Clues for the word "TESSERA"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 64 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on September 22, 2025.
Definition of tessera
- n. - A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
Referring Clues
- Mosaic piece
- Tile square
- Bit of floorwork, maybe
- Piece of art
- Mosaic component
- Tile piece
- Mosaic tile
- See 9-Down
- Piece of stone or glass for mosaic work
- Mosaicist's tile
- Small mosaic tile
- Tile in a mosaic
- Piece of mosaic
- Mosaic part
- Byzantine art bit
- Bit of mosaic
- Piece of mosaic Greek god put back
- Period novel heroine on the tile?
- Hardy lass has time to for a bit of artistic piecework
- Bit of mosaic shows girl entertaining monarch
- Mosaic stone
- Mosaic depicting gods of Greece and Egypt upside-down
- Resets a broken tile
- Hardy character with period marble piece?
- Mosaic piece from Hardy's novel period
- Greek god positioned the other way in part of mosaic
- Tile God put back
Last Seen In
- Daily American - September 22, 2025
- Daily American - August 03, 2025
- Daily American - June 16, 2025
- Daily American - May 12, 2025
- Daily American - February 25, 2024
- Daily American - September 22, 2023
- LA Times - August 07, 2023
- Daily American - August 03, 2023
- Daily American - June 16, 2023
- Daily American - May 12, 2023
- LA Times - February 12, 2023
- Daily American - September 22, 2017
- Daily American - August 03, 2017
- Daily American - June 16, 2017
- Daily American - May 12, 2017
- New York Times - October 27, 2016
- New York Times - January 22, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 28, 2015
- LA Times - May 10, 2015
- Guardian Prize - April 25, 2015
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - November 30, 2014
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - June 01, 2014
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - February 23, 2014
- New York Times - December 09, 2013
- Netword - December 05, 2013
- Wall Street Journal - November 22, 2013
- New York Times - September 08, 2013
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - August 11, 2013
- LA Times - July 27, 2013
- Guardian Prize - September 08, 2012
- And in 34 more crossword puzzles...