Bee's wound
- Hornet's bite
- To sing about ultimate defeat can hurt
- One injected acidly?
- What might one expect from the long con in this 1973 Oscar winner?
- Elaborate con game
- Something smarting
- Cop operation
- What a drone can't do
- What aftershave can do
- Bee's weapon?
- Cause to smart
- Police trickery
- Singer otherwise known as Gordon Sumner
- Wasp's assault
- Jellyfish injury
- Beekeeper's danger
- Trap, of a sort
- A confidence trick can hurt!
- Injury from a jellyfish
- Why you no longer have a 4-Down as a pet
- What some insects and insults can do
- Prink
- Hornet's attack
- Beekeeping hazard
- Attack, as a bee might
- Wasp's defense
- Hornet's defense
- Wasp's attack
- Defend the hive, in a way
- Hurt, like an insult
- On-the-job risk for a beekeeper
- Result of angering a wasp, probably
- *Removing lumps from, in a way
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - November 23, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 10, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 31, 2025
- New York Times - July 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 23, 2025
- Daily American - June 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 06, 2025
- New York Times - June 05, 2025
- Mirror Mini - May 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 14, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2024
- LA Times - November 15, 2024
- Daily American - October 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 16, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - July 15, 2024
- LA Times - July 14, 2024
- Daily American - June 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 01, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 05, 2024
- LA Times - March 22, 2024
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