Crossword-Solution: LEEK 4 letters, 311 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Leek n. A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly
linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb.
The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.

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LEEK anagram ELKE, KEEL, KELE, KLEE

We have 311 clues for the answer “LEEK”

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Vegetable often used in vichyssoise 1 answer
Big scallion 1 answer
Bulb in soups 1 answer
Bulb related to onions 1 answer
Bulbed veggie 1 answer
Bulbed veggie that pairs well with potatoes in soup 1 answer
Chive's relative 1 answer
Close relative of elephant garlic 1 answer
Color similar to pea green 1 answer
Cousin of an onion 1 answer
Cousin of the onion. 1 answer
Edible emblem of Wales 1 answer
Emblem of Wales 1 answer
Flavorsome vegetable. 1 answer
Bulbous plant related to onions 1 answer
Floral emblem of Wales. 1 answer
Food that's a national emblem of Wales 1 answer
Garlic kin 1 answer
Garlic relative 1 answer
Garlic's cousin 1 answer
Garnish for vichyssoise. 1 answer
Green symbol of Wales 1 answer
Herb honored in Wales 1 answer
Hot or cold soup ingredient 1 answer
Ingredient of pot au feu. 1 answer
Ingredient of vichyssoise. 1 answer
It's in garlic's genus 1 answer
Soup ingredient that's also a vegetable 1 answer
Large, edible bulb 1 answer
Lily-family herb 1 answer
Long onion kin 1 answer
National emblem of Wales 1 answer
National symbol of Wales 1 answer
Vegetable with long, flat green leaves 1 answer
One of Wales's national emblems 1 answer
Onion relative used in soups 1 answer
Onionlike plant used in cookery 1 answer
Onionlike soup ingredient 1 answer
Onionlike soup vegetable 1 answer
Onionlike soup veggie 1 answer
Onionlike vegetable/onion relative 1 answer
Onionlike veggie 1 answer
Oniony soup ingredient 1 answer
Plant in the allium family 1 answer
Plant that resembles an onion 1 answer
Plant with edible leaf sheaths 1 answer
Potato __ soup 1 answer
Potato accompanier in soup 1 answer
Potato and __ soup 1 answer
Potato soup addition, sometimes 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with LEEK (5)

Else, having shorn, they smear their bodies o'er With acrid oil-lees, and mix silver-scum And native sulphur and Idaean pitch, Wax mollified with ointment, and therewith Sea-leek, strong hellebores, bitumen black.
The Georgics Virgil 2008
Bright gold itself they would despise, Or healing leek-herb underprize, If not still brought before their eyes." Fin Arnason took the business so much to heart that he left the country and went to Denmark to King Svein, where he met a friendly reception.
Heimskringla Snorri Sturlason 1996
Paullini and the Ephemerides mention perspiration which was of a leek-green color, and Borellus has observed deep green perspiration.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
Donald tasted hunters’ rock leek, and learned that any he found while on a hunting expedition would furnish a splendid substitute for water.
Her Father’s Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1997
Put into a stewpan two glasses of Chablis, two tablespoonsful of mushroom trimmings, a leek cut up, a bunch of herbs, five peppercorns, and boil till it is reduced to half.
The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: Mrs. W. G. Waters 1997

Quotes with LEEK (2)

Alles wat ik van het leven weet maakte ik me buiten de muren van de school eigen, en zodra ik me binnen die muren bevond leek het of ik achterwaarts leefde.
Gerrit Komrij
I love the whole process of making, serving, and eating hearty soups like lentil, potato leek and carrot, to name a few.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 384 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).