___-in-the-wool
The crossword clue "___-in-the-wool" is answered by DYED, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DYED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DYED answer page.
Used 21 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DYED
Every other clue in this collection answered by DYED, most used first.
- Like Easter eggs - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
- Colored - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Recolored - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Changed the color of - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Not natural - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Tinted - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Like purple hair - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Not natural, in a way - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Turned blue? - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Not the original color - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Stained - used 15 times, most recently in 2004
- Turned blue, maybe - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Turned blue, perhaps - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Changed color - used 13 times, most recently in 2012
- Artificially colored - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Like blue hair - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Used henna - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Like pink hair - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Colored, as Easter eggs - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Changed the color - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Hennaed. - used 7 times, most recently in 1966
- Like batik fabrics - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Like some hair - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Prepared Easter eggs - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Changed colors - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Like green hair - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Unnatural, as hair - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Unnatural, in a way - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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- Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
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