Clues for the word "TWINKLE"
We've had 20 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 20 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on July 10, 2025.
Definition of twinkle
- v. i. - To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
- v. i. - To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
- n. - A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
- n. - A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
- n. - The time of a wink; a twinkling.
Referring Clues
- What stars do
- See 39-Across
- With 25-Down, start of a nighttime nursery rhyme
- Look mischievously amused, as eyes
- You might get one in your eye
- Glimmer
- Scintillate
- Star shine
- Emulate a star
- Glisten
- Flicker
- Sparkle
- 1 12 character ignores Iggy - stars do it
- Shine flashingly
- Sparkle (like a little star?)
- Glitter
- Gleam or glow intermittently
- When repeated, what little stars do
- Shimmer
- Word repeated before "little star," in a nursery rhyme
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - July 10, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 31, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 31, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - July 28, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 26, 2015
- Guardian Quick - November 13, 2013
- USA Today - August 20, 2013
- Guardian Speedy - January 20, 2013
- Guardian Quick - January 19, 2013
- LA Times - April 25, 2012
- New York Times - February 16, 2011
- New York Times - December 22, 2010
- New York Times - November 17, 2009
- New York Times - November 17, 2009
- Guardian Quick - June 03, 2009
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 21, 2009
- Netword - February 05, 2006
- LA Times - August 10, 2005
- Guardian Quick - April 02, 2005
- Washington Post - September 30, 2004