Crossword clues for the word: XANTHIPPE The word XANTHIPPE has appeared as an answer to at least 5 crossword clues on different crossword puzzles. Crossword clues for XANTHIPPE Showing 1 to 5 of 5 results Clue(s) """X Is for ___"" (if the 24th Grafton is a very cold case involving Socrates' wife?)" "Peevish wife in Athens, 400 B. C." Nagging wife of Socrates Shrewish woman. Wife of Socrates, whose name has come to mean any quarrelsome woman