Clues for the word "STYPTIC"
We've had 16 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 22 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on August 22, 2024.
Definition of styptic
- a. - Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
- n. - A styptic medicine.
Referring Clues
- Kind of pencil that halts bleeding
- Pencil for shavers
- Kind of first-aid pencil
- Bleeding stopper
- Pencil that halts bleeding
- Pencil that limits bleeding
- It stops the bleeding
- Astrigent
- Type of pencil that stops bleeding
- Such pencils don't write
- Good person's misplaced pity about to become stauncher
- Pen drawing round tourniquet initially contracting blood vessels
- This pencil's not for writing
- Type of pencil whose tip is used in treating a cyst
- Astringent
- Clumsy shaver's pencil
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 22, 2024
- Daily American - July 12, 2024
- Family Time - July 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 06, 2023
- Daily American - July 12, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 27, 2017
- LA Times - June 17, 2017
- Universal - March 13, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 16, 2017
- USA Today - February 12, 2016
- Universal - July 02, 2015
- Universal - August 03, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 29, 2014
- Universal - April 02, 2013
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 02, 2012
- USA Today - December 27, 2010
- Jonesin - January 12, 2010
- Washington Post - August 15, 2008
- Washington Post - January 26, 2005
- Guardian Prize - December 11, 2004
- Guardian Quiptic - June 02, 2003