Moisten while cooking
The crossword clue "Moisten while cooking" is answered by BASTE, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BASTE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BASTE answer page.
Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BASTE
Every other clue in this collection answered by BASTE, most used first.
- Sew loosely - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Moisten, as a turkey - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Thrash - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Butter up? - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Sew. - used 15 times, most recently in 1976
- Tend to the turkey - used 14 times, most recently in 2012
- Moisten in the oven - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Moisten the turkey - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Moisten while roasting - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Sew lightly - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Stitch temporarily - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Treat the turkey - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Cooking or sewing term - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Moisten, in a way - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Wallop - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Brush with liquid while roasting - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Keep moist, in a way - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Keep the turkey moist - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Moisten, as a roast - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Moisten the bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Moisten with drippings - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Tend to a turkey - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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.
- In a while - LATER, used 36 times
- Moisten - BEDEW, used 32 times
- After a while - LATER, used 25 times
- Enjoyed home cooking - ATEIN, used 21 times
- Gives for a while - LENDS, used 21 times
- In a little while - LATER, used 19 times
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