Winter frost

The answer

HOAR

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

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HOAR

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

• Frost - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
• Rime - used 43 times, most recently in 2022
• Icy coating - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
• Frosty coating - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
• Frozen dew - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• White frost - used 13 times, most recently in 2017
• White with age - used 13 times, most recently in 1993
• Grayish-white. - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Winter coat? - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Cold coating - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of frost - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Winter coating - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Coating of frost - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Frosty coat - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Wintry frost - used 7 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Winter blanket - SNOW, used 108 times
• Frost - RIME, used 107 times
• Winter glider - SLED, used 79 times
• Winter vehicle - SLED, used 69 times
• Winter Palace resident - TSAR, used 64 times
• Winter forecast - SNOW, used 62 times

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