The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SOILS , but the solution may also be STAINS which is one of the most recent solution (2007 in King Syndicate).
Smudges crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SOILS | 28 % | 5 |
| SMEARS | 28 % | 6 |
| SOOTS | 17 % | 5 |
| BLOTS | 6 % | 5 |
| SOILAGE | 6 % | 7 |
| BLURS | 6 % | 5 |
| DAUBS | 6 % | 5 |
| STAINS | 6 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Smudges
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- smirch
- smutch
- smear
- blot
- blur
- spot
- daub
- slur
- blotches
- patches
- smears
- speckles
Crossword Answer definitions
SOILS noun- A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
- The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- Country or territory.
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- Dung; compost; manure.
- Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- A bag containing soiled items.
- To make dirty.
- To become dirty or soiled.
- To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SOILS
- Disgraces
- Potting needs
- Garden varieties?
- Greenhouse stuff
- Ruins, as a reputation
- Renders unclean
- Potting mixtures
- Dirties
- Agronomists' concerns
- Besmirches
More clues leading to the result SMEARS
- Microscope-slide samples
- Lopsided victories
- Faulty applications?
- Bad-mouths
- Campaign materials?
- Slanders
- Campaign mud
- Defamations
- Vilifies
- Defames
More clues leading to the result SOOTS
- "__ Me" (chimney sweep's motto?)
- Blackens, in a way
- Smoky deposits
- Covers with carbon particles
- Blackens, as a flue
- Gets dirty in the chimney
- Dirties, as a chimney
- Covers with coal dust
- Black substances, essentially of carbon.
- Smudges.
More clues leading to the result BLOTS
- LSD units
- Rorschach test fodder
- They may be interpreted in a shrink's office
- Ink-spill leftovers
- Reputation demerits
- Soaks up, as a spill
- Discoloring stains
- Uses Bounty, for example
- Ink stains
- Blemishes
More clues leading to the result SOILAGE
- Leafy livestock feed
- Livestock feed
- Smudges
- Some fabrics resist it
- Fodder crops.
- Green crops for fodder.
- Crops cut for animals
- Grassy feed for cattle
- Feed for livestock
- Farm fodder
More clues leading to the result BLURS
- Becomes unclear
- Crappy photos
- Loses focus
- Astigmatic's views
- Makes fuzzy
- Gets out of focus
- Clouds
- Extinguishes distinguishers
- Fast-moving objects
- Makes unclear
More clues leading to the result DAUBS
- Slaps on
- Uses finger paint
- Applies paint sloppily
- Applies sloppily
- Pats (on), as plaster
- Applies crudely, as paint
- Finger-paints
- Uses finger paint, for example
- Smears
- Paints undaintily