Painter's plaster

The answer

GESSO

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GESSO answer page.

Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GESSO

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

• Plaster of Paris - used 50 times, most recently in 2022
• Bas-relief medium - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Painting surface - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Artist's plaster - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• Painter's primer - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Painter's base - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Painter's undercoat - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Painting base - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Gypsum painting surface - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Surface for painting - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Painter's base layer - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Plaster painting surface - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Tempera painting surface - used 6 times, most recently in 2009

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.

• Painter's stand - EASEL, used 76 times
• Painter's prop - EASEL, used 29 times
• Painter's support - EASEL, used 9 times
• Plaster of ___ - PARIS, used 9 times
• Painter's garb - SMOCK, used 8 times
• Dry-plaster painting - SECCO, used 6 times

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