Clues for the word "ZITHER"
We've had 26 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 23 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on March 14, 2024.
Definition of zither
- n. - An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
Referring Clues
- Boxed stringed instrument
- Instrument with 30+ strings
- Stringed instrument heard in "The Third Man"
- Dulcimer's kin
- Stringed instrument
- Anton Karas's instrument
- Strummed instrument
- Dulcimer, e.g.
- Instrument sometimes played in one's lap
- Dulcimer kin
- Stringed instrument laid flat to play
- Instrument played on the knees
- Instrument played on the knee
- Man in Ritz cheekily played on knee?
- Stringed instrument placed on the knee
- Instrument used to score The Third Man
- Lady on the spot
- Spot the lady
- Flat stringed instrument
- Instrument heard in The Third Man
- Instrument played with a plectrum
- Musical instrument
- End-of-dictionary instrument
- Stringed instrument made famous by soundtrack to The Third Man (1949)
- Instrument laid flat during play
- Instrument near the end of the dictionary
Last Seen In
- LA Times - March 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 12, 2017
- LA Times - December 02, 2016
- Canadiana - November 02, 2015
- Guardian Quick - October 09, 2015
- LA Times - July 12, 2015
- LA Times Sunday - February 16, 2014
- Onion A.V. Club - June 06, 2012
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 27, 2012
- Washington Post - June 14, 2011
- Chronicle of Higher Education - April 08, 2011
- Guardian Quick - October 22, 2010
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 07, 2010
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 13, 2009
- New York Times - January 26, 2009
- Washington Post - August 06, 2008
- New York Times - February 11, 2008
- Guardian Quick - February 07, 2006
- Guardian Prize - January 07, 2006
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 09, 2005
- Guardian Quick - July 13, 2005
- Guardian Prize - May 26, 2001
- Guardian Cryptic - August 13, 1999