Clues for the word "WAX"
We've had 156 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 255 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 26, 2026.
Definition of wax
- v. i. - To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
- v. i. - To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
- n. - A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
- n. - Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
- n. - Cerumen, or earwax.
- n. - A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
- n. - A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
- n. - A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
- n. - A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
- n. - A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
- n. - Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
- v. t. - To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
Referring Clues
- Grow, in a way
- Car wash option
- Honeycomb, essentially
- Salon job
- Wane's partner
- Floor application
- Grow
- Batiking need
- Candle dripping
- Candle material
- Increase, in a way
- Denture maker's need
- Become full, as the moon
- Candle drippings
- Crayon ingredient
- Take a shine to?
- Madame Tussaud's medium
- Word with paper or bean
- Candle composition
- Surfboard application
- Letter sealer
- Crayon material
- Become
- Simonize
- Bikini line application
- Floor covering
- Tussaud's medium
- Floor coat
- Polish, as floors
- Surfboard coat
- Floor shine
- Mustache application
- Ski coating
- Partner of 34-Across
- One way to remove hair
- Bowstring protection
- Protective coating
- Candlemaking supply
- Honeycomb material
- Car-wash option
- Car wash application
- Hair removal option
- You might put your stamp on it
- Like many lifelike museum displays
- Option for a seal
- Madame Tussaud's sculpting medium
- Crayon makeup
- Candle makeup
- Candle matter
- Main ingredient in lipstick
- Tussaud's material
- Increase
- Depilation method
- Polish up
- Polish
- Polishing agent
- Honeycomb stuff
- Mustache toiletry
- Mme. Tussaud's supply
- Shine up
- Mustache enhancer
- Bee's product
- Car coater
- Candle stuff
- See 84 Across
- Floor cover
- Honeycomb substance
- Edam covering
- Ear buildup
- Sealer that might close a love letter envelope
- Love letter sealer
- Ski application
- Ski shop supply
- Put a gloss on
- Grow bigger
- Put a coat on?
- Candle's composition
- Get bigger
- Grow gradually larger
- Comb composition
- Type of museum
- Bee product
- Beehive stuff
- Depilate, in a way
- Crayola raw material
- Medium for Madame Tussaud
- Spa treatment hinted at by the ends of 17-, 27-, 44- and 55-Across
- Stuff rubbed on skis
- Car coat?
- Old letter sealer
- Ear-y stuff
- Odysseus stuck it in his ears
- Too much in your ear, and you can't hear
- Madame Tussaud material
- "House of ___"
- Ear clogger
- Day spa treatment
- Opposite of wane
- Candle component
- ___ paper
- Material for Icarus' wings
- Car wash extra
- What candles are made of
- Surfboard need
- Ear stuff
- Candle's contents
- LPs, to DJs
- Another name for vinyl
- It's what let Icarus down
- Could it make the moustaches grow stronger?
- Cere - grow larger
- Batik need
- Surf shop buy
- Dental floss coating
- Increase in opposition to how Rooney, for one, is called
- Western American hacker
- Ruby, it seems, softens when warmed up
- 23-Down secretion
- Linoleum cover
- Ruby can be so meltingly warm
- Ruby red sealant?
- It gets the works at Madame Tussaud's
- No Yankee way to get a kiss with a model?
- Floor-shiner
- Candlemaker's supply
- Impermanent sculpture material
- Increase in size
- Soft, but it will get stronger
- Carwash option
- Bee secretion
- Beehive product
- Stuff applied to surfboards
- Strengthen with something soft
- Makeup of candles or early records
- Water-repellent car cover?
- Hair removal choice
- Car coating
- Become more intense, as the moon
- Cheese coating
- Candle substance
- Need on the slopes or the waves
- Medium for 34-Across
- Medium at Madame Tussauds
- Salon offering
- Candle ingredient
- Candles' makeup
- Could it make the moustaches grow stronger?
- Spa treatment
- Crayon stuff
- Wicked stuff?
- Surfer's need
- Vinyl records, slangily
- The "lava" in a lava lamp
- Become fuller, in a way
- 54-Down treatment
- Novelty lips stuff
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 26, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 05, 2026
- LA Times - October 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 09, 2025
- LA Times - April 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 18, 2025
- New York Times - February 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 11, 2024
- LA Times - November 24, 2024
- New York Times - October 30, 2024
- New York Times - October 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 17, 2024
- LA Times - October 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2024
- Family Time - September 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 13, 2024
- New York Times - April 25, 2024
- USA Today - April 03, 2024
- LA Times - December 03, 2023
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