Shady tree

The answer

ELM

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELM answer page.

Used 21 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ELM

Every other clue in this collection answered by ELM, most used first.

• Shade tree - used 437 times, most recently in 2026
• Stately tree - used 148 times, most recently in 2026
• "A Nightmare on ___ Street" - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
• Shade provider - used 97 times, most recently in 2026
• Common street name - used 85 times, most recently in 2025
• Shade source - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• "Slippery" tree - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• Tree. - used 66 times, most recently in 2014
• Slippery ___ - used 60 times, most recently in 2019
• Freddy Krueger's street - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• "Nightmare" street - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Popular street name - used 39 times, most recently in 2022
• Avenue tree - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Massachusetts state tree - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
• Dutch ___ disease - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Spreading tree - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Stately shade tree - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Street shader - used 23 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Tree fluid - SAP, used 92 times
• Hardwood tree - ASH, used 90 times
• Sturdy tree - OAK, used 90 times
• Tolkien tree creature - ENT, used 89 times
• Rubber tree - ULE, used 82 times
• ___ tree - UPA, used 80 times

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