Surface for painting
The crossword clue "Surface for painting" is answered by GESSO, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GESSO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GESSO answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 4 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 plaster - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
- 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
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