Clues for the word "TAR"
We've had 815 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 2809 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 22, 2026.
Definition of tar
- n. - A sailor; a seaman.
- n. - A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
- v. t. - To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
Referring Clues
- Sticky stuff
- Sea dog
- Feather's partner
- Blacken
- Pitch
- Salt
- Swab
- Roof top
- Bluejacket
- Black gunk
- Paving stuff
- It paves the way
- Gob
- Old salt
- Nicotine's partner
- Road-paving stuff
- Content of some pits
- Sea salt
- Complete a street
- Road crew's supply
- Part of cigarette smoke
- Feather bed?
- Apron material
- Dinosaur trapper
- Toni Morrison's "___ Baby"
- Road crew supply
- Besmirch
- Street material
- Smear
- Partner of feathers
- Cigarette stuff
- Driveway material
- Driveway stuff
- Billy Budd, for one
- Pit stuff
- Partner of 24-Across
- Concern of some smokers
- Oozy stuff
- Road sealant
- Unhealthy part of cigarettes
- Creosote source
- Two-lane topper
- Feather's mate
- Roofing sealant
- La Brea goo
- Hull sealant
- Old-time punishment need
- Driveway surface
- Roofer's supply
- Cigarette stat
- Really beat
- Tobacco smoke component
- Cigarette ingredient
- Wood by-product
- Benzene source
- ___ and feather
- Sully
- Pit contents
- Worker with two-masters
- Some goo
- Low-___
- Road cover
- La Brea stuff
- Pitching choice
- Seaman
- Stuff for surfacing
- Camel hazard?
- North Carolina river
- Stuff in a pit
- Road goo
- Besmear
- Road topper
- Pit sight
- Old hand
- Surfacing stuff
- Macadam ingredient
- Seafarer
- Driveway covering
- Gooey stuff
- Outdoor sealant
- What a steamroller steamrolls
- Pavement sealer
- Road surfacing material
- Coal byproduct
- Sailor
- Popeye, for one
- Subject of a cigarette rating
- Contents of some pits
- Oozy roofing material
- Carcinogenic substance
- Cigarette substance
- Slander, say
- Pothole patch
- Road surface
- Sealant
- Sailor, colloquially
- Part of a cigarette rating
- Source of creosote
- Driveway topper
- Product of the burned residue of tobacco leaves
- Black top
- Black goo
- Cap'n, say
- Contents of a La Brea pit
- You don't want it beaten out of you
- Barnacle Bill, for one
- Cigarette pollutant
- Gob or swab
- Adhesive for feathers
- Surfacing gunk
- Waterproof the roof
- La Brea gunk
- Salt at sea
- Smoker's intake
- Roofer's goo
- Tobacco smoke residue
- Cover with asphalt
- Roofing gunk
- Roofing goop
- Cigarette package word
- Something to beat out of you
- Ancient mariner
- It goes over the road
- Roofer's gunk
- Street coat
- Roof sealant
- Vessel veteran
- Paving goo
- Grizzled sailor
- Sailor, slangily
- Paving goop
- Roof goo
- Part of a Puritanical punishment
- Smoker's residue
- Paving material
- La Brea goop
- Cigarette smoke substance
- Dark goo
- It can cover a lot
- It's all over the road
- Patch pitch
- Main man?
- It's black and blobby
- La Brea product
- Sticky stuff in La Brea
- Roofer's goop
- Nicotine partner
- "___ Baby" (Toni Morrison novel)
- Pitch source
- Sailor, informally
- Work on the road
- Driveway covering, perhaps
- Main character?
- With 11-Down, fossil preservers
- ___ paper (roofing material)
- Roadwork goo
- It's in the pits
- Salt in the seawater?
- Smear, in a way
- ___ Heel (native of North Carolina)
- Smoke solids
- Roofing goo
- Prepare to feather
- Pine ___ incident (1983 Yankee Stadium controversy)
- Kool stuff
- Paver's goo
- Roof pitch
- Cigarette hazard
- Roofer's material
- Sea salt?
- Basic hazard?
- Road sealer
- Roofing material
- Road crew goo
- Seasoned salt?
- Road-surfacing goo
- Blacktop material
- Pine goop
- Seasoned salt
- Mariner
- Swabby
- Driveway sealer
- Paving gunk
- It's all over the streets
- Street sealer
- Veteran mariner
- Petroleum product
- Fix the road, maybe
- Popeye, e.g.
- Roof covering
- Stuff on a driveway
- Viscous liquid
- Coke product
- It may be rolled over
- Driveway substance
- Road-crew goo
- Pit gunk
- Roof sealer
- Pavement material
- Defeat soundly
- Coal distillate
- Roofer's need
- Worker on a two-master
- Waterproofing material
- Feather mate
- What a steamroller flattens
- Solid tobacco smoke residue
- Seasoned seaman
- Swab or salt
- Feather partner
- Black, sticky stuff
- Solid residue of tobacco smoke
- Old mariner
- Glue for feathers
- Smoke residue
- Smoker's amassment
- It gets steamrollered
- Roof application
- Asphalt
- Paver's supply
- Feathers partner
- Swabbie
- Roof surface, perhaps
- Pitch for the road crew
- Pit goo
- Substance used in an old punishment
- Crack filler
- Toni Morrison title word
- Bad stuff in cigarettes
- Worker with two-masters?
- Cancer stick ingredient
- Smoker's inhalant
- Smoke solid
- Smokers amass it
- It's in some pits
- Feather adhesive
- It may go on a drive
- It may hold feathers in place
- Two-lane topper, often
- Petroleum residue
- Over-the-road item?
- Feathers accompanier
- Pit contents, perhaps
- It may pave the way
- Seasoned sailor
- It's applied before feathers
- Tobacco stuff
- Feather go-with
- Roof pitch?
- Feathers' stickum
- Mastodon preserver
- La Brea material
- Road surface, often
- Coal derivative
- Word on a pack of cigs
- Veteran seafarer
- Veteran sailor
- Coal product
- Black paving material
- Wood distillate
- It's all over the main drag
- Cresote source
- What many rural roads lack
- Sticky black stuff
- Coal or pine product
- Highway sealer
- Epitome of blackness
- Driveway stuff (and word that's hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers)
- Wood-distillation product
- Paving surface
- Do road repair
- Stuff in tobacco
- Naval need of old
- ___ Heel State (North Carolina)
- Pitch for paving
- 64 Across product
- Kind of pitch
- Mammoth entrapper
- Bitumen alternative
- Pot Hole Filler
- It covers a lot of ground
- Do road work?
- Mammoth trapper
- Mammoth mirer
- Something for the road
- Salem stuff
- It may cover a lot
- Pine product
- Whip severely
- Viscous resin
- Macadam binder
- Ship sealer
- Something found in a Parliament
- Salt?
- Goes with feathers, sometimes
- Bitumen
- Adhesive for feathers?
- Driveway option
- Driveway cover
- Original Molotov cocktail ingredient
- Oozy roof goop
- With 46-Across, prehistoric animal preserver
- Swabbie
- Sailor, so to speak
- Pothole filler
- Finish (a parking lot)
- Stuff used for sealing the floor, perhaps
- Organic sealant
- Tobacco residue
- It helps to pave the way
- Stuff to 6 Down with
- Material for a road or roof
- Sealer's stuff
- Old sailor
- A cigarette filter filters it
- Feathering adhesive
- Road gunk
- Pitch's kin
- La Brea sight
- Roofing supply
- Cigarette component
- Road goop
- Fossil repository, often
- Roofing substance
- Roof goo
- Road goo
- Black goo
- Sealant stuff
- Black goop
- La Brea ___ Pits
- Gunk for a pothole
- Surfacing goo
- Pothole fill
- Road-crew supply
- Pothole-filling stuff, often
- 10-Down substance used in roofing
- Nautical sealant
- Smoker's concern
- Hull sealer
- Water dog
- Cigarette residue
- Deck swabber
- Seagoing sort
- Modified pitch
- Material some roads are made of
- Black roofing gunk
- Hot roofing material
- Black, viscous stuff
- ___ Heel: North Carolina native
- Pitching need
- Steamrolled stuff
- Cigarette danger
- With 70-Down North Carolinian's nickname ,
- Roof waterproofing
- Do road work
- Street cover
- ___ paper
- Gooey black stuff
- Black pitch
- Road surfacing stuff
- Long-time seafarer
- Driveway coating
- Timber treatment
- Blacktop component
- It could pave the way
- Road surface stuff
- Old seafarer
- Woolly mammoth preserver
- Roadwork material
- Crew member
- Gooey black sealant
- Roof material
- Oozy road material
- ___ Heels (college team)
- 49-Across source
- Word with heel or paper
- One unhealthy part of cigarettes
- Street coverage?
- Goo in a prehistoric pit
- Alley goop
- Cigarette additive
- Pipe buildup
- Mixture of hydrocarbons and free carbon
- Paving substance
- Road covering
- Cigarette drawback
- Timber preserver
- Car wash challenge
- Roadwork gunk
- Pitching choice?
- Alternative to gravel, perhaps
- Roofer's remedy
- Salt of the sea?
- Current observer
- La Brea pit substance
- La Brea muck
- Road stuff
- North Carolina ___ Heels
- Car washer's challenge
- Road material
- Shingle sealant
- Paver's gunk
- Roofing option
- ___ Heels (North Carolina team)
- Paving supply
- Seafaring man
- Feathers' go-with
- Viscous goo
- Old seaman
- It's on the streets
- Road paving goo
- Stuff for a North Carolinian's heel?
- ___ Heel (North Carolinian)
- Sealing goo
- Gooey road covering
- Cigarette-pack stat
- Seadog
- Surface one can drive on
- It's on the road
- Roofing sealer
- Cigarette smoke ingredient
- Road-repair goo
- Driveway sealant
- Road component
- Stuff on the street
- Small, dirty, uncomfortable room
- Roof coating
- Sticky black substance
- Driveway goo
- Shipmate
- Stuff for the road
- Navy guy
- Mayo may help get if off your hands
- Fossil preserver
- Road coating
- Fills road cracks
- Anagram for "art"
- Roof material, sometimes
- Waterfront dive denizen
- Carwash challenge
- Deck hand
- It might be used to pave the way
- Apron covering
- Oil byproduct
- Sticky road stuff
- Cigarette gunk
- Dishonor
- Formal crown
- Roadway material
- Jack ___ (member of the Royal Navy)
- Sticky cigarette stuff
- Road coverage
- Word before sands or paper
- Feathers adhesive, once
- Sailor, in slang
- Gravel alternative
- Road or roof stuff
- Road topping
- Road coater
- Coal ___
- Blacktop
- Road or roofing stuff
- Thick, black, gooey substance
- Smelly sealant
- Nautical sealer
- Coke by-product
- Pine goo
- Surfacing goop
- Avenue application
- Damage the reputation of
- Road crew goop
- Paving crew need
- Road-repair material
- It covers plenty of road
- Gooey road surface
- Hot paving goo
- Road repair material
- Hot road stuff
- Road or roof surfacing
- Slangy word for a sailor
- Black pit substance
- Roadway finisher
- Pitch for the road
- Defile
- What naphthalene is distilled from
- Frequent parking lot surface
- Gooey road cover
- Ingredient in some paving materials
- Word with coal or pine
- Bounty man
- Material once set afire and put in a catapult
- Pine ___
- Pitch for road layers
- Gooey substance
- Goo
- Pave
- Sticky substance
- Cover a roof
- Roofing stuff
- Paved street material
- Pavement content
- Pavement goo
- Road or roof covering
- Street paving material
- Black, gooey paving substance
- A roof may be sealed with it
- Roads are paved with it
- Pavement ingredient
- What some roads are paved with
- Some roofs are made from this
- Substance some roads are made from
- Hot, sticky road substance
- Some roads are paved with it
- Street goo
- Road or roof material
- Coal distillation
- Black, sticky road substance
- Black, sticky road material
- Cigarette pack word
- Prepare for feathering
- Paving crew goo
- Road substance
- Roof topping, sometimes
- Sticky, black road stuff
- Sticky stuff for the road
- Sticky stuff for roofs
- Hot roof material
- Hardtop substance
- Road covering substance
- Pothole-filling stuff
- Paving liquid
- Surface sealer
- '90s post-hardcore Chicago band
- Early '90s Chicago indie band
- Throwing Muses' "___ Kissers"
- It's "White," to The Bronx
- Visage single
- Folk song "Jolly Roving ___"
- Early '90s Chicago post-hardcore band
- Anders Osborne "Black ___"
- Cocorosie "Honey or ___"
- Kula Shaker "Ol' Jack ___"
- Chicago post-hardcore band from the '80s
- Gooey Chicago post-hardcore band?
- Gooey Visage song?
- Dark viscous substance
- Viscous liquid from tea urn regularly discarded
- Jack's said to express gratitude
- Sticky cigarette residue
- A bit of a stare from Jack
- Say thanks for the salt
- Salt in cigarettes?
- Sticky substance - seaman
- Jack has to sing out, looking amazed
- For whom sailoring is a bit of a fag?
- Jack, on the road with Mac?
- Jack thanks a raw beginner
- Jack, a possible runner in the heat
- Black salt?
- Dark viscous stuff
- Jack, who could take Paul in?
- Black variety of rat
- Cigarette residue - old word for sailor
- Jack's contribution to a rate rise
- Product of smoking cigarettes
- Seaman's manipulative art
- Viscous mixture - sailor
- Bituminous substance
- Mammoth preserver
- Substance from 8-Across
- Sailor possibly low in cigarettes
- Smoker's black deposit
- Salt used as a preservative
- Jack turns renegade
- Put on a black coat?
- Shingles sealer
- Shingle sealer
- Sealing stuff
- Surface for roads and roofs
- 45 Across's material
- Viscous stuff
- Slangy seagoer
- January slowpoke
- Product of the dry distillation of pine
- Slangy sailor
- Caulking material
- Goopy roofing material
- Coal by-product
- Surface (road)
- Sticky coal by-product
- ___ & feather
- The pitch of the road
- Tacky way to punish "death-near-raft" suspect
- Viscous bituminous substance
- Jack - knave put another way
- La Brea pit material
- Product for pavers
- Hot goo used in roofing and paving
- Jack's a bit of a star
- Harmful by-product of cigarettes
- Beach-sandal gunk
- Road-making material
- Product produced from peat
- Waterproofing gunk
- Sailor giving thanks at the end of the war
- Road crew material
- Pine ___ (substance applied to baseball bat handles)
- Paving or roofing stuff
- Sealer for sailors?
- Sticky road cover
- Black road substance
- Patch of pitch
- Brown stuff in cigarettes
- Sea salt?
- Jack's grateful utterance
- Fossil-preserving stuff
- Black road gunk
- See 62 Across
- Bit of a stare from Jack
- Roofer's stuff
- Road crew's gunk
- ___ Heels: UNC team
- Road or roof goo
- Gunky roofing stuff
- Street layer
- One on the water
- Pitch kin
- Sticky sealer
- Seaman, slangily
- Road paving material
- Cause of stubborn stains
- Dark sticky substance
- Highway repair stuff
- Blacken, in a way
- Sticky subject?
- Feathers adhesive of old
- Sticky liquid
- La Brea fossil preserver
- Jack's in the right area
- Product produced from pines
- Product of heating coal
- Hand on deck
- Black salt?
- Black paving stuff
- Goo for paving
- Harmful cigarette stuff
- The hand is black and sticky
- Coat under feathers
- Damage, as a reputation
- What "light" cigarettes are lower in
- Pothole goo
- Sticky road 23-Down
- Roof stuff
- Roofing liquid
- Patching pitch
- Road's black surface
- What cigarette filters are supposed to block
- Asphalt component
- Binder for macadam
- Gooey liquid
- In the night, arguably, it's black
- Fossil-preserving goo
- Black art, possibly?
- Put on a black coat?
- Paving material for streets
- Roof repair material
- Pitch relative
- Roadwork supply
- Do some roadwork
- Paver's sealant
- Preservative for old sailing ships
- Road surface goo
- The seaman's clever art
- Paver's stuff
- Jack volunteers to be ringleader
- Jack says Thanks
- Paving or roofing material
- Asphalt relative
- Fossil-preserving gunk
- Asphalt kin
- Sticky road surfacer
- Road crew's material
- Product from pines
- Street covering
- Goopy sealant
- Besmirch, as a reputation
- Jack may be low in cigarettes
- Jack has a right to a little gratitude
- The "black" in black ice
- Roof coat
- Substance in cigarettes
- Sailor found among vegetarians
- Shingles sealant
- It looks black for Jack
- Road repair substance
- Jack's cunning art
- Anagram of "art"
- Viscous black liquid
- Jack backs rate reduction
- Thanks to the rain, he's got lots of water around!
- He does his job in wet areas
- Goop in pits
- Horrific cigarette ingredient
- Cigarette toxin
- Coal liquid
- Dark liquid
- Sticky, wet stuff
- Word after "coal" or "pine"
- Road surfacing goop
- Road crew boot goo
- The seaman's cunning art
- Thick, sticky road surfacer
- The stuff of many roads
- Bat-handle application
- Goo for a paving crew
- Thanks to Romeo, he's called Jack
- Highway covering
- Goopy paving material
- Something seen on the road
- Stuff in a sticky pit
- Roof patching material
- Road crack filler
- Sticky roof sealant
- Sully, as a reputation
- Jack may take Paul in
- Road repair goop
- 2020 movie set in La Brea
- Sailing moniker
- Stuff in cigarettes
- Gravel driveway alternative
- He travels in wet areas
- Roof-sealing goo
- Stuff in macadam
- Roadwork goop
- Rooftop sealer
- Pine ___: dugout supply
- Smelly black liquid
- Roof or road material
- Goo in pits
- Dirt alternative, at times
- Road repair sealant
- Paving crew's goo
- The stuff of many roofs
- Salt in cigarettes?
- Goo used in roof work
- Sticky black goo
- Construction zone sealant
- Roadwork substance
- Sticky roofing stuff
- Sticky road application
- Describe in a negative way
- Stuff in cigarettes, but not e-cigarettes
- Sticky stuff on a roof or road
- For whom sailoring is a bit of a fag?
- In the Black Forest area, it's very dark
- Driveway repair goo
- Jack gives thanks to a redhead
- La Brea ___ Pits (Los Angeles attraction)
- Jack, on the road with Mac?
- Dark, sticky sealant
- Road gunk ... or, when doubled, tooth gunk
- Byproduct of burning tobacco
- Canoe sealant
- Oily roofing material
- Road-paving goop
- Pothole-filling goo
- Dinosaur bone preserver
- Pine ___ (baseball player's grip enhancer)
- La Brea substance
- "___ Beach," acclaimed 1991 children's book set in Harlem
- Road crew's sealant
- 2022 Cate Blanchett drama
- Jack, who could take Paul in?
- Sticky stuff on roads
- 2022 film starring Cate Blanchett as a conductor
- It's sticky when applied to a road
- What a steamroller steamrolls over
- Some roofing material
- Stuff used for making roads
- It gets steamrolled
- Deck coating material
- -
- 2022 Todd Field film about a conductor
- Road workers' gloop
- Smelly black gunk
- La Brea abundance
- Sticky stuff for the roof
- Road paving substance
- Driveway-patching gunk
- Fossil-preserving goop
- Sticky dinosaur trapper
- Sticky road goo
- Sticky paving stuff
- Roofer's sealant
- Freeway gunk
- Goo used to pave roads
- Black art, maybe
- Roofing or paving material
- Highway goo
- Asphalt alternative
- Driveway goop
- The ___ Heel State (North Carolina)
- Black goo underfoot
- Sticky roadway substance
- Waterproofing substance
- Natural pitch
- Jack's mystic art
- Bitumen lookalike
- Material for a roof repair
- Sticky pitch
- Sticky and stinky sealant
- Mammoth trap
- Paver's goop
- Waterproofing material for a sail, once
- Street application
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- Mirror Daily - October 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - October 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - September 29, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - September 25, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - September 24, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - September 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - September 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - September 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - September 08, 2026
- New York Times - September 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - September 04, 2026
- Your Life Choices - August 26, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - August 26, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - August 25, 2026
- LA Times - August 20, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 16, 2026
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- Penny Dell Daily - August 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 28, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 28, 2026
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