Santa -- (desert winds)

The answer

ANAS

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

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ANAS

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

• Literary collections - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Duck genus. - used 46 times, most recently in 2005
• Santa ___ (hot winds) - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Genus of ducks. - used 22 times, most recently in 1988
• Collections of anecdotes - used 20 times, most recently in 2008
• Collections - used 13 times, most recently in 2011
• Miscellanies - used 11 times, most recently in 2010
• Santa ___ (hot California winds) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Santa -- (some winds) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Anecdotal collections - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Collections of sayings - used 8 times, most recently in 1991
• Mallard genus - used 8 times, most recently in 1981
• Literary miscellanies - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Literary olios - used 7 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• Mongolian desert - GOBI, used 170 times
• Asian desert - GOBI, used 145 times
• Dry as a desert - ARID, used 121 times
• Winds up - ENDS, used 72 times
• Like a desert - ARID, used 42 times
• Santa ___, Calif. - ROSA, used 40 times

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