Clues for the word "TAPER"
We've had 100 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 306 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Mini crossword on December 15, 2024.
Definition of taper
- n. - A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
- n. - A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
- a. - Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
- v. i. - To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
- v. t. - To make or cause to taper.
Referring Clues
- VCR
- Grow narrower
- Become narrower
- Spy, at times
- Fall (off)
- Become narrow
- Candle
- Bring to a point
- Diminish gradually
- Get to the point?
- Come to a point
- Put darts into, as a garment
- Part of a Christmas decoration
- Spire or obelisk, e.g.
- Sound technician
- Attenuate
- Come to the point?
- Slender candle
- Narrow
- Get narrower
- Kind of candle
- Get progressively thinner
- Get gradually smaller
- Narrow down
- Narrow gradually
- Pre-bulb lighting, perhaps
- Do some tailoring
- Come to a head?
- Thin candle
- Lessen gradually
- Slack off
- Flare's opp.
- Subside, with "off"
- Candle type
- Candle type
- Decrease gradually
- Gradually diminish
- Dwindle down
- Gradually narrow down
- Get narrow gradually
- Gradually get narrow
- Become thinner
- Diminish, with "off"
- Thin out
- Gradually narrow
- To make narrow
- Make a point?
- Certain candle
- Gradually decrease to a point
- Diminish slowly
- "Macbeth" prop
- Get narrower toward the end
- Grow gradually thinner
- Dwindle
- Narrow to a point
- Thanks for each slender light
- Get narrow toward the tip
- Narrow - candle
- Does it get narrower as it burns?
- Narrow towards the end
- Become thinner - lighter
- Become thinner towards one end
- Fall off in a spill
- Spill - become narrower towards one end
- Spill
- Gradually reduce the light
- One who records a spill
- Narrow boat's stern squashing impressionist?
- Prate wildly, but come to the point
- Get gradually narrower
- Come to the point?
- Antithesis of flare as source of light
- Get thinner and lighter
- Narrow strip by river
- Spill drop of rum by video
- Become thinner in band on run
- Listen in to TV show one records
- The recorder is light
- Make like a candle
- Get thinner at one end
- Icicle shape
- Does it get narrower as it burns?
- Slim candle
- Get to the point?
- Elizabethan lighting source
- Come to a narrow point
- Haircut similar to a fade
- Slim down gradually
- Get progressively narrower
- Gradually become narrower
- Decrease to a point
- Become slimmer to a point
- Can one give thanks by burning it?
- ___ off (lessen gradually)
- Become narrower at one end
- Come to a point?
- Become pointed
- Diminish
- Church candle
- Small candle
Last Seen In
- Mirror Mini - December 15, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 30, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 23, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 05, 2024
- USA Today - September 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 23, 2024
- USA Today - April 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 17, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 20, 2024
- Daily American - December 25, 2023
- Daily American - December 24, 2023
- Mirror Mini - December 15, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 04, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 29, 2023
- Daily American - November 15, 2023
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