Hostile
The crossword clue "Hostile" is answered by ICY, a 3-letter entry. Used 9 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ICY
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ICY answer page.
Used 9 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for ICY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ICY, most used first.
- Glacial - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Unfriendly - used 60 times, most recently in 2025
- Frigid - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
- Frozen over - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Far from friendly - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Aloof - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Gelid - used 20 times, most recently in 2015
- Far from cordial - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Frosty - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some stares - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Standoffish - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
- Distant - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Like slick winter roads - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Frost-covered - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Slippery, as winter sidewalks - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Very cold - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Bitterly cold - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Slick - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Dangerous, as a winter road - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Frozen - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Hardly cordial - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Like winter roads - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Quite cold - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Unwelcoming - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Far from welcoming - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Hardly gregarious - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- "If looks could kill" type of stare - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Needing salt, perhaps - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Slippery - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
- Very unfriendly - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Chilling - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
- Far from congenial - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Freezing - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
- Inhospitable - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Like an unfriendly stare - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- More than unfriendly - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- None too cordial - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Slippery, as winter roads - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Treacherous, as winter roads - used 6 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.
- Hostile force - FOE, used 15 times
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