Clues for the word "YAM"
We've had 180 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 660 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on February 17, 2026.
Definition of yam
- n. - A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.
Referring Clues
- Sweet potato
- Thanksgiving dish
- Starchy tuber
- Thanksgiving serving
- Edible 6-Down
- Verb for Popeye
- Tasty tuber
- November dish
- Candied vegetable
- Starchy food
- Orange dish
- Thanksgiving side dish
- Thanksgiving vegetable
- Often-candied vegetable
- Part of the verb "to be," to Popeye
- Candied holiday serving
- Candied side dish
- Sweet potato cousin
- Thanksgiving veggie
- Orange tuber
- Candied veggie
- Thanksgiving staple
- Orange vegetable
- Turkey Day tuber
- Sweet side dish
- November serving
- Thanksgiving side item
- Food rich in beta carotene
- Starchy side dish
- Thanksgiving tuber
- Good beta carotene source
- Edible tuber
- Tuber that can be candied
- Tropical root
- Orange food
- Sweet potato, familiarly
- Turkey dinner serving
- Food in Popeye's motto?
- Popular November tuber
- Candied tuber
- Sweet potato substitute
- Classic Thanksgiving veggie
- Beta carotene source
- Tropical tuber
- It may be candied
- Thanksgiving stable
- November tuber
- Turkey side
- Popeye verb
- Tuberous root
- Sweet and starchy veggie
- Starchy staple of Africa
- Exist, to Popeye?
- Root vegetable
- Holiday veggie
- Hindu god of death
- Sweet potato kin
- Sweet tuber
- Starchy veggie
- Oft-candied tuber
- Holiday tuber
- Root veggie
- Candied treat
- Nigerian food staple
- Verb from Popeye
- Sweet potato's kin
- Veggie rich in Vitamin B6
- South African staple
- Sweet spud
- Sub-Saharan staple
- Potato alternative
- Versatile veggie
- Southern pie filling
- Sweet orange vegetable
- Good source of beta carotene
- Verb for Popeye?
- Candied vegetable at Thanksgiving
- Starchy vegetable
- Common ingredient in Nigerian cuisine
- Thanksgiving side dish found in the longest Across answers
- Orange root
- Spud's cousin
- West African vegetable
- Often-candied tuber
- Orange veggie
- Orange spud
- Candied Thanksgiving food
- Sweet potato look-alike
- Cassava lookalike
- Nigerian culinary staple
- Candied goody
- Holiday sweet
- It might be candied
- Side dish that's sometimes mashed
- Thanksgiving starch
- Starchy staple
- Edible root
- Orange side
- Stuff in some stuffing
- Nonstandard verb from Popeye
- Sweet root
- Starchy root
- Colorful tuber
- Vegetable for Thanksgiving dinner
- Candied ___ (Thanksgiving food)
- Thanksgiving Day vegetable
- Thanksgiving dinner veggie
- Candied potato
- Orange sadpud
- Sweet potato lookalike
- Orangey tuber
- Vegetable
- Tuber
- Nigerian staple
- African tuber
- Certain tuber
- Thanksgiving sweet
- West African staple
- Jamaican barbecue staple
- Tropical root vegetable
- Vegetable from month back
- Sweet vegetable at Thanksgiving
- Tuber often candied
- Root for November
- Candied side item
- Vegetable similar to a sweet potato
- Vegetable that may be candied
- Plant that comes up in May
- Vegetable for Popeye?
- Candied Thanksgiving dish
- Yellow ___ (alternative SIDE DISH)
- It grows wild in May
- Thanksgiving root
- Orange side dish
- Thanksgiving side
- Veggie popular in November
- Orange root vegetable
- Dinner table tuber
- Candied item
- Yellow Thanksgiving veggie
- Staple of Nigerian cuisine
- Orange Thanksgiving food
- Root that may be cubed
- Vegetable found in the Swahili word for "meat"
- Food whose name is a month backward
- Crop item grown in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
- Oft-candied veggie
- Tuber that might be candied
- Food that's a month spelled backward
- Orange edible
- Sweet potato relative
- Etor ingredient
- Tuber that's often candied
- Food item that may be candied
- Major vegetable export of Nigeria (nearly 70% of the world's total)
- Chinese ___, food also called nagaimo
- Thanksgiving dinner offering
- Vegetable related to lilies
- Sometimes-purple tuber
- Agricultural item that Nigeria produces more of than the rest of the world combined
- Ghanaian export
- Starchy staple food
- Tuber in the Nigerian dish asaro
- Tuber in ube halaya
- Tuber in asaro
- Purple ___, Hawaiian crop
- Vegetable mostly produced in Nigeria
- Root veggie in asaro
- Crop revered by the Abelam people of Papua New Guinea
- Source of Thanksgiving carbs
- Orange root veggie
- Vegetable whose name means "to eat" in some West African languages
- Sweet potato, by another name
- Sub-Saharan crop
- Starchy West African staple
- Thanksgiving dinner vegetable
- Purple ___
- Tuber in West African cuisine
- Primary ingredient in the Nigerian dish à mà lÃ
- West African crop
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - February 17, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 15, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 05, 2025
- New York Times - November 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 31, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 28, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 05, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 09, 2025
- LA Times - September 08, 2025
- LA Times - September 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 23, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 13, 2025
- LA Times - August 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 05, 2025
- LA Times - July 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 16, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 07, 2025
- New York Times - May 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 22, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2025
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