Receded, as the tide
The crossword clue "Receded, as the tide" is answered by EBBED, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EBBED
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EBBED answer page.
Used 20 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EBBED
Every other clue in this collection answered by EBBED, most used first.
- Receded - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
- Waned - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Subsided - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Flowed back - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Declined - used 25 times, most recently in 2020
- Fell off - used 20 times, most recently in 2019
- Diminished - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Abated - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Fell back - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Went out - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Dwindled - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Died down - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Faded away - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Tapered off - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Went out, as the tide - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Drew back - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Flowed back, as the tide - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Receded like the tide - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Slacked off - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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