Dry and crack

The answer

CHAP

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CHAP answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CHAP

Every other clue in this collection answered by CHAP, most used first.

• Bloke - used 231 times, most recently in 2026
• Fellow - used 204 times, most recently in 2026
• British fellow - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• British bloke - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Guy. - used 24 times, most recently in 2015
• Gent - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Crack, as lips - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• English bloke - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Mate - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Roughen - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• "Old" British buddy - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• British gent - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Crack - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• English fellow - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Lad - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Fella - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "I say, old __" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• And others: Abbr. - ETAL, used 329 times
• __ and crafts - ARTS, used 303 times
• Black-and-white cookie - OREO, used 272 times
• Chills and fever - AGUE, used 232 times
• Facts and figures - DATA, used 223 times
• Ages and ages - EONS, used 203 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.