Word "SPRUCE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
Synonyms:
slick up, smarten up, spruce up
Examples:
He spruced up for the party

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
Synonyms:
dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
make neat, smart, or trim
Synonyms:
slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate

Crossword Clues for SPRUCE

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Clue Source Date
Trim the Christmas tree
Dapper evergreen (6)
Smart, dapper Mirror Tea Time 04 Apr 2024
Trim tree (6) Puzzler Cryptic 30 Mar 2024
Evergreen tree Thomas Joseph 11 Mar 2024
Trim a conifer (6)
Tree which bears needles and pendulous cones (6) Puzzler 19 Jan 2024
Smart and neat or a tree? (6)
Coniferous tree is well groomed (6)
One always fresh and smart (6)
Forest conifer
Common violin wood USA Today 27 Oct 2023
Neat, smart The Times Concise 24 Oct 2023
Zhuzh (up) New York Times 03 Sep 2023
Evergreen tree Thomas Joseph 03 May 2023
Smart player finally participating in European trophies after reflection The Times Cryptic 02 May 2023
Trim; a tree Newsday 24 Dec 2022
Well-turned-out son right to wear brownish-purple The Guardian Cryptic 12 Sep 2022
Trim bush
Trim bush The Guardian Cryptic 02 Sep 2022
_____ Lake, New Brunswick Canadiana 15 Aug 2022
Trim Christmas tree
Timber turned out beautifully The Guardian Cryptic 11 May 2022
Purchases don't include ash - a tree popular at Christmas? Irish Times Crosaire 22 Apr 2022
Dapper The Guardian Quick 08 Dec 2021
Auditor's dressed Natalie Wood
Tidy growth in forestry The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Sep 2021
Trim conifer
Evergreen tree Newsday 27 Jul 2021
Tree; neat and smart The Telegraph Quick 26 Jul 2021
15 is looking good
Trim tree The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Jul 2021
Neat, smart; tree The Times Concise 27 Mar 2021
Trim wood
______ bud worm Canadiana 15 Feb 2021
Evergreen tree The Sun Two Speed 05 Nov 2020
Trim wood The Sun Two Speed 05 Nov 2020
Wood for violin-making New York Times 11 Oct 2020
Elegant tree The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Sep 2020
Quietly feeding dogs upset by simple tail trim
Evergreen tree Thomas Joseph 25 Jun 2020
Clean growth?
Well-dressed Christmas feature?
Smart police force once occupying small gym
____Grove, Alberta Canadiana 16 Dec 2019
Many a Christmas tree Wall Street Journal 12 Dec 2019
Tidy (up) LA Times Daily 01 Oct 2019
Tidy (up) The Washington Post 01 Oct 2019
Christmas tree choice LA Times Daily 14 Aug 2019
Christmas tree choice The Washington Post 14 Aug 2019
Well-groomed tree
Neaten, with 'up' USA Today 17 Apr 2019
Christmas tree, often Thomas Joseph 06 Apr 2019
Tidy wood
Tidy (up)
Christmas tree choice
Neaten (up) LA Times Daily 19 Nov 2018
Neaten (up) The Washington Post 19 Nov 2018
Smart; tree The Times Concise 11 Oct 2018
Wood trim
Neat and smart; tree The Times Concise 27 Jun 2018
Tidy; tree The Telegraph Quick 18 Jun 2018
Evergreen; neat The Telegraph Quick 21 May 2018
Neat and tidy tree? Irish Times Simplex 09 Mar 2018
Dapper The Telegraph Quick 08 Feb 2018
Neaten (up)
Type of pine tree Family Time 05 Nov 2017
Deal turned out well
Neat and smart The Times Concise 24 Feb 2017
Well-groomed tree
"Blue" tree Universal 28 Nov 2016
Smart — tree The Guardian Quick 02 Sep 2016
Tidy tree The Telegraph Toughie 02 Aug 2016
Cone-bearing evergreen Jonesin 05 Jul 2016
Trim a tree for Christmas
Neat New York Times 13 May 2016
Evergreen pyramid-shaped tree Irish Times Simplex 26 Apr 2016
Trim tree with pendulous cones The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Mar 2016
Evergreen tree Eugene Sheffer 19 Mar 2016
Well-groomed tree The Telegraph Toughie 07 Jan 2016
Well-dressed timber The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Jan 2016
"Blue" tree
The Wright brothers' first successful plane was made of it Wall Street Journal 17 Nov 2015
Neaten, with 'up' New York Times 28 Jul 2015
Trim tree
Dapper LA Times Daily 13 May 2015
Neaten (up) Premier Sunday 10 May 2015
Neat wood The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Mar 2015
Smart saint with foresight leaving den
Tidy (up) Newsday 01 Feb 2015
Neaten, with "up"
The Wright brothers' first successful plane was made of it
Neaten (up)
Tidy (up)
Dapper
Many a Christmas tree
Trim a tree
Trim tree
Evergreen tree
Trim tree
Trim Christmas tree, perhaps
Like Howard Hughes's Goose
Type of evergreen
Smarten (up)
Pine family member
Smarten (up)
Neat
Needle holder
Type of evergreen
"Blue" evergreen
"Blue" evergreen
Spiff (up)
Smart
Coniferous tree
Type of evergreen
Tree that can be red, white, or blue
Neaten (up)
Evergreen
Dapper
Coned conifer
Christmas purchase
Christmas purchase
Tidy
Make tidy
Christmas purchase, perhaps
Evergreen
Neat
Spiff (up)
___ Goose (Hughes plane)
Dapper
Larch's kin
Trim
Dapper.
Evergreen.
Jaunty.
Neat.
Neatly dressed.
Kind of evergreen.
Hemlock's cousin.
Douglas fir.
Overnice.
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