Clues for the word "YAM"
We've had 181 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 688 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on October 14, 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
- It has a thick skin
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - October 14, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - October 05, 2026
- LA Times - September 23, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - September 22, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - September 16, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - September 06, 2026
- New York Times - September 06, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - August 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - August 20, 2026
- New York Times - August 17, 2026
- Mirror Mini - August 14, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - August 08, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 27, 2026
- LA Times - July 21, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - July 11, 2026
- Your Life Choices - June 27, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - June 25, 2026
- Your Life Choices - June 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 27, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - May 25, 2026
- LA Times - May 16, 2026
- LA Times - May 14, 2026
- Your Life Choices - May 13, 2026
- New York Times - May 05, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 18, 2026
- LA Times - April 05, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 23, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 25, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 17, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 15, 2026
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