Hot and sticky
The crossword clue "Hot and sticky" is answered by HUMID, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HUMID
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HUMID answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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