Crossword-Solution: ZEST 4 letters, 239 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Zest n. A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which
may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.
Zest n. Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or
the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
Zest n. The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.
Zest v. t. To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon,
etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.
Zest v. t. To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or
relish of; as, to zest wine.

We have 239 clues for the answer “ZEST”

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"You're not fully clean..." soap 1 answer
A taste for life 1 answer
Bar peel 1 answer
Bartender's citrus twist 1 answer
Bit of rind 1 answer
Bite, so to speak 1 answer
Citric enhancement 1 answer
Citrus peel shavings 1 answer
Citrus peel used as flavoring 1 answer
Citrus peel used for flavor 1 answer
Citrus peel used in cooking 1 answer
Citrus scraping 1 answer
Citrus shaving 1 answer
Citrusy addition to some risotto 1 answer
Citrusy flavoring 1 answer
Cocktail adornment 1 answer
Colorful garnish 1 answer
Cosmopolitan garnish 1 answer
Drink decoration 1 answer
Drink flavorer 1 answer
Eager enjoyment. 1 answer
Ennui antonym 1 answer
Ennui opposite 1 answer
Flavorful bit of peel 1 answer
Flavorful citrus peel 1 answer
Flavorful lemon part 1 answer
Flavorful peel strip 1 answer
Fragrant peel 1 answer
Fruity shavings 1 answer
Garnish made from citrus 1 answer
Grated citrus part 1 answer
Grated citrus rind 1 answer
Grated lemon peel 1 answer
Grated lemon rind 1 answer
Grated rind 1 answer
Hot-sauce quality 1 answer
Ingredient from a peel 1 answer
Ingredient from a rind 1 answer
Ingredient in cranberry sauce 1 answer
Irish Spring shelfmate 1 answer
It may be cut into spirals for garnish 1 answer
Kick or punch 1 answer
Lemon bar ingredient 1 answer
Lemon meringue pie ingredient 1 answer
Lemon peel e.g. 1 answer
Lemon peel part 1 answer
Lemon peel shavings 1 answer
Lemon rind part 1 answer
Lemon scraping 1 answer
Lemon shaving 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ZEST (5)

Kronborg did not have any particular zest for prayer-meetings, and she stayed at home whenever she had a valid excuse.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
There was always Pisah, the fish, to be caught in the many streams and the little lakes, and Sabor, with her ferocious cousins to keep one ever on the alert and give zest to every instant that one spent upon the ground.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Novelty in society and adventure were the zest of life to Richard Cœur-de-Lion, and it had its highest relish when enhanced by dangers encountered and surmounted.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
The nipping air began to infiltrate his dressing gown, and Roger returned to the kitchen, his small, lively face alight with zest.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
But though he could manage a fight, when need was, Newman heartily disliked the business; his four years in the army had left him with an angry, bitter sense of the waste of precious things—life and time and money and “smartness” and the early freshness of purpose; and he had addressed himself to the pursuits of peace with passionate zest and energy.
The American Henry James 1994

Quotes with ZEST (3)

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night — in the moments before I pass off into sleep — ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during t…
Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.
John Steinbeck Cannery Row
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 441 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).