Clues for the word "TONGS"
We've had 111 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 180 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 27, 2025.
Definition of tongs
- n. pl. - An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.
Referring Clues
- Salad bar implement
- Salad bar servers
- Graspers
- Hammer's partner
- Hot dog picker-upper
- Salad maker's need
- Some picker-uppers
- Home bartender's tool
- Poker partner?
- Sugar cube holder
- Fireplace tool
- Server's tool
- Ice bucket accessory
- Kitchen utensil that is hinged like scissors
- Barbecue chef's implement
- Ice grabbers
- Picker-uppers
- Sugar servers
- Ice bucket tool
- Ice bucket go-with
- Dog catchers?
- Griller's grabbers
- Grill grabbers
- Salad bar pair
- Salad-serving tool
- Salad bar utensil
- Salad servers
- Patio hangers
- Cube handlers
- Salad-bar implements
- Ice-bucket accessory
- Ice cube grabbers
- Fireside implements
- Fireplace utensils
- Hinged kitchen utensils
- Hinged implement
- Ice pincers, e.g.
- Salad-serving implements
- Grillers' grabbers
- Salad server
- Barbeque chef utensil
- Barbecue tool
- Barbecuer's grasping tool
- Ice picker-upper
- Iceman's tools
- Crab-grabbers
- Sugar pincers
- Ice lifters
- Tool for 18-Across
- Ice grippers
- Patio picker-uppers, perhaps
- Ice-grabbing tool
- They may help you get a grip
- They may dangle near a grill
- Salad bar tool
- Kitchen grabbers
- Ice picker-uppers
- Ice-cube grabbers
- Iceman's implements
- Ice bucket accessories
- Grasping tool
- Ice-gripping implements
- Patio grill accessory
- They may grab a bite
- Ice-cube utensils
- Steak turners
- Ice-bucket partner
- Ice bucket insert
- Ice handler
- Sugar cube servers
- Blacksmith's tool
- Deliveryman's device of yore
- Canning tool
- Buffet grabber
- Barbecue tools
- Barbecue utensils
- Hot dog picker-uppers
- See 21
- A number wearing clothes seen by the fire
- Oriental grasping tools?
- Gripper to clothe pole with clothes
- Implement for picking up hot coals
- Instrument for picking up object
- Grasping secret societies
- They curl and lift cubes
- Tool for grasping or lifting
- Devices used for gripping objects
- Many in possession of good tool
- Grilling tool
- Chinese secret societies
- Clothes without number are a sort of pick-me-up
- Gadget for gripping ice cubes
- Ice capturers
- Grillmaster's utensil
- Those grasping old Oriental secret societies, one imagines
- Forceps
- Ice Cube's favorite utensil?
- Pincers
- Their purpose is both gripping and uplifting
- Hot dog grippers
- Salad bar sight
- They're for picking up heavy weights around Gateshead
- Kitchen picker-uppers
- They might help you get a grip
- Hammer partner
- Ice cube-grabbing tool
- Barbecue pair
- Chinese societies grasping tools?
- Set of flippers?
- A pair to pick up with
- Salad tossers
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 23, 2025
- LA Times - January 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 03, 2024
- Mirror Mini - September 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 27, 2024
- USA Today - August 22, 2024
- USA Today - August 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 31, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 06, 2024
- LA Times - January 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2023
- Mirror Mini - September 28, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 14, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 31, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 03, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 21, 2022
- Mirror Mini - September 28, 2022
- New York Times - August 04, 2022
- Guardian Quick - January 13, 2018
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 27, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 09, 2017
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