Clues for the word "STRING"
We've had 89 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 119 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of string
- n. - A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string.
- n. - A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments.
- n. - A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- n. - The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme.
- n. - The line or cord of a bow.
- n. - A fiber, as of a plant; a little, fibrous root.
- n. - A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
- n. - An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- n. - The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericap of leguminous plants, and which is readily pulled off; as, the strings of beans.
- n. - A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- n. - Same as Stringcourse.
- n. - The points made in a game.
- v. t. - To furnish with strings; as, to string a violin.
- v. t. - To put in tune the strings of, as a stringed instrument, in order to play upon it.
- v. t. - To put on a string; to file; as, to string beads.
- v. t. - To make tense; to strengthen.
- v. t. - To deprive of strings; to strip the strings from; as, to string beans. See String, n., 9.
Referring Clues
- Kite-flying need
- Series
- Yo-yo necessity
- Kind of bikini
- Autoharp, e.g.
- Piano piece
- Run
- Yo-yo part
- Piano piece?
- Cat's cradle essential
- Overextend, with "out"
- Violin part
- Yo-yo need
- Kitten fascinator
- 28 Across feature
- Kiting need
- Word with theory or cheese
- Overextend, with "out"
- Arrange in a series
- Cord
- Sequence
- Thin cord
- Kite part
- Quaint memory aid
- A lightweight cord
- Piano part
- A or B in music class?
- Kite feature
- Saint with halo, possibly part of racket
- Twine
- Part of a kite
- Musician's essential for group of Arabs?
- Series: The Saint, complete with halo
- "Round-on-way" line
- Intently watching a lost series
- A piece of questionable length?
- On the way round to get the pearls
- With which to tie up the series?
- A chain or something to tie up with
- Such music may be a piece of indefinite length
- Musician capturing essential character of first violin part?
- Looking hard, having lost a thread
- Horses used in a racket
- A number of horses making way to arena
- Target of a pick
- Thin length of cord etc
- Group of horses to take for a ride is about right
- Southern town on line
- Horses on attachment?
- The way to the Circle Line
- With which to tie up horses
- Horses right to take for a ride outside
- Kite flyer's need
- One of four on a violin
- Violin wire
- Train racehorses
- One of four on the fiddle
- A bit of a racket in pearls and horses
- Undercover operation securing heart of numerical sequence
- Street telephone line
- Street on the Circle Line
- Series of stable companions
- Trap laid for criminal catching king with length of cord
- Type of instrument used in 25, 1 Dn, 6 and 21
- Way to get round horses - pearls?
- Article about enclosed space, the cosmological matter for discussion
- Keeping nothing for throwing away
- On the way, call for the pearls
- Thread
- A line of questionable length
- Good person with halo maybe in train
- Extremely smart band with guitar part
- Smart clasps, right for pearls
- At half past, call a number
- Cello feature
- E, B, G, D, A or E
- B-team
- Fiddle feature
- "Item of jewellery," by the way, means "pearls"
- Pearls are round, by the way
- Of such music, a piece is of questionable length
- Smart, bagging the royal pearls!
- Koto or cello part
- Word before "bean" or "cheese"
- A piece of questionable length?
- Succession
- Word before "quartet" or "theory"
- Kite cord
- What might be used to connect evidence on a detective's corkboard
Last Seen In
- Daily American - January 22, 2026
- Daily American - December 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 28, 2025
- New York Times - May 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 14, 2025
- Daily American - January 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 07, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 20, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 16, 2024
- Daily American - January 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 16, 2024
- Daily American - December 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 05, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 25, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 27, 2023
- USA Today - July 09, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 28, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 10, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - April 08, 2023
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