Shred, as cheese
The crossword clue "Shred, as cheese" is answered by GRATE, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GRATE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GRATE answer page.
Used 17 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GRATE
Every other clue in this collection answered by GRATE, most used first.
- Prepare Parmesan - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Storm drain cover - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Rasp - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
- Shred cheese - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Drain cover - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Fireplace - used 10 times, most recently in 2002
- Irritate - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Fireplace frame - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Vent cover - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Dutch cheese - GOUDA, used 72 times
- "Say cheese!" - SMILE, used 53 times
- Bel ___ cheese - PAESE, used 46 times
- Shred - RIPUP, used 46 times
- Cheese choice - SWISS, used 36 times
- Like Swiss cheese - HOLEY, used 32 times
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