River stopper

The answer

DAM

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DAM answer page.

Used 26 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• 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

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.

• Swiss river - AAR, used 195 times
• "__ Lazy River" - UPA, used 113 times
• Scottish river - DEE, used 103 times
• River inlet - RIA, used 87 times
• "Cry __ River" - MEA, used 75 times
• Bern's river - AAR, used 66 times

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