Clues for the word "WRINKLE"
We've had 20 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 23 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on July 10, 2025.
Definition of wrinkle
- n. - A winkle.
- n. - A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth.
- n. - hence, any roughness; unevenness.
- n. - A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle.
- v. t. - To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow.
- v. t. - Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way.
- v. i. - To shrink into furrows and ridges.
Referring Clues
- Twits
- Ingenious trick
- Crease
- Iron target
- Innovation
- A sign of aging you take iron to get rid of
- A useful tip on something that needs ironing out
- Slight crease in surface
- Age line
- Slight fold - line on the face
- Gasteropod taking right line
- Line (in flesh)
- Ruse for getting the last bit of vinegar into the seafood
- Valuable hint - handy dodge
- Dodge the effect of old age
- Fold right inside mollusc
- Furrow, crease
- Sign of aging
- Crow's foot right inside shellfish
- Tip
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - July 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 08, 2025
- Daily American - October 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 05, 2024
- Daily American - October 09, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - October 27, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 10, 2017
- Netword - September 03, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 04, 2015
- Guardian Speedy - September 23, 2012
- Guardian Quick - November 18, 2010
- Guardian Quick - May 19, 2010
- Guardian Quick - January 14, 2009
- Netword - September 26, 2008
- Guardian Quick - July 04, 2007
- Guardian Quick - May 21, 2007
- Thinks Daily - May 09, 2007
- New York Sun - March 23, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - January 28, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - December 24, 2001
- Guardian Cryptic - March 09, 2001
- Guardian Quiptic - May 08, 2000