Clues for the word "WASTREL"
We've had 26 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 52 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on December 25, 2025.
Definition of wastrel
- n. - Any waste thing or substance
- n. - Waste land or common land.
- n. - A profligate.
- n. - A neglected child; a street Arab.
- n. - Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
Referring Clues
- Spendthrift
- Ne'er-do-well
- Prodigal one
- Money waster
- Self-indulgent spender
- Self indulgent spender
- Profligate
- Resource squanderer
- Squanderer
- Scrooge's opposite
- Left water spraying across sunlounger
- Layabout
- Walters, dissipated vagabond
- What W.Slater became
- Profligate is no longer taking risks, enjoying life for starters
- Ne'er-do-well in Walter's novel
- Straw's negotiation with the Spanish is profligate
- Prodigal son Walter excitedly embraces
- Walter's wild, being a spendthrift
- Profligate spender
- Straw breaking camel's back, doubly profligate
- Layabout offering a treatment for warts to a key figure
- Walter's turned out to be a good-for-nothing
- Profligate person
- The vagabond was let loose outright!
- What W. Slater became
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - December 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 17, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 28, 2024
- Daily American - July 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 27, 2024
- Mirror Mini - May 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 25, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2023
- Mirror Mini - May 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 04, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 25, 2022
- Daily American - July 21, 2022
- Daily Quick - June 27, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 15, 2018
- LA Times - August 27, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - July 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 10, 2017
- LA Times - March 17, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - January 20, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 21, 2016
- Guardian Quick - December 26, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - November 07, 2014
- Guardian Quick - October 19, 2013
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 23, 2013
- And in 22 more crossword puzzles...