Strong wind

The answer

GUST

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

Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• GALE (156 uses in xd)
• WESTER (2 uses in xd)
• BLAST (1 uses in xd)
• NORTHER (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for GUST

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

• Blast of wind - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Burst of wind - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Sudden wind - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Wind blast - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Sudden burst of wind - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Squall. - used 9 times, most recently in 1993
• Rush of wind - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Short burst of wind - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Sudden burst - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• Big blow - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Sudden blow - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
• Out of the wind - ALEE, used 179 times
• Strong wind - GALE, used 156 times
• Get wind of - HEAR, used 132 times
• Strong desire - URGE, used 102 times
• Strong as ___ - ANOX, used 92 times

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