Clues for the word "WEDGE"
We've had 147 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 255 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on February 18, 2026.
Definition of wedge
- n. - A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
- n. - A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- n. - A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
- n. - Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
- n. - The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
- v. t. - To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
- v. t. - To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
- v. t. - To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
- v. t. - To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
- v. t. - To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
- v. t. - To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Referring Clues
- Choice for a sand trap shot
- Military formation
- Kind of heel
- Cuneiform stroke
- Pie slice
- It can give a golfer a lift
- Golfing iron
- Doorstop, e.g.
- Woodcutter's tool
- Cheese hunk
- Bit of cuneiform
- It may get you out of a trap
- Cheese chunk
- Sand club
- Club for a bunker shot
- Cheese portion, perhaps
- Golfer's club
- Slice of pie
- Chunk of cheese
- Piece of pie, e.g.
- Dividing force
- Golfer's choice
- Cake serving
- Short club
- Piece of pie
- Pie serving
- Log-splitting aid
- It can split wood
- Doorstop shape
- Pie piece
- Type of club
- Club for most greenside shots
- Hunk of cheese
- Chunk of cheddar, e.g.
- Doorstop, essentially
- Old golf club
- GolferÂ’s club
- One of six simple machines
- Caddie's offering
- Golfer's lofted iron
- Divisive element
- Club for 16-Across
- Devisive element
- Pitching or sand
- Golf club type
- 'Trivial Pursuit' piece
- Cheese buy
- Lofting golf club
- Type of golf club
- Sandtrap club
- Sand-trap club
- Pie section
- Golfer's selection
- One held in a trap
- Shoe style
- One of the simple machines
- Tapered block
- Wood-splitter's tool
- Lemon piece
- Club used in sand traps
- Piece of the pie
- Piece of cake
- Golf club
- Golf club selection
- Sand ___
- Wood splitting tool
- Cheese shape
- Blocky heel
- Pie portion
- Sand trap selection
- Club in a sand trap
- "Pitching" or "sand" golf club
- Piece cut from a cheese wheel
- It provides more loft than a 9-iron
- Certain golf club
- Piece of pie or cheese
- Hero sandwich
- Chunk
- Pie shape
- Pie-piece shape
- Club for many golf shots
- Club for a short golf shot
- Tapering block
- Jam
- Iron with upper hand
- Get stuck into a hefty slice
- Jam, or maybe a piece of cake
- Is its western extremity the thin end?
- "Jam" the golfer may have use for
- Tapering object pushed into a gap - golf club
- Bound to join women's club
- Join Gutless Gussie in club
- Doorstop
- Chock
- Device eg to keep door open
- Club for the sand trap
- Day at Georgia golf club
- Western journalist gets half way to the club
- Slice with golf club?
- Lofted club might get Woosnam's first on fringe
- The golf club to produce a slice?
- Sticker, say, in reverse
- Thin end of the ___
- Jam, or a piece of cheese, perhaps
- Piece-of-cake shape
- Jam in a piece of cake
- Is its thin end the western side?
- V-shaped block
- Tungsten and lead club
- Door jam
- Pie part
- Weir's niblick
- Splitter
- Golfer's "pitching" iron
- Cheese portion
- Pack tightly
- A club we had at some stage
- Shape of a pie slice
- Simple doorstop
- It tapers, having a pointed edge
- Common doorstop shape
- Golf club designed to achieve loft
- Jam and a piece of cheese?
- Triangular segment
- Squeeze
- West Side club?
- A piece of cake at the club?
- One of the six simple machines
- Golfer's "pitching" club
- Lettuce serving
- Jam and cake, perhaps
- Pie slice shape
- Stiletto alternative
- Lemon slice
- Shim
- Is its western extremity the thin end?
- Cram
- Is its thin end at the western extremity?
- Doorstop's shape
- ___ issue
- Hoagie
- An iron club
- Thick-cut potato slice
- Section of brie
- Jam, or a piece of cake
- Splitting device
- Shoe with a thick sole
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 18, 2026
- New York Times - February 15, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 13, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 22, 2026
- LA Times - January 16, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 16, 2026
- LA Times - January 07, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 30, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 06, 2025
- LA Times - March 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 20, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 05, 2025
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