Crossword-Solution: GRUEL 5 letters, 86 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Gruel n. A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize,
oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.

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GRUEL anagram GLUER, LUGER, REGUL, URGEL

We have 86 clues for the answer “GRUEL”

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Old-timey orphanage offering 1 answer
CROWDY 1 answer
Congee, e.g. 1 answer
Cornmeal or oatmeal 1 answer
Dickensian dish 1 answer
Dickensian workhouse fare 1 answer
Dish for Oliver Twist 1 answer
Dish for Twist 1 answer
Dish that Oliver Twist asked for more of 1 answer
Fare for Oliver Twist 1 answer
Food for Oliver Twist 1 answer
Food for the convalescent. 1 answer
Meager fare for Oliver Twist 1 answer
Meal for Oliver Twist 1 answer
Menu item for convalescents. 1 answer
Object of Oliver Twist's request for "more" 1 answer
CAUDLE 1 answer
Oliver Twist asked for more of it 1 answer
Oliver Twist meal 1 answer
Oliver Twist's porridge 1 answer
Oliver requested more of it 1 answer
Oliver's humble meal 1 answer
Oliver's porridge 1 answer
Orphanage fare, once 1 answer
Paltry porridge 1 answer
Peasant's meal 1 answer
Peasant's porridge 1 answer
Pitiful porridge 1 answer
Supper for Oliver. 1 answer
Soupy "Oliver Twist" fare 1 answer
Soupy fare 1 answer
Stereotypical orphanage food 1 answer
Thin cooked cereal 1 answer
Workhouse porridge 1 answer
What Oliver asked for more of 1 answer
What Oliver Twist requsted more of 1 answer
Watery porridge 1 answer
Watery food 1 answer
Undesirable soft food 1 answer
Unappetizing meal 1 answer
Unappetizing food in "Oliver Twist" 1 answer
Unappealing grub 1 answer
Twist fare 1 answer
Twist dish 1 answer
Thin oatmeal 1 answer
Thin hot cereal 1 answer
Thin fare 1 answer
Thin cereal 1 answer
"Oliver Twist" fare 1 answer
"Oliver Twist" food 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GRUEL (5)

Nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say: “Mrs.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
When the kettle with black gruel was taken from the stove and served to the working men, Vassily used to eat enough for three, and filled the old watchman on the estate with unceasing wonder.
The Forged Coupon and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1995
When they find an inch of mud in the bottom of a glass, they stir it up, and then take the draught as they would gruel.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
But, unfortunately, the pudding was served with a sauce that he abhorred--a thick, gruel-like, colourless mixture, made from plain water and sugar.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

Quotes with GRUEL (3)

Life in Oseyri was lived in fish and consisted of fish, and human beings were a sort of abortion which Our Lord had made out of cooked fish and perhaps a handful of rotten potatoes and a drop of oatmeal gruel.
Halldor Laxness Salka Valka
No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
To hear Camrose tell of it, as he often does and in excruciating detail, his early years were tantamount to a parallel Dickensian universe inasmuch as every meal was boiled down to gruel. (Please sir, I don’t want any more.) Whatever vegetables the commune were able to come by through barter, theft or scavenging — though oddly not from a community garden which no one had ever thought to plant — were tossed into a pot with a few heaping scoops of lentils and a handful of curry…
Kingfisher Pink The Whole Beast
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 95 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).