Shady giants

The answer

ELMS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELMS answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ELMS

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

• Shade trees - used 266 times, most recently in 2026
• Stately trees - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• "Desire Under the ___" - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Avenue liners - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Trees. - used 39 times, most recently in 1996
• National Mall trees - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Shade providers - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
• "Slippery" trees - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Stately shade trees - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Shade sources - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Tall shade trees - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Shady trees - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Stately shaders - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Classic street liners - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Shady bunch - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Trees in an O'Neill title - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Hardwood trees - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Street shaders - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• O'Neill's "Desire Under the ___" - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Colonnade trees - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Shady group? - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Some shade trees - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Street-lining trees - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Boulevard liners - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• "Desire Under the ___" (Eugene O'Neill play) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• End of an O'Neill title - used 8 times, most recently in 2002
• Some are slippery - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Sources of shade - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Hardwood sources - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Majestic trees - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• O'Neill title trees - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• O'Neill trees - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Some street liners - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Spreading trees - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Street liners - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Trees with split-resistant wood - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Shady deal - SCAM, used 13 times
• Hollywood giants? - EGOS, used 11 times
• ___ Might Be Giants - THEY, used 10 times
• Shady scheme - SCAM, used 9 times
• ___ Might Be Giants (rock band) - THEY, used 6 times
• Tolkien tree giants - ENTS, used 6 times

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