Clues for the word "STUMP"
We've had 88 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 145 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 14, 2026.
Definition of stump
- n. - The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
- n. - The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
- n. - The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
- n. - One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
- n. - A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
- n. - A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- v. t. - To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
- v. t. - To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
- v. t. - To challenge; also, to nonplus.
- v. t. - To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.
- n. - To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
- n. - To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
- v. i. - To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
Referring Clues
- Perplex
- Buffalo
- What a lumberjack leaves behind
- Leave clueless
- Baffle
- Speech spot
- Campaigner's place
- Flummox
- Nonplus
- Baffle with a tough question
- Logger's leftover
- Confound
- Tree-trunk remainder
- Logging leaving
- Politician's place
- Pol's speech spot
- Go on the campaign trail
- What a feller might leave behind?
- Felled tree remnant
- Bamboozle
- Campaign speech setting
- Thwart
- Tree leftover
- Tree remnant
- Mystify
- A lumberjack might leave one behind
- Plower's obstacle
- Campaign for election
- Campaign in
- Lumberjack's leftover
- Make political promises
- Make political speeches
- What a feller leaves behind?
- Give a political speech
- Speechifying spot
- Woodsman's memento
- Totally puzzle
- Deforestation remnant
- Utterly confuse
- Campaign trail
- Bewilder
- Leave at a loss
- Base of a tree
- Former tree
- Puzzle
- Tree base
- Ask a tough trivia question
- Crash Test Dummies: "Sittin' on a Tree ___"
- Part of a wicket
- Stub
- Good person out of bed, male breaks in to confuse
- Baffle with incomplete limb
- Baffle the batsman?
- Confuse and dismiss batsman
- Wicket part - dumbfound
- Remains of tree - puzzle
- Dismiss such a political speech
- Soapbox that might be taken out by keeper
- Residue after felling
- What a feller might leave behind?
- Cricket stick
- Tail-end wicket
- Defeat puts Mark into retreat
- Must solve Papa's puzzle
- A single wicket defeat
- Cricket post
- Baffle, confuse
- Final form for the tree in "The Giving Tree"
- Hit the campaign trail
- Place for a candidate to speak
- Lumberjack's remnant
- Baffle a half stupid politician
- Clear-cutting remnant
- Dismiss the remainder
- Logging remnant
- Dismiss with a difficult question?
- Remnant of a chopped tree
- Totally baffle
- Completely puzzle
- Lead vocalist Patrick of Fall Out Boy
- Confuse
- Campaign (for)
- The remainder must be changed, on the quiet
- Baffle the batsman?
- Leave puzzled
- Leave baffled
- What's left after chopping down a tree
- Defeat and dismiss
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 14, 2026
- Daily American - February 25, 2026
- Daily Quick - November 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 01, 2025
- New York Times - July 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 26, 2025
- Daily American - June 16, 2025
- New York Times - May 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 04, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 10, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 06, 2024
- Mirror Mini - June 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 30, 2024
- Daily American - May 29, 2024
- USA Today - May 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2024
- Daily American - February 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 10, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 29, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 27, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 18, 2023
- Mirror Mini - June 17, 2023
- And in 115 more crossword puzzles...