Dry, as wine
The crossword clue "Dry, as wine" is answered by BRUT, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 2 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 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- SECO (1 uses in xd)
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
- Drier than sec - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Champagne category - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Old Spice alternative - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
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- California wine valley - NAPA, used 196 times
- Bone-dry - ARID, used 167 times
- Italian wine center - ASTI, used 150 times
- Dry - ARID, used 129 times
- Dry as a desert - ARID, used 121 times
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