Word "TURTLE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
overturn accidentally
Synonyms:
capsize, turn turtle

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar
Synonyms:
polo-neck, turtleneck

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming

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What animal is often hurt by plastic waste in the ocean?
Aquatic reptile having a flattened shell and flipperlike limbs (6)
Animal that looks like a tortoise
Large marine reptile with limbs modified as flippers (6)
It capsizes when done to a turn (6)
Marine reptile The Telegraph Quick 11 Apr 2025
A mocked creature (6)
What word do most Americans use for a tortoise? (6)
Marine reptile with a shell(6)
Slow-moving reptile that retreats into its hard shell for protection when threatened
Yertle the _, character created by Dr. Seuss (6)
Crush in "Finding Nemo," for one USA Today 22 Feb 2025
Raphael is a Teenage Mutant Ninja one (6)
Marine reptile The Times Concise 13 Feb 2025
A slow-moving animal with a shell. (6)
Mock ____, Lewis Carroll character The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 03 Feb 2025
Marine reptile with a hard shell
Aquatic reptile with a flattened shell and flipper-like limbs (6)
Creature turned upside down
Marine reptile with a bony shell (6)
Long-lived aquatic creature (6)
Swimmer notes Dane leaving laundrette in a mess
Being shelled, company ultimately surrendered, utterly beaten
A creature mocked? (6)
On the second day of Christmas, your true love may send you these two doves that may "snap"
Turn it upside down! (6)
You shell out for this sort of soup
Goes into a shell when let into a rut
Time to race along - hard going for creature (6)
Loggerhead or leatherback, eg The Times Concise 26 Oct 2024
Ninja in a shell LA Times Daily 13 Oct 2024
Tortoise-like creature
A marine species of tortoise (6)
Tortoise relative
Swimmer with shell turned upside down by boat (6)
One will capsize if one turns it (6)
Some may snap at you
Shelled reptile The Telegraph Quick 27 Jul 2024
Terrarium pet LA Times Daily 11 Jul 2024
Aquatic and land reptile of the order Chelonii or Testudines, with bony shell and flippers (6)
Slow-moving reptile in a shell Newsday 17 Jun 2024
It's true! LT has been shelled
Reptile with a bony shell
Tortoise-like sea creature
Swimmer raced naked to go under time (6) The Guardian Cryptic 23 May 2024
Marine tortoise (6)
Slow mover Thomas Joseph 30 Apr 2024
Reptile on a green container of car wax LA Times Daily 20 Apr 2024
An animal with a shell (6)
Tortoise-like animal
Chelonian may be mocked by soup maker (6)
Slow reptile Thomas Joseph 10 Apr 2024
Caramel, pecan and ice cream treat
Aquatic reptile with a shell (6)
Creature mocked when in the soup? (6)
It is turned upside down (6)
Model with topless career (6)
Marine reptile with a hard shell (Picture E)
Turn that makes one capsize (6)
"On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me; Two ... doves and a partridge in a pear tree"
Marine chelonian
Lure abstainer perhaps, if he will come out of his shell (6)
Dr. Seuss' Yertle
In gospel truth this reptile goes backwards The Times Quick Cryptic 22 Jan 2024
"Box" or "sea" reptile USA Today 19 Jan 2024
Subject studied by the Leatherback Project
Maritime reptile (Picture C)
On the second day of Christmas, your true love may send you these two doves that may "snap"
Aquatic chelonian reptile (6)
Shell out for some rich soup
Slow-moving reptile in a shell
Slow-moving reptile with a hard shell Newsday 25 Sep 2023
Hard-shelled reptile
Reptile like a tortoise The Guardian Quick 10 Aug 2023
Chocolate-and-pecan confection New York Times 16 Jul 2023
Express disapproval over end of supper with extremely little soup? The Guardian Cryptic 12 Jul 2023
North America, aka ___ Island USA Today 19 Nov 2022
Marine reptile The Guardian Quick 03 Nov 2022
One always having a place to hide New York Times 11 Sep 2022
Animal admired by Ogden Nash for its ability 'in such a fix to be so fertile' The Guardian Weekend 03 Sep 2022
Marine reptile The Telegraph Quick 08 Jul 2022
When upset, one turns this?
Felt ruthless somewhat picking up swimmer
___ Island USA Today 05 Dec 2021
Reptile with bony shell Irish Times Simplex 18 Nov 2021
Reptile let loose after rising macho behaviour
Bearer of the earth in Iroquois creation stories New York Times 24 Sep 2021
Terrestrial, freshwater, or marine reptile The Telegraph General Knowledge 24 May 2021
Marine reptile The Times Concise 19 Apr 2021
Shelled reptile The Telegraph Quick 20 Feb 2021
Slow type comes out of his shell every so often Irish Times Crosaire 08 Feb 2021
Reptile with bony shell Irish Times Simplex 30 Jan 2021
Adopted daughter of Taylor Greer in Barbara Kingsolver's novels 'The Bean Trees' and 'Pigs in Heaven' The Telegraph General Knowledge 11 Jan 2021
Marine creature's time to move rapidly without hesitation at first The Telegraph Toughie 05 Jan 2021
Reptile with a shell Eugene Sheffer 28 Oct 2020
Shelled reptile The Sun Two Speed 07 Oct 2020
Time to race along: hard going for distance swimmer The Sun Two Speed 07 Oct 2020
Slow-moving reptile Universal 27 Jul 2020
Symbol of slowness LA Times Daily 11 Jul 2020
Symbol of slowness The Washington Post 11 Jul 2020
Slow mover Thomas Joseph 03 Jul 2020
  Time to shoot head off reptile
One in a shell LA Times Daily 10 May 2020
One in a shell The Washington Post 10 May 2020
Swimming reptile Eugene Sheffer 19 Nov 2019
Saskatchewan lake Canadiana 29 Jul 2019
Terrarium creature Premier Sunday 28 Jul 2019
Reptile carrying the four elephants that hold up Discworld The Washington Post Sunday 16 Jun 2019
Slow mover Wall Street Journal 17 Dec 2018
Swimming reptile The Times Concise 06 Aug 2018
Terrarium reptile USA Today 06 Jul 2018
Aquatic reptile The Telegraph Quick 07 Jun 2018
Shelled ectotherm The Washington Post Sunday 15 Apr 2018
Slowpoke in a shell LA Times Daily 19 Mar 2018
Slowpoke in a shell The Washington Post 19 Mar 2018
Ninja in a shell Universal 22 Jan 2018
Terrarium reptile
Slow mover
Ninja in a shell
Time to race along — hard going for distance swimmer
Neckline and reptile Irish Times Simplex 07 Dec 2017
Large aquatic reptile The Telegraph General Knowledge 27 Aug 2017
One shelled by time bomb releasing hydrogen
Snapping creature Universal 10 Oct 2016
Terrarium pet USA Today 12 Sep 2016
Chocolate and caramel concoction The Washington Post 10 Aug 2016
Aquarium reptile Universal 28 Jul 2016
Terrarium pet
Aquarium reptile
Aquatic reptile The Guardian Quick 26 Dec 2015
Career time for hot shell-suited swimmer
Slowpoke New York Times 28 Oct 2015
The northern dash from East End to find marine animal The Telegraph Toughie 23 Apr 2015
Slowpoke
Soup? Half of what it's in, left simmering, female ignored
Terrarium pet
Dr. Seuss' Yertle, say
Slowpoke
Possible aquarium dweller
Aquarium pet
Second day of Christmas arrivals (with 38-Across)
Terrapin, e.g.
Cartoon Mutant Ninja
Red-eared slider, e.g.
Aquarium pet, perhaps
Reptile house denizen
Chelonian reptile
One with a shell
One with a shell
Carapace wearer
Terrarium denizen
Crush of "Finding Nemo," for one
Slow reptile
Ant egg eater
Ant egg eater
Aquarium reptile
Slow-moving reptile
Aquarium reptile
Chelonian
Franklin, for one
Animal with a carapace
Snapper, perhaps
Terrapin
Terrapin, e.g.
Slow road crosser
Terrarium pet
Hard-shelled reptile
Seuss' Yertle
Shelled reptile
Terrapin
Terrapin, e.g.
Terrarium pet
Terrapin
Snapper
One way to turn
Snapper, perhaps
Sometimes it comes out of its shell
Terrarium resident
Turn __ (capsize)
Stew vessel
One way to turn
Turn ___ (upset)
Chocolate treat
Tot's Michelangelo, e.g.
Diamondback or hawkbill
Shelled reptile
Terrapin
"The Voice of the ___"
"The Phoenix and the ___"
"The Voice of the ___."
Diamondback terrapin.
Reptile.
Turn ___ (upset).
Leatherback.
Slowpoke
See 40 Down.
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