Clues for the word "TURBOT"
We've had 24 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 39 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 10, 2025.
Definition of turbot
- n. - A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
- n. - Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
- n. - The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
- n. - The trigger fish.
Referring Clues
- Tasty flatfish
- Bouillabaisse fish
- Large flatfish
- Flatfish - trout B (anag)
- Flatfish, valued as food
- Fish
- Flatfish
- Pale brown, speckled flatfish
- Opera replacing joiner with black swimmer
- Fish hung up to dry
- Motor's given its heart to fish
- Large brownish European flatfish
- Large brownish European flatfish
- Fish, odd trout, nibbling bit of bait
- Fish, trout, baked - entertaining starter in bistro
- Swimmer has to dry back
- Variety of trout swallowing a piece of bait?
- Fish for the trout swimming around Birkenhead
- Is it like a trout swimming around Beach Head?
- Fish, unusual British trout?
- Round-bodied flatfish
- It's fishy when trout are swimming around Beachy Head
- Swimming tutor upset about a bighead
- When a trout swims drunkenly around Beachy Head, it's definitely fishy!
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - February 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - June 28, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - July 04, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - March 17, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - January 25, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - August 09, 2016
- Universal - June 28, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - January 22, 2016
- Guardian Quick - June 25, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 11, 2014
- Guardian Quick - April 29, 2014
- Guardian Speedy - June 30, 2013
- USA Today - May 21, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - December 20, 2011
- New York Times - November 26, 2011
- Guardian Quick - October 02, 2011
- Guardian Quick - June 03, 2011
- Guardian Everyman - February 13, 2011
- Universal - September 09, 2010
- Guardian Quick - February 06, 2010
- Guardian Quick - September 15, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - July 17, 2009
- Guardian Quick - March 27, 2009
- And in 9 more crossword puzzles...