Clues for the word "THICKEN"
We've had 16 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 22 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on October 17, 2025.
Definition of thicken
- v. t. - To make thick (in any sense of the word).
- v. t. - To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
- v. t. - To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
- v. t. - To strengthen; to confirm.
- v. t. - To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
- v. i. - To become thick.
Referring Clues
- Get set?
- What plots may do
- With 43-Across, Coagulate * Galley
- Set
- Coagulate
- What a plot may do
- Transform sauce, perhaps, with kitchen blender
- (Of a plot) become more complicated
- Kitchen order: stir in flour, possibly
- Become more dense (as plots do)
- Yokel needs ten (about) to get set
- Solidify
- Become denser
- Add cornstarch to
- Clot
- Make more dense
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - October 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 01, 2024
- Your Life Choices - April 10, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 25, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - May 08, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 25, 2023
- Your Life Choices - June 17, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - January 17, 2018
- Your Life Choices - August 26, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - April 25, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 22, 2016
- New York Times - July 04, 2015
- Guardian Quick - August 01, 2011
- Post Puzzler - February 27, 2011
- New York Times - February 04, 2010
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 23, 2009
- Washington Post - November 27, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - July 08, 2004
- New York Times - March 03, 2001
- Guardian Cryptic - November 09, 1999