Used a towel
The crossword clue "Used a towel" is answered by DRIED, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DRIED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DRIED answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DRIED
Every other clue in this collection answered by DRIED, most used first.
- Helped with the dishes - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Like prunes - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Evaporated - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Toweled off - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Like raisins - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Dehydrated - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Desiccated - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Cut's partner - used 7 times, most recently in 2003
- Like prunes and raisins - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Preserved, in a way - 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.
- Used up - SPENT, used 84 times
- Used a keyboard - TYPED, used 57 times
- Used a broom - SWEPT, used 49 times
- Towel material - TERRY, used 42 times
- Used a stopwatch - TIMED, used 33 times
- Get used (to) - INURE, used 30 times
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