| Fall flower, for short |
Commuter |
05 Sep 2025 |
| Mother, in the U.K. |
USA Today |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Keep ___ (be tight-lipped) |
|
|
| Silent |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
07 Aug 2025 |
| Not saying a word |
LA Times Mini |
25 Jul 2025 |
| Chilli, to Bluey and Bingo |
|
|
| Silent; relative |
The Telegraph Mini |
13 Jul 2025 |
| Female parent (3) |
Puzzler |
13 Jul 2025 |
| Staying silent, one may act in dumbshow (3) |
|
|
| Silent, silence (3) |
|
|
| Keeping ___ (tight-lipped) |
|
|
| Greek character for married woman (3) |
|
|
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Jun 2025 |
| Tight-lipped; parent |
The Times Concise |
27 Jun 2025 |
| Keep ... (be silent) (3) |
|
|
| Lesley Manville played a widow in this |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
07 Jun 2025 |
| Silent woman (3) |
|
|
| Mother, in Australia |
Universal |
27 May 2025 |
| Taking care of mother, but not divulging any information (7,3) |
|
|
| Palindromic flower |
|
|
| Endearing term for 21a most commonly used in England |
|
|
| Keep ___ (remain silent) |
|
|
| Keep her silent! |
|
|
| Kate, to George and Charlotte |
|
|
| Silent member of the family? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
30 Apr 2025 |
| Tight-lipped |
Newsday |
27 Apr 2025 |
| Silent |
Thomas Joseph |
19 Apr 2025 |
| Tight-lipped |
New York Times |
15 Apr 2025 |
| Tight-lipped |
USA Today |
15 Apr 2025 |
| Quiet word with relation (3) |
|
|
| Ornamental flower, informally |
|
|
| Large flower |
|
|
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 Apr 2025 |
| Close-lipped |
New York Times |
22 Mar 2025 |
| Not exactly talkative |
LA Times Daily |
19 Mar 2025 |
| Quiet |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Mar 2025 |
| "Mother," in Dorchester |
|
|
| Relation when kept is silent! (3) |
|
|
| Not saying a word |
New York Times Mini |
27 Feb 2025 |
| What VJ Patterson would call Leah on one of his brief visits to Summer Bay (3) |
|
|
| Fall flower, for short |
Commuter |
24 Feb 2025 |
| British sitcom starring Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan (3) |
|
|
| Bank of ____ and Dad |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
12 Feb 2025 |
| Keep this to not say a word |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
07 Feb 2025 |
| Autumn flower, for short |
USA Today |
05 Feb 2025 |
| "Mother," in London |
|
|
| She's kept quiet (3) |
|
|
| A silent woman? (3) |
|
|
| Princess Diana, to Prince William |
|
|
| It's the word |
New York Times |
18 Jan 2025 |
| Close-mouthed |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
18 Jan 2025 |
| Female parent |
Puzzler Backwords |
15 Jan 2025 |
| "Mother" in Manchester |
|
|
| Relatively quiet? (3) |
|
|
| Chrysanthemum for short |
|
|
| Does dad keep quiet about her? (3) |
|
|
| Not speaking (colloq) (3) |
|
|
| Both onomatopoeia, but derived from entirely different sounds, what can either mean "to keep quiet" or "a parent"? (3) |
|
|
| English parent |
|
|
| Mother, to a Brit |
|
|
| Parent to hesitate to follow 1000 (3) |
|
|
| Keep ___ (be tight-lipped) |
|
|
| Keep ____, don't blab |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
28 Oct 2024 |
| York mother |
LA Times Daily |
26 Oct 2024 |
| 2010s sitcom in which Cathy is played by Lesley Manville (3) |
|
|
| Not saying anything |
Newsday |
21 Oct 2024 |
| Keep ___ (stay quiet) |
|
|
| Keep -, stay quiet |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Oct 2024 |
| She's built like dad (3) |
|
|
| It's the word for "silent" (3) |
|
|
| She's saying nothing, of course (3) |
|
|
| Nearly everybody's favorite female (3) |
|
|
| Like dad, she can be backward |
|
|
| Producer, with only a part of the minimum wage (3) |
|
|
| "Mother" to a Brit |
|
|
| Either way, she's a producer (3) |
|
|
| American word for mother (3) |
|
|
| Dad's wife |
Puzzler Backwords |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Lesley Manville sitcom |
|
|
| Silent |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Aug 2024 |
| Fall flower, shortly |
|
|
| Maxi means most to her! (3) |
|
|
| Silent (colloq) (3) |
|
|
| Not talking |
Newsday |
14 Jul 2024 |
| Say nothing: keep ___ (3) |
|
|
| Relatively speaking, she keeps quiet about it |
|
|
| Keep her quiet! (3) |
|
|
| Lolly the union leader gets in for his mother (3) |
|
|
| Keeping quiet |
Newsday |
12 Jun 2024 |
| British parent |
Universal |
11 Jun 2024 |
| Silent |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Jun 2024 |
| Brit's parent |
|
|
| Bluey and Bingo's parent |
LA Times Daily |
13 May 2024 |
| Endearing term for 21a most commonly used in England |
|
|
| Silent |
Universal |
10 May 2024 |
| Dad's silent partner |
|
|
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
26 Apr 2024 |
| Kate Middleton, to Prince George |
LA Times Daily |
24 Apr 2024 |
| The word, in a saying |
New York Times |
15 Apr 2024 |
| The word, to secret sharers |
|
|
| Mother, in Australia |
Universal |
12 Apr 2024 |
| British nickname for mother |
|
|
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 Mar 2024 |
| Saying nothing to a fall flower? |
Family Time |
10 Mar 2024 |
| Matriarch, able to keep total silence? (3) |
|
|
| On the first of March ... er ... quiet is the word (3) |
|
|
| Texas home-coming flower. for short |
|
|
| Texas homecoming flower, for short |
Universal |
29 Feb 2024 |
| Silent, tight-lipped (3) |
|
|
| Silent; mother |
The Times Concise |
21 Feb 2024 |
| Apt flower to gift a mother on Mother's Day |
Family Time |
28 Jan 2024 |
| Fall flower, for short |
Commuter |
25 Jan 2024 |
| Tight-lipped |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jan 2024 |
| Relative; silent |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Jan 2024 |
| Relative; silent (3) |
|
|
| Dad's wife |
Puzzler Backwords |
12 Jan 2024 |
| "Mother" in Manchester |
|
|
| Keep ___ (stay silent) |
|
|
| Relation that Ramsay Street resident Jane Harris is to Nicolette Stone (3) |
|
|
| Meghan, to Archie |
Commuter |
25 Dec 2023 |
| Not saying anything |
LA Times Daily |
19 Dec 2023 |
| Speechless |
Newsday |
24 Nov 2023 |
| Keeping ___ (tight-lipped) |
|
|
| Silent |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Nov 2023 |
| Not speaking |
New York Times Mini |
09 Nov 2023 |
| Female parent |
Puzzler Backwords |
01 Nov 2023 |
| Tight-lipped |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Oct 2023 |
| Tacit |
Newsday |
21 Oct 2023 |
| Parent saying nothing |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
03 Oct 2023 |
| Keep ___ (remain silent) |
|
|
| Close-mouthed, or change a letter in 27d to get the answer |
|
|
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
31 Aug 2023 |
| Keep ___ |
New York Times |
27 Aug 2023 |
| Keep ___ (remain silent) |
|
|
| Silent |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Aug 2023 |
| "Mother," to a Brit |
|
|
| Mother, informally |
|
|
| Keep ___ (be tight-lipped) |
|
|
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
25 May 2023 |
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 May 2023 |
| Mother, in Manchester |
|
|
| Not talking |
LA Times Daily |
05 May 2023 |
| Mother |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 May 2023 |
| Closemouthed |
New York Times |
27 Mar 2023 |
| Autumn flower, for short |
LA Times Daily |
08 Mar 2023 |
| Mother, in the U.K |
Universal |
29 Jan 2023 |
| Fall flower, for short |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jan 2023 |
| Silent parent |
The Times Cryptic |
04 Nov 2022 |
| Silent |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Nov 2022 |
| Tight-lipped |
LA Times Daily |
13 Oct 2022 |
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Sep 2022 |
| Fall flower |
Family Time |
26 Sep 2022 |
| Closemouthed |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Sep 2022 |
| Ornamental flower |
LA Times Daily |
30 Aug 2022 |
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Aug 2022 |
| Tight-lipped |
Newsday |
28 Aug 2022 |
| Tight-lipped |
LA Times Daily |
28 Aug 2022 |
| Mother; silent |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Jul 2022 |
| Bath mother |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jun 2022 |
| Ornamental flower, for short |
Universal |
07 Jun 2022 |
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Jun 2022 |
| ___'s the word |
Universal |
06 Jun 2022 |
| Keep ___ (remain silent) |
|
|
| Not saying a thing |
USA Today |
24 Apr 2022 |
| Saying nothing |
Newsday |
19 Apr 2022 |
| Mother, in Manchester |
|
|
| Mother is silent |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Feb 2022 |
| Tight-lipped |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Feb 2022 |
| Silent fall flower? |
Family Time |
09 Jan 2022 |
| "Mother," in Manchester |
|
|
| Quiet; mother |
The Times Concise |
25 Dec 2021 |
| Tight-lipped |
Universal |
19 Dec 2021 |
| Quiet |
USA Today |
22 Nov 2021 |
| Keep ___ (be tight-lipped) |
|
|
| Flower you see in the fall |
Family Time |
14 Nov 2021 |
| Not saying a thing |
USA Today |
06 Nov 2021 |
| Flower that sounds like a family member |
USA Today |
25 Oct 2021 |
| Silent |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Sep 2021 |
| Saying nothing |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Sep 2021 |
| Mother, to a Brit |
Universal |
08 Sep 2021 |
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Aug 2021 |
| It's the word, sometimes |
Universal |
11 Aug 2021 |
| Mother, informally |
|
|
| Not talking |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jun 2021 |
| Not talking |
The Washington Post |
25 Jun 2021 |
| Silent |
|
|
| Silent |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 May 2021 |
| Keep ___ (stay silent) |
|
|
| Not saying a word |
Premier Sunday |
02 May 2021 |
| Mother, in Manchester |
|
|
| Silent |
Universal |
09 Apr 2021 |
| Silent male and maiden outside university |
|
|
| Quiet |
The Washington Post Sunday |
28 Feb 2021 |
| Queen ___ |
Newsday |
20 Feb 2021 |
| Shh ... it's the word! |
New York Times |
20 Jan 2021 |
| Silent |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Jan 2021 |
| Keep ___ (remain silent) |
|
|
| Keep ___ (remain silent) |
|
|
| Silent |
The Washington Post |
25 Dec 2020 |
| Silent |
LA Times Daily |
25 Dec 2020 |
| Silent relation |
|
|
| Tight-lipped, one raising issue |
|
|
| Family name in Nottingham |
Newsday |
04 Dec 2020 |
| Silent |
Thomas Joseph |
03 Dec 2020 |
| Keeping quiet |
Newsday |
06 Nov 2020 |
| Not saying a word |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Nov 2020 |
| Silent |
Canadiana |
02 Nov 2020 |
| Not telling |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Oct 2020 |
| Uncommunicative |
The Washington Post Sunday |
18 Oct 2020 |
| Tight-lipped |
USA Today |
29 Jul 2020 |
| Half speak unintelligibly, keeping this quiet |
|
|
| Silent letter, eg mnemonic's first one |
|
|
| Quiet member of the family? |
|
|
| Silent |
The Washington Post Sunday |
03 May 2020 |
| Closemouthed |
New York Times |
21 Apr 2020 |
| "The word" in silence |
LA Times Daily |
30 Mar 2020 |
| 'The word' in silence |
The Washington Post |
30 Mar 2020 |
| Saying nothing |
Universal |
22 Feb 2020 |
| Mother, informally |
|
|
| Canterbury parent |
USA Today |
14 Nov 2019 |
| Silent |
New York Times |
10 Nov 2019 |
| Silent |
|
|
| It's the word |
Universal |
10 Oct 2019 |
| Fall flower, for short |
Family Time |
30 Sep 2019 |
| Mother, informally |
|
|
| Silent on a topic |
|
|
| Quiet; mother |
The Times Concise |
24 Jun 2019 |
| Not saying a word |
USA Today |
19 Jun 2019 |
| Far from forthcoming |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Jun 2019 |
| Common bloomer |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Jun 2019 |
| Silent and quiet |
|
|
| Mother (informal) |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Apr 2019 |
| Close-lipped parent? |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Apr 2019 |
| Keeping ___ (tight-lipped) |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
LA Times Daily |
25 Mar 2019 |
| Tight-lipped |
The Washington Post |
25 Mar 2019 |
| Silent parent |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
Newsday |
07 Feb 2019 |
| Quiet |
New York Times |
26 Jan 2019 |
| Keep ___ (remain silent) |
|
|
| It's the word |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
|
|
| Not saying a word |
|
|
| Quiet |
|
|
| Common bloomer |
|
|
| Far from forthcoming |
|
|
| Quiet |
|
|
| Fall flower |
Family Time |
12 Nov 2018 |
| Saying nothing |
Newsday |
04 Nov 2018 |
| Not saying anything |
Newsday |
24 Jul 2018 |
| It's 'the word' |
USA Today |
05 Jun 2018 |
| Tight-lipped |
Family Time |
07 May 2018 |
| Saying nothing |
Family Time |
06 May 2018 |
| With mouth shut |
Family Time |
09 Apr 2018 |
| Queen ___ |
New York Times |
24 Mar 2018 |
| Fall bloomer, familiarly |
USA Today |
23 Mar 2018 |
| Autumn blossom, briefly |
USA Today |
06 Mar 2018 |
| Dad's mate, to a Brit |
USA Today |
24 Feb 2018 |
| Closemouthed |
|
|
| Is tight-lipped, as there are no campers in summer camp |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Feb 2018 |
| Mother, informally |
|
|
| Queen ___ |
|
|
| It's "the word" |
|
|
| Closemouthed |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| Dad's mate, to a Brit |
|
|
| Mother's Day flower, in Australia |
New York Times |
06 Dec 2017 |
| It's "the word" |
USA Today |
31 Oct 2017 |
| Tight-lipped |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Sep 2017 |
| Silent majority's leader with hesitant expression |
|
|
| British mother |
Universal |
26 Jun 2017 |
| Silent majority's leader with hesitant expression |
|
|
| Quiet |
LA Times Daily |
05 May 2017 |
| Quiet |
The Washington Post |
05 May 2017 |
| Saying nothing |
USA Today |
01 Apr 2017 |
| Mother's Day flower, in Australia |
|
|
| Saying nothing |
|
|
| British mother |
|
|
| Quiet |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
New York Times |
25 Dec 2016 |
| Close-mouthed |
USA Today |
15 Sep 2016 |
| Britain's Queen ___ |
Family Time |
08 Aug 2016 |
| Not talking |
Universal |
13 Jul 2016 |
| Fall flower, for short |
USA Today |
20 Apr 2016 |
| Closemouthed |
Universal |
20 Jan 2016 |
| Fall flower |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Jan 2016 |
| Close-mouthed |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
|
|
| Closemouthed |
|
|
| Not talking |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
Jonesin |
27 Oct 2015 |
| With mouth shut |
USA Today |
17 Sep 2015 |
| Whichever way you look at it, it's one of the relative's tips for making up mind |
Irish Times Crosaire |
29 Aug 2015 |
| Ornamental flower, for short |
Universal |
10 Jun 2015 |
| Lapel adorner, for short |
Canadiana |
25 May 2015 |
| Close-mouthed |
Newsday |
05 Feb 2015 |
| Not divulging a thing |
|
|
| British parent |
|
|
| With mouth shut |
|
|
| Fall flower, for short |
|
|
| Saying nothing |
|
|
| Ornamental flower, for short |
|
|
| Close-mouthed |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| Tight-mouthed |
|
|
| On the q.t. |
|
|
| Chicago's official flower, familiarly |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
|
|
| Not exactly talkative |
|
|
| Closemouthed |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| Not talking |
|
|
| Fall bloom |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
|
|
| Fall bloom |
|
|
| It may be "the word" |
|
|
| Saying nothing |
|
|
| Ornamental flower |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| Clammed up |
|
|
| Close-mouthed |
|
|
| Close-mouthed |
|
|
| Clammed up |
|
|
| The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers |
|
|
| Clammed up |
|
|
| The word, as suggested by the saying formed by the ends of this puzzle's four longest answers |
|
|
| Close-lipped |
|
|
| The word? |
|
|
| Not blabbing |
|
|
| The word? |
|
|
| Not blabbing |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| Not talking |
|
|
| Buttoned up |
|
|
| Not saying a thing |
|
|
| It's "the word" |
|
|
| It's "the word" |
|
|
| Britain's Queen ___ |
|
|
| Fall bloom |
|
|
| It's "the word" |
|
|
| Speechless |
|
|
| It may be "the word" |
|
|
| "The word" |
|
|
| Saying nothing |
|
|
| Not telling |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| Ornamental flower, for short |
|
|
| Not talking |
|
|
| The word, if you're silent |
|
|
| It might be the word |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
|
|
| Daisy's cousin |
|
|
| Hardly blabby |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| Hardly blabby |
|
|
| Not verbalizing |
|
|
| British family member |
|
|
| With mouth shut |
|
|
| It's the word? |
|
|
| Fall bloomer |
|
|
| "The word" |
|
|
| Uncommunicative |
|
|
| Close-lipped |
|
|
| Clammed up |
|
|
| Uncommunicative |
|
|
| "The word" |
|
|
| The word, maybe |
|
|
| Close-lipped |
|
|
| Uncommunicative |
|
|
| Buttoned up |
|
|
| Quiet |
|
|
| Autumn blossom, briefly |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| Clammed up |
|
|
| Not saying a word |
|
|
| Close-mouthed |
|
|
| It's the word |
|
|
| Family member, in Manchester |
|
|
| The word? |
|
|
| Queen __ |
|
|
| Not telling |
|
|
| Speechless |
|
|
| Not talking |
|
|
| Ornamental flower, for short |
|
|
| Close-lipped |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
|
|
| Speechless |
|
|
| Speechless |
|
|
| "___'s the word!" |
|
|
| Britain's Queen ___ |
|
|
| Not telling |
|
|
| Speechless |
|
|
| Mother, in Motherwell |
|
|
| England's Queen ___ |
|
|
| Quiet |
|
|
| Close-mouthed |
|
|
| "The word" |
|
|
| Not talking |
|
|
| Close-mouthed |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| "The word," to secret keepers |
|
|
| Fall flower |
|
|
| Queen ___ |
|
|
| Hastings household name |
|
|
| Flower, for short |
|
|
| Britain's Queen ___ |
|
|
| Not talking |
|
|
| Big bloom |
|
|
| Mother is silent |
|
|
| It.s the word |
|
|
| This is the word |
|
|
| Fall bloomer |
|
|
| The word, often |
|
|
| It may be the word |
|
|
| With mouth shut |
|
|
| It's "the word"? |
|
|
| Manchester mother |
|
|
| Dad's mate, in Dorchester |
|
|
| Not talking |
|
|
| The word? |
|
|
| Uncommunicative |
|
|
| It's the word |
|
|
| Saying nothing |
|
|
| Silent |
|
|
| The word, maybe |
|
|
| Fall bloomer |
|
|
| Quiet |
|
|
| Member of a British family |
|
|
| The word, sometimes |
|
|
| Mother's flower? |
|
|
| British parent |
|
|
| It's the word |
|
|
| It's sometimes the word |
|
|
| Fall flower, for short |
|
|
| Showy flower, for short |
|
|
| __'s the word |
|
|
| Wordless |
|
|
| The word, at times |
|
|
| Fall bloomer |
|
|
| Taciturn. |
|
|
| The word, sometimes. |
|
|
| Silent. |
|
|
| Football flower. |
|
|
| Fall flower, for short. |
|
|
| With sealed lips. |
|
|
| Not talking. |
|
|
| Mamma. |
|
|
| Flower: Colloq. |
|
|
| Tight-lipped |
|
|
| Flower, for short. |
|
|
| Strong German ale. |
|
|
| Quiet flower |
|
|
| "The citizens are ___, and speak not a word."—Shakespeare. |
|
|
| Not speaking. |
|
|
| Tongue-tied. |
|
|
| Quiet. |
|
|
| Fall flower. |
|
|
| Uncommunicative. |
|
|