It holds water
The crossword clue "It holds water" is answered by DAM, a 3-letter entry. Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DAM
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DAM answer page.
Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for DAM
Every other clue in this collection answered by DAM, most used first.
- River blocker - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Weir - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Hoover, for one - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
- Block up - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Beaver's construction - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Water barrier - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Block - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Beaver's creation - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Beaver's work - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
- River barrier - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Stop up - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Hoover, e.g. - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- River stopper - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Hydroelectric project - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Reservoir creator - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Hydroelectric power source - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Flow stopper - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Beaver's structure - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Hoover ___ - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Beaver creation - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Beaver project - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Hydroelectric facility - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Beaver's project - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- TVA project - used 13 times, most recently in 2010
- Water gate - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Flood-control structure - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Water container? - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Water holder - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Grand Coulee, e.g. - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Lake maker - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Reservoir maker - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Reservoir structure - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Spillway setting - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Three Gorges project - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Beaver-built barricade - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Check the water? - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Aswan, for one - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Grand Coulee, for one - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Water stopper - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Barrier - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Beavers' creation - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Equine mother - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Hydroelectric structure - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Leave it to beavers - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Obstruct - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- River project - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Aswan or Hoover - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Beaver building - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Beaver's handiwork - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Beavers' project - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Dental ___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Flood-control project - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- A river runs to it - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Beaver construction - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Beaver's barrier - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Beaver's building project - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Flow blocker - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Grand Coulee __ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Hoover, notably - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Hoover or Aswan - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- River block - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Sire's mate - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Water cooler - ICE, used 106 times
- Water tester - TOE, used 93 times
- Holds - HAS, used 88 times
- Vichy water - EAU, used 84 times
- Frozen water - ICE, used 75 times
- Large body of water - SEA, used 59 times
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