Crossword-Solution: ONION 5 letters, 623 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
Onion n. A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A. cepa), having a
strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root,
much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other
species of the genus.

We have 623 clues for the answer “ONION”

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"17. I'm psyched I get to write puzzles for 'The ___'" 1 answer
"America's Finest News Source," with "The" 1 answer
"Bloomin' " Outback Steakhouse order 1 answer
"Blooming" veggie 1 answer
"Field" of a Wambaugh novel 1 answer
"French" soup ingredient 1 answer
"Not the ___" (tag for outlandish-but-true news) 1 answer
"Skunk egg" 1 answer
"The ___ Field": Wambaugh 1 answer
"The ___ Field," Wambaugh novel 1 answer
"Vidalia" veggie 1 answer
"Will Shortz Frustrated That Police Yet to Crack Taunting Puzzles Revealing Locations of 40 Years of Murder Victims" outlet, with "The" 1 answer
"Yellow" or "sweet" veggie 1 answer
*Real tear-jerker? 1 answer
Layered bulb used in cooking 1 answer
Pungent addition to a salad 1 answer
Essential ingredient in French onion soup 1 answer
A 8-year-old boy 1 answer
A Philly cheesesteak comes "wit" or "witout" it 1 answer
Alliaceous herb 1 answer
Allium cepa. 1 answer
Allium plant 1 answer
Aromatic bulb 1 answer
Awesome Blossom vegetable 1 answer
Bad breath cause 1 answer
Bad breath cause, maybe 1 answer
Basic soup stock ingredient 1 answer
Beatles "Glass ___" 1 answer
Bermuda export 1 answer
Bermuda notable 1 answer
Bermuda or Spanish 1 answer
Bermuda or Vidalia 1 answer
Bermuda or Vidalia, e.g. 1 answer
Bermuda or pearl 1 answer
Bermuda or red 1 answer
Bermuda plant. 1 answer
Bermuda vegetable 1 answer
Bermuda veggie 1 answer
Bhaji veggie 1 answer
Bialy flavorer 1 answer
Big Mac topping 1 answer
Big name in fake news, with "The" 1 answer
Big name in online satire, with "The" 1 answer
Bloomin' ___ (vegetable appetizer) 1 answer
Breath killer 1 answer
Bretonne sauce ingredient 1 answer
Buffett "Heaven on earth with an ___ slice" 1 answer
Bulb for cooking 1 answer
Bulb in a diner 1 answer
Bulb in a garden 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ONION (5)

And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own; and basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies, while he (not proud, although his collars nearly choked him) blew the fire, until the slow potatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out and peeled.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last! Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows! But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Old Uncle Silas he peeled off one of his bulliest old-time blessings, with as many layers to it as an onion, and whilst the angels was hauling in the slack of it I was trying to study up what to say about what kept us so long.
Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
And that some unfortunate one in the hot place is a-hollering across to a lucky one up in the clouds, and quite forgetting their bodies be boxed close together all the time.” “Ay, ’tis a thought to look at, too, that I can say ‘Hullo!’ close to fiery Lord George, and ’a can’t hear me.” “And that I be eating my onion close to dainty Lady Jane’s nose, and she can’t smell me.” “What do ’em put all their heads one way for?” inquired a young man.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Perkins happening to move his knee at the moment I was dipping an onion into the blacking-box lid, our supply was knocked upon the floor.
Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home Bayard Taylor 2008

Quotes with ONION (3)

The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.
C. JoyBell C.
Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
Bill Watterson The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead.
Michael Reisman Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 907 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).