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
Drunkard found floating in the bath? (6)
Soft light cake (6)
Sandwich cake (6)
No pegs, perhaps, for washing (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
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 27 Feb 2024
Loofah Mirror Quick 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
Cadge from cleaner Mirror Cryptic 31 Dec 2023
Loofah Mirror Quick 31 Dec 2023
Wipe or clean off
Drunkard - she regularly conceals bad smell (6)
Drunkard -- she regularly conceals bad smell The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Nov 2023
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
Act like a parasite The Guardian Quick 01 Mar 2022
Home Counties harbours smell cleaner The Times Cryptic 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!
Cake variety The Sun Two Speed 19 Dec 2020
Boozer to stink in south-east 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 The Washington Post 08 Aug 2019
Dish cleaner LA Times Daily 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 The Washington Post 08 Mar 2019
Housecleaning aid LA Times Daily 08 Mar 2019
_____ Hockey Canadiana 11 Feb 2019
Housecleaning aid
Dishwashing aid
Sucker for cake
Dish cleaner
Porous mass in oceans Irish Times Simplex 27 Dec 2018
Piece of cleaning tool that soaks up liquid very quickly
Reef creature LA Times Daily 14 Nov 2018
Reef creature The Washington Post 14 Nov 2018
Mooch The Washington Post 02 Nov 2018
Mooch LA Times Daily 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
Tosspot
Mooch
Reef creature
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
Squarepants is one
Dishwashing tool
Kitchen or car wash need
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
Car washer's need
Parasitic sort
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
Mooch
Kitchen item
Holey reef dweller
Quick learner
Absorbent kitchen cleaner
Freeloader
Quick learner
Holey reef dweller
Drunkard to live off on others' money
Heavy drinker from Madeira, say
Spill soaker-upper
Type of bath or cake
Freeloader
Water soaker-upper
Super memorizer
Absorbent counter cleaner
Dishwashing aid
Kind of cake or bath
Drunkard
Mooch
Surgeon's aid
With which to clean up
Clean cake
Cleaning aid
Cleaning aid
Squarepants species?
Quick and thorough learner
Holey water container?
SquarePants is one
Squishy dish cleaner
Quick learner
Squarepants species
Spot remover
Absorbent cleaner
Parasite
Spot remover
Squarepants species
Water absorber
Parasite
Absorbent wiper
Water absorber
Be parasitic
Mooch
Counter cleaner
Kitchen cleaner
Freeloader
Counter cleaner
Loofah, e.g.
Moocher
Perennial borrower
Spill absorber
Loofah, e.g.
Cleaning aid
Sea creature
Water absorber
Moocher
Surgeon's request
Dish washer's need
Surgeon's request
Water grabber
23 Down, e.g.
Mooch
Get free, in a way
Sopper-upper
Word with bath or cake
Moocher
Absorbing subject?
Spill picker-upper
Parasite
Live off of others
Live off of
Freeloader
Parasite
Loofah, e.g.
Mooch
Kind of cake or bath
Type of bath or cake
Spill sopper
Mooch
Water absorber
Kind of cake
Live off of
Freeloader
Kind of cake
Kitchen item
Bathroom item
Dish cleaner
Bath accessory
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
Kind of bath.
Soft sea skeleton.
Kind of cake.
Primitive animal.
Sea animal.
Bread dough.
Piece of foam rubber.
Aid to housecleaning.
Skeleton of a sea animal.
Marine animal.
A very light kind of cake.
Useful marine animal.
Leavened dough.
Applicable to Roderick Random.
Efface.
Swabbing instrument.
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