Clues for the word "YEW"
We've had 147 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 472 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on April 14, 2026.
Definition of yew
- v. i. - See Yaw.
- n. - An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
- n. - The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
- n. - A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
- a. - Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.
Referring Clues
- Fine-grained wood
- Bow wood
- Archery wood
- Churchyard tree in "Romeo and Juliet"
- Archery bow wood
- Needle-leafed tree
- Tree that's a symbol of sorrow
- Bow maker's material
- Wood in archery bows
- "Popular evergreen," you declared (3)
- Hedge plant
- Material for Voldemort's wand, in Harry Potter books
- Tree sacred to Druids
- Wood for bows
- Flexible wood
- Tree that can represent sorrow
- Flexible evergreen
- Bowmaking wood
- Longbow wood
- Wood used for bows
- Poisonous evergreen
- Evergreen ...
- Evergreen with red cones
- Wood for an archer
- Its boughs might make bows
- Elastic evergreen
- Evergreen tree
- Tree that's a symbol of death
- Traditional longbow wood
- Archer's wood
- "___ Seen All Good People" (Yes song)
- Red-berry bearer
- Robin Hood's wood
- Tree sacred to the Druids
- Tree yielding elastic wood
- Bow maker's wood
- Topiary tree
- Archery-bow wood
- Bowyer's material
- Archer-bow wood
- Type of evergreen
- Bowmaker's wood
- An evergreen
- "You" and "ewe" counterpart
- Bowman's wood
- Bow wood, sometimes
- Ornamental shrub
- Elastic wood
- Evergreen variety
- Hedge bush
- Wood for archer's bows
- Tree with cones
- Conifer with springy wood
- Wood used in Voldemort's wand
- Archer's bow wood
- Evergreen type
- Evergreen shrub
- Wood used for archery bows
- Fine-grain wood
- Ever-green type
- Evergreen
- Archery-bow material
- Hedge tree
- Bowyer's raw material
- Bow-making material
- Wood for archery bows
- Wordsworth's "solitary Tree"
- Material for Voldemort's wand
- Red-berried tree
- Tree that symbolizes immortality
- Longbow material
- Hedge shrub
- Poison source in Christie's "A Pocket Full of Rye"
- Certain conifer
- Bow tree
- Evergreen with elastic wood
- Tree with red berrylike fruit
- Conifer
- Wood in many archery bows
- Conifer with toxic seeds
- Tree whose name sounds like a letter of the alphabet
- Bow raw material
- Source of pliable wood
- Robin Hood's bow wood
- "Dismal" tree in Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus"
- It sounds like you
- A conifer
- Plant in an English hedge
- Tree used in bow-making
- Evergreen that's a homophone of a vowel
- Tree with medicinal uses
- Berried conifer
- Archery bow material
- Taxus shrub
- Ground hemlock
- Certain evergreen
- Tree type
- Sheep heard in tree?
- Coniferous tree
- A tree, you said?
- Churchyard tree
- Tree
- Solver's said to be 25 at heart
- Springy wood
- Tree seen in English churchyards
- Longbow timber
- Wood that's used in archery bows
- Tree in river, weak top to bottom
- Wood used in bow-making
- Coniferous tree with red berries
- You heard!
- Shade provider in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
- Tree that sounds like "you"
- Sheep heard in tree?
- Tree that starts with Y
- Kind of conifer
- Bowyer's wood
- Source of an archer's bow
- Choice for sturdy longbows
- Tree with elastic wood
- Tree whose name sounds like a vowel
- Timber going up river
- Red-berried conifer
- Evergreen plant
- Tree that sounds like a pronoun
- Type of tree
- Tree in the genus Taxus
- A tree, you said?
- Tree that sounds like a vowel
- Tree used to make archery bows
- Tree with flexible wood
- Bow-making wood
- Evergreen tree with poisonous seeds
- Toxic tree
- What bows were made of in the old west
- Material for Voldemort's wand and Robin Hood's bow
- Pliable wood
- Common name of Taxus baccata
- Wood used to make bows
- Tree mentioned in the witches' brew rhyme in "Macbeth"
- Material for Robin Hood's bow
- Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun
- Poison source in Agatha Christie's "A Pocket Full of Rye"
- Tree whose name comes phonetically between "tee" and "vee"
- Wood used in cabinetry
- Evergreen with poisonous berries
- Bow material
Last Seen In
- New York Times - April 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - March 06, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 01, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 02, 2026
- LA Times - February 02, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 31, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 26, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 18, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2025
- LA Times - November 09, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 02, 2025
- New York Times - October 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2025
- New York Times - August 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2025
- New York Times - July 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 23, 2025
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