Clues for the word "SUGAR"
We've had 167 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 282 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 17, 2025.
Definition of sugar
- n. - A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.
- n. - By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
- n. - Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
- v. i. - In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.
- v. t. - To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
- v. t. - To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
Referring Clues
- Babydoll
- Kitchen staple
- Hon
- Tea drinker's request
- Some cubes
- Darlin'
- Dollface
- Some lumps
- 25-Across component
- Doll
- Former middleweight champ ___ Ray Robinson
- Doubled, a 1969 #1 hit song
- Dearie
- How sweet it is!
- Maple syrup need
- Cuban export
- Beet or cane extract
- Coffee sweetener
- Cake recipe ingredient
- Frosting ingredient
- Snookums
- Sweet thing
- Cotton candy makeup
- Honeybunch
- Crystals used for dishes
- See 61-Across
- With 50-Down, #1 hit of 1969
- Cane product
- Sweetheart
- Affectionate nickname
- Coffee additive
- Term of endearment
- Sweet stuff
- Confectioner's need
- Major Cuban export
- Cane or beet output
- Brazil is its top producer
- Lumps for the horse
- Monroe in "Some Like It Hot"
- Darling
- Diner freebie
- Cotton candy component
- Coffee addition
- Maple or beet follower
- '___ and spice and ...'
- Tea additive
- Bakery need
- It's sweet
- Fructose, for one
- Sweetener
- Coffee enhancer
- Musical based on 'Some Like It Hot'
- Glucose, e.g.
- Sweetie
- Sweet cubes
- Coffee-shop freebie
- Coffee shop freebie
- Beet product
- Toots
- Cubes in a bowl
- Common sweetener
- Baking staple
- Cotton candy, mostly
- Cotton candy has a lot of it
- Cotton candy, essentially
- Sweets-lover's craving
- Big Florida export
- Glucose, basically
- Tea cart item
- Cake ingredient
- Sweets
- Tea sweetener
- Diner freebee
- Rock candy, essentially
- Alternative to corn syrup
- Result of raising cane
- Raw, brown or white stuff
- Lactose, e.g.
- Sucrose
- Candy ingredient
- Cereal sweetener
- It makes a cake sweet
- With 37 down, a special treat for a horse
- It makes things sweet
- Sweeten
- Kisses and such, in metaphor
- Food sweetener
- Bob Mould band
- Grateful Dead "___ Magnolia"
- See 11
- Plantation product
- Cane or beet product
- An import brought back from Ragusa?
- Genteel; in rags, perhaps, but sweet
- Mild oath (granulated?)
- Something refined brought back from Ragusa
- It's refined and tasteful
- Cane or beet sweet stuff
- Term of endearment for drug money
- Sweetener for leaders of students' union mounting fundraising event
- Basic sweetener
- Will's sweet honey, perhaps
- Term of endearment sets back newspaper (American)
- Legal sweetener
- Beet extract
- Dextrose, e.g.
- Tea-trolley bowlful
- Confection, barley ___
- A rug's maybe offered - how sweet!
- Doctor argues pointlessly for natural sweetener
- New guard's daughter ignored sweetener
- It's sweet of kid to take us climbing
- Heads of schools undecided generally about results produced by cane?
- Cat returns with secret source of sweetener
- Contributor to obesity, odd portions of soup and fish
- Sweet substance
- Guard's wayward daughter dismissed sweetener
- Outer coat, perhaps, used by Argus
- Tease American over sweetheart
- Glucose
- Domino product
- What cotton candy is, essentially
- Brown or white stuff
- Granular substance
- When refined, is it dearest?
- It's refined
- Spice's partner
- Mary Poppins' spoonful
- Return from Ragusa with something sweet
- Brazilian export
- Cane yield
- Tease American about cause of obesity?
- Jelly doughnut coat
- To tease us up can be sweet!
- In this puzzle, the second lump!
- Brown or white baking supply
- Doughnut glaze ingredient
- Substance in sweet cubes
- To tease us up is sweet!
- 10-Down sweetener
- Exotic product brought back from Ragusa
- Cube makeup
- Sweet, warm hearted, silly Gus
- Finish the asparagus off, darling
- 1969 hit by The Archies, when repeated
- Domino, e.g.
- Something sweet
- An import brought back from Ragusa?
- Icing, essentially
- Lump sum?
- Big part of many kids' cereals
- Atkins diet no-no
- It's like honey, dear
- Marmalade ingredient
- Sweet substance needed for upstart in rags, possibly
- Word with cane or cone
- Quintessential ingredient to borrow from a neighbor
- Diner caddy offering
- Sweetening ingredient
- Sweet stuff in asparagus (if you read it backward)?
- "A Spoonful of ___" ("Mary Poppins" song)
- Pixy Stix contents
- Icing ingredient
- Honey alternative
- Sweet extract of asparagus, possibly
- Churro covering
- Looking back, one finds sweetness in asparagus
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 01, 2025
- LA Times - July 15, 2025
- Daily American - June 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 03, 2025
- New York Times - May 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 29, 2025
- LA Times - May 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 15, 2024
- USA Today - November 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 23, 2024
- Mirror Mini - October 04, 2024
- LA Times - September 08, 2024
- LA Times - September 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 12, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 11, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 06, 2024
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