Varnish base
The crossword clue "Varnish base" is answered by ELEMI, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2003; first recorded in 1961. 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
ELEMI
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Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2003; first recorded in 1961. 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 ELEMI
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELEMI, most used first.
- Fragrant resin - used 61 times, most recently in 2014
- Varnish ingredient - used 44 times, most recently in 2018
- Varnish resin - used 38 times, most recently in 2015
- Oleoresin - used 23 times, most recently in 1991
- Resin - used 22 times, most recently in 1996
- Fragrant oleoresin - used 13 times, most recently in 1997
- Lacquer ingredient - used 12 times, most recently in 2010
- Perfume resin - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Gum resin - used 8 times, most recently in 1999
- Oily resin - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
- Lacquer resin - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- Varnish ingredient - RESIN, used 86 times
- Borscht base - BEETS, used 50 times
- In base eight - OCTAL, used 40 times
- In base 8 - OCTAL, used 25 times
- Touch base - TAGUP, used 22 times
- Paint base - LATEX, used 19 times
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