Clues for the word "TASTE"
We've had 336 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 980 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on February 19, 2026.
Definition of taste
- v. t. - To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
- v. t. - To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
- v. t. - To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- v. t. - To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
- v. t. - To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
- v. i. - To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
- v. i. - To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.
- v. i. - To take sparingly.
- v. i. - To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty.
- n. - The act of tasting; gustation.
- n. - A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.
- n. - The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
- n. - Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
- n. - The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
- n. - Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
- n. - Essay; trial; experience; experiment.
- n. - A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit.
- n. - A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Referring Clues
- Smack
- Discernment
- Have a trying experience
- Preference
- Flavor
- Kind of test
- Sample
- Discrimination
- Nibble on
- Refinement
- Focus of some tests
- One of the senses
- Predilection
- Kind of treat
- "Here, try some!"
- Just enough to tease
- Enough to wet one's lips
- Liking
- What some humor lacks
- Take a nibble at
- Spoonful, say
- Opposite of kitsch
- Food lover's sense
- "Take a sip"
- Selling point in cigarette ads, once
- Try a tidbit
- Try
- Palate
- Have a sample of
- Small bite
- Very small serving
- "Try this!"
- Relish
- One of the five senses
- Sampling
- "There's no accounting for ___"
- ___ of Chicago (world's largest food festival)
- Take a sip of
- It's often unaccounted for
- With 1-Across, Coke vs. Pepsi competition, e.g.
- Important sense for a gourmet
- Common sense?
- Take a bite of
- Theme of this puzzle
- Saltiness, e.g.
- Sweet, sour, bitter, or salty
- It may be acquired
- Soup sample
- Kind of bud
- Take a nibble
- Sample, as the soup
- Take a sip, maybe
- "Try some!"
- First experience
- Touch to the tongue
- Word before bud or test
- Little bit
- Enough to wet one's whistle
- Judgment
- Stylistic judgment
- Old cigarette ad buzzword
- Small sample
- What there's no accounting for, they say
- Kitsch's lack
- Glycogen's lack
- Test the flavor of
- Mini-serving
- Savor
- Trying experience?
- Sample a flavor
- Soupcon
- Sample at supper
- Sense of style
- Decorator's asset
- Sip or bite
- Tongue's sense
- There's no accounting for it
- Try the food
- Have a trying experience?
- Interior decorator's asset
- Likes and dislikes
- Sample, as food
- Personal preference
- Take a sample of
- Small food sample
- Sample of food
- Partiality
- Sample food
- Try a tidbit of
- Aesthetic appreciation
- Sip
- Partake of
- A sense
- Artistic discernment
- Personal style
- Piquancy
- Assess, as wine
- Distinguishing flavor
- Delicate discrimination
- Sample, in a way
- Sign of culture
- Classy quality
- "A ___ of Honey"
- Budding sense?
- Type of buds
- Eat a sample of
- Sample sauce, say
- Have a little bite
- It involves the tongue
- Try a bite
- Take a nibble of
- Art collector's asset
- Try a mouthful
- Try a dish
- First small bite
- There may be no accounting for it
- Ice cream shop request
- Critical asset
- Designer's asset
- Eat a bite of
- Little bite
- Eat a bit of
- "Try it, you'll like it!"
- Quick lick, say
- Edible sample
- Sense interwoven with smell
- Check the flavor of
- Flavour
- Check for flavor
- Try just a bite of
- Sense from one's buds
- Style
- Get a hint of
- Check the food
- Eat some of
- Decorum
- Personal shopper's asset
- Experience slightly
- Designing asset
- Aesthetic attitude
- Food sample
- Aesthetic judgment
- Type of test
- Artistic judgment
- Connoisseur's asset
- See 26-Across
- What some buds detect
- Certainly not a full meal
- Fashion sense
- Have a bite of
- Philistine's lack
- Personal liking
- Tentative bite
- Drink a little
- Kind of buds?
- Nibble
- Discretion
- Bon ton
- Try, as food
- Certain buds
- Cultured one's attribute
- Try a sample of
- Interior designer's asset
- Something water lacks
- Test for flavor
- It's far from a full meal
- It's often unaccounted for ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters
- Small sample of food
- Sample, as a small bit of food
- Wine judge's asset
- Need for a professional designer
- A spoonful's worth
- Take a tidbit of
- Art appreciation
- Sample orally
- Sample some food
- Use the buds on one's tongue
- Brief experience
- Aesthetic sense
- Discrimination makes sense
- Have some of
- Sample making sense
- Savour
- ...and one of those five
- Musical flavor
- Music preference
- Phish song with flavor?
- Merril Bainbridge "When I kiss your mouth, I want to ___ it"
- Volunteers, at the outset, to try
- Experience loss of testes almost - daft A&E aberration
- Try a test another way
- Sense of state corruption
- Finish breakfast with the sort of eats to savour
- Thanks for the bit of stew - what flavour!
- Set a test - an oral test
- Head of state moves to centre, showing discrimination
- Try fitting a new seat to an old model car
- Little bit of discrimination
- Discrimination starts showing in the gallery
- Try exotic eats, on finishing breakfast
- Opening of show in gallery, in a sense
- Experience worry over arresting good man
- Liking condition No 1 to become No 3
- Relish country's leader moving to the right
- ... with smattering of savour
- Discrimination - a sense
- Ice cream parlor freebie
- Sample by eating or drinking a little
- Liking (for)
- Smack in the snoot, as technically it is known
- Sample - discrimination
- Experience discrimination
- Altered state, in a sense
- Sampling can make sense
- Experience discrimination, in a sense
- Sophistication close to worthless in home of the 19 down 23
- Experience state interference
- 20 with propriety
- Just one bite
- Loosely state preference
- Have a bit of
- Gustatory gift
- Have a spoonful
- Try out (food)
- Discrimination shown - but not a lot
- Sense discrimination
- One of five is unaccountable
- Society visiting gallery shows appreciation
- Sense country must bring its leader down
- Try a bit of refinement
- Savour the start of surrealism in the Tate
- Instruct a stepchild to show discrimination
- Relish being in Rita's tent!
- Sample in corrupt state
- Saying thanks at outset shows good judgement
- Choice sample
- Discrimination, thanks to Lawrence
- To some extent, appointment as teacher makes sense
- Could be a test of judgement
- Head of security in art gallery gains experience
- Sense shown by head of state visiting gallery
- Relish latest of paintings placed in gallery
- Sip drop of sherry in gallery
- Having original of Sunflowers in gallery causes a sensation
- Take mouthful from ragout (a stew)
- A test involved a small sample only
- Liking sample
- Some detest a stew's flavour
- Preference for refinement
- Smack son punching sweet man?
- Experience a change of state
- Suspicion of discrimÂination
- Hint
- Take a free sample of
- Utilize a sense
- Certain sense
- "Here, try this"
- Sweetness, sourness or bitterness
- Sample vittles
- Try an out-of-the-way blend of tea
- Try to make the 'West' End 'East', possibly!
- A nibble
- A tongue-in-cheek function?
- Art venue includes sex experience
- Try a sip of
- Anita Stewart shows discrimination
- Officiate at a bake-off, say
- Food buyer's consideration
- Art patron holding small aesthetic guide
- Failing a test makes sense
- "The enemy of creativeness," per Picasso
- Have a trying experience?
- Interior designer's strong point
- Modicum
- Maybe a test to savour?
- Sense of tact
- Wine judge's sense
- Try, in a way
- Sample a bit of food
- Nip or sip
- How stew may be seasoned
- Sample by mouth
- Sample, like Emeril
- Decorator's 22-Across
- Have a sip of
- Specific flavor
- Experience
- Try a test, perhaps
- Try moving east to the West End!
- There's no accounting for it, they say
- Decorator’s asset
- "Things sweet to ___ prove in digestion sour": "Richard II"
- Ability to discern quality
- Fashionista's sense
- Designer’s asset
- Umami, for example
- Something to do with your buds?
- Sampler's sip
- Take a bit of
- Umami, e.g.
- Individual preference
- Try to get volunteers at the outset
- Bite a bit
- Only basic sense that ends with a vowel
- One of a noted quintet
- What's missing from the accounting department?
- Try, as beer
- Auditory : sound :: gustatory : ___
- One sense
- Sweet or sour, e.g.
- Try a bite of
- Smidgen
- Umami is one
- Salty or bitter, for example
- Bite-sized sample
- Try a little crumb of
- Tongue sense
- Work with one's buds?
- One of your senses
- Word before "test" or "buds"
- Have a spoonful, say
- It's a personal matter
- Sample size?
- Small sip
- "The ___ of Ink" (The Used song)
- Have a nibble of
- "With a ___ of your lips, I'm on a ride" ("Toxic" lyric)
- ___ of Chicago (annual food celebration)
- Officiate at a cook-off, say
- Example of state muddle?
- Sour or 2-Down, e.g.
- Flavor sensation
- Umami, for one
- "Tell me if this needs salt"
- "___ the Rainbow" (Skittles slogan)
- Put to a test?
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - February 19, 2026
- Daily American - February 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 17, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 02, 2026
- Daily American - January 19, 2026
- LA Times - January 12, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 08, 2025
- Daily American - November 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 15, 2025
- LA Times - October 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 01, 2025
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