Smoke, briefly
The crossword clue "Smoke, briefly" is answered by CIG, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. 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
CIG
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CIG answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CIG
Every other clue in this collection answered by CIG, most used first.
- Smoke - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Smoke, for short - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Short smoke - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
- Butt - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Smoke, slangily - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Up to, briefly - TIL, used 117 times
- Back muscle, briefly - LAT, used 97 times
- However, briefly - THO, used 88 times
- "Today" rival, briefly - GMA, used 75 times
- Camera type, briefly - SLR, used 68 times
- Aliens, briefly - ETS, used 52 times
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