Scandalous gossip
The crossword clue "Scandalous gossip" is answered by DIRT, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DIRT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DIRT answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DIRT
Every other clue in this collection answered by DIRT, most used first.
- Gossip - used 123 times, most recently in 2026
- Grime - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Soil - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Scuttlebutt - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Juicy gossip - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Garden soil - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Malicious gossip - used 24 times, most recently in 2020
- Earth. - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Tabloid fodder - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Lowdown - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Topsoil - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Gossip that's "dished" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Tabloid staple - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Filth - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Gossip, slangily - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Loose soil - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Scandal fodder - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- ___ cheap (very inexpensive) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Detergent target - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Tabloid talk - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
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.
- Bit of gossip - ITEM, used 39 times
- Gossip - DISH, used 31 times
- Gossip tidbit - ITEM, used 27 times
- First name in gossip - RONA, used 25 times
- Gossip columnist Barrett - RONA, used 24 times
- Barrett of gossip - RONA, used 23 times
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