Petri dish gelatin

The answer

AGAR

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AGAR answer page.

Used 22 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AGAR

Every other clue in this collection answered by AGAR, most used first.

• Culture medium - used 270 times, most recently in 2026
• Food thickener - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Seaweed product - used 89 times, most recently in 2024
• Petri dish gel - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Lab gel - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Ice cream thickener - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Thickening agent - used 52 times, most recently in 2025
• Seaweed substance - used 43 times, most recently in 2021
• Gelling agent - used 36 times, most recently in 2024
• Lab medium - used 28 times, most recently in 2018
• Petri dish stuff - used 27 times, most recently in 2020
• Chinese gelatin - used 23 times, most recently in 2007
• Culture base - used 23 times, most recently in 2019
• Gelatin substitute - used 23 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• ___ buco (veal dish) - OSSO, used 90 times
• Hearty dish - STEW, used 73 times
• Cabbage dish - SLAW, used 56 times
• Side dish - SLAW, used 55 times
• One-dish meal - STEW, used 48 times
• Corned beef dish - HASH, used 39 times

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