Clues for the word "WORM"
We've had 122 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 148 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 21, 2026.
Definition of worm
- n. - A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
- n. - Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
- n. - Any helminth; an entozoon.
- n. - Any annelid.
- n. - An insect larva.
- n. - Same as Vermes.
- n. - An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
- n. - A being debased and despised.
- n. - Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
- n. - The thread of a screw.
- n. - A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- n. - A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
- n. - The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
- n. - A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
- v. i. - To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
- v. t. - To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
- v. t. - To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
- n. - To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- n. - To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
Referring Clues
- Contemptible one
- Contemptible person
- Crawl
- It may be hooked
- Apple spoiler
- Tequila bottle additive
- Inside of a jumping bean
- It may be on a hook
- Wriggle
- Bird's find
- Wriggler
- Fish bait
- Internet scourge
- Computer woe
- Low life?
- Spineless one
- Poe's "The Conqueror ___"
- Night crawler
- Bit of bait from the backyard
- Wriggly bait
- "Inhabitant" of some tequila bottles
- Live bait
- Computer malady (and what can follow the starts of the four longest puzzle answers)
- Destructive computer program
- Thing studied by a helminthologist
- Draw (out) craftily
- Computer concern
- Early bird victim
- Computer malady
- Little wriggler
- Fishing bait, perhaps
- Despicable one
- Robin's quest
- Early bird's breakfast
- It's not wanted in the big apple?
- Word with inch or tape
- Caterpillar
- Dirt denizen
- Early bird's victim
- Poe's "conqueror"
- Apple invader
- Word after silk or earth
- Dose the dog
- Dose the dog
- Robin's snack
- Apple dweller?
- Apple intruder
- Early-bird special?
- Dennis Rodman's nickname
- Dennis Rodman nickname
- Minnow alternative
- Tape or glow follower
- Computer problem
- Mole's snack
- Early bird's prize
- Legless animal
- Early bird's treat
- Type of malware
- One might get hooked
- Grub
- Wriggling bait
- Leech, e.g.
- Fishhook attachment
- Bait, often
- Fish's last bite
- Fishing bait, often
- Virus kin
- *Sci-fi shortcut
- Glow or bud follower
- Reprobate
- Wee wriggler
- Earth or book ending
- Object found at the bottom of many a tequila bottle
- Loathsome one
- Early bird's reward
- Wriggly temptation for a fish
- Soil-aerating creature
- Bit of bait
- Bait
- Fisherman's bait
- It may be used as bait
- TEQUILA BOTTLE ITEM
- Thing that's bait, often
- Bird's breakfast
- Fish bait, often
- Vermiform wriggler
- Legless creature - grovelling type
- Pink, slimy subterranean wriggler
- Computer virus's kin
- Long slender invertebrate
- Wriggly creature
- Slimy invertebrate with a long thin body
- Groveling coward
- "Thou owest the ___ no silk": King Lear
- Extract information from woman or man, primarily
- Wriggler on a fishhook
- Reward in a maxim
- Word with ring or book
- Thing on a hook
- Fishhook squirmer
- Creature found in soil
- Sort of gear to wriggle into?
- Hook wiggler
- Bait bucket critter
- Snack for a robin
- Proceed deviously
- Early bird's catch
- A humble, down-to-earth turner
- Real creep
- Bass bait
- Early bird's target
- Creature said to do a bit of squirming
- Angler's bait
- Sinuous dance that emulates a creature
- Wriggly invertebrate
- What the early bird gets, in a saying
- Food for a robin
- Computer menace
- Compost bin helper
- Fish dinner?
- Bait, sometimes
- Introductory dissection subject
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 21, 2025
- New York Times - December 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 24, 2025
- LA Times - December 12, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - October 13, 2024
- LA Times - October 04, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 06, 2024
- New York Times - August 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 07, 2024
- USA Today - March 30, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 08, 2024
- USA Today - February 08, 2024
- USA Today - September 27, 2023
- LA Times - September 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 02, 2023
- New York Times - January 02, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 25, 2017
- Universal - September 29, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 28, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - August 25, 2017
- Family Time - July 16, 2017
- USA Today - July 10, 2017
- New York Times - June 13, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - April 20, 2017
- Netword - April 19, 2017
- And in 118 more crossword puzzles...