Sew lightly
The crossword clue "Sew lightly" is answered by BASTE, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 3 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 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 3 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
- Moisten while cooking - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- 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
- 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.
- Fry lightly - SAUTE, used 64 times
- Wash lightly - RINSE, used 27 times
- Lightly burn - SINGE, used 13 times
- Color lightly - TINCT, used 11 times
- Burn lightly - SINGE, used 9 times
- Lightly fry - SAUTE, used 8 times
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