Clues for the word "STRAINER"
We've had 28 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 42 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 18, 2025.
Definition of strainer
- n. - One who strains.
- n. - That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
Referring Clues
- Kitchen gadget
- Squad's first coach is thinner? (8)
- Noodle holder, at times
- Colander
- Colander kin
- Chef's gadget
- Item that's mostly mesh
- Sieve
- It won't hold water
- Bartender's accessory
- Filter
- Sieve, colander, etc
- Shoes back to front, one full of holes
- One who tries hard to get a riddle?
- Kitchen utensil, surprisingly, isn't rare
- Colourist keeps recipe in the kitchen
- Mixed rest with water in colander
- English composer holding recipe that may be used in kitchen
- Cook may use this special shoe
- Before completion of repair, insert a different filter
- Filter signal's first followed by coach
- I remove greater objects from s-shoe
- Filter paper finally covered in coffee, perhaps?
- Filter surprisingly isn't rare
- Meshy utensil
- Colander’s kin
- Holey utensil
- Kitchen colander
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 25, 2025
- LA Times - November 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - October 23, 2023
- Mirror Daily - May 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 05, 2022
- Mirror Daily - January 25, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - January 21, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - September 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - September 29, 2017
- Guardian Quick - July 31, 2017
- Mirror Daily - January 25, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - January 22, 2017
- Netword - April 30, 2016
- Mirror Daily - January 25, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 24, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 04, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 03, 2014
- LA Times - January 05, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - October 08, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - June 27, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - April 29, 2013
- New York Times - November 17, 2011
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 25, 2010
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - February 07, 2010
- Netword - December 07, 2009
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 31, 2009
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 09, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - February 13, 2009
- And in 12 more crossword puzzles...