Clues for the word "TENDER"
We've had 103 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 212 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 05, 2026.
Definition of tender
- n. - One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
- n. - A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
- n. - A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
- v. t. - To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
- v. t. - To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
- n. - An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
- n. - Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
- n. - The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
- superl. - Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
- superl. - Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- superl. - Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
- superl. - Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
- superl. - Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
- superl. - Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
- superl. - Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
- superl. - Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
- superl. - Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
- superl. - Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
- n. - Regard; care; kind concern.
- v. t. - To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
Referring Clues
- Painfully sensitive
- Money
- Like caresses
- Fuel car for a steam locomotive
- Like the night, to Keats
- Hardly hardy
- It may be legal
- Easily chewable
- Sore
- Sensitive
- Sympathetic
- Easily sliced
- Easy to chew
- Offer formally
- Bid
- Hand over
- Not tough
- Affectionate
- Like a good steak
- Medium of exchange
- Like filet mignon
- Part of TLC
- Legal ___ (cash)
- Like grade-A meat
- Sore to the touch
- Offer, bid
- Easily sliced, as meat
- Compassionate
- Title seeker
- Delicate
- Overly sensitive
- Easy to slice
- Far from chewy
- Easily carved, as meat
- Offer
- Not hard to chew
- Naval vessel
- Like good filet mignon
- "___ is the Night"
- Delicate offer
- Offer for nurse?
- Painful
- Like a soft ballad
- Considerate and solicitous treatment
- Compassionate - sore
- Hurting
- Painful when touched
- Sensitive figure embarrassed when rejected
- Offer - sensitive to pain
- Gentle as a nurse?
- A quotation of loving nature
- Nurse turned up coloured fabric
- Present set back left-winger after payment of tax
- Bruised, say
- Small boat crank
- Nurse's kind offer?
- One who cares is easily hurt
- Offer of a small boat
- Not hardy (but it may be legal)
- Fragile present
- Offer rented accommodation
- Bid - not toughened
- Sympathetic proposition
- See 10
- One who cares to make an offer
- Loving proposal
- Romantic proposal
- Yielding to offer?
- Romantic present
- Offer to supply goods in part of old train
- Bid for a boat
- Sensitive proposal
- Kind offer
- Sensitive bid
- Offer, not tough
- Caring
- One who cares to make an offer?
- Soft bread, when legal
- Gentle as nurse
- Not hardy
- Number the German offer
- Vulnerable, sensitive
- Offer to look after queen
- Delicate proposal
- Sensitive or vulnerable
- Offer for nurse?
- Loving
- Vulnerable and sensitive
- How F. Scott Fitzgerald viewed the 4 in his final novel?
- With which to pay the minder?
- Easily cut, as a cutlet
- Soft-hearted
- Sore: bid
- Can be rented – by a nurse?
- The "T" in TLC
- Chicken finger
- Warmhearted
- Like poached fish
- Gentle as a nurse?
- The "T" of TLC
- Sensitive to the touch
- Word after "legal" or "chicken"
- "___ Mercies"
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 10, 2025
- Daily American - September 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 09, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 04, 2025
- LA Times - June 11, 2025
- Daily American - May 26, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 22, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 15, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 07, 2025
- Mirror Mini - March 03, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 21, 2024
- USA Today - October 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 16, 2024
- New York Times - August 13, 2024
- And in 182 more crossword puzzles...