Chimney shaft
The crossword clue "Chimney shaft" is answered by FLUE, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLUE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLUE answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FLUE
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLUE, most used first.
- Chimney channel - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Chimney duct - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Chimney part - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Chimney passage - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
- Chimney pipe - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
- Chimney feature - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Smoke duct - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Pipe. - used 7 times, most recently in 1964
- Where there's smoke - used 6 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.
- Wheel shaft - AXLE, used 116 times
- Chimney buildup - SOOT, used 56 times
- Chimney residue - SOOT, used 50 times
- Chimney dust - SOOT, used 49 times
- Chimney grime - SOOT, used 42 times
- Chimney sweep's target - SOOT, used 29 times
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