Clues for the word "TORTOISE"
We've had 54 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 70 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on June 13, 2026.
Definition of tortoise
- n. - Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.
- n. - Same as Testudo, 2.
- n. - having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.
- n. - a tortoise-shell cat.
Referring Clues
- Winner in a well-known upset
- Partner of 41-Down
- Fabled racer
- Winner who finished next to last, in fable
- Slowpoke
- Reason for a bad hare day?
- Hare vanquisher
- Hare racer
- Slow mover
- Noted race winner
- Race winner of fable
- Hare's opponent of fable
- Fabled race winner
- Fabled come-from-behind race-winner
- Winner in a fabled upset
- Hare's race opponent
- Shelled animal
- Aesopian victor
- Slow but steady victor
- Fable winner
- Storied surprise winner
- Terrestrial turtle
- Hare's defeater
- Galápagos denizen
- Hare's fable opponent
- Chelonian reptile
- See 96-Across
- Galapagos giant
- Turtle
- Surprise winner of fable
- Turtle's relative
- Slow-moving Chicago band?
- Lettuce-munching plodder
- Reptile with a shell
- Slow-moving reptile
- It's wrong to go on French river as a slow mover
- Shell carrier sounding stretched on French river
- Reptile
- Love to run around island with energy? Not me!
- Shelled reptile
- Reptile with shell
- 4's wrong sound with head tucked away
- Sweet thing embracing love is a crawler
- Slowcoach tries too awkwardly
- Turtle-like creature
- Reptile found in the wrong department
- Wrong French river for this reptile
- Slow-moving creature
- Aesop critter
- Herbivorous reptile
- Fabled slowpoke
- Fabled beneficiary of a nap
- "___ Wins By a Hare": Bugs Bunny cartoon
- Hare's competition in a fable
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - June 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - September 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 25, 2025
- Daily American - October 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 28, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 22, 2024
- USA Today - June 11, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 30, 2024
- USA Today - January 10, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 18, 2023
- Mirror Daily - March 24, 2023
- Your Life Choices - March 01, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 07, 2022
- Daily American - October 01, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - August 20, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 18, 2022
- Daily Quick - June 22, 2022
- Mirror Daily - June 12, 2022
- LA Times - July 31, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - July 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 27, 2016
- Guardian Quick - August 27, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 21, 2016
- Universal - May 05, 2015
- New York Times - October 26, 2014
- Guardian Everyman - July 13, 2014
- Netword - December 02, 2013
- LA Times - August 01, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - July 30, 2013
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