Like a new dollar bill

The answer

CRISP

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CRISP answer page.

Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CRISP

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

• Brittle - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Like fresh lettuce - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Like new dollar bills - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Bracing. - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Crunchy - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Like fresh celery - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Like new bills - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Friable - used 8 times, most recently in 1993
• Invigorating - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Like fresh potato chips - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Like potato chips - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Brit's potato chip - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Chelsea chip - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Like fresh apples - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Like iceberg lettuce - used 6 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.

• New Zealand native - MAORI, used 175 times
• Native New Zealander - MAORI, used 119 times
• ___ New Guinea - PAPUA, used 112 times
• Like some seals - EARED, used 89 times
• "As You Like It" forest - ARDEN, used 79 times
• Like Cheerios - OATEN, used 79 times

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