Poison
Crossword Clue and Answers

Looking for answers to the "Poison" crossword clue? it's your lucky day, we have them! Today we have 23 crossword solutions for Poison.

We most recently saw this clue in Evening Standard Quick Crossword.

We deem Poison to be a VERY COMMON crossword clue as we've seen it more than 23 times in a variety of crossword publications.

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Publications

  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 12 Aug 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Monday, 9 Aug 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Wednesday, 28 Jul 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 17 Jul 2021
  • The New York Times Crossword - Tuesday, 29 Jun 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Thursday, 17 Jun 2021
  • USA Today - Friday, 19 Mar 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Tuesday, 2 Feb 2021
  • The Guardian Quick - Friday, 1 Jan 2021
  • The New York Times Crossword - Monday, 30 Nov 2020
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Friday, 27 Nov 2020
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Tuesday, 17 Nov 2020

Crossword Answers

3 letters

OAK
A deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; "great oaks grow from little acorns"

IVY
Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits

PEN
Female swan

4 letters

UPAS

BANE
Something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life"

5 letters

VENOM
Feeling a need to see others suffer

TOXIN
A poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species

TAINT
The state of being contaminated

VIRUS
(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

SUMAC
Wood of a sumac

VENOM Greg

TAINT Greg

TOXIC Greg

7 letters

CYANIDE
An extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acid

ACONITE
Any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers

ARSENIC
A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar

ENVENOM
Cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices embittered her even more"

HEMLOCK
Soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock

CORRUPT
Alter from the original

8 letters

TOXICANT
Having the qualities or effects of a poison

9 letters

PESTICIDE
A chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)

10 letters

STRYCHNINE
An alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant

18 letters

POISONOUSSUBSTANCE
Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism

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