Clues for the word "VENEER"
We've had 79 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 112 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on November 18, 2025.
Definition of veneer
- v. t. - To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.
- v. t. - A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.
Referring Clues
- Plywood layer
- Use for expensive wood
- Finish
- Superficiality
- Varnished surface, sometimes
- Facade
- False front
- Guise
- Tortoiseshell layer
- Thin layer of wood
- Front
- Facing
- Surface layer
- Furniture overlay
- Plywood layer, perhaps
- Thin covering
- Woodworker's facade
- Top layer
- Superficiality
- Furniture layer
- Furniture surface
- Superficial layer
- Surface
- A thin coat that often cracks
- Shiny wood overlay
- Furniture finish
- External layer
- Wood finish
- Wood overlay
- Thin layer
- Dental treatment
- Superficial appearance
- False front or facade
- Furniture maker's overlay
- Outer layer of wood
- Superficial show
- Overlay
- Wood layer
- Wood cover
- Coating
- Decorative covering
- Superficial coating
- Misleading external appearance
- Specious outward appearance of good quality
- Thin decorative covering of fine wood
- Thin covering layer
- That skin-deep beauty
- Energy packs divers never finish
- Decorative surface layer
- Furniture facade
- Thin surface layer
- Thin superficial layer
- Thin layer of wood or plastic
- Thin (decorative) covering
- There's a superficial pretence with the archdeacon always
- A superficial film - rather wooden
- Specious outward appearance of quality
- The archdeacon always put on outward show
- Face different directions in turn
- Treated evener surface
- Surface is somehow evener
- Facing northeast in wind
- Appearance made by last pair of children in turn
- Superficial appearance even upset Queen Elizabeth
- Beauty is but skin deep
- Thin wood layer
- Thin outer layer
- Beauty but skin deep
- Outer layer
- Put a good face on, albeit woodenly
- Decorative facade
- Thin wood finish
- Its beauty is but skin deep
- Dental facade
- Skin-deep beauty
- Covering layer
- A wooden face
- Superficial part
- On the surface, less than seven always looks good
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 18, 2025
- New York Times - October 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 01, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2025
- New York Times - June 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 25, 2025
- LA Times - December 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 28, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - May 12, 2024
- LA Times - April 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 29, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 31, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 30, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - June 16, 2022
- Universal - December 15, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 24, 2017
- Daily Quick - September 29, 2017
- Mirror Classic - September 28, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - August 07, 2017
- Netword - July 12, 2017
- USA Today - June 30, 2017
- Mirror Classic - June 22, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - March 19, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 07, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - February 14, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - February 14, 2017
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