Word "RANCID" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
smelling of fermentation or staleness
Synonyms:
sour

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
(used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition
Examples:
rancid butter
rancid bacon

Crossword Clues for RANCID

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Sour-tasting, off (6) Puzzler 04 Sep 2025
Sour The Telegraph Quick 01 Sep 2025
Sour head of detective group did this The Times Quick Cryptic 09 Aug 2025
Awful-smelling Universal 26 Jul 2025
Beyond inedible
Managed police rank (6) Puzzler Cryptic 22 Jul 2025
Detectives below sped off (6)
Rank or sour (6) Mirror Classic 13 Jul 2025
Rotten USA Today 11 Jul 2025
Stale Newsday 03 Jul 2025
Bad, took to their heels pursued by coppers (6)
Putrid Puzzler Backwords 23 Jun 2025
I'd have a cran but it smells off (6)
Rank formerly in charge of police department
Ahead of police, sped off
Can be made to clear out, which is bad (6)
Managed the police department that's gone bad (6)
Unpleasant-tasting Thomas Joseph 20 May 2025
Turned and executed hero in Spain (6)
Rank that managed the plainclothes branch (6)
Smuggled by the police - and that's not bad (6)
Note the drain outside is cracked and that's bad (6)
Putrid The Telegraph Quick 05 May 2025
Managed police department, though gone bad! (6)
Rotten, like stale butter (6)
Doctor! I can change it - after all, it is rank (6)
Was plain-clothes police supremo bad? (6)
What Detective Chief Superintendent typically did to get rank
Rank supervised detectives The Times Quick Cryptic 31 Mar 2025
Like the smell of butter that is going off
Stale or sour (6)
601 ran off. Off (6)
Can break free to get out and that's bad (6)
Spoiled, no longer edible (IN CARD anagram) (6)
Pursued by police, scuttled off (6)
I ran the Diplomatic Corps until one's rank was pulled!
Sour-tasting, off (6) Puzzler Backwords 27 Jan 2025
Really bad. Shot by the police (6)
I receive 100 Rand from the Rank organization
What chief detective did is bad (6) The Guardian Cryptic 15 Jan 2025
Attack over admitting leaders of National Conference - it's foul (6)
Followed by the police, scuttled off (6)
Off one scuttled, to the police (6)
Off, rank (6)
Stale, like rotten butter (6)
Describing food smelling or tasting unpleasant due to staleness
Rank, as butter (6)
Bad, made off, with the police pursuing (6)
Rotten money, over 101 (6)
Hurried by the police, being bad (6)
Rotten police department managed before (6)
Having a tank taste or smell (6)
Rank that managed the detective branch (6)
Bad cold I caught in darn maelstrom (6)
Having a rank taste or smell (6)
Rotten, like butter
Sour and stale (6)
Off one rushed, to the police
Can struggle free to get out, which is bad
Unpleasant-tasting Thomas Joseph 06 Sep 2024
Sour, stale The Sun Mini 06 Sep 2024
Caught in the drain, went off and it's bad
Caught in the drain, goes off and is sour smelling (6)
Turned and fled with detectives in pursuit (6)
Managed a police force that was going bad (6)
Turned and fled: detectives chasing The Sun Two Speed 03 Jul 2024
Rotten The Sun Two Speed 03 Jul 2024
Tasting sour Thomas Joseph 01 Jul 2024
Smelling or tasting like rank, stale fat (6)
Can move in free and that's bad (6)
Tasting stale (butter) (6)
Rank, rotten (6)
Off to free South African party inside (6) Puzzler Cryptic 24 May 2024
Rotten having put wrong card in (6)
Stale %26 off (butter)
Off The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 19 May 2024
Managed to join detectives' rank (6)
Having stale taste
Managed detectives, but became sour (6)
Managed senior police officers, gaining rank
Putrid LA Times Daily 08 Apr 2024
Putrid_
Decomposed bad-smelling
Stinking like e.g. rotting hemp paste (*rid can) (6)
Way off LA Times Daily 24 Mar 2024
A bad attack outside North Carolina (6)
Rotten-smelling
Co-ordinated Spanish warrior's offensive (6)
Managed Scotland Yard? How rotten! (6)
What top plainclothes copper did is rotten The Sun Two Speed 18 Feb 2024
Fetid or rank The Sun Two Speed 18 Feb 2024
Rotten cold one caught in foreign capital (6)
Turned and took to one's heels: police (6)
Bad (of butter)
Rank, sour (6)
Having gone off and organised branch of the police! (6)
(Turned) sour (6)
(Turned) sour The Guardian Quick 23 Jan 2024
Rotten cold one caught in South African capital (6)
Managed police department and it's a bit off (6)
Rank he lost in revolutionary Red China (6)
Rank and rotten The Guardian Quick 17 Nov 2023
Bad, as butter Newsday 09 Jul 2023
Rotten, foul The Times Concise 28 Jun 2023
Rotten The Telegraph Quick 01 Jun 2023
Rotten and smelly USA Today 27 May 2023
Turned — off The Guardian Quick 28 Mar 2023
Sour The Times Concise 06 Nov 2022
Bad new cocaine found in police bust
Rank administered by police force The Times Cryptic 21 Jun 2022
Rotten, putrid The Guardian Speedy 05 Jun 2022
Gone off The Guardian Quick 19 May 2022
Presided over police department that's rotten
No longer edible Newsday 30 Jan 2022
Managed the police department when one is off for a long time? Irish Times Crosaire 11 Jan 2022
Sour The Telegraph Quick 06 Sep 2021
Detectives chasing dashed off
Turned card in playing The Sun Two Speed 07 May 2021
Rotten The Sun Two Speed 07 May 2021
Unpleasant-tasting Thomas Joseph 27 Apr 2021
Sour The Telegraph Quick 01 Apr 2021
Bad storm skirting North Carolina
Turned off
Fetid or rank The Sun Two Speed 01 Jan 2021
Turned and fled detectives The Sun Two Speed 01 Jan 2021
What police chief did perhaps is corrupt The Telegraph Toughie 17 Dec 2020
Being ahead of coppers, dashed off
Tasting or smelling sour Irish Times Simplex 01 Dec 2020
Was Chief Inspector bad? The Sun Two Speed 19 Nov 2020
Was 12 bad? The Telegraph Toughie 10 Nov 2020
Was top cop bad? The Telegraph Toughie 23 Oct 2020
Bad thing the head of a certain police department did? The Telegraph Toughie 13 Oct 2020
Managed the police department when one is off for a long time? Irish Times Crosaire 12 Oct 2020
Going bad The Telegraph Quick 21 Sep 2020
Sour, rank The Telegraph Quick 10 Aug 2020
Bad officer cut down in midst of attack
Rotten The Telegraph Quick 09 May 2020
Was chief of detectives: rank?
Is this the rank that managed the police department? Irish Times Crosaire 23 Dec 2019
Rank in smell or taste The Times Concise 10 Dec 2019
Rotten; off The Telegraph Quick 04 Dec 2019
Off colour initially in fixing drain
Managed detective division and rank The Sun Two Speed 30 Apr 2019
Gone off and fled with police in pursuit
Sour The Times Concise 20 Jan 2019
Controlled police division going bad The Sun Two Speed 13 Jan 2019
What top plainclothes copper did is rotten The Sun Two Speed 09 Dec 2018
Turned and fled — detectives chasing The Sun Two Speed 29 Nov 2018
Managed to get record, holding second of rivals off
Bad detectives legged it first The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Sep 2018
Was head of detectives turned?
Film detectives turned off?
Turned and fled — detectives in pursuit The Sun Two Speed 25 Jul 2018
What top plainclothes copper did is rotten
Like bad butter LA Times Daily 03 Mar 2018
Like bad butter The Washington Post 03 Mar 2018
Smelling or tasting of stale fat Irish Times Simplex 26 Jan 2018
Rank, high The Telegraph Quick 17 Jan 2018
. Sour extract from the Honduran cider
Like spoiled cooking oil Premier Sunday 17 Dec 2017
High rank was in charge of police department
Directed police offensive The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Dec 2017
Divide in the middle, I would say it's spoilt
(Of fats) stale The Times Concise 27 Sep 2017
Managed to get detectives to reveal rank The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Sep 2017
Police chief did this bad?
With detectives chasing, managed to get off! The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Aug 2017
Like spoiled butter USA Today 11 Jul 2017
Unpleasant, chased by police
Drove detectives off
Worked with detectives to get rank
Managed detective division and rank
Top of cover in new drain is off
Rank one can change in a way
Like spoiled butter
Foul what detective chief superintendent did
Indian Queen had some citron, found dead and rotten
Definitely not fresh Wall Street Journal 10 Sep 2016
Rank outsiders from Ireland managed to overcome City earlier
Going off, chased by police
Directed police offensive
Bad, as butter Newsday 27 Mar 2016
Clear out rum can that's unpleasant
Like bad butter
Chased by police, sped off
Issued digital record, keeping single off The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Nov 2015
Bad storm passing across North Carolina
Nasty attack overshadowing nice, oddly The Telegraph Toughie 15 Sep 2015
Clubs invested in currency that's rising high
Foul type of spy managed by police department Irish Times Crosaire 15 May 2015
Worked as senior policeman in rank
(Of butter) gone off The Times Concise 14 Apr 2015
No longer edible Newsday 29 Jan 2015
No longer edible
Managed to get detectives off
Bad, and then some
Nasty-smelling
"Ruby Soho" rockers
Managed to get detectives' rank …
Was in charge of police offensive
Rotten what the Chief Super did
Far from fresh
Causing serious nose-wrinkling
Causing serious nose-wrinkling
Putrid
Drove detectives off
Like bad milk
Rotten
Stale
Like bad butter
Not palatable
Sour
Bad
Foul-smelling
Far from fresh
Sour
Stale-smelling
Like old butter
Bad-tasting
Stale-smelling
Like spoiled oil
Foul-smelling
Stinky
Bad-tasting
Foul
No longer fresh
Noisome
Like bad milk
Gone bad
Inedible
Spoiled
Rotten
Foul-smelling
Awful smelling
Fetid
Unpleasant-tasting
Offensive
Not palatable
Turned, as butter
Malodorous
Spoiled
Like old butter
Word for bad bacon.
Spoiled.
Obnoxious.
Musty.
Not fresh.
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