The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ROSE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2020.
Thorny subject crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ROSE | 29 % | 4 |
| BRIAR | 29 % | 5 |
| ROSEBUSH | 29 % | 8 |
| ROSES | 14 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Thorny subject
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- briar
- rose
- spinous
- thorn
- lemon
- may
- bramble
- bur
- chaparral
- dilemma
- furze
- gooseberry
Crossword Answer definitions
ROSE noun- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- A flower of the rose plant.
- A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- Something resembling a rose flower.
- The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
- A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
- The base of a light socket.
- Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
- A graph with only one vertex.
- To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.
- To perfume, as with roses.
- Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.
- To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
- To increase in value or standing.
- To begin; to develop.
- To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To cause to go up or ascend.
- To retire; to give up a siege.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
- A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
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 ROSE
- American Beauty
- "My Wild Irish ___"
- Floral gift
- Appreciated in value
- Color of some glasses?
- Proliferated
- Thorny bush
- Abie's girl
- Golden Girl
- One of the Golden Girls
More clues leading to the result BRIAR
- Pipe material
- Prickly plant
- Hare's habitat
- Pipe made from a root
- Pipe type
- Bush with thorns
- Pipe root
- Kind of patch for Br'er Rabbit
- Kind of pipe
- Prickly rose
More clues leading to the result ROSEBUSH
- Plant in a garden
- Thorny subject
- Prickly growth
- Flowering shrub
- American Beauty site
- Shrub bearing floribunda
- Trellis climber
- Thorny shrub
- Common garden sight