Small remnant
The crossword clue "Small remnant" is answered by DREG, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DREG
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DREG answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DREG
Every other clue in this collection answered by DREG, most used first.
- Remnant - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Vestige - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
- Bit of sediment - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Bottom-of-the-barrel bit - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Residue - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Barrel bottom bit - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Bit of residue - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Small amount of residue - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
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- Small combo - TRIO, used 137 times
- Small salamander - NEWT, used 126 times
- Small brook - RILL, used 101 times
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