Thickly populated
The crossword clue "Thickly populated" is answered by DENSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DENSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DENSE answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DENSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by DENSE, most used first.
- Thick - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
- Tightly packed - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
- Compact - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Thickheaded - used 46 times, most recently in 2023
- Thickly packed - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Slow on the uptake - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Slow-witted - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Stupid - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
- Crowded - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Jam-packed - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Impenetrable - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Obtuse - used 20 times, most recently in 2008
- Thick as a brick - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
- Concentrated - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Heavy, as fog - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Not too bright - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
- Closely packed - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Like thick fog - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Packed tightly - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Thick, as fog - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Hard to penetrate - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Closely compacted - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Like pea-soup fog - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Thick-headed - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Hard to get through to - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Dimwitted - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Hard to see through, as fog - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Highly concentrated - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Like a pea-soup fog - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Like a thicket - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- None too bright - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- None too smart - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Not too astute - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
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