The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MANDARIN which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1964.
Tangerine crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| MANDARIN | 50 % | 8 |
| ORANGE | 50 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Tangerine
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- colored
- chromatic
- tangerine tree
- patrick
- grapefruit
- peach
- orange
- citrus
- tangelo
- clementine
- apricot
- citron
Crossword Answer definitions
MANDARIN noun- A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat
- A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles
- A senior civil servant
- Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist
- A perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.
- (color) an orange colour
- A small citrus tree (Citrus reticulata) with fruit resembling the orange.
- The fruit of this tree, smaller than an orange and oblate. In daily usage, it may include other similar citrus fruits like Citrus unshiu (satsuma or mikan) Citrus tangerina (tangerine).
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result MANDARIN
- Kind of orange
- Type of orange
- Chinese language
- Official language of China
- Official spoken language of China
- Standard Chinese language
- Chief dialect of China.
- Standard Chinese.
- Chinese orange.
- Chinese dialect.