Clues for the word "TONGUE"
We've had 68 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 105 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on January 23, 2026.
Definition of tongue
- n. - an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
- n. - The power of articulate utterance; speech.
- n. - Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
- n. - Honorable discourse; eulogy.
- n. - A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.
- n. - Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions.
- n. - A people having a distinct language.
- n. - The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk.
- n. - The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly.
- n. - The lingua of an insect.
- n. - Any small sole.
- n. - That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form.
- n. - A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.
- n. - A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove.
- n. - A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake.
- n. - The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- n. - The clapper of a bell.
- n. - A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- n. - Same as Reed, n., 5.
- v. t. - To speak; to utter.
- v. t. - To chide; to scold.
- v. t. - To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
- v. t. - To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.
- v. i. - To talk; to prate.
- v. i. - To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.
Referring Clues
- Deli meat offering
- Taste bud locale
- ___ twister
- Clapper
- It can be in the groove
- Dialect
- Talking organ
- It may be held or bitten
- Shoe part
- Language
- Natural language
- Sneaker part
- Sneaker feature
- Taste buds' place
- It may get tied or twisted
- Part of a shoe
- One rudely put out?
- Bite your ____
- Tastebud setting
- Place for taste buds
- Mouth part
- Play staccato, in a way
- Piercing target
- 1-Down, e.g.
- Mother ___
- Mother___
- Taste bud setting
- Mouth organ
- ___-in-cheek (insincere)
- Mandarin or Mandingo
- A snake has a forked one
- Part 8 of today's quote
- They are hard to say
- The food you have in your mouth
- For example, Russian mouth organ
- Speaker for tonight on guest list
- Organ of taste
- Speaker out of orbit on guest night
- Part of shoe or mouth
- Mouth organ held in silence
- Spit on the 11 25
- "Red lorry, yellow lorry", for example
- Cooked meat using spit
- Fiddle with necktie enough not to be taken seriously
- Word with mother or sharp
- Are you texting in tweets, having got confused? It's hard to say
- Secretly sweet on guest speaker
- Flap, in a manner of speaking
- See 18
- Nothing to hide in stuttering we suspect, as words hard to say
- Accent disguises government's posh language ...
- Stone lost by one visiting speaker
- Long, sticky part of an anteater
- Arbiter of good taste?
- Word in the etymology of "linguini"
- Spanish or Portuguese
- Strip of a shoe
- The language, when it's non-vegetarian food!
- Taste test need
- Sense organ
- Sticky part of a frog
- Shoe part below the laces
- Notable chameleon feature
- One getting depressed during exams?
- Hindi or Hebrew
- See 35-Across
- Tacos de lengua protein
- ___-in-cheek
Last Seen In
- New York Times - January 23, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 27, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 06, 2024
- LA Times - March 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 08, 2023
- USA Today - October 11, 2023
- Family Time - October 02, 2023
- New York Times - June 12, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 22, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - November 21, 2022
- New York Times - November 11, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - November 02, 2022
- Daily Quick - June 28, 2022
- New York Times - March 20, 2022
- New York Times - December 05, 2021
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