Clues for the word "SWEETEN"
We've had 45 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 72 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on March 27, 2026.
Definition of sweeten
- a. - To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
- a. - To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
- a. - To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
- a. - To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
- a. - To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
- a. - To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
- a. - To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
- a. - To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
- v. i. - To become sweet.
Referring Clues
- Make more attractive
- Make more tempting, as a deal
- Better, as an offer
- Add aspartame to
- Add sugar to
- Add Splenda to
- Add honey to
- Add sugar, e.g.
- Add, as to the pot
- Dulcify
- Mix in equal
- Make better, as a deal
- Make more attractive
- Flavor coffee
- Equal-ize?
- Add value to, as a deal
- Make more enticing
- Make less bitter
- Add inducements to
- Make more desirable
- Make more sugary
- Add sugar
- Mollify
- Enormous bottom on cute figure? Sugar!
- Pacify small, small number
- Add sugar etc
- Shooter contains little sugar
- Placate small, small figure
- Make more attractive, as a deal
- Make more appealing
- Make more attractive, in a way
- Pacify ten ewes in distress
- We teens! (anag)
- Very small weapon brought outside in temper
- Provide honey, perhaps, with kiss ultimately (little X)
- People we sent to pacify the natives
- Sugarcoat
- Sugar-coat
- Carrying a little gun does improve one's disposition
- Stir honey into
- Make more desirable, as a deal
- Improve, as an offer
- Make more tempting, as the 87-Across
- What some do to their tea
- Very little can be sent out, sugar
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - March 27, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 29, 2025
- USA Today - November 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 03, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - April 25, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 21, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - February 25, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 05, 2024
- Family Time - October 02, 2023
- Your Life Choices - September 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 14, 2023
- Mirror Daily - January 26, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 20, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - October 18, 2022
- Mirror Daily - September 29, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - September 18, 2022
- Wall Street Journal - December 06, 2017
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 14, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - July 13, 2017
- LA Times - February 05, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 02, 2017
- Canadiana - January 16, 2017
- Mirror Daily - December 29, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 12, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - November 07, 2016
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2016
- And in 42 more crossword puzzles...