What icicles do
The crossword clue "What icicles do" is answered by DRIP, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DRIP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DRIP answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DRIP
Every other clue in this collection answered by DRIP, most used first.
- Faucet problem - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
- Plumbing problem - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Faucet annoyance - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Faucet fault - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Faucet flaw - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Tap trouble - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of coffee - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Tap problem - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Trickle - used 13 times, most recently in 2006
- Leaky faucet sound - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Sink problem - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Coffee choice - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Annoying faucet sound - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- ___ coffee - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Coffeemaker style - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Icicle starter - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Nerd - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
- Leak - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Paintbrush woe - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Icicle former - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Party pooper - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Problem for a plumber - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Slow faucet leak - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Stalactite former - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Wet blanket - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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- "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
- "What ___ can I say?" - ELSE, used 116 times
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- "What a shame!" - ALAS, used 63 times
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