Red as a __
The crossword clue "Red as a __" is answered by BEET, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026. 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
BEET
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BEET answer page.
Used 15 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BEET
Every other clue in this collection answered by BEET, most used first.
- Sugar source - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
- Borscht ingredient - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
- Borscht veggie - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Borscht base - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Borscht vegetable - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Red vegetable - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Vegetable. - used 28 times, most recently in 1996
- Shade of red - used 27 times, most recently in 2021
- Red root veggie - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Red veggie - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Symbol of redness - used 21 times, most recently in 2017
- Red root vegetable - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Epitome of redness - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Mangel-wurzel - used 12 times, most recently in 2011
- Chard - used 11 times, most recently in 1995
- Paragon of redness - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
- Sucrose source - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Borscht need - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Edible root - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Exemplar of redness - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Red root - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Source of sugar. - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Swiss chard, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- __ red - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Root for the chef - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Red shade - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Root vegetable - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- V8 vegetable - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Biennial vegetable - 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.
- Red Muppet - ELMO, used 131 times
- ___ the Red - ERIC, used 103 times
- Red planet - MARS, used 77 times
- The Red Planet - MARS, used 71 times
- Was in the red - OWED, used 68 times
- Is in the red - OWES, used 66 times
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