Stained
The crossword clue "Stained" is answered by DYED, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2004; first recorded in 1952. 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
DYED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DYED answer page.
Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2004; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- MACULATE (4 uses in xd)
- BLOTTED (1 uses in xd)
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
- ___-in-the-wool - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- 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
- 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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