Clues for the word "THORNY"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 29 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on May 12, 2025.
Definition of thorny
- superl. - Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
- superl. - Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
Referring Clues
- Full of complexities
- Prickly
- Tough to figure out
- Like rosebushes
- Tough to solve
- Nettlesome
- Problematic
- Full of difficulties
- Tough to navigate
- Difficult to deal with
- Barbed
- Like some plants or problems
- Like complex questions
- Spiny - difficult and controversial
- Tricky time getting randy
- Spiky (of bush or problem)
- Difficult temperature, hot
- Difficult defendant finally up for it
- It's difficult to get model aroused
- Difficult time to get aroused
- Causing difficulty - like a bed of roses?
- Sticky
- Rose, being so prickly, calls for careful handling
- Can blackberrying present such problems?
- Can handling roses be such a problem?
- Such problems, presumably, are not pointless
- Like some stems and situations
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 12, 2025
- New York Times - April 06, 2025
- LA Times - January 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 27, 2024
- Guardian Quick - December 26, 2017
- Canadiana - November 06, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 29, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - December 23, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 06, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - January 30, 2015
- USA Today - February 05, 2014
- LA Times - December 02, 2013
- Guardian Quick - April 12, 2013
- LA Times Sunday - February 20, 2011
- Wall Street Journal - November 19, 2010
- Jonesin - July 24, 2007
- Guardian Quick - May 17, 2007
- New York Times - August 26, 2006
- Jonesin - June 06, 2006
- Netword - March 02, 2006
- New York Sun - January 20, 2006
- Washington Post - February 13, 2005
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 09, 2004
- Guardian Cryptic - April 01, 2003
- Guardian Cryptic - November 20, 2002
- Washington Post - March 16, 2001
- Washington Post - May 15, 2000