Moist, in a way

The answer

DEWY

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEWY answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1988. It appears in 5 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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• DEWLADEN (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for DEWY

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

• Like morning grass - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Moist - used 41 times, most recently in 2024
• Damp at dawn - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Like a lawn at dawn - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Moist in the morn - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Moist in the morning - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• __-eyed (naive) - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Moist, as morning grass - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Like lawns in the morning - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Wet, as morning grass - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Like early morning grass - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• __-eyed - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Wet, in a way - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Wet with dawn moisture - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Way out - EXIT, used 285 times
• Way off - AFAR, used 229 times
• Way out there - AFAR, used 104 times
• One way to run - AMOK, used 102 times
• Moist - DAMP, used 101 times
• "The Way We ___" - WERE, used 82 times

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