Clues for the word "WILLOW"
We've had 37 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 46 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on March 07, 2026.
Definition of willow
- n. - Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.
- n. - A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.
- v. t. - To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.
Referring Clues
- Weeping tree
- Ron Howard fantasy flick of 1988
- 9th wedding anniversary gift
- Wolf ______
- Red ____ , Alberta
- 9th anniversary gift or BC River
- Cricket-bat wood
- Droopy tree
- "Weeping" tree
- Wickerwork sticks
- Poplar's kin
- Buffy summers's pal
- Graceful tree
- Kilmer film
- Weeping ___ (tree)
- See 22
- Wood for bats?
- Tree
- A batty sort of tree?
- Golly! I'll hide in the wood!
- See 3
- Sally is almost lissom
- Wickerwork wood
- Winter PT? Allow for change in design
- Weeping one? Gosh, sick inside!
- Wood of cricket bats
- See special instructions
- Could be weeping at prospect of debt being endless
- Wave tree
- Tree providing wood for cricket bats
- A growing source of wooden blades
- Oriental pattern of cricket bat?
- Tree full of bats, potentially?
- Osier
- Tree that's a source of salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin
- A batty sort of tree?
- Alyson Hannigan's role in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - March 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 21, 2025
- USA Today - February 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 11, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 16, 2022
- Daily Quick - June 27, 2022
- New York Times - May 18, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - January 23, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - December 07, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 28, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - July 15, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 10, 2017
- Guardian Quick - March 10, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 26, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 14, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 15, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 08, 2014
- Guardian Quick - February 19, 2013
- USA Today - November 26, 2012
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 07, 2012
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 24, 2011
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 14, 2011
- Canadiana - April 11, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - January 11, 2011
- Guardian Prize - November 13, 2010
- Guardian Prize - June 19, 2010
- Canadiana - January 25, 2010
- And in 16 more crossword puzzles...