Crossword-Solution: CRESS 5 letters, 102 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Cress n. A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves
have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and
antiscorbutic.

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CRESS anagram SSERC

We have 102 clues for the answer “CRESS”

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Cabbage family plant 1 answer
Crucifer-family plant 1 answer
Cruciferous salad plant 1 answer
Easy-to-grow herb in the mustard family 1 answer
Edible water plant. 1 answer
Fancy salad addition 1 answer
Garden ___ (salad vegetable) 1 answer
Garnish green 1 answer
Garnish leaf 1 answer
Garnish plant 1 answer
Garnish vegetable 1 answer
Leaves for a buffet? 1 answer
Leaves for garnish 1 answer
Leaves in a salad 1 answer
Leaves with a peppery taste 1 answer
Moderately pungent plant 1 answer
Peppergrass, by another name 1 answer
Pepperwort 1 answer
Peppery addition to mango salad 1 answer
Peppery green 1 answer
Peppery green garnish 1 answer
Plant garnish. 1 answer
Plant in the mustard family 1 answer
Plant sometimes called pepper grass 1 answer
Plant with pungent leaves used in salads 1 answer
Punchy salad ingredient 1 answer
Pungent green 1 answer
Relative of mustard greens 1 answer
Salad fodder 1 answer
Salad green related to mustard 1 answer
Salad greenery 1 answer
Sandwich green 1 answer
Tangy herb 1 answer
Tangy salad green 1 answer
Tangy salad herb 1 answer
Tangy salad leaves 1 answer
Upper-class lettuce 1 answer
Water or garden follower 1 answer
Williams who played Scooter on "Living Single" 1 answer
Word with Water or Garden 1 answer
plant mustard family 1 answer
water cress 1 answer
Salad or sandwich ingredient 1 answer
Pungent garnish 2 answers
Peppery salad green 2 answers
Peppery salad ingredient 2 answers
Pungent salad green 2 answers
Pungent salad leaf 2 answers
Meat garnish 2 answers
A garnish 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CRESS (5)

Three lumps! How can you drink it so sweet? Take some of the cress with your chop; it’s so biting and crisp.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
This romantic little creature took such hold of my imagination that I cannot eat water-cress even now without emotion.
Margaret Ogilvy J. M. Barrie 2010
Here are cress, blue violets, potentilla, and, in the damp of the willow fence-rows, white false asphodels.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin 2008
Let thyme the mountaineer (to dress The tinier birds) and wading cress, The lover of the shallow brook, From all my plots and borders look.
Underwoods Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
Was he falling in unholy love with the girl, under his stupid little wife's very nose? She could not, however, give her undivided attention to him, as she wished to keep her eye on her grandson and--outrageously enough it happened that just as tea was brought out and Tommy was beginning to cheer up and quite come out a little under the spur of the activities of handing bread and butter and cress sandwiches, who should appear but the two Lithcom girls, escorted by their aunt, Mrs.
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006

Quotes with CRESS (3)

Captain! To your left there’s a Lunar guard and on your right is a doctor who’s running tests on Lunars and I’m being held by one of Levana’s wolf hybrids and please be careful!” Thorne took a step back into the hallway a gun from his waistband. He spent a moment swiveling the barrel of the gun in each direction, but nobody moved to attack him. With some surprise, Cress realized that the operative’s grip had weakened.“Er…” Thorne furrowed his brow, aiming the gun somewhere ne…
Marissa Meyer Cress
He leaned forward to inspect her closer. "Is that all hair?"... Sudden, overwhelming panic clawed up Cress's throat. With a squeak, she ducked out of view of the camera and scrambled beneath the desk. Her back struck the wall with a thud that rattled her teeth. She crouched there, skin burning hot and pulse thundering as she took in the room before her — the room that he was now seeing too, with the rumpled bedcovers and the mustached man on all the screens telling her to gra…
Marissa Meyer Cress
My point is that I am going to figure this out, like I always do. First, we’re going to find a way to get into Artemisia. We’re going to find Cress and rescue Cinder and Wolf. We’re going to overthrow Levana, and by the stars above, we are going to make Cinder a queen so she can pay us a lot of money from her royal coffers and we can all retire very rich and very alive, got it?" Winter started to clap. "Brilliant speech. Such gumption and bravado.""And yet strangely lacking i…
Marissa Meyer Winter
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 224 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).