Word "SPONGE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
Synonyms:
quick study
Examples:
she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
ask for and get free; be a parasite
Synonyms:
bum, cadge, grub, mooch

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
Synonyms:
leech, parasite, sponger

Crossword Clues for SPONGE

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Clue Source Date
Marine animal (6) Mirror Quick 29 Jul 2025
Cadge from cleaner (6) Mirror Cryptic 29 Jul 2025
Move pegs on cleaning item (6)
One's GP could use it as a swab (6)
Sedentary marine invertebrate The Times Concise 24 Jul 2025
Soft sea animal (6)
Moocher Eugene Sheffer 05 Jul 2025
No pegs put out for washing
Absorbent pad (6) Mirror Quick 10 Jun 2025
Cadge loofah (6) Mirror Cryptic 10 Jun 2025
Cake that's in the bag? (6)
Live off light cake (6)
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 18 May 2025
Loofah Mirror Quick 18 May 2025
Absorbent mass in the ocean
Person who absorbs ideas easily, metaphorically
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 13 Apr 2025
Loofah Mirror Quick 13 Apr 2025
Super soaker? Universal 12 Apr 2025
Aquatic organism The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 06 Apr 2025
Noxious pong escaping trousers
Absorbent substance for the bath (6) Puzzler 29 Mar 2025
Animal skeleton used in cleansing (6)
Bath item Mirror Quick 18 Mar 2025
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 18 Mar 2025
Loofah Mirror Quick 16 Mar 2025
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 16 Mar 2025
Scrounge a cake from? (6)
Makeup-applying tool Commuter 07 Mar 2025
Cake used in the bath? It's not soap! (6)
Absorbent item for the bath (6)
Marine animal has to live off others (6)
Live off odds concerning outsiders in game (6)
Light, fluffy cake (6)
Dish cleaner LA Times Daily 10 Feb 2025
Cadge, ... off
Type of cake for a Dad's Army private? (6)
Sea creature or type of cake (6)
Bad smell in court nearly identified person with a drinking problem (6)
It's absorbing, what a cadger can do (6)
Liquid-absorbing item
Scrounge cake The Telegraph Toughie 28 Jan 2025
Cadge cake from? (6)
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 05 Jan 2025
Beautyblender, for example
Cleaning pad Mirror Quick 05 Jan 2025
Bathtime item (6)
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 24 Dec 2024
Loofah Mirror Quick 24 Dec 2024
Victoria, for one, will make one behave like a parasite (6)
Light cake made with no fat (6)
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 10 Dec 2024
Sponge Mirror Quick 10 Dec 2024
To be a cadger is an absorbing thing (6)
Scrounge a cake (6)
Moocher inserted early video game in southeast (6)
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 05 Nov 2024
Loofah Mirror Quick 05 Nov 2024
Cake for the mermaid's tea? (6)
Light and airy cake (6)
One who absorbs knowledge or cake (6)
Soft, water-soaking cleaning tool that you may find in a pottery class
Absorbent block of foam The Times Concise 04 Oct 2024
Detroit band who debuted with Rotting Pinata in 1994 (6)
Freeloading one
Loofah Mirror Quick 27 Sep 2024
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 27 Sep 2024
P.S. Back, having gone out to get a cake (6)
Bad smell in southeast parasite (6)
Cake that's often soggy? (6)
One GP's replaced thing for absorbing liquid (6)
Light cake or pudding (6)
Cleaner is a scrounger (6)
Light cake type LA Times Daily 20 Aug 2024
A light, soft type of cake
Marine animal of the phylum Porifera (6)
Trifle ingredient The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 14 Jul 2024
Dad's Army character played by Colin Bean, Private ___ (6)
Type of cake used to make a French fancy (6)
Item used by Monet X Change in her iconic Drag on a Dime dress
What marine animal's skeleton is used as a bathroom accessory? (6)
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 03 Jun 2024
Loofah Mirror Quick 03 Jun 2024
Cleaner emptied out sluice harbouring nasty smell
Dishwashing essential
Cadge a cake from?
One scrounging cake, perhaps (6)
Bag or cake? (6) The Guardian Quick 06 May 2024
Be a parasite, for example, coming up with no afterthought (6)
Drunkard found floating in the bath? (6)
Soft light cake (6)
No pegs, perhaps, for washing (6)
Sandwich cake (6)
Loofah Mirror Quick 15 Apr 2024
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 15 Apr 2024
Cadge from a cleaner Mirror Cryptic 02 Apr 2024
Loofah Mirror Quick 02 Apr 2024
Cake for sea creature? (6)
Type of light cake
Cleaning item that may be green and yellow Universal 28 Mar 2024
One parasitic sort of cake (6)
Something absorbing creates a bad smell in the South-east (6)
Quick learner New York Times 16 Mar 2024
Extract money from, for a cake (6)
Victoria ___, cake (6) Puzzler 07 Mar 2024
Light, sweet cake (6)
Absorbent mass from the ocean
It's full of holes yet still holds water
Loofah Mirror Quick 27 Feb 2024
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 27 Feb 2024
One will suck up, to cadge from (6)
Soft, absorbent substance in the sea
Mr. SquarePants in a Nickelodeon series, e.g.
A sucker-up, scrounge from (6)
Scrub Daddy product
Loofah Mirror Quick 31 Dec 2023
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 31 Dec 2023
Wipe or clean off
Drunkard -- she regularly conceals bad smell The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Nov 2023
Drunkard - she regularly conceals bad smell (6)
Moocher Eugene Sheffer 06 Nov 2023
Total suck-up? New York Times 17 Sep 2023
What a scrounger may do to get cake The Times Cryptic 03 Jul 2023
Kitchen cleaning aid USA Today 28 Mar 2023
Dishwashing aid Thomas Joseph 01 Feb 2023
Kitchen sink item USA Today 07 Dec 2022
Smell in unpacked suitcase: cleaner appears The Times Cryptic 04 Oct 2022
Bum The Guardian Quick 22 Sep 2022
Sinkside scrubber USA Today 19 Jun 2022
Item for washing dishes USA Today 16 May 2022
A 4 down to use to clean 23 down, perhaps? Irish Times Crosaire 05 May 2022
Kitchen spill absorber Newsday 03 May 2022
Home Counties harbours smell cleaner The Times Cryptic 01 Mar 2022
Act like a parasite The Guardian Quick 01 Mar 2022
Kind of bath
Moocher Universal 20 Feb 2022
A skeleton in the bathroom Irish Times Simplex 19 Feb 2022
Very light cake The Times Concise 11 Feb 2022
Porous mass to be found in oceans Irish Times Simplex 07 Feb 2022
Mooch Wall Street Journal 12 Jan 2022
Porous substance to soak up Irish Times Simplex 30 Dec 2021
Porous substance to soak up Irish Times Simplex 17 Dec 2021
Marine animal’s nasty smell — in sea, mostly The Times Cryptic 22 Nov 2021
Porous mass in oceans Irish Times Simplex 24 Sep 2021
One absorbs things quickly Universal 24 Sep 2021
Marine creature with a body full of pores and channels The Times Specialist Sunday 05 Sep 2021
Freeload off alcoholic
Cleaning item The Telegraph Quick 30 Jul 2021
Loofah, for example USA Today 12 Jun 2021
Bad smell in small English boozer
Porous substance to soak up Irish Times Simplex 25 May 2021
Key found in building opens one of those in the bakery Irish Times Crosaire 27 Apr 2021
Squishy scrubber USA Today 02 Apr 2021
Absorbent kitchen cleaner Newsday 07 Mar 2021
Cake that's special gone off
Water grabber Newsday 07 Feb 2021
Common type of cake The Times Concise 23 Jan 2021
Smell bad in the Home Counties? Then wash!
Boozer to stink in south-east The Sun Two Speed 19 Dec 2020
Cake variety The Sun Two Speed 19 Dec 2020
Absorbent cleaner USA Today 10 Nov 2020
Car-washing aid Thomas Joseph 26 Oct 2020
Type of cake The Telegraph Quick 06 Oct 2020
Cleaner leech
Word before 'cake' or 'bath' USA Today 19 Sep 2020
Freeload dessert
Dishwashing aid Thomas Joseph 19 Aug 2020
One soaking things up The Washington Post 02 Aug 2020
One soaking things up LA Times Daily 02 Aug 2020
Cleaner bum
Porous cleaning aid USA Today 30 Jun 2020
Bum from Home Counties harbouring nasty smell
Singular niff? English drunkard The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Jun 2020
Moocher Eugene Sheffer 12 Mar 2020
Fast learner New York Times 07 Mar 2020
Mooch Wall Street Journal 14 Dec 2019
Moocher Thomas Joseph 06 Dec 2019
Cleaner parasite
Dish cleaner LA Times Daily 08 Aug 2019
Dish cleaner The Washington Post 08 Aug 2019
Dishwashing aid The Washington Post 31 Jul 2019
Dishwashing aid LA Times Daily 31 Jul 2019
Wipe exterior of shoe covering smell The Telegraph Cryptic 23 May 2019
Quick learner, say New York Times 07 May 2019
Quick learner, say
Grasp on, gently holding mop The Telegraph Toughie 02 May 2019
Absorbing marine life? The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Apr 2019
Bum that's full of holes
Wipe bum
Housecleaning aid LA Times Daily 08 Mar 2019
Housecleaning aid The Washington Post 08 Mar 2019
_____ Hockey Canadiana 11 Feb 2019
Sucker for cake
Dish cleaner
Housecleaning aid
Dishwashing aid
Porous mass in oceans Irish Times Simplex 27 Dec 2018
Piece of cleaning tool that soaks up liquid very quickly
Reef creature The Washington Post 14 Nov 2018
Reef creature LA Times Daily 14 Nov 2018
Mooch LA Times Daily 02 Nov 2018
Mooch The Washington Post 02 Nov 2018
Absorbent item The Telegraph Quick 15 Oct 2018
Porous mass found in the ocean Irish Times Simplex 02 Oct 2018
Kitchen cleaner Newsday 26 Jul 2018
___ cake, lightly flavored cake that can be used to form multiple layers in a cake
Porous substance to absorb liquid Irish Times Simplex 12 May 2018
Cake; invertebrate The Times Concise 03 May 2018
Tosspot New York Times 28 Apr 2018
Spill absorber
Sea ___ (like the animated character who wears square pants)
Victoria describes one drunkard The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Mar 2018
Mooch
Reef creature
Tosspot
Clean cutlery, has a hole holding bagels essentially
Porous substance found in the ocean Irish Times Simplex 10 Oct 2017
Dishwashing tool Universal 26 Aug 2017
Clean up and ask for money
Quick learner, informally Newsday 04 Jun 2017
Kitchen or car wash need USA Today 18 May 2017
Sulphur's the bad smell oriental found in the bathroom
One consuming much alcohol and cake
Hanger-on The Telegraph Quick 30 Mar 2017
Squarepants is one Universal 16 Mar 2017
Kitchen or car wash need
Dishwashing tool
Squarepants is one
Cadge The Guardian Quick 19 Nov 2016
Bum a heavy drinker The Times Cryptic 19 Sep 2016
Parasitic sort USA Today 16 Sep 2016
Car washer's need USA Today 09 Sep 2016
Act the moocher USA Today 25 Apr 2016
Freeloader New York Times 23 Feb 2016
Nasty smell in London area -- get cleaner The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Jan 2016
Parasitic sort
Car washer's need
Soft aquatic creature The Times Concise 21 Dec 2015
Pens go walkabout hanging around that shower? Irish Times Crosaire 17 Nov 2015
Drunk creating a stink in the Home Counties
Bum — cleaner The Guardian Quick 08 Aug 2015
Freeloader Wall Street Journal 19 Jun 2015
Wipe bum
Nasty smell in the main left by a drunkard
Kitchen item Universal 23 May 2015
Quick learner LA Times Daily 09 Apr 2015
Holey reef dweller LA Times Daily 02 Apr 2015
Light cake The Times Concise 19 Feb 2015
Sessile aquatic animal with numerous pores The Telegraph General Knowledge 04 Jan 2015
Holey reef dweller
Absorbent kitchen cleaner
Kitchen item
Holey reef dweller
Freeloader
Quick learner
Mooch
Quick learner
Drunkard to live off on others' money
Freeloader New York Times 21 Aug 2014
Heavy drinker from Madeira, say
Water soaker-upper
Freeloader
Super memorizer
Spill soaker-upper
Type of bath or cake
Surgeon's aid
Mooch
Dishwashing aid
Kind of cake or bath
Drunkard
Absorbent counter cleaner
With which to clean up
Clean cake
Squarepants species?
Cleaning aid
Cleaning aid
Holey water container?
Quick and thorough learner
SquarePants is one
Quick learner
Squishy dish cleaner
Squarepants species
Parasite
Squarepants species
Water absorber
Spot remover
Spot remover
Absorbent cleaner
Parasite
Water absorber
Absorbent wiper
Freeloader
Kitchen cleaner
Loofah, e.g.
Counter cleaner
Mooch
Counter cleaner
Be parasitic
Moocher
Loofah, e.g.
Perennial borrower
Spill absorber
Sea creature
Water absorber
Cleaning aid
Water grabber
23 Down, e.g.
Dish washer's need
Moocher
Surgeon's request
Surgeon's request
Word with bath or cake
Absorbing subject?
Get free, in a way
Sopper-upper
Mooch
Moocher
Spill picker-upper
Freeloader
Live off of others
Live off of
Parasite
Loofah, e.g.
Mooch
Parasite
Spill sopper
Kind of cake or bath
Type of bath or cake
Mooch
Freeloader
Water absorber
Kind of cake
Live off of
Kitchen item
Kind of cake
Bathroom item
Bath accessory
Dish cleaner
Obtain free
Kind of bath
Sycophant
Item to throw in
Diver's quest, at times
Freeload
Tarpon Springs product
Parasite
Surgeon's need
Cake or rubber
Free-load
Live at another's expense
Absorbent
Soak up
Kind of cake or rubber
Primitive animal.
Skeleton of a sea animal.
Leavened dough.
Efface.
Applicable to Roderick Random.
A very light kind of cake.
Useful marine animal.
Marine animal.
Aid to housecleaning.
Piece of foam rubber.
Bread dough.
Sea animal.
Kind of cake.
Soft sea skeleton.
Kind of bath.
Swabbing instrument.
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