LILAC - Crossword Clues

Search through millions of crossword puzzle answers to find crossword clues with the answer LILAC. Type the crossword puzzle answer, not the clue, below. Optionally, type any part of the clue in the "Contains" box. Click on clues to find other crossword answers with the same clue or find answers for the A plant in the olive family whose genus name Syringa, meaning "tube" (5) crossword clue.

Enter a Crossword Puzzle Answer

...where the Clue Contains [optional]
  • Definition
POSSIBLE CLUES FOR "LILAC"
#  CLUE
1. A plant in the olive family whose genus name Syringa, meaning "tube" (5)
2. Call one about growth (5)
3. I call out in a colourful way (5)
4. Scented shrub in shade (5)
5. With fragrant buddleia-like panicles, a plant in the olive family whose genus name Syringa, meaning "tube", alludes to its stems being used as Pan-pipes or syrinx (5)
6. Fragrant purple or white flower. (5)
7. Rupert Brooke was impressed by what flower "in bloom, All before my little room..." (5)
8. Easter color
9. Jeff Buckley song, - Wine (5)
10. A shrub of the olive family; a descriptor for a shade of purple (5)
11. Shade of purple named for a flower
12. Ring back about unit of colour (5)
13. Pale shade of purple
14. Ring back about one shrub(5)
15. Ring back about island flower
16. Shrub with pale purple flowers (5)
17. Shade and air conditioning, plainly in regular use at the front
18. Ring back about one aromatic shrub (5)
19. Pale purple color, and flower
20. Ring back with one shade of purple (5)
21. A color and fragrant flower
22. A pastel purple
23. Ring back about single tree (5)
24. Floral shrub
25. Broccoli, lacking its purple shade? (5)
26. Shrub with purple flowers
27. Pinkish violet
28. Return visit to wrap one's flower (5)
29. One in hail climbing tree (5)
30. I call round to get the shrub (5)
31. I call out for a scented mauve or white flowering shrub (5)
32. 51 + 50 on account for flower (5)
33. Left one dark-red resin a mauve colour (5)
34. Violet shade named for a flower (5)
35. Fragrant spring bloom
36. Fragrant bloomer that's often purple
37. Could be Cilla, but not Black (5)
38. A pale mauve colour (5)
39. Parrot to stretch out need for flower (5)
40. Colour I observed in ring, twirling it around (5)
41. Garden shrub or tree
42. Fragrant bush bloomer
43. The ----- Time, Duffy & Duffy & co (5)
44. Colour similar to mauve
45. Plant essence of oils in resin
46. Milli Vanilli lacking some colour? (5)
47. Purplish hue (5)
48. Pale pinkish purple (5)
49. Purple-flowered plant of the olive family (Oleaceae) native to south-eastern Europe; Syringa vulgaris (5)
50. Shrub of the syringa genus (5)
51. Recollected Yell Island in bloom (5)
52. Strange call about one shrub (5)
53. Pale violet color
54. Flower that shares its name with a color
55. Aromatic flower
56. I call unexpectedly with shrub (5)
57. Colour I call unsettling (5)
58. Purple scented flower (5)
59. Phone back about one re shrub (5)
60. Relative of mauve
61. Light pink-ish-violet (5)
62. Purple or white flower (5)
63. Pinkish-violet (5)
64. Small bill, pinkish (5)
65. Flowering 9 across of the Syringa genus (5)
66. Broccoli, laced with bit of colour (5)
67. Ring about collecting one tree (5)
68. Chilli, lacking a bit colour (5)
69. Large, fragrant shrub
70. Broccoli lacking in its purple shade? (5)
71. Ring back about international garden feature (5)
72. Color that's lavender-like
73. Pole purple (5)
74. Piccalilli lacked some colour (5)
75. Fragrant mauve shrub (5)
76. Fragrant flower Syringa; or, pale violet- or lavender-like colour (5)
77. Optical illusion partly inverted colour
78. Purple-flowering shrub - *I call (5)
79. Pale pinkish purple
80. Fragrant flower and shade of light purple (5)
81. Otherwise I call it syringa (5)
82. Purple color named for a flower
83. Pale purplish colour
84. Cilla's unusual shrub
85. Syringa? Call back around one (5)
86. Cilla's unusual shrub (5)
87. In pelvic area (5)
88. I call for a different colour (5)
89. Shrub's secretion left one higher (5)
90. Purplish (5)
91. Purplish colour I call variegated (5)
92. Colour arising in optical illusions (5)
93. Syringa tree (5)
94. Popular operetta by Charles Cuvillier and Howard Carr (5,6)
95. Pale violet shade
96. Pale lavender hue
97. For one to call out wrongly is a bloomer!
98. Flowering plant, Syringa (5)
99. A purple flower
100. Bush returned call around one (5)

What is a Crossword Clue?

According to The New York Times, a crossword clue is “a hint that the solver must decipher to find the answer that is then entered into the puzzle grid.” Depending on the puzzle type, clues can range from synonyms to definitions, from puns to wordplay and from general knowledge to fill-in-the-blanks. The possibilities are endless. 

If you already have an answer to a clue, use the Crossword Clue tool above to search for clues that have the same answer. 

What is a Crossword Answer?

When you solve for a clue, the resulting word or phrase is the answer, sometimes called a “fill”. Fills can range from one word to multiple words. When you have solved for all clues in a puzzle, all of the answers contribute to a completed puzzle. 

If you’re stuck on a crossword clue and can’t decipher and answer, don’t worry! Plug your clue into the Crossword Solver to search through millions of clue/answer pairs for a possible solution. 

Crossword Construction 

Would you like to create your own crossword puzzles? Whether you’re a teacher, a crossword enthusiast or just having some fun, the Crossword Clue tool is the perfect sidekick for crossword constructing. Enter a word or phrase into the search box to generate a list of clues with that same answer. Use the results as inspiration for creating your own clues. You’ll be an expert compiler in no time! 

Check out the Crossword Solver to search for clues with different answers.  

To create a crossword puzzle on Wordplays.com, use the Crossword Puzzle Maker


Learn Crosswordese 

Crosswordese is a group of words used by puzzle constructors to add more vowels to the board. These range from abbreviations to fictional cartoon characters, or from brand names to latin phrases. As you continue through your solving journey, you’ll begin to familiarize yourself with some of the most common Crosswordese. Here are some of our favorites: 

SMEE (Mr. Smee is a fictional character who serves as Captain Hook's boatswain or a small compact diving duck) 

Clues that contain SMEE: 

IRA (A man’s name, or an Individual Retirement Account) 

Clues that contain IRA: 

ALI (Boxing legend or Folktale hero)

Clues that contain ALI: