Drier than sec
The crossword clue "Drier than sec" is answered by BRUT, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BRUT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BRUT answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BRUT
Every other clue in this collection answered by BRUT, most used first.
- Very dry, as champagne - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Very dry - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Champagne designation - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Dry, as champagne - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Very dry, as wine - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Champagne choice - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Champagne word - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Champagne specification - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Dry, as wine - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Champagne category - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Old Spice alternative - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Nothing more than - MERE, used 159 times
- Larger-than-life - EPIC, used 101 times
- More than - OVER, used 86 times
- In ___ of (rather than) - LIEU, used 69 times
- No more than - MERE, used 65 times
- No more than - UPTO, used 61 times
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